Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Krttika - the star of fire

The gods beamed with silent pride.

For, without their cooperation and efforts, it would not be possible for the archer, to blow up the alignment.

And Shiva aborted launch; stepped down from the vehicle.

Gazed at the conjunction.

Became radiant, broke into a smile.

It proved too much for the alignment.

It bloomed into flames.

- from Wikipedia.

Sunday, 5 November 2017

third quarter at Aslesha

Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness.
Not the stillness of the violin, while the note lasts,
Not that only, but the co-existence,
Or say that the end precedes the beginning
And the end and the beginning were always there 
Before the beginning and after the end.
And all is always now.

T S Eliot,  Four Quartets