Stita Pragna- kk7

Lord Krishna described the qualities of a person who is “Stita Pragna” in Bhagavad Gita. A Stita Pragna is a person who will be unmoved by anything in life – either happiness or sorrow, love or hatred, thorns or flowers, difficulty or easiness of a work, death or birth, war or peace. He stands like a rock amidst all the life’s ups & downs & is considered mentally very mature as he understands the philosophy of life well. Nothing can affect the mental makeup of this person. This state of mind is considered as the highest pinnacle of human nature.


STAYING CALM AMIDST CHOAS
I stand amidst all the chaos around me
Trying to gather the strength, calmness and courage inside me
It is not easy to wash
All this dirt and sweep clean the incoming trash
I attempt to distance myself
From people who glorify their self
When they crush all the tender lives
Thinking that they are the kings
That rule this earth – I want to remove the arrogance
If I get a chance
I try to understand why artificial summits are created
For unworthy people to be placed
And real talent is pushed aside
I don’t want to subscribe to this divide
Where very few agree with others
Forming groups and gangs with people they can gather
People looting the less privileged and the poor
Assuming that they are given the right to pass through this door
Of taking away the lives of those who disagree
When can we see human kind free
From all this treachery
And the clutches of slavery
Here honesty is ridiculed
While corruption and stupidity is glorified
I search for peace within my mind
The ground on which the meaning of self and answers are found
Churning this polluted broth
To find solutions is not a myth
I can see a harmonious universality
A heart that can shine with inner beauty
Similar to a lotus that grow in the mud
I bloom like a flower that can be good
I know I am not wasting any time with this strife
Nor do I squander my life
Even though I stay on this planet of mundane things
I travel to the world of supreme beings
That makes my soul sublime
Though I live here with a name and fame
I am not a part of this game
I can be “a true human being” all the same
When I do this magic
Everything in this universe sounds like music

Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa Copyright © 2010
(Based on my painting STITAPREGNA)