Author Archives: Arun Bhagat

Once the tiger of power you moun You find well nigh impossible it to dismount! Power easily goes to your head, It makes you toxicity wed! Your perspective it can well distort, When power-drunk, to every well-meaning suggestion you have an egotistic retort! Your vision it can severely blinker, It can turn your behaviour intoContinue reading “Mount This Tiger With Utmost Care”

Let love be your creed, And like anything you will succeed! Love begets love manifold, Has anyone you this thing told? Love makes your whole being glow, So let the river of love unimpeded flow! When love courses through your veins, You gain and the whole world gains! There is no bigger gift you canContinue reading “Let Love Be Your Creed”

Success is a heady feeling, It can leave you reeling! But when it really starts going to your head, That is the time to see red! That is the time to restore your sanity Lest you fall a prey to insidious vanity And start seeing yourself of all that you survey the master Than whichContinue reading “The More You Succeed, The Humbler You Should Be”

The pandemic so much havoc has wrought, So many invaluable lessons it has us taught, But have we learnt any is a question that is fraught! Are we as a species ready to turn over a new leaf? Have we been sufficiently chastened by our collective suffering and grief? Has our insufferable ego really beenContinue reading “The Pandemic Has Thrown Up Some Questions”

We Are All One We are all entagled, we are all one, Take it as a truth dusted and done! I and you only different appear, It seems that each of us belongs to a different sphere! But what seems is not true, We are all made of the same brew! All talk of differencesContinue reading “We Are All One”

See things as they are,not as you are, Otherwise in the discovery of truth you will not go far! Why should you try to cast everything into your own mould? Why should you everything a prisoner to your prejudices hold? Let go of your egoistic mind to see a thing for what it is, LestContinue reading “See Things As They Are”

And So This Perennial Battle Rages When loneliness cuts into your soul,It no longer lets you remain whole!When what you love you kill,Nothing that you everdo in life will fit the bill!When indifference sears you to the bone,You feel as if meaning out of your life has gone!When contempt your skin does cut,You feel youContinue reading

Be To Yourself True Live life at your own pace, No need to get bogged down by the rat race! The rat race will make out of you a rat, It is insidious enough to put you on the mat! Stay away from its deceptive charm, It is the gateway to incalculable harm! Be yourContinue reading

The Ghosts of the Past The ghosts of the past do us often haunt, Wonder what they from us want? They heap upon us shame, We hardly know how them to tame! Our conscience they prick, Inside us they build a hall of shame brick by brick! Often they confront us to hold us toContinue reading

Ever New Vistas They Explore Wise people go where fools fear to tread Because exploring uncharted territory they do not dread! Ever new vistas they explore, Living in the rut they deplore! Ever new peaks they scale, They boldly man their boats even in the face of a gale! All-round brilliance they seek, Not forContinue reading