Reflect upon this...!

...MiRRoR...

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see, I swallow immediately.
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike
I am not cruel, only truthful –
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.

Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me.

Searching my reaches for what she really is.

Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.

I see her back, and reflect it faithfully

She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.

I am important to her. She comes and goes.

Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.

In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman

Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

:- Sylvia Plath

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PS: I felt the beautifully abstract, 'minimalistic' painting above was tailor-made fer this gem of a poem I wanted to share. It was done 'extempore' (that too on MS-Paint!) by my dear friend Prasidhya Sridhar. Thanks a lot fer her allowing me-moron to use it here! :-)


Sylvia Plath was a beautiful lady who wrote verse that is filled with great sensitivity & a keen observation of Life & its vagaries. Sadly, she ended her life due to depression when she was only 31. :-(


Anyway, hope you liked this poem pa..? :)


Take care, & keep REFLECTING. . . :)


Love & Best Wishes,
The MiRRoR in "rags"
Planet Earth
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Do NOT Miss GOD...! :)

Watch OUT...!! Open your eyes..!!
Don't MISS...and regret later...but SEE n Rejoice NOW..!!


I don't know...


I just don't know...! :-( 


The saddest part is that we humans somehow, somewhy JUST Can't FEEL it...!!! :-(


We're insulated against the Miraculous presence of anything Truly Divine...though we can ONLY follow dogmas & rituals superficially...!!


Me just had a tiff with my relatives & people in my village regarding some stupid procedures & thoughts that they seem to still harbour...without ever having any convincing reasons to do so...! (For example, the idea of Animal-sacrifice to appease the so-called Gods & Goddesses, Un-touchability, Looking down on people of other countries, color, or communities...first of all, CLASSifying ( & hence dividing !! ) people like that....
Fears about Celestial bodies/events like Eclipses, New-Moon, etc... & then the ridiculous idea that we can even propitiate the ANGRY planets & stars, abhorring/avoiding a person on the (BLIND!!)-basis that he/she was/is born under a bad-star or angry planet's influence, etc..!!
(Would consider to agree if they can at-least calculate the so-called influence of all the 10^11 X 10^11 stars in the observable UNIVERSE...!!!!! 
Ludicrous..!!! 
And quite Frustrating in deed..!!! 
Instead of appreciating the Beautiful chance called LIFE on our Love-ly Planet...we spend our time perpetuating such ugly Un-TRUTHS...instilling future generations with FEAR & IGNORANCE instead of a sense of AWE n WONDER at the marvels of our Universe & our incredible abode of Earth...! 
WHEN will ASTRONOMY replace our ASTROLOGY...? 
WHEN will SCIENCE temper our Pseudo-Science driven by Religion...n uncover the TRUE Religion of Humanity & LOVE...??? )
But it is amazing that they do NOT Believe ANY Good things the SAME way...!! :)


Phew...!!!


Came across this Lovely song...& want to share it..BEFORE it's too LATE...!! :)


It's from a forth-coming Bollywood movie called "Anjaana Anjaani"...


Sung beautifully by a Mr. R -- :) Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, son of the legendary singer...the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan... :)


Sorry for those who do NOT understand Hindi, but the song..is essentially a message by the so-called ALMIGHTY (force)...who says to the listener :


"YOU do NOT know, nor can you see or feel...But GOD is Right there...!! :)
Even in your moments of Abysmal Darkness and Despair...fear Not..GOD is there...
Your Miserable Lines of FATE...Courage & Faith CAN Repair...
Because, even When you Feel you are LEFT all ALONE...
Despair NOT...for GOD...is ALWAYS with you...Right there...!! :) "




But....ALAS, we people...do NOT seem to CARE...


I always used to say...that GOD has perhaps STOPPED Looking AFTER Us...!! 


But perhaps...it is the Other way round...


It is US...who have Stopped 'SEEING', Stopped FEEL-ing... :(


Will we WAKE up...??


Shouldn't we TRY..?? 


I leave you with the "divine" lyrics...


and Lots of LOVE..and a piece of GOD...it's upto YOU to FEEL it..!!


R...
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=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

Tu Na Jaane Aas Paas Hai Khuda...! 

Dhundhla jaayein jo manzilein

Ik pal ko tu nazar jhuka

Jhuk jaaye sar jahan wahin

Milta hai rab ka raasta

Teri kismat tu badal de

Rakh himmat bas chal de..!

Tere saathi mere kadmon ke hain nishaan..! 

Tu na jaane aas pass hai khuda..!

Khud pe daal tu nazar, Haalaton se haar kar

Kahaan chala re..? 

Haath ki lakeer ko, Modta marodta, 

Hai hausla re

Toh khud tere khwabon ke rang mein

Tu apne jahan ko bhi rang de..!

Ke chalta hoon main tere sang mein

Ho shaam bhi toh kya ?

Jab hoga andhera

Tab paayega dar mera

Uss dar pe phir hogi teri subah

Tu na jaane aas pass hai Khuda..!

Mitt jaate hain sabke nishaan

Bas ek woh mitt ta nahin haye

Maan le jo har mushkil ko marzi meri haye

Ho humsafar na tera jab koi

Tu ho jahan rahunga main wahi

Tujhse kabhi na ik pal bhi main judaa

Tu na jaane aas pass hai Khuda..!

Tu na jaane aas pass hai Khuda..!...

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

A simple beauty...! :)

Hi pa...

Was very LOST 'yester-night'...and out of nowhere (or somewhere..!?! :) ), this butterfly somehow came about from a simple equation to cheer me UP...? :)

Me was pleasantly surprised by the fact that it has a pair of tiny antennae too, apart from 2 pairs of wings...which is easier to get. :)

Here's she...my lit'l butter-fly-like insect... :)

And here's the equation that created her.. :)

Hope you liked it...and are inspired yourself too..?!

Love & Cheers,

The moron in 'rags'

Unfading ROSE...! :)

StubBORN (He)ART....!!

Hi pa..!!!

Recently, I'd been smitten by the thought of generating Flowers that don't fade & die away...those that i don't need to hurt and pluck too...!! (
As I admit, I'm a bit weird...esp. with flowers...& some people too...whom i treat/view like flowers...! :)
[Simply because they ARE so wonderful & precious fer Me..!]
)

Yes...I mean flowers generated with equations...! :)

Ever since I had seen things like the Cardioid in Engineering Mathematics, I'd been fascinated by them..but somehow, unfortunately, the fascination had got covered up in the sands of time...

But recently, i have been MAD.. .( as if I wasn't before..Ha ha ha !!)...!!

I did NOT realize JUSST How MAD i was, as i sat day & night...scribbling equations in Polar-co-ordinates & trying to vary different parameters & obtaining Different kinds of flowers, with different degrees of Symmetry, Numbers of petals, etc..!
And since a very Dear friend of mine loves ROSEs ( & oLL Flowers!)...well, I was hell-bent on somehow creating a mathematical PLOT that resembles a ROSE...but All my efforts went in vain...! :-/

There was a phase when I at-last gave-up...saying to my-self...that
"Everything in Nature can NOT be reduced to Mere Numbers & equations...!

We can NOT, & should NOT take away the Beauty of things by looking at them through the spectacles of Science...!"

But then, one day (or night..? I do not reckon the time..! )...

I came across this interview with my ever-effervescent friend Richard Feynman, where he spoke about His view of "The Beauty of a Flower" ...

He said --- Science (if done properly that is !! ), only serves to "ADD to" , and not "SUBTRACT frem" the Immense BEAUTY around us..! :)
Oh my ..!!

THAT was oLL i needed---some-One to boost my lonely morale...!! [
Now-a-nights (like Now-a-days--bear with my in-voluntary word-play..! ;)), it's usually ONLY Ghosts & my Nice friends frem the past, & my Dreams of the future..that listen to Me-moron...! Hmmm..! :)
]

I had earlier discovered an amazing equation to make a butter-fly (Can it ?? Can butter do..?! ;) )...but What i wanted was a ROSE...!! :-(
So...i ROSE...!!

And late that night...as I sat varying parameters in an equation, I suddenly JUMPED out of my stupor..!

Because, I thought I saw something that resembled the complex, inward spiralling whorls of a ROSE flower..!! (Much like a Paper rolled into a cone...viewed from the top..!)
YES !! ---I shouted..!
(
My version of "Eureka!!" :) --also, I was on my bed in my pyjamas, rather than in a bath-tub in my birthday suit..hehehe..!! ;) Nevertheless, like Archimedes , I too was "Immersed"... in a kind of absent-minded thought...! :)
)
My equation-plot looked like a ROSE...!!!
And seeing it...I sat smiling, and... froze...!! :))
Ha ha ha !

Anyway, the equation & its details are as below... ( We can replace Sine by CoSine...no problemo...!)

And the ROSE ??
Well here she is...(in 2 colors...! :))



Also the Butterfly equation & the corresponding Butterfly are as below...!




As for the Rose...it was a pleasant surprise (as ALWAYS !!)...that I was NOT alone to have come to the island of this discovery...!!

[
That's an Amazing feeling...it's like discovering a lonely looking island...only to find some-one already there...HOW or WHY do different people grope & stumble upon the same Beautiful (or otherwise) islands, Truths, ideas, concepts, etc..!?!? :)
Whatever it is...me SO glad that I am NOT addicted to Google-ing immediately...ELSE...I would not have experienced what Feynman called..."The Pleasure of Finding Things Out" ..!! :)
]
I learnt that an Italian mathematician, Guido Grandi had studied the curves he had lovingly named "rhodonea"..!
Hmmmmm...! :)
Phew !!!
THANK you SO MUCH for Listening to Me-MORON & my narration of what is surely the makings of a StubBORN (he)ART. . .& its Un-FaDing MAdness...!! :)
Take Care then...!
And Keep Smiling...with your Loved & Loving ones...!

Lots o Loooove & Best Wishes,

mor(e)on "rags". . . :)
Planet (H)eart(h) #####################
And NOW, for a Hilarious ( & True..?! ;) ) explanation of another question..!
Question ? "WHY do MEN Like Expensive things..?"
Answer ? "Because WOMEN Do." ;-)

Enjoy the below cartoon, courtesy Hart





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