Modern Day Samsons

Many a Samson of first order,

Fell for Delilahs at the Philistine border.

Supposed to be sons of thunder,

Trampled by footmen  down under.

 

Were they not of God’s chosen?

Falling in besetting sin unspoken!

Took delight in the daughters of Philistine,

Lost the love of the Father so pristine.

 

For they in the laps of Delilahs,

Singing glory and hallelujahs,

Seeing things with their eyes,

Forgetting there was thrown a dice.

 

Lo! The woman and her bosom,

God’s creation so awesome,

Strange women lulled them in their laps

Would to God, they wake up perhaps.

 

As the wavy locks were shorn,

God’s power into pieces torn,

Drifted into sleep so deep,

Like gullible and wayward sheep.

 

Samson wake up! The philistines are upon you!

Where’s the strength? It’s just the morning dew.

We see what we didn’t see,

There was no strength for them to flee.

 

Therefore,

O man of God, flee from youthful lust

Momentary glee, but sure the end is dust,

Hold on to the faith as the tempest rages,

Until the Lord himself your battle wages.

-          Premchand Rallapalli

The Old and the Young

 

While we were at school chirping “Solomon Grundy,”

You were learning to put on your undie.

While you were studying the Alps and the Andes,

We tasted all sorts of wine and brandys,

When you hit college and said, “Let’s protest,”

We were queuing for our medical test.

You got a job and said, “Life and Workplace balance,”

We were groping with our bifocal lens and our allowance.

While you were busying in office romance,

We’d already lost the vigor and substance.

Truly you are a masterpiece and showcase,

Whereas, we were written off a basket case.

For every crescendo has an alto,

So also does every life’s motto,

What is left of us is for muse,

What is left in you is for use.

The young and the old have the same,

Share of name, fame, and shame,

We are separated by space and time,

That’s the end of a happy rhyme.

-          Premchand Rallapalli

The Four Buts in the Parable of the Prodigal Son

Part II


¹⁴ But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be in want.
This is the first ‘but.’ There is a time, appointed for every human being, when life feels emptied and spent, charm and harm, calm and storm, appear equally meaningless. It is not the spending of possessions material; it is the exhaustion of life’s best during nascent stages and preserving life’s worst for the most demanding times. How many young people are caught in the philosophy of you’ve got only one chance to live so play hard. Yes, you’ve got only one chance to live, you play hard and you pay hard. There is no exemption to the Jew or the gentile, Christian or Non-Christian. God is no respecter of persons – means He is not unduly or duly biased. No matter how vehemently we deny, it is true that each of us have experienced this loneliness, this need of being needed, this want of being wanted, this desire to be accepted, yet there have been more rejections than acceptance from the most unexpected quarters. This is how life is. When people are busy chanting the positive mantras, this might come across cynical; however, this is the reality. Every human soul knows as time progresses its own emptiness. The lion faced is chicken hearted inside. The brave roar is nothing but a squeak let out of fear. When he had spent all, when you have spent all – your energy, your time, your strength, your life; there arose a famine. What kind of a famine is this? There are different famines: lack of food, financial debility, health crises, most excruciatingly the lack of acceptance, lack of belongingness and this is even more painful than pain can ever be if it is experienced in the realm of the soul. The Bible talks of the famine of the Word of God. God has revealed Himself in manifold ways, and very specifically and clearly in His Word; if this light is rejected , it becomes darkness; if this life is rejected, it becomes death; if God’s pardon is rejected; His punishment awaits; if we can’t sip from the cup of mercy, then we have to taste the outpouring from the cup of His wrath. There is going to be a famine; the prodigal began to be in want, would you also be in want? What God gives you is a gift and what the world gives you is a loan. The principle and the interest will be exacted from you and it is compounded by the way. He was in want. At least the prodigal son knew that he wanted something. He knew that there is something better than what he is experiencing now. Ironically, we have lost the sensation of we being in want though we face many a famine in many a way. We fail to understand what God offers is better than what the world has to offer. In fact, it is the best. Try any pursuit or interest to the core, and in the end, you will realize it is vanity and futility. Oh, that we were made sensitive to the fact that we are in need. We have become numb and one of the effects of sin is to cause spiritual numbness. This is compared to leprosy, because leprosy eats the flesh, but the patient doesn’t feel the pain; so also sin sucks away our life; and we fail to see it. This numbness is because sin is not immediately punished. Delay in punishment is not a reason to celebrate rather a reason to fear and come unto God. Fear in love for the immutable nature of a Just God – a God who hates sin, but loves to save the sinner. He began to be in want; may we learn from the prodigal as we experience these famines in our lives that we are in want- want of the living God whose creation we are.

