Ramanuja and Sankara

Narayana is the absolute God.

Soul and the universe are its attributes.

Ishwara is Para Brahman and Jiva

Is Chita Brahman and Jagat, Achit Brahman.

This is Ramanuja’s Vishitadwaita.

According to him total surrender

At the feet of Narayana is the bliss.

Siva is Brahman, the absolute.

Maya is not different from Siva

Siva is Brahman and Sakti, Maya.

Jiva is part of Brahman, says Sankara.

According to him, Jiva is to realize

That he and Siva are not two but one,

And with this to surrender to Him for bliss.

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Love has power.

Love has power.

The giver knows it.

The receiver knows it.

Sexual love peaks it.

Parental love fathoms it.

They forget the world.

They forget the norms.

They enjoy the power

They use on each other.

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To pardon oneself

The victim can pardon.

The king can pardon.

You can’t pardon yourself.

It is justifying your wrong.

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Rape, a distorted view

She was raped with a promise;

Be it marriage, employment or stardom.

Would the sex had be a rape

Had the promises been met subsequently?

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Knowledge acquiescence

Knowledge comes through sense organs.

Knowledge comes through reasoning.

One is empirical and the other, logical.

Knowledge is brought out by Intuition.

Knowledge can be instinctual too.

Presumption and assumption are parts of it.

Level of intelligence is the cause

Of acquiescence and storing of knowledge

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Ideology for humans

 

Any great man is relevant post his death

For his ideology only when they’ve been

From thinking of humans as a whole

And is not fit if it’s only confined

To one sect, one region or one language.

Philosophers belong to the world,

Unlike heads of religions and regions.

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