HINDUISM YAMAS

HINDUISM YAMAS

Hinduism preaches Ahimsa or Non violence

Hurt never any one by thoughts, words or actions

No pain or injury to any creature

World would indeed prosper.

Ahimsa driving forces nine

Practice them one by one

Goal you will reach certain

If only train your mind every one.

Truthfulness you practice in life

Remember lie multiplies lie

Word and thought let it conform to facts

Sathyameva jayate, truth always wins

Astheya , never get into debts

Never other’s property covet

Never steal others possessions

For happiness a good lesson.

Brahmacharya you observe

With divinity in conduct serve

As a single be celibate

As married true and faithful to your spouse

Promote Kshama forgiveness in you

Patience a quality an asset for you

Always be in present

Past is past , make no time lost.

Let Dhriti , steadfastness and perseverance be the key

No fear or indecision rob the efforts of thee

Be after your goal with heart and soul

Success sure to smile , fruits of efforts, smile.

Develop in you quality of compassion

Suppress attitude of indifference

Dharma ,karuna, seva , bhava as duty

Essential qualities of a harmonious society.

Let Arjava honesty be a guiding force in you

Straight forwardness surely nice quality in you

Renounce deception and wrong doing

Qualify yourself as worthy human being.

Mitaahara, eat neither too little nor too much

Both to health are problematic as such

Be vegetarian in diet, avoiding meat

A practice of diet keeps you healthy indeed.

Let Shaucha, purity govern your life

Eliminate thoughts and actions impure all the while

Patanjali advocates Shaucha as first Niyama

Practice well the above said ten yamas

K.S.V.SESHADRI

HINDUISM NIYAMAS OF PATHANJALI

HINDUISM NIYAMAS OF PATHANJALI

Saucha or purity in many ways you begin

Purifying body by fasting, removing toxins

Allergens avoid, purifying air we breathe in

In you, pure thoughts, develop within.

Water purifies the body

Truthfulness purifies mind

True knowledge cleans up intellect

Austerity purifies the soul perfect.

Contentment harbinger of peace

Live in present, acts pleasing you do

New of Yesterday turns old today, today’s new tomorrows old

Contentment is the key to behold.

Tapas or discipline is the rules you build up

Unwanted habits within you to wind up

Or promote wants in life with self- judgment

Negative thoughts eliminate in temperament.

Swadhya or self- study requires thrust

Experience is always teacher in life best

Learning a process of one or more life time

Move forward with lessons that would work out fine.

Ishwara pranidhana ,to god you surrender

Head below heart, symbol of surrender

Surrender to Nature and God so divine

Trusting things to you would work out fine.

K.S.V.Seshadri

WIFE

WIFE

Woman impressive feminine ever

Wise, intelligent, fair, eager

Woman inspiring female ever

Woman interesting forever.

Woman in family eager

Woman, increased finance eager

Woman, impressive future eager

Woman imaginative future empower.

What interesting food expect

What’s impressive for enjoyment

Waiting in for entertainment

Within interests, for excitement.

With intensity for exuberance

With impressive feminine expressions

Workforce in family enjoyment

Women in feelings exultant

Woman in family explicates

Woman in fury explodes

Woman in fairness express

Woman, indeed feminine extraordinary.

Woman in for extravagance

Woman in for exuberance

Woman impressive family entertainer

Woman, impressive feminine energy.

K.S.V.SESHADRI

PEEPAL TREE

PEEPAL TREE

Peepal tree grows very fast

Roots attached to trunk as pillar last

Trunks irregular shaped, low buttresses

Barks light grey, peel in patches

It is epiphytic growing on trees

A strangler with rope like roots, one sees

Grows in cracks on walls, cracking a lot

Resistant to drought and frost

Leaves smooth, shiny, leathery

Oval in shape, apex into tail lengthy

Base is over all heart shaped

Oxygen rich in morn due to thick foliage.

Flowers hidden in figs, green turning into purple

Between stalk of leaves and branches at an angle

Three colorless male stamen with opening at apex

Female flower with five petals, pistil enclosure

Round the year Peepal with fig fruits

Birds, bats, fond of the fruits

Seeds undigested into gutters and walls

Germinate and grow anywhere well.

Indus valley civilization from Mohenjo-Daro times

Hindus worshipped the tree, considered divine.

Symbol of happiness, longevity, good luck, prosperity

Vraksha rajaya namah, salutations to king of trees

Peepal tree, a home of Trinity, a Hindu belief

Brahma in roots, Vishnu in trunk , Shiva in leaves

In Bhagavad Gita Krishna says, Asvathah sarvvi Krishnam

Meaning peepal tree His own image, says Krishna.

Upanishads explain body and soul

With Peepal fruit one realizes well

Fruit of tree like body enjoys and feels

Seed within, a silent observer of things.

Plants in Hanuman and Shani temples

Women circumbulate the tree thrice for blessings

Merit for progeny, sorrows redeemed, diseases cured

On Shravan Saturdays prayers observed.

Peepal tree is married to Neem illustration

Fruit of Neem Shiva linga representation

Leaf of peepal, yoni, power of female action

Representing creation through sexual union

For Buddhists too the tree so sacred

Buddha enlightened under this tree in GAYA

Later known as Gautama Buddha, spiritual founder

Worship of Peepal equals worship of Gautama ever.

Peepal with a diameter of three meters

Height to diameter ratio of ten one observes

Oldest plant of nearly three centuries before Christ

Gaya Gautama’s enlightenment site

K.S.V.SESHADRI

BANYAN TREE

BANYAN TREE

Banyan tree, Indian National tree

Of extraordinary natural beauty

A tree for exuding rest and tranquility

For meetings and business providing a nice canopy

Elliptical leaves, leathery glossy green

Leaf buds covered by two large scales seen

Young leaves seen in color red

Attractive to eyes nicely spread

Seeds dispersed from host tree

By fruit eating birds you see

Into cracks and crevices, germinates

Send roots to ground to terminate.

Aerial prop roots into thick woody trunks

With age not distinguishable from main trunk

Spreads laterally, covering large area on ground

Root structures unique in reproduction found.

Tree in Calcutta two hundred fifty years old

With widest occupation of four acres land

In Acharya Jagadeesh Chandra Bose Botanical garden

World’s largest, despite lightning striking trunk Main.

A plant four feet tall in Fort Meyers Florida

Planted in USA by Thomas Alva Edison

Grown from nineteen twenty five to feet four hundred

Third largest tree in the world

Leaves chat with each other

As if patting back of one another

As they rustle in the gush of wind

It is so musical to ear you find.

In Bhagavad Gita Krishna speaks

One branch to another materialistic seek

Such one has no end for liberation

Leaves represent Vedas, seeking illuminating Sun.

K.S.V.SESHADRI