DEPARTING SONG :

The golden rays from the evening sun / caressing Autumn leaves
also tell me the limits of time /and fragile frame of life.

The `Fall`- in yellow , crimson robes / surrender,resign or renunciate
to ushering winter time / signalling another fate.

I had so much to tell you,dear/ talk or hear from you, so much
about life and love ; about you and me/ or to admire Nature`s touch

Yet, - the evening vermillion sky/ signals something to trees around
with its departing kiss and expressive sigh
on the drapes of lake-side leaves.

The tree- barks fall off
old ties depart ;
autumn leaves join the show

To me , Art and Aesthetics are some sense of balance, harmony and rhythm arranged within our vibrating soul to enlarge or expand in successive growth towards cosmic unity and beauty. This is an intrinsic poise and nothing concrete or rigid
Art and Aesthetics can not have balancing growth and existence in substance or abstract, without the integrated sense of ethics or inbuilt state of psychic blossoming. What is rising within is sometimes offered or arranged outside on the field of perceptual frame for others to participate.

A knife keeps its edge
only with honing and proper cutting.
A warrior`s virtue is readiness.
A sage`s virtue is awareness.
{ from - TAO }

SOCRATES AGREES : :
Bring it , -the poison cup
shall love to drink and see
your dream fulfilled
Because I told you the truth
because you agreed not
and because
Truth and Knowledge -are
too strong a drink
you could not withstand it// and - wanted me
out of the stage
for life..

Bring it here and now
i shall let your dream come true
I shall drink the poison
your gift .

SPIRITUAL ETHICS ;The Bible (in verse) Part - 1
After St. Mathews (abridged )

Live not by bread alone//divine`s word are better food ever known.
never dare to put god to test//deepest faith shall guide you best.
Whatever do do it in His name//all works be services in living game.
Fishing fish is surviving need//fishing wise men for God -better indeed
Blessed are those - pure in heart//even if they suffer ,God won`t desert.
Jesus came not to abolish things//but to fulfil & discard nothing
No right to kill that you created not//forgiving is better - approved by Lord.
With lust in heart ,adultery you commit//it matters least if by look or by greed.
Don`t swear by God or by head again//neither of them are in your domain.
Do what you have to - as God`s will//hate not your enemy, even if have to kill.

Hiranmoy Gautom

ABOUT OUR SOUL

That Diamond in the mud//or covered by the filthy clod
or lost,yet- in the stinking drain//or may be, under the heap of ash!

But whatever it is, - still it is//the Diamond displaced, misplaced or lost
let us search and seek them all//and must know the truth or recall
then learn to love and value its worth.

All diamonds misplaced or hidden in mud//are diamonds inspite of displacement
the more it is clean the more dazzles//it's intrinsic worth was never in doubt

The clod of mud with diamond in//is the derailed man with God within.

Basu - Phani





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ETHICS OF LIVING !
BILL GATES
(this poem is not complete without the name of -Melinda Gates)

Even these days ! it happens//like tales from Mythology
it happens ! even these days !
At a time of -//Global `character-polution` and
ecological disaster of corruption games//sometimes,the `Flaming Star` comes down
from Heaven;not to burn down, but -//to light up our dark existence !

From childhood (prodigy-start), until this day//of after-noon giow, -your `gift` such effulgent
yet so gentle and without `heat`, //to help all suffring souls, with no bar
giving so much `raining love` !

As if the Divine ,sometimes
responds to the cry of the Earth below !
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Phanibhusan Basu

Copyright ©2006 Phanibushan Basu

ART AND POETRY :
Art and poetry can be the media though they are not adequate. But one who attains the super mind does not sit down to write philosophy about it. That is just like using poetry to teach grammar, so as to take all poetry out of it. Even when super mind finds expression it would carry its meaning only to the man who knows; as the Veda puts it, " Words of the seer which reveal their mystery only to the seer". One can`t express the whole supra mental truth, but something of it can come through.
There are different types of poetry. That is to say, poetry there may be and yet the the psychic element in it may not be strong.
Vedic poetry is on the plane of intuitional vision. There is rhythm ,force and other elements of poetry in it, but the psychic element is not so prominent. It is from a plane much higher than the mental. It has got its own depth - but psychic poetry differs from it in its depth and feeling. (After Sri Aurobindo ; Evening Talks : - 3rd edition -1982)

MOON VOYAGE ;;

Once, - while young
in my sweetest dream
I crushed the moon
sieved it through
and drank it full.

Don`t tell me now
if it`as - right or wrong
as because
it was my dream
all the while
like this one
-my living life !

`SATORI`
Twist or turn/move or walk/proceed or return/may call it action
or if you don`t/it matters not.

In another form/sit back, - relax;
don`t close your eyes/but see through and - beyond.
Let the Universe move and roll -/without you.

Let all your thoughts be mere void
like azure sky.
Or,- like the moon in trance
make your stance /and transcend all.

Hiranmoy Gautom

Copyright ©2006 Phanibushan Basu

`ARUBA`(

Was it a piece of Heaven !
or Somthing from a Fairy tale !
Maybe ; some moon-shine dreams !
yet an earthly truth
a tropical spring-time pearly shine
on the lap of liquid vibrating blue
with blossoming green
like diamond beads
or 3-D show -on coloured screen

ARUBA , - Aruba how you exist
like spectrum floral bed
playing `music` on the visual swim
on the back drop of -temporal azure sky!

POLE STAR

Things move or rest in relative sense;
to modern Science -
that`s the essence.

Yet, to the living world
and conscious life
while we change or fail or thrive
the Pole star is fixed as if, still !
by the Cosmic-skill of Whom ;
and thus raising hope
for this fragile
revolving and conscious Globe !


Hiranmoy Gautom

Copyright ©2006 Hiranmoy Gautom



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ETHICS OF LIVING SPHERE : = Real Nature of Man ; { Complete works of Swami Vivekananda ; Vol -II }
About the Soul ; "Me the Sun can not dry, fire can not burn, sword can not kill, for I am the birth less , the deathless , the everliving omnipotent, omnipresent, spirit ".
Is nothing more important than pound , shilling and pence ? If so why boast of your society?
There is a great tendency in modern times to talk too much, of work and decry thought. Doing is very good but5 that comes from thinking.
Thou are like the infinite sky; clouds of various colours come over it, play for a moment, then vanish. But the sky is the same eternal blue.
We see the world as we are. suppose there is a baby with a bag of gold on the table and a thief comes and steals the gold.
Would the baby know -it was stolen?
If want to help the world , do not condemn it.

SAYINGS OF RAMAKRISHNA (from Kathamrita)( Art of spiritual-tales)

The salt-doll dared to measure the ocean and went to swim and dive. Never did return to report back; melting,- became the Ocean on its strife.
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If I am a worldly man, - so what; I am fighting from the fort. Allround have the protective wall; -and security for my persuit..
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ye don`t know whose son I am ! This Earth, that Sun all stars are His.
If tell you more, you will go nuts; I may falter or fail but within me -my father is.
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ETHICS
Ethics has no fixed face. Ethics and moral values change with changes in society on the back ground of time-space IE geography and growth and development of society and social values. Early Civilization had different value-sense ,social growth and adjustment happened accordingly.
In the earliest stage of Indian Civilisation in India more than one marriage or even marrying the same bride by all brothers was admitted for the sake of expansion of society and preservation of property within a family unit and also inspiring population growth. The best example is in Mahabharata -days, when all pandavas- brothers married one bride,-Draupadi or Arjuna conquered not only ot5her kingdoms but went on marrying the princess to expand the kingdom and improve relations with neighbouring states. To day the same incidence would reflect immorality.

LIVELY POISE :

Set-backs have framed by ribs
hope swings in my breath
happiness - burnt by realities
yet, stay awake for thy return.

WORD PICTURE ;

On afternoon walk
picked up a pearl
and lost - while
returning home.
**********
Tears wailing down
while I recited a poem
was it creative words
or your melting soul !
***********
Shall Come again
wherever I go
cosmic game of return
with renewed soul..

ART & AESTHETICS :

WAITING :

Weeping , I measured the night
with the hands of the clock
suddenly the sun
greets me grinning !
******
In other ways too
the night wears off..

(translated by - Umanath Bhattacharya
from a Bengali poem )

Absurd poetry
If every thing is vibration
your look and my touch
or your voice on my ears
your kiss or smile
the sweet smell or thy tears
what then remains for us my dear
to involve or joyously hide !
Scientist, -you say, our love and dream
are play of electromagnetic field !
Waht is the limit of knoledge ?
where is the wisdom of knowing Truth ?
If final knowledge lead us all- to tragic
revelation of everything void !
and all values lead to ultimate
nothingness !
Oh love, -let us hide within
we need a little of ignorance, to be happy
without knowing more - for ?
we have already known too much !!


Phanibhusan Basu

ART & AESATHETICS : WORD -PAINTING
Depression ;

Unworthy of heaven here and above/ rejected sternly by the world/ burrowing hole like a slimy worm/ only to exist - seems my reserved wealth/ until the final exit - door
Unlike touch-stone all love and hope -/ turns easily to waste ,trash or sloth/ is survival itself , so much worth ! / I do not know / who knows ! that also I know not !.
Restless thoughts rush like stormy waves/ dark cloud engulf my my sky - planning what ?/ are hormones themselves the cause/ should I revolt ! or, resign to my fate/ that even ,yet I do not know !
Who knows ? - I know not.!

LOVE With My Goddess :

With the veil of Dawn - soft, mystique and moist
thou standing, - so pure. serene
on the alter so high !

And I, -bathed clean within and out
saying my prayer
-fell in love.

Know,
no devil is alive within me now and -
if you do not hold my hand
I shall wait and wait
untill the end of Time.
I will paint thy nails with my crimson blood
till the time you climb down unto me
with your morning-smile
and hold my hand.
***** *****
Will you not name it love !

ART & AESTHETICS :

Adapting TAO

"If you are best in the morning
Cultivate Tao in the morning
If you are best in the evening
Cultivate Tao in the evening"

(from 365 TAO by - Deng Ming-Dao
ISBN-o-o6-250223-9 )

ART & AESTHETICS :

Adapting TAO

"If you are best in the morning
Cultivate Tao in the morning
If you are best in the evening
Cultivate Tao in the evening"

(from 365 TAO by - Deng Ming-Dao
ISBN-o-o6-250223-9 )