This is not struggle.
Surrender, may be. But not that fallible.
A period in between having lived a life full of miracles and approaching towards an absolute miracle-free life.
When your trust in Trust-lessness grows stronger than your belief in existence.
A strong acceptance of rejection.
Unjustified, indescribable and unspecified.
Probably defeat is not the opposite of victory. Hopelessness is.
What will happen next is not a surprise. You drift away equally from success and failure.
But the wheel doesn't stop here.
Sooner or later, you’ll pick up your pieces and start to run faster.
Because you realise that you are not the wheel, but an item rolling in between the spokes trying to reach the axle.
P.S. I didn't gamble. Any Resemblance to Macau or any of its casinos is Purely Coincidental. It just portrays a sh!tty moment that I am in.
P.S. I didn't gamble. Any Resemblance to Macau or any of its casinos is Purely Coincidental. It just portrays a sh!tty moment that I am in.
The Ferris Wheel of life so large in splendor,
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Changing fortunes like night and day,
Changing seasons, experience feelings.
Peaks and troughs are the ways of the wheel.
Pulling me up, new faces, new places,
Adventures in wonderland, sights to behold.
Ever increasing, feels like I'm flying,
Reach for the stars.
The pinnacle of life awaits us all.
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My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.
Those who are brave shall choose Roulette, or perhaps Roulette shall choose them. And those brave shall not look away from the wheel in fear as the ball bounces, for wherever it may land. Destiny! Whatever the outcome, the true gamblers, of which Roulette is their game, will trudge forward on the green…..
The Wheel of Life
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Aswamedha Parva, Section XLV
Translated by Sri Kisari Mohan Ganguli
The Brahmana said: The wheel of life moves on. It has the understanding for its strength; the mind for the pole (on which it rests); the group of senses for its bonds, the five great elements for its nave, and home for its circumference.
[It is overwhelmed by decrepitude and grief, and it has diseases and calamities for its progeny. That wheel relates in time and place. It has toil and exercise for its noise. Day and night are the rotations of that wheel. It is encircled by heat and cold. Pleasure and pain are its joints, and hunger and thirst are the nails fixed into it. Sunshine and shade are the ruts (it causes). It is capable of being agitated during even such a short space of time as is taken up by the opening and the closing of the eyelid. It is enveloped in the terrible waters of delusion. It is ever revolving and void of consciousness. It is measured by months and half months. It is not uniform (being ever changing), and moves through all the worlds.
Penances and vows are its mud. Passion’s force is its mover. It is illuminated by the great egoism, and is sustained by the qualities. Vexations (caused by the non-acquisition of what is desired) are the fastenings that bind it around. It revolves in the midst of grief and destruction. It is endued with actions and the instruments of action. It is large and is extended by attachments. It is rendered unsteady by cupidity and desire. It is produced by variegated Ignorance. It is attended upon by fear and delusion, and is the cause of the delusion of all beings. It moves towards joy and pleasure, and has desire and wrath for its possession. It is made up of entities beginning with Mahat and ending with the gross elements. It is characterised by production and destruction going on ceaselessly. Its speed is like that of the mind, and it has the mind for its boundary.
This wheel of life that is associated with pairs of opposites and devoid of consciousness, the universe with the very immortals should cast away, abridge, and check. That man who always understands accurately the motion and stoppage of this wheel of life, is never seen to be deluded, among all creatures. Freed from all impressions, divested of all pairs of opposites, released from all sins, he attains to the highest goal.
ReplyDeleteThe householder, the Brahmachari (Celibate student), the forest recluse and the mendicant, - these four modes of life have all been said to have the householder’s mode for their foundation. Whatever of system of rules is prescribed in this world, their observance is beneficial. Such observance has always been highly spoken of. He who has been first cleansed by ceremonies, who has duly observed vows, who belongs in respect of birth to a race possessed of high qualifications, and who understands the Vedas, should return (from his preceptor’s house).
Always devoted to his wedded spouse, conducting himself after the manner of the good, with his senses under subjugation, and full of faith, one should in this world perform the five sacrifices. He who eats what remains after feeding deities and guests, who is devoted to the observance of Vedic rites, who duly performs according to his means sacrifices and gifts, who is not unduly active with his hands and feet, who is not unduly active with his eye, who is devoted to penances, who is not unduly active with his speech and limits, comes under the category of Sishta or the good. One should always bear the sacred thread, wear white (clean) clothes, observe pure vows, and should always associate with good men, making gifts and practising self-restraint. One should subjugate one’s lust and stomach, practise universal compassion, and be characterised by behaviour that befits the good. One should bear a bamboo stick, and a water pot filled with water.
Having studied, one should teach; likewise should also make sacrifices of others. One should also make gifts made to oneself. Verily, one’s conduct should be characterised by these six acts. Know that three of these acts should constitute the livelihood of the Brahmanas, viz., teaching (pupils), officiating at the sacrifices of others, and the acceptance of gifts from a person that is pure. As to the other duties that remain, numbering three, viz., making of gifts, study, and sacrifice, these are accompanied by merit.
you have the potential. stay true to yourself
ReplyDeletedont try to become over philosophical; trying to sound mature.
Thank you for your thoughts.
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