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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Quotes
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Day's history
1st September
1785 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart publishes 6th string quartet opus 10 in Vienna
1878 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston).
1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan)
2nd September
1792 September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.
1919 Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago.
1930 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs).
3rd September
1891 Cotton pickers organize union & stage strike in Texas
1940 Adolf Hitler orders an invasion of Great Britain for Sept 21 (Operation Seelöwe/Sealion)
1967 Sweden begins driving on the right-hand side of the road (Dagen H)
4th September
1886 Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
1934 Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman scores 149 not out in just 104 minutes (17 fours, 4 sixes) in drawn tour match v England XI at Folkestone
2016 Mother Teresa canonized by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican.
5th September
1957 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista bombs an uprising in Cienfuegos
1979 Viceroy of India Earl of Mountbatten’s Ceremonial Funeral held in Westminster Abbey
6th September
1492 Christopher Columbus’ fleet leaves Gomera, Canary islands
2007 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor, dies at 71
7th September
1904 British forces in Tibet forced the 13th Dalai Lama to sign a treaty granting Britain trading posts in Tibet and a guarantee that Tibet will not concede territory to foreign powers
1977 US President Jimmy Carter and Panama’s General Omar Torrijos signed the Panama Canal treaties, guaranteeing Panama control of the Panama Canal after 1999
8th September
1504 Michelangelo’s statue of David is unveiled in Florence
1921 1st Miss America crowned in Atlantic City – Margaret Gorman (16) of Washington, D.C.
1952 Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man & the Sea” published
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