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Photo and article copyright Suresh gundappa 2008
you take so much time to keep your house clean
your cubicle clean,
your body clean,
your place clean,
why won’t
you take sometime everyday to clean your Mind?
truly it doesn’t matter how dirty is your cup
when you are drinking divine.
Meditation is science of cleaning your mind. Meditation is the only broomstick you need to remove dust gathered on your mind. Meditation is your vacuum cleaner to get in to no-mind.
Love
Suresh
i am amazed at your gift to write such powerful lines with incredible photos! I am actually clean maniac but i never get time to meditate. its strange how we pay importance to things which are really not important!
this photo adn lines shook me up!
Beautiful metaphor, Suresh. I like the description of meditation as the science of cleaning my mind – and yes, the choice image supports the idea wonderfully.
Blessings
Starfire
Beautiful Poems! unbelievable photographs! Suresh I envy your talent !
Meditation is science of cleaning your mind. Meditation is the only broomstick you need to remove dust gathered on your mind. Meditation is your vacuum cleaner to get in to no-mind.
golden words what a way to express and brommstick photo optly describes the requirement of cleanliness ofcourse of mind wonderful thoughts penned by u suresh
thank u thanks a ton for insight
heh heh heh first time Im seeing a ‘photogenic’ broomstick!
About the post…
I think a key difference could be that cleaning my room, my cubicle etc theyre all visible to others. I can prove to others how clean I am – I can enhance my image to everybody that Im such a clean fellow! (after all, cleanliness is next to godliness!) Even if the room/cubicle is messy a lot of the time, the day some important guest or some foreign dignitary is coming, then I will definitely put in every effort to make the whole place spic and span!
But in my mind – why dosent it seem to matter so much? Ah no one ever knows whats going on in there! [what a mess it is! shhh but i wont tell you!] Let alone the fact that other important guest can never ever come in, I am hardly at home myself!
Hmm I realise that the more I am honest to doing things for myself than for others, and the more I am “home” within my own mind i.e. in the one at this exact instant of time which is the only mind that I have, that I start realising more and more the clutter in here. And the more I start taking responsibility for everything that happens to me as the result of this clutter – the importance of cleaning my mind starts becoming a higher and higher priority.
yes Sanjay, good observations
I’ve browsed through your works, and wow, they are indeed very inspiring, and some deserved to be made into motivational posters!
Therefore i am really delighted and honored that you like my work, because I’m no professional photographer, in fact nowhere near there.
Regards,
Jade(:
lovely broomstick
thank you for all the beautiful poems and stories i read them all, they are really inspiring, peace
I’ve browsed through your works, and wow, they are indeed very inspiring, and some deserved to be made into motivational posters!
absolutely love this post, Suresh! Such a clear message…
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Nice Picture Suresh… Very rarest photo among your-kind-of-photo!
Well, when there is too much of thoughts in ones mind, we keep churning it and making it a dirt.. If I start to maintain silence such thought often come there and I fail to meditate
Basavanna one of the reformers says,
kaLabeDa, kolabeDa, husiya nuDiyalu beDa
idira haLiyalu beDa, anyara asahya paDabeDa
ide antharanga shuddi , ide bahiranga shuddi…
A loose translation of the above sounds like
Do not steal, Do not lie
Do not indulge in teasing others or feeling awkwards about others
This is what cleanliness both inward as well as outwards!
(he doesn’t say anything about cleaning your room or your mind!! Ha Ha)
> If I start to maintain silence such thought often come there and I fail to meditate
Hey Veena, I too face very similar situations. One question is – are those thoughts not there when I was not maintaining silence?
Maybe its just that now I have come to know about them! But I didnt understand why you say that you fail to meditate. Because this “coming to know”, developing awareness, is part of the meditation process.
We would’ve all done experiments on sedimentation in school. If we keep a glass of muddy water, and we keep on moving around without looking at it, it remains muddy. But if we have a look at it we notice how muddy it is. And then if we keep it still (silence) on a table the water remains muddy initially, but gradually starts to become clearer and clearer. Please note this was just an analogy to share my idea as a fellow student of life, and I certainly don’t mean to define meditation itself as I’m only a novice
Coincidentally yesterday evening this same vachana was coming on Radio FM 107.20 it was really nice.
Maybe “idira haLiyalu beDa, anyara asahya paDabeDa” can also be translated as…
don’t criticise others, don’t look down on others
Usually the opposite of those actions are like adding mud into the water if we look at the sedimentation metaphor, and lead to turmoil (which one may never come to know about at all). The entire vachana is like a simplest forumla, following atleast to a small extent – which leads the mind to become more peaceful (and a foundation for deeper meditation to just happens by itself).
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