Today am happy to share an introspective piece of poetry by my mother Anjana.
Mind
The strange , invisible me
Playing me like a puppet
In its hands.
All of a sudden
When in a group of happy hearts
The neurons in my grey cells suddenly switch
some remote thoughts
Buried deep in my memory folds .
And lo,
amidst the laughter and gaiety
I shrink to my own self,
Away from this Now n Joy.
Amidst a mourning group,
Or sad events,
It strings the tune of
Blessed moments
Making me smile within myself.
How powerful are
The seeds of thoughts
Arising from the depth of mind
Controlling my
moods, words and actions.
It makes me dance to its tunes.
I become a slave to its
Whims and fancies
Losing control of my own self
And repenting later.
All happens in spite of
learning about
awareness and detachment.
When I will learn to tame
The wild horse,
And become the master from slave.?
Savvy Raj 
July 15, 2025 at 10:14 am
Wow Savvy, I did not know that mom too is a poet. No wonder you too are one. It runs in the family I guess.
Absolutely wonderful. No better comments needed.
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July 15, 2025 at 2:02 pm
Yes Ashok, she is an unassuming soul of deep inspiration to us all. Thank you for your kind words 🙏
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July 15, 2025 at 10:52 am
SMiLes Dear Savvy
Your Mother’s Intuitions
And Life Experience About
Our Emotions Preceding
Subconsciously Our Actions
And Our Reasons for Actions
Is Actually Grounded in Modern
Science Particularly too in How the
Right Hemisphere of Mind More Silently
Processes Our Realities Through Feelings
And Senses Presently and the Left Hemisphere
RePresents Taking Reality Apart in Symbols We Use
Like Words
And Other
Partial
Representations
of Reality Like the
Word Tree that Alone
Is surely not a Picture of a Tree
Ah Yes Modern Science Particularly
Per the Research of Iain McGilchrist
Suggests the More silent part of Our
Minds is the Master Now
Where the Representative
Mind Plays A Role better as
Servant Rather than one
Attempting to Rigidly
Label and Control
Reality in Parts
Instead of Whole
Yet of Course the Order
That Part of Our Minds Creates
in Everyday Life is Necessary to
Navigate
Life too as
Always a Balance
As Left And Right Hemispheres
May Cooperate Holding ‘Hands’
Where the Metaphor of Yin and
Yang Surely Fits in For Real Yes
Where a Meditative Flow in Bio-Feedback
May Help Us to Engage A Balance That Makes
Surviving
And Thriving
Much Greater
As A Joy Of Life Now
Newly
With
SMiLes..:)
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July 15, 2025 at 2:14 pm
Very true
Metaphors of life & living fits in for real.
Such a delicate balance of the yin & yang energies are needed
To survive the storms of life
And find joy in being alive in every now.
If only we can practice the pauses to space our selves by mastering of our mind in mindful presence & responses that reckless reaction.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:53 am
Thank You Again Dear Savvy Indeed a Delicate
Balance and Lifelong Practice of ‘Move and
Repose’ as that Applies to All We Do In
Balance
Newly Now
Yin and Yang
No Separation
Inhale Peace Exhale
Love Altogether We Come
to
Be Free
‘i AM’ Whole..:)
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