I didn’t search for You
when i was a child,
probably didn’t have
much understanding of any kind!
Sermons of parents and elders and all the do‟s and don’ts,
were never questioned,
though meanings not known; accepted all those as truth
to make me believe in You,
and as You were there,
so, didn’t search for You!
You were there….
in mother’s daily pujas,
sounds of bell and conch shell, in the family chorus
of devotional songs and prayers, in the mantras and hymns
of the priests in all the temples, in all the sweets and fruits
on the offering plates!
You were there….
in all my endless pranams
to invisible You –
before the exam,
after getting the Q paper,
before the results,
after coming back home,
before the matches
cricket, football or any bout!
When i grew up, understood a little, couldn’t accept anything as it is; questioned and tried to find the truth, are You there, where is the proof?
If You are really there….
in the colours and fragrance of flowers and songs of birds,
in the floating clouds
and dancing peacock before the rain, in love, kindness
and all the good human deeds, throughout the universe
in all the grains and seeds…
Then are You also there….
in the wailings and yelpings
of all the hungry men during famines, in the debris after ravaging
Tsunami, Amphan or earthquakes, in the devastating viruses
of plague, swine flu or covid19,
in all the destructions and killings
by men constantly driven by six evils…
Didn’t get any satisfying answer,
so kept searching tirelessly,
in all the scriptures
of Veda, Vedanta, Upanishad, Gita, Bible, Koran, Gurugranth
Dharmapada and Talmud,
in the various preachings of
Ramakrishna, Sadguru and Ravishankar, in the reasonings of science
and laws of nature.
I am not enlightened enough
even now in my twilight years,
so i continue to search, dwelling deep inside – are You only a belief,
a complete surrender without reasonings, i am You or You are me??
21st July, 2020
I Keep Searching for You
Author: Kamal Acharyya | Posted on: 7th, Nov, 2024
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Day's history
15th July
1903 Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
1916 Boeing Company (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle, Washington
16th July
1439 Kissing is banned in England (to stop the Black Death from spreading)
1945 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project
17th July
1936 Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War
1959 Tibet abolishes serfdom
18th July
1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army
19th July
1848 1st US women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
1996 Pran Nath Chhuttani, Indian physician and teacher, dies at 81
20th July
1969 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later
1977 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80
21st July
1904 After 13 years, the 4,607-mile Trans-Siberian railway is completed
1969 Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM 22nd July
1942 Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp
2012 Pranab Mukherjee is elected 13th President of India
22nd July
1678 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj won the fort of Vellore.
1981 India’s first experimental geostationary communication satellite ‘Apple’ started working which was launched on June 19, 1981
Day's humor
Outstanding.
Comment by dchaudhuri — November 7, 2024 @ 9:35 pm
The eternal question!
Answer we are told, is within but hard to discover and remains hidden.
Comment by Baidya Roy — November 7, 2024 @ 10:36 pm
Beautiful
Comment by Pradipta Shome — November 7, 2024 @ 11:03 pm
Very well written.
Comment by Nanda Chakravartti — November 8, 2024 @ 1:19 pm
Beautiful!
Comment by Amitabha Chatterjee — November 8, 2024 @ 4:58 pm