Vethathiri Maharishi Poems

MOTIVATED BY IMPRINTS

The imprints you inherit from your forebears and the imprints of your deeds after birth in this world together constitute your character as on date.

The nature of your action from this instant onwards is governed by these two sets of earlier imprints arising according to your need and environment now.

The effect of these imprints continues in the line for seven generations -Such is the Law of Nature.

EVALUATE THOUGHTS

Thought is the only source of both word and deed; So you should learn to evaluate every thought of yours and implement only those thought that would be to the good. God’s compassion then would sprout in your very life. When it is understood that God only manifests in the form and substance of every action of yours, and when this knowledge is brought into practice, you would see for yourself that all your deeds become worship of the Absolute. As for worship of idols and icons and the uttering of incantations, they are only intended for juveniles in our midst!

NO GLOATING OR GRIEVING

If you feel elated when you are praised by others, you are still immature and the reaction is inappropriate. Do reflect and assess the cause and the outcome; and you would then agree that you alone should not take credit for the event which drew forth the acclaim. Gloating and grieving are states of delusion, between which your mind oscillates when ignorant. Even when you are reviled you should be unperturbed; and introspecting why you are being criticised, you should rectify your faults and proceed towards the goal blessing your detractors for aiding your reformation!

TEST FOR WISDOM

It is the responsibility of the men of Wisdom to wipe the tears of those steeped in misery now and enable them to live in peace and happiness.

Let me list out here the hapless denizens; The educated unemployed and they who have come of age but do not have the means to enter matrimony; they who are down-trodden having no sustenance; and they that are afflicted with debilitating illnesses; they who are mal-treated by drink-addicts and the like; and they who cannot take care of their own offspring.

Men of Wisdom should get down to action; And their merit we should judge by their tireless field-work.

LAW OF INHERITANCE

After the death of parents their lives would come to merge with the lives of their own children. It is because our forebears had understood this science of life that they devised the code grand and great in thrust under which the children are enjoined upon to ensure that the parents are enabled to live in contentment and when they breathe their last, to do so in total peace. In case the parents have to live in distress the children too would surely lose peace in their turn under the Nature’s Law of inheritance…

NO REINCARNATION

Once life has left the body, never will it reincarnate; nor has it any feelings or pain and pleasure-sensations.
The disembodied life is absorbed by the offspring or other of like-imprints.

In case such invocation fails for some reason, that life in course of time disintegrates in the field of the Universe at large…

HELPING AFTER DEATH
When they who are parents
shed their bodies here,
their lives would invariably
merge with their offspring
who are their continuation
in the linkage through seed.
Such has been ordained
by Nature all supreme.
Thus it would be clear
that if only parents
take to the practice of
Meditation and Virtue,
the asset so built up
would stand bequeathed
to the generations to come
and purify the family stock…

IMPRINTS CONTINUE

The birth-chain continues even as the very ocean for a human afflicted with illusion and deed-imprints that are obstacles in the journey towards Self-Realisation. This occurs in two ways and the first is the state where passion builds up leading to the emergence of children through the seed. The second is because of the imprints lingering in the life-particles after disembodiment. Here the life would attach to a person still living and is suitably receptive and thereby it would seek to purify itself…

HARD TO EXPLAIN

You cannot see in the sky the footprints of the birds that fly; Similarly you cannot ascertain the loftiness of the thinking of those, the ascetics in our midst.

Without a key it is difficult to open a lock; likewise it would be hard to explain through the medium of language the state of life before and after death here…

STAND UP TO MISERY

At times a tiny little fault might cause immense suffering and thereby we may seek to doubt the law of Action-and-Result. Let, me explain the point through the example of a balance of two pans used for weighment: The pointer stands steady at ninety degrees when the commodity equals the weights on the other side. If now you overload to the slightest extent even, the pointer tilts to the right alarmingly indeed. Likewise the earlier stock of the imprints in your account is activated now through the little fault. Inexorable is the Law of Action-and-Result; and if you grasp its logic you can stand up to misery.

LIFE – HOW IT FUNCTIONS
Life in its commencing state is only an ethereal particle in self-rotating motion; And when it swirls to acquire a concrete form and shape that becomes the seed-cell.

Always in a swirl, it is life that structures and maintains the physical body.

When that structure slips into dilapidation beyond the aid of repair, Life quits that habitation and goes on to merge with other lives as also the Universe at large…

RELEVANT EDUCATION

The Education that is relevant for this the Age of Science is the knowledge that pleasure and pain have their source in the logic of the Cause-and-Effect system.

Ignorance signifies speeding that is unmindful of consequence and only when that demoniac haste is geared by knowledge real, would Wisdom start working bringing balance in its wake.

Friends, it is easy to attain to this state which means it is easy to live in happiness…

FANCIFUL IMAGE OF GOD
The formless God was counterfeited in anthropomorphic burlesque and fitted with eyes and ears and nose, was made the hero of fanciful tales that have only helped to aggravate the agony of the illusion suffered by lacerated hearts.

As a result the bulk of humanity today is in deep distress and unable to identify the purpose of life and the means to fulfil it.

In such a sad context what could be timely service? It is none other than expounding to one and all that God manifests only in the form of the result of every action of ours.

Let us not lose time in doing this our duty by emphasising Nature’s Law of Action-and-Result.

OPPRESSION RECOILS

The enslaved sections of the social set-up may suffer in silence but their thought-waves of misery would gather force in time and tackle the oppressors who would thereby lose their prosperity and peace.
Hence you should refrain from tyrannizing over the ignorant, the poor and the weakened in society. You should instead work to better their lot and enjoy peace in turn through love and compassion.

WHAT IS DUTY?
We owe our growth and status
only to the society
that nurtured and brought us up
through its labors manifold.
In return we render service
physically and mentally
and this conscious clearance of dues
is what is called Duty.

Here embarking on action
you should assess the consequence
which would follow for sure
in the form of pleasure or pain.
Unthinking action
is not the way of the wise,
as experience in the past
would have taught you without fail.

WELFARE AND PROSPERITY

The manner and method in which your knowledge stands developed would govern the quality and content of your thoughts; And deeds and results would flow in sequence to this pattern. The only way to alter and elevate your thinking is to become fully aware of the Law of Action-and-Result and evolve practices and habits in concordance. Welfare and prosperity can never be obtained by transfer from others, eminent though they be. These are states that are worked for and preserved by one’s own endeavor, sustained and sincere.

YOUR ENEMY IS YOUR BENEFACTOR
If only you would develop
Duty-consciousness
and learn to analyse
your own shortcomings,
thereafter proceeding
to overcome them one by one,
would you ever stoop
to cast blame on others
Or even trace some fault
away from yourself?

Compassion and Forgiveness
would become part of your being
and even the worst of adversities
through an act of anyone else
would not deprive you
of equanimity.

In relief you would intone,
“A sin-imprint of mine
stands cleared here today
and I have nothing but blessings
for him who helped me thus!”