The 4 “Buts” in the Parable of the Prodigal Son

Part I

¹¹ Then He said: “A certain man had two sons.

A certain man had two sons. The whereabouts of the man are not known. The Bible doesn’t tell us who this man was and where he was from. The introduction given by the Lord is ‘a certain man.’ We wonder why the Lord who in the case of the Rich Man and Lazarus took names, but doesn’t take names in this particular case. Those of the Christian fraternity know that this is an annotation to God, the Father. How true this is the Maker of the Universe doesn’t make himself so evident and visible unlike us who want to project ourselves in every known and unknown realm claiming our own worthiness and our own goodness. This man, a certain according to the scripture, has to depend on his two sons for his initial introduction. He comes into the foray because of his two sons. Otherwise, he is unknown. This is an indicator that God is known to us, human beings, not because of God’s greatness - yes, it is true by looking at the creation we come to know that there is a God or as some agnostics who vacillate between certainty and uncertainty, there might be a supreme being - too often God is revealed to human beings in their depravity and unworthiness and sinfulness rather any form of human goodness. To put it succinctly, we can say it is our depravity and hollowness that reveals more of God than God's grandeur.

¹² And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’

Here is the first step of unraveling the Father’s magnanimity. The younger one comes and asks him to give his share. This is a natural inclination in every human being. It is very easy to ask or even to claim that which is not hard earned by us only if we get even a whiff that we have some sort of legitimate right. How the son got to know that the share would come to him we don’t know. But the custom of those days was that when a boy grew up and came of age he was readopted not as a mere child, but as a son. This in turn bestowed upon him the right to property. It’s easy to think that something is rightfully ours when it is not truly so. We do see this tendency in young people, when they complete school and hit college, a little bit of exposure to the world around makes them think that they are wiser than their old parents who had nurtured and nourished them. They want to lead their lives on their own laws written not knowing that their laws are someone else’s opinions and views. He was telling his father – step aside, I know how to run my life; give me my portion. The young man didn’t know that his right to property had not naturally bestowed upon him the wisdom to retain it or multiply it for he hadn’t seen life’s tougher side yet. So no amount of coaxing or persuading would have actually yielded any kind of change in his heart for he had set his face as stone to turn away from his father. Dear brothers and sisters, we do the same. Our faces are set to stone to turn and run away from God, no matter how much we are presented with the gospel, with God’s provision for salvation, with the atonement God had made for us in His Son Jesus Christ, we are set to tell Him, my portion and I, away you go, or let me alone.

So he divided to them his livelihood.  

Mark the words “livelihood.” What was the means of his substance and sustenance, he divided to them. In Genesis Chapter 1 verse 28 God blessed them, gave them dominion over everything. God who lives in eternity, who is ever existent and omnipotent doesn’t have to retain anything for Himself. His very purpose of creating everything is to give all freely to man and find His dwelling place in man.  In spite of giving everything to man, God doesn’t find place in man’s heart; and now he is being thoroughly displaced from the universe He created by a few ignorant educated lot who have boldly made an assertion which can be made only if one possesses infinite knowledge and wisdom – saying that there is no God. By making such assertions they commit intellectual suicide and become victims of their own devices since their statement implies that they have infinite knowledge which is not true. What a great folly it is to go gung-ho about claiming our ancestor to be a monkey. If wisdom is still found in this world today and anybody with an iota of wisdom would love to claim that he’s been made in the image and likeness of God rather than in the image of a monkey. Yet, with the proud doctorates, our universities which happen to be bodies of knowledge are hell bent to reinforce this theory. Now which one of you would not be angry if I say, “You resemble your dad, your dad resembles a monkey?” Should we become angry with such a statement when we endorse a theory like evolution? The point is the benevolence of the father not resisting the son’s demand goes on to divide his livelihood – unselfish and sacrificial.  As God in heaven who gave everything to man without ever claiming it to Himself, we see the father sharing his substance, without asking a question, between the sons.

ACTS 27

When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their desire, putting out to sea, they sailed close by Crete. Acts 27:13

There is no fail-safe way in Christian life. Many times we have the temporary bouts of comfort when our ship sails smoothly, failing to understand that the smooth sail would soon end in a violent tempest. How often we rush through decisions when we sense a trace of favorable conditions. Our intelligence, experience, knowledge, strength and wisdom all put together will never equal the omniscience of the Almighty. Yet we have our plans and schema to run our Christian lives. In ministry, a favorable wind will pump enough adrenalin that we lose the sense of depending on God completely. The captain, helmsman, the centurion, and the merchants felt the same when the south wind blew. They thought that they had received what they have waited for. They ventured out. It was time not to venture out but to winter. Is this not true in our lives? When we are supposed to be on our knees in the presence of the loving Lord, when we are supposed to feed on the living word, when we are supposed to meditate upon His goodness, when we are supposed to rest and enjoy the fullness of joy that is in His presence, we venture out. Our Christian life is so hectic, it is filled with a lot of Christians except Christ. Oh, how many times we have discounted the Lord so that we could say “hi” to somebody? How many time we asked the Lord to wait until we answered our emails? How many times we were caught in the thick of all these activities and patted our own backs saying, “well done.” It is sometimes good that God allows us to go through these experiences, He doesn’t impose His will, but he doesn’t leave us without warning us of the consequences we would face if we bypassed His will. O Christian, how are you today? If the circumstances around you are encouraging to get busy in activities, have you asked the Lord, “Lord is this the same south wind that encouraged the centurion and the captain of the Alexandrian ship to set out on the perilous journey or is it something from you?”

But not long after, a tempestuous head wind arose, called Euroclydon. So when the ship was caught, and could not head into the wind, we let her drive. Acts 27:14-15

As we set sail on life’s journey, there are many tempestuous winds that arise. Oh yes, we may enjoy the comfort, peace, and serenity for a while; however, these things would not last forever. A Christian is never allowed to settle in this world. A Christian is called out of the world, and to journey in the world, but never be a part of the world. Remember the Israelites, not long after they crossed the Red Sea they came to Elim where there were twelve water wells and seventy palm trees. Humanly speaking, twelve water wells for twelve tribes of Israel. How meaningful it would be? But the Lord didn’t allow them to stay there for a long time; they had to march forward. Had they stayed back, they wouldn’t have inherited the Promised Land. From Elim they had to enter the wilderness of Sin. Oh yes, there would be times of refreshing, times of comfort, times of coziness, times of ease, times of rest in Christian life, but be aware soldier you are not allowed to settle down. You will be soon shaken from the position, as the eagle stirs up its nest and carries its young on its wings, so the Lord will stir up your nest. You may have long settled in the place where you are. Your ministry is thriving, you are successful in your job, you have no dearth of whatsoever manner in this world, you are about to say God has really blessed me, remember a greater test awaits you now. Notice the phrase in these verses ‘but not long after.’ But not long after, we have enjoyed the peace, abundance, rest and joy, a time comes when the accuser goes and says, has this child of Yours followed You for no reason, haven’t You blessed him in all that he clings to You. This is the time God takes things quite seriously, this is the time where He challenges the enemy, I have known my child, he is and will be faithful to me. This is the time when the wind arises. On one hand, it is to prove whether you would cling to God even in your adverse conditions, and on the other hand, it is your own folly of not heeding God’s words that brings you into these circumstances. The wind will be so strong that you would not be in a position to steer or head into it. Many times, we try to confront the situation in our own might; we want to take the bull by its horns; we want to pass out this phase as quickly as we can; still the tempest is too strong for you life to handle that you would be forced to be driven by it. Oh yes, your life has to be driven O Christian to make you understand that you could do nothing apart from Christ.

How often were we in these circumstances, life was running smooth, but not long after, the loss of a dear one, an accident, a sickness, a financial loss; we struggled to overcome these, but in vain. We’d be taught that the time is not to wriggle and struggle but to be driven, to be led by the wind, to acknowledge our nothingness, to wait patiently upon the Lord. See the wisdom of the sailors and the captain, they let the ship be driven by the wind. They were men mighty, who were seasoned by many a rough weather, yet they acknowledge their helplessness of overcoming and allow the wind to carry them out. They were playing safe by sailing close to Crete. You were also playing safe by treading on known grounds. This doesn’t fulfill God’s purposes. Familiarity breeds contempt and also over confidence. They were carried away by the wind or rather they allowed to be driven by the wind. Let us learn from these sailors, when life seems to be unfair, when the wind seems to be stronger than you are, know that God has allowed this so that you be away from familiar grounds.

And because we were exceedingly tempest-tossed, the next day they lightened the ship. Acts 27:18

Why? You may ask. Why does God allow such circumstances in our lives? Is HE a killjoy? Doesn’t he want us to live in peace? Why on earth does He allow such things in our lives? Many of us without any exception have already questioned God innumerable times in our lives. When we read the 18^th verse last part the next day they lightened the ship. Oh yes, this is the reason why we tempests are allowed in our lives. God allowed us to rest at Elim, God did allow us to enjoy material blessings apart from the spiritual blessings. What did you and I do at that time? Oh we craved for the cucumbers, garlic, and onions of Egypt. We knew that soon after the rest, there would be testing times, so we wanted to play safe; we gathered enough of unwanted things into our lives. Now our life ship is full of cargo, unwanted things, displeasing things in the sight of God. God would have spoken to us many times through His servants asking us to get rid of these things. Did we pay heed then? No, we said this message is not for me, further what I have gathered, I have done in honesty and utmost sincerity. Self-righteousness crept in, hypocrisy crept in, what not crept in is difficult to name. Our trust in God was gradually replaced by our trust in our wealth, abilities, knowledge, and skills. God had to and has to allow such tempests so that you and I realize that what we are carrying in our lives aren’t as important or as precious as our lives. We would be forced to throw them away. They belong to the sea of this world; they don’t belong to our lives. Often we are at crossroads, what to choose and what not to. God brings us into this situation. He says today I have set before you life and death, choose life that you may live. Oh Christian, have you lightened your ship? How much junk are you carrying in it? is not the present tempest enough for you? Do you want to be exceedingly tempest-tossed? Why cling onto those things which work death in you? How long would you despise the counsel and the love of the Father and the Lord? Why don’t you throw the things and lighten your ship? If not you’d shipwreck, great would be the loss. See the sailors and merchants; their very lives depended on the merchandise they were carrying; in spite of the risk of losing their livelihood, incurring huge losses, going bankrupt, they decided to do away with the cargo and lighten their ship. Are you not wiser than them? Would you lose your livelihood? No. Would you incur a huge loss? No.Would you go bankrupt? No. You would enjoy the joy and peace of the Lord. You would tread the path to eternal life. Why do you want to clog your life with these unwanted things? God and you alone know what you are supposed to get rid of. Why don’t you do that now? The next day they lightened the ship.

On the third day we threw the ship’s tackle overboard with our own hands. Acts 27:19

Now we come to a more interesting phase. After getting rid of the unwanted things in our lives, let us not become complacent. This isn’t enough. No doubt, you’ve got rid of the unwanted things but still you have the ship’s tackle in your hands. What does this mean? You’ve got all the equipment to run the ship in your hands. Oh Christian, have you forgotten the fact that it is no longer you that lives in you but Christ. Is he not the Lord? Is he not the Head? Is he not the final authority in and on your life? Throw away the tackle. You have sailed enough with your strength. Now your life has to depend completely on His guidance. He won’t be satisfied with you discarding the things that displease Him. There is another step ahead. Your life has to be steered by Him and by Him alone. On the third day, what is the day in your life, the third day, three hundredth day, or three thousandth day. The sailors were wise enough to throw away the tackle. They knew that they could not tackle the tempest with their tackle. They knew the ship would not ply anymore on their strength; therefore, they discarded all control of the ship. Aren’t you wiser than them? Come now unto the Lord’s feet, tell Him your story, acknowledge that so far you have steered your life and it has got you into deeper troubles than before. Ask His forgiveness, He is willing to restore everything to you. One condition a complete surrender of your will and self, you need to throw away the tackle with your own hands.

Now when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest beat on us, all hope that we would be saved was finally given up. Acts 27:20

How gloomy it would be your day is dark as night and the night is a horror. No sun by day, no stars by night, clouds covering the skies. You are saying Christian, “Lord I have got rid of the unwanted things, I have surrendered my will and self and have thrown away the tackle of the ship; still you seem to be far away. You seem to be nowhere. I am unable to recognize the day from night.” The sailors were no different from you. who were all in the ship at that time – Paul the apostle, Luke the doctor, Julius the centurion, the captain, the soldiers, the merchants, and the prisoners. They had given up hope. The Lord says “My hand is not shortened that I cannot save you neither is my ear deaf that I cannot hear you. Your transgressions have come in between you and me.” David prays to God asking His protection so that he may not fall into presumptuous sins and secret faults. If a man after God’s own heart pleads guilty; how much more you and I men and women after our own hearts should plead?

Have you come to a point where every minute is filled with despair and hopelessness? Have you come to a point where your very breath is heavy on your face? Have you come to a point where yesterday, today and tomorrow carry no meaning to you? Have you come to a point where you are cornered and attacked by your own and outsiders alike? Have you come to a point where you have given up all hope of being saved? Come my brother/ sister, you and I have hope. Oh see the psalmist in psalm125 - those who trust in the Lord shall be like Mount Zion which shall not be moved. Trust in the Lord. This is a passing phase. The sufferings that you are undergoing now are working a greater reward for you. Your brothers and sisters elsewhere in the world are also partakers of the same sufferings; you and I are no exception to it. How can we be conformed to Christ’s image if we shrink whenever the hammer and chisel are laid on us? Don’t you know that God works when we cease to work? Don’t you know that the eaglet which is about to hit the ground had already given up hope and heading towards it sure death when its mother swoops down and carries it back to the nest? Oh yes, one more day you would say everything’s gone. But don’t you know that Jonah had he stayed one extra hour in the fish’s belly would have died? Didn’t God bring him out at the right time? Oh yes, you and I may not see the mysterious ways, He works for us. Our God who has promised “I will never leave the nor forsake thee” is no liar. In him dwells all truth. Hope in the Lord. Oh my soul why have you disquieted yourself, hope in the Lord Psalm 42.

Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved. Acts 27:31

Has life become too weary to carry it any forward? Have you decided to give up? The day and night are alike. The darkness of broad daylight has outrun that of the night. You want to escape life’s ordeals. Take heed, unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved. Unless you stay in the ship, you cannot be saved. The ship is tossed. The ships controls are gone. The ship is going to wreck. The ship is headed towards an unknown direction. Yet the commandment is unless you stay in the ship, you cannot be saved. Noah was he not in the ark? Eleven months, he and his family were shut in the ark. No day, no night, but a day came much before Noah thought of the Lord remembered Noah. Before Noah cried out unto the Lord the Lord remembered him. Before you ask, your Father knows what things you have need of. Before you look up to heavens and beat your chest, your Father knows what things you need. Christ is your stay. You cannot and must not step out of Him. Oh remember Hymenaeus and Alexander, what happened to them? They abandoned their faith and were shipwrecked. You may be tempted to go back to your old ways. You may say all was well when I was on my own. My troubles have multiplied after accepting Christ. I’d better go back. I’ll have no more of Christ or Christianity. Let me tell you one thing, those were the days when things were going well, at the same time, death was looming large on you. Your life would have been sucked out any point of time. Satan had raised his sword on you; he was about to severe your life from you. at that point of time, the Lord interceded for you. He bought you with His blood. Today with all these troubles, trials, and tribulations life eternal is your prize. It cannot be taken away from you. Do you still want to leave the ship? The choice is yours. You can leave, but you will lose your life. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel will save it. Mark :35 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? Mark 8:36

O Christian, therefore don’t go back to your former ways. Don’t leave the ship. Don’t step out of the ark of your salvation.

And the rest, some on boards and some on parts of the ship. And so it was that they all escaped safely to land. Acts 27:44

Finally, the mainstay of your life is going for one last treatment. The ship you have sailed so far has to be wrecked. The empires that you have built; the properties that you have acquired; the power and position that you have gained; the riches you have gathered; time has come for all these for the final treatment and thereafter is life. Are you willing to undergo one final treatment from the Lord? All that you have, you have to forego. Are you willing for this experience? No matter how hard you try to save your life, it is of no avail. The ship of your life will be broken and you have to cross over the Jordan. As we reach the threshold of life, death seems to be inevitable. You’d say a few more days O Lord. But the Lord says son enough of trials, let the ship wreck, sail on the plank you will escape safely to land. No matter how hard you cling the ship of your life will break. Oh yes, do you see there are two seas meeting. The currents are strong. The sea of life and the sea of death, the struggle is strong. The ship has to be and will be broken. But Christian take courage, you will reach land safely. Oh yes, as we pass through these phases, when we are all alone, drifting on a plank or on a board, with the sea and the waves tossing us around, a high and a low, when the very bowels of our belly are churned, when our heart would say, master I don’t want to beat anymore, I’m already dead, when the eyelids shut hard not to see the next tossing, Christian hang on you are very close to the shore. The world may be merry making, you are hanging on to your dear life, Christian hang on, the shore is very near. The dear ones and the loved ones are drifting from your sight, your eyes are growing dimmer and dimmer, your body is pleading mercy, your soul doesn’t know whom to justify, it is a place of two seas meeting, o Christian hang on the shore is near, the Lord is near. They all escaped safely to land. So shall you, your life shall be as a prize to you, because you have put your trust in Me says the Lord. Jeremiah 39:18. No harm shall befall you. Lo I am with you always, even to the end of the ages. Matthew 28:20

May the Loving Lord bless you and keep you as the apple of His eye.

As tides of life rise against me,

My ship wants to part its ways with me,

My faith, O Lord I pray, be strengthened by Thy stay

I may not see night or day, but Lord you are near today.

Quotes from my brain

Quotes from my brains

Man supposes; God exposes.
God composes; man decomposes.
Man thinks, shrinks, sinks, and stinks.
We want thinking people not people thinking.
What cannot be taken back shouldn’t be forwarded.
Everything that is soft outwardly is hard inside.
What knot is not a naught.
What you say is not what you want to say when you don’t want to say what you want to say.
If you have a head between two ears; you’re a fool. If you have two ears either side of your head then you are a genius.
Money buys many things, but a few cannot be bought by money; they are the richest inheritors of this planet.

Live for yourself the world will take the life out of you.
Laugh at yourself the world will stop laughing at you.
Look after yourself and the world will be after you.
Love yourself and the world will depart from you.

What troubles us most initially will give us pleasure later.
Life has problematic circumstances and troubles not to trouble us, but to make us master these.
Some are born to be granted; some are granted to be born.
Learn to love everything you do as long as it doesn’t hurt others.
Copying is something you do because of necessity; imitation is acquiring and imbibing certain qualities, for imitation is an art.
Don’t shake off responsibility, because it has perceived you to be the ablest person who can shoulder it.
Commonsense is the master of wisdom and wit, knowledge and intelligence.

To a wise saying:
A fool hears; An intelligent listens; A wise man practices; A genius masters.

Man thinks after acting, women before.

The mighty don’t realize that their mightiness is because of the people around them.

God can be man, but man cannot be God.

Ideas contradicted become views, accepted become truths.

The bad of good is better than the good of bad.

Men say:
Choose what is good and discard what is bad, but where can good come from someone who is instinctively and genetically bad?

Man chooses good and throws away the bad; whereas, God chooses the bad and makes them good.

All great men are great, because their greatness wasn’t recognized in their age.

Duplication guarantees the content not the emotions and feelings.
Perceptions are misconceptions of reality.

You cannot step on people to go ahead in life, but if they are standing in your way; you can jump over them.

A word can make or take away your world.

Experience is the name given by man to the mistakes he makes. O.Henry

A woman’s world cannot be seen with a man’s eyes and cannot be perceived by a man’s heart.

A lying husband is open book in front of his wife.

Man is after looks and women after brains.

It is not how tall you are that matters; it is how tall you tower your problems that matters most.

World is a maze; straightforwardness is unsuitable for it.

You fail to understand yourself; you are an ordinary man.
You understand yourself; you are a man.
You understand others; you are an extraordinary man,
You understand others as well as yourself; you are a superman.

Simplicity is the authenticity of purity.

The eventful history of everyman ends in a day.
Carry a word here and there; finally, you wear and tear.

Take away the ‘B’ from ‘blame’ it becomes harmless.

Politicians are citizens gone astray.

We express what we can’t suppress.
We try to impress, when we can’t express.

Love ends when lust begins; lust ends when love begins.

What is legal in the sight of man need not be legal in the sight of God.

Purity of heart leads to clarity of thought.

Guests are welcome on the first day, tolerated on the second day, prohibited on the third day. In other contexts, they are welcome any day until the outburst on the final day which can be the very first day.

Ideas are injected; proposals are projected; reports are rejected; employees are dejected; if this happens often, then you are in a private organization.

A film is one which defies and defiles the laws of Physics, sometimes other branches of science, and most of the time commonsense of man.

God gave man brain; to that added man vain, pain, and strain.

A successful politician is one who has an honest face and a corrupt mind.

What can you give your wife, who has slept, kept, and wept with you in times even and uneven.

The milder the countenance the wilder the passions.

A time being waits for an opportunity and an opportunist waits for time.

Precision in decision is indispensable for a business.

Arrogance is the fragrance of ignorance.

We enquire others worthiness, when we suspect our own.

Destiny takes the cause of the destitute.

Marriage – the institution that distinguishes man from the beast.

Over-expectation and under-estimation are two sides of the same coin – and are always dangerous for the user and receiver.

A true FATHER:

Friend in disguise;
Always and assuredly wise;
True to word indeed;
Helping hand indeed;
Enemy of none;
Revered by his sons.

God made us whole, but our conscience and guilt have drilled a big hole.

A woman laughing in public – remember, she needs attention acutely.
Gaze into the eyes of a woman and her heart will be revealed to you; for a man you need not for he is an open book.

A WIFE

Wise and witty in wielding worries
Impeccable interest to impress(husband not outsiders)
Faithful and forgiving
Enterprising and enthusiastic woman

Prose is a pillar and poetry a statue both made from the same stone.
Poetry is expressing lofty ideas in crafty words.
The richer we grow financially, the poorer we become morally.

Honesty needs no publicity; sincerity needs no popularity.

A man’s personality is in his height of attention and level of intention.

Often the most needed skill is the most neglected.

Read a person like a book and a book like a person.

Performing in pressures is discovering unknown treasures.

If leisure is your master then seizure is your pay.

Silence external noise to hear internal voice; silence internal noise to hear eternal voice.

A beast exhibits minimum rationale and maximum impulse; a man has to exhibit the exact opposite.

A psychologist is a person who understands peoples’ minds better than his own.

Do you want to know

Do you want to know my teacher?
Just you have to reach her.
She’s such a wonderful preacher,
If possible she’ll teach every creature.

Do you want to know my student?
It’s worth spending a moment,
To find out what his li’l mind has,
Whether class, brass, or grass.

Do you want to know my parents?
They can spend anything(on us), but a few moments.
They are lost when they are sought(by us).
When they seek us; we don’t give a thought(about them).