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അവര്‍ക്കായ് എന്‍ മിഴികള്‍ നനക്കട്ടെ
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അവര്‍ക്കായ് എന്‍ മിഴികള്‍ നനക്കട്ടെ

കടല്‍ പോലിരമ്പുന്ന വ്യഥയും,
ചുറ്റും അസ്വസ്ഥ്ത പടര്‍ത്തും ആകാംഷയും
അവനോടുള്ള അടങ്ങാത്ത സ്നേഹത്തില്