Inspired by the only quiz on LJ whose results I was totally convinced by (The molecule one):
I am Water. In my purest form, I am life-giving, energizing, strengthening. In nature, I am ever-moving. At that moment, I am brilliance, joy and grace personified. When stagnant, I am dull, slothful and wasteful. What I aspire to be is calm and still with a surface so clean and sparkling that you can see your truest countenance in it. I am formless, shapeless, tasteless and colourless. I take the shape of the container which houses me. I am without any rigidity or judgment. I am expansive, generous and forgiving. On some days, I am so joyous that coloured lights dance off my surface and disappear into the horizon while small boats filled with laughing children float on my surface. On some days, I am so pensive that even the sun bleeds with me, splashing his resplendent form all over the sky. Some cool nights, I sing loud and clear, my voice filled with unusual confidence. At dusk, I retire into gloom till the moon appears in the sky, lighting up the rest of my day. My favourite time of the day is the dawn when the cool air gently sweeps my face, making way for the golden sunshine which will always protect me from death, decay, sadness and sloth.
Main aur meri tanhaai aksar baatein kiya karte hain…
savyasachi says:
My Lord! If I were as articulate as you are, these are the very words I would choose…..
October 20, 2004 — 10:30 pm
Lakshmi says:
Thanks, Siddharth…
October 21, 2004 — 6:20 am
kookygoblin says:
That is so weird!
Im ‘Water’ too. Sounds pompous but I liked the part which said,’ No one can live without you’:)
But I do like your description…..
October 20, 2004 — 10:48 pm
Lakshmi says:
It’s true, Aditi… I think that my most natural self is Water.
October 21, 2004 — 6:21 am
99kanitas says:
lol walking back home from genetics review, friend and i burst out with that song
don’t know what comes after though
October 20, 2004 — 11:17 pm
Lakshmi says:
Something like ‘Tum hoti to aisa hota, tum hoti to waisa hota, tum is baat par hansti…. What a lovely song it is!
October 21, 2004 — 6:22 am
arunshanbhag says:
One of my favorites. At one point I wanted to do a Photo-accompaniment for the song π
Anyway, check out the rest of the lyrics at www. hindilyrix.com
–MALE–
Main aur meri tanhaai aksar yeh baatein karte hain
Tum hoti to kaisa hota, tum yeh kehti, tum voh kehti
Tum is baat pe hairaan hoti, tum us baat pe kitni hansti
Tum hoti to aisa hota, tum hoti to vaisa hota
Main aur meri tanhaai aksar yeh baatein karte hain
–FEMALE–
Yeh kahan aa gaye hum
Yunhi saath saath chalte
Teri baahon mein hai jaanam
Mere jism-o-jaan pighalte
Yeh kahan aa gaye hum
Yunhi saath saath chalte
–MALE–
Yeh raat hai, yeh tumhaari zulfein khuli hui hai
Hai chaandni ya tumhaari nazrein se meri raatein dhuli hui hai
Yeh chaand hai ya tumhaara kangan
Sitaarein hai ya tumhaara aanchal
Hawa ka jhonka hai ya tumhaare badan ki khushboo
Yeh pattiyon ki hai sarsaraahat ke tumne chupke se kuch kaha hai
Yeh sochta hoon main kab se gumsum
Ke jab ki mujhko bhi yeh khabar hai
Ke tum nahin ho, kahin nahin ho
Magar yeh dil hai ke keh raha hai
Ke tum yahin ho, yahin kahin ho
October 21, 2004 — 8:35 am
Anonymous says:
if writing is your aspiration, let me tell you lady…
You have arrived!!!
A very neat piece that, even accounting for external inspiration…
October 21, 2004 — 3:23 am
Lakshmi says:
Thanks…:-)
October 21, 2004 — 6:22 am
lalunadiosa says:
This is pure brilliance!!!!
October 21, 2004 — 6:12 am
Lakshmi says:
Thanks…
October 21, 2004 — 6:23 am
Anonymous says:
“I am brilliance, joy and grace personified” ?? That was pretentious!! And your goal in life seems to be to write verbose doggerel, with a bunch of extended metaphors and a crowd of random imagery just to get compliments from random people. Because really, you live your daily life thinking just way too much about small things and writing about how great you are. Move on, there are bigger things.
October 21, 2004 — 6:19 am
Lakshmi says:
Thanks….
October 21, 2004 — 6:23 am
sat_chit_anand says:
The fact that you chose to read this and comment on it proves that it wasnt meant to just derive compliments from random people cause your comments hardly seem to be complimentary. Besides small and big are just relative things.
Locks – your articulation was just too good. Now you seem to really move on to bigger things just like water moves from a stream to the river to the sea and into the ocean deep.
October 21, 2004 — 6:33 am
Lakshmi says:
Thanks…:-)
I am genuinely at a loss for words b’coz come bouquets or brickbats, I have a standard response in place…
October 21, 2004 — 6:44 am
gotjanx says:
>That was pretentious!!
…..
>verbose doggerel, with a bunch of extended metaphors and a crowd of random imagery
Hello pot, meet kettle.
Err ..not to say locks, just making a point. Keep writing and deleting.:D.
October 21, 2004 — 9:38 am
Lakshmi says:
No deleting this post…:-)
Thanks for the *defense*!
October 21, 2004 — 10:05 am
tomlinsonian says:
any time you need me,
on the defense panel, just whistle me up…
siighhh….There are no bigger things than me. The most important part of I feel, I think ,I believe , I exist – is the I.
Your Thanks has grace that the invective lacks…
October 21, 2004 — 12:56 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: any time you need me,
π
Thanks, Manu…
October 21, 2004 — 8:54 pm
Anonymous says:
Re: any time you need me,
“The most important part of I feel, I think, I believe, I exist – is the I”
wow, and I suppose nobody else matters to you right? If all thought like you, we would have a world destroyed.
October 21, 2004 — 9:00 pm
Lakshmi says:
Re: any time you need me,
Phew! You have one excited bee in your bonnet, don’t you? And that’s putting it mildly, I think! In any case, I’ll make a last-ditch attempt to articulate what I wanted to… or what I meant to.
I believe that our truest nature is one of grace, brilliance and joy. I am not talking for myself alone, please understand. What Manu tried to tell you was that… The only truth is that you exist. Everything else is a perception. I hope I’ve made some sense!
October 21, 2004 — 9:08 pm
rileen says:
Very well written.
Water doesn’t whine about its writing, does it :-p ? Ok, ok just kidding ….. to make a pun, your writing’s certainly flowing now.
October 21, 2004 — 6:32 am
Lakshmi says:
Thanks, Rileen… Thanks!
October 21, 2004 — 6:40 am
arunshanbhag says:
Hey, Looks like somebody turned on the spigot. You have been gushing for days!
π
… Oh, its the water!
Well said!
October 21, 2004 — 7:16 am
Lakshmi says:
Thanks…:-)
October 21, 2004 — 10:06 am
gotjanx says:
The mystery of the missing post ? π
October 21, 2004 — 7:41 am
Lakshmi says:
Believe it or not, I was trying to get some sleep last night and in a fit of irritation, I got up, started the PC, read that post, thought it awfully juvenile and deleted it…Sorry!
October 21, 2004 — 7:45 am
gotjanx says:
LOL! Your page, your call. Don’t apologise.
October 21, 2004 — 7:49 am
shri says:
Beautiful! π
To just add to the chorus here, “Very articulate!!” π
October 21, 2004 — 8:24 am
Lakshmi says:
Thanks, Shri…:-)
October 21, 2004 — 10:06 am
Lakshmi says:
π
I am pretty flattered!
October 21, 2004 — 10:06 am
hariputtar says:
thats a beautiful write-up locks!
[ and i have to say sth about *that* comment: whoa! that was not a very nice person over there. i am interested in knowing – if narcissism does not drive this world what does. :)) j/k. what amuses me is not the content of the statement. but the intent. ]
there are moments when u do feel one with nature – u feel as if u can embrace the expanses … and such stuff. there shud be no shame in describing such rare moments for the benefit of others. why, *bramhoham* must have been a product of such a moment.
one can look at it as self-aggrandizement.
… OR …
being one with something that is much greater than us. and having felt the proximity, or having felt the connection, one is being grateful for that euphoric moment singing praises of that vastness, greatness.
there is a difference in religious philosophies on this – but some will say (and i agree) .. identifying with the nature … universe … bramhan … is *realization*. not pride. *humility* should not be confused with *pettiness-and-conservativeness-of-thought*.
October 21, 2004 — 7:05 pm
Lakshmi says:
Thanks, Sonal!
Strangely enough, narcissism never entered the picture. I genuinely believe that my truest nature is one of movement, grace and generosity… Isn’t that true for everyone? They are the latent *impressions* which have caused me to depart from my true self and get into this ridiculously self-doubting pattern of thought… Once I get them out of my system, I’ll be myself again…
October 21, 2004 — 8:48 pm
Lakshmi says:
being one with something that is much greater than us. and having felt the proximity, or having felt the connection, one is being grateful for that euphoric moment singing praises of that vastness, greatness.
You said it…
October 21, 2004 — 9:10 pm
Lakshmi says:
http://www.svbf.org/sringeri/journal/vol4no1/brahma.pdf
They’re lovely, aren’t they? When I first Sri Sri recite them, I felt as if these were the most empowering verses one could ever hear.
October 21, 2004 — 9:23 pm
hariputtar says:
such beauty in these verses. thanks.
October 21, 2004 — 10:13 pm
prithvicin says:
Nice to read ur words…..I think u can help me…
Me…Prithvi.I am the Earth.Each blade of grass,Each honey tree, Each bit of mud, Each Drop of Water And stick and stone Is Mine.Then Also I am not happy.
Becuase My people(human beings) are not happy.So I am searching What z happiness.Let me set the scene to describe a lil about this…Let me think like a human being….
One day u r doing housework and cut your finger accidently “My finger is cut” you say. Its clear that YOU are not the finger. If you carry on your search further you will see that YOU are not the body. So now your thinking…Who is this ‘I’ which says “My finger…” This is where my search begain… Let me take it a step further… Your listening to music, or playing on your PS2 this will bring you some form of happiness. But what brings you this happiness? The mind gets attatched to a ‘thing’ and a person becomes happy. Eventually you become so engrossed in this attatchment that you get pushed through dualities of pain and pleasure. So how do you remove yourself from this circle of pain and pleasure? What if we train our mind to get attatched to something which will deliver us from these dualities…? Honey is sweet, but what is ‘sweet’. You aint gonna know until the tastebuds come in contact with the object.
So can u tell me what z ur view abt Happiness???
Prithviii
August 7, 2006 — 11:23 am
Lakshmi says:
Re: Nice to read ur words…..I think u can help me…
I know that happiness is a fountain within me.
Thanks for dropping by!
August 7, 2006 — 8:18 pm
prithvicin says:
Miles to go before I sleep…….
Yes.I can see that fountain even it is a small thing on the Earth.But I can aslo hear the pulsing sobs.It seems like ..the blood Measures its flowing.I got that wounded mumurs as it streams. But I could nt find the solution for these wounds.Nothing in nature now remains unwounded.Me Earth …continues my search ….what z happiness???…..Miles to go before I sleep……..
Prithviii
August 8, 2006 — 7:14 am