Silence Is Your Language, Oh Dumb Mind! Poem by Varanasi Ramabrahmam

Silence Is Your Language, Oh Dumb Mind!

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Silence is your language, Oh, dumb mind!

Like dreams fleet thoughts and feelings in you
Ocean of tears you become the moment they turn out to be illusions
Silence is your language, Oh, dumb mind!

You are a dark cave, friend to worries and agonies
You are a stage for dramas, Oh, mind!
And are a kite cut off;

Why you love, why you worry,
Why you are agitated, as what you remain?
Silence is your language, Oh, dumb mind!

You are home to desires, are a net of love and affection
You are a swing of dreams, Oh, mind!

You are a demon of falsities
You desire what is missing
You let go what is available
You wail for ages for one false step,
You weep for ages for one false step,
Silence is your language, Oh, dumb mind!


Telugu Original: Acharya Atreya

Translation: Varanasi Ramabrahmam

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Nivedita Bagchi SPC UK 28 November 2009

‘Silence is eloquent and silence is golden’ you’ve proved it by every way… Ten… Ms. Nivedita UK Cordially invite to read comment and…my poems niv

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Indira Renganathan 04 September 2009

Life has been destined to coil in the cycle of good and evil...no wonder mind, specially human mind is caught held in good and bad thoughts that result in relative karma or action and thereon next to the relative result of experience....thought provoking poem

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Ramesh T A 04 September 2009

Silence is for dreaming, knowing of desires and striving long for fulfilling all! Nice!

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Ravi A 04 September 2009

The answer to the questions asked is in the poem itself. Actually speaking, mind is the seat of duality and this is creating all the problems. Mind is a collection of thoughts and nothing else. Thoughts can give us a restless time. The same applies to our mind as well. The lesser the thoughts, the more peaceful we are. Peace is a state lying beyond mind. 'Peace of mind' is only an approximation when the mind is almost calm. We can actually live with lesser thoughts and without a mind if we can see our mind and thoughts as a witness. Thoughts will come and go. Mental agitation will come and go like waves in an ocean. Our getting identified with our mind and thoughts is the very troublesome area. Otherwise, a peaceful world is really assured for all of us. Thanks for sharing the poem.

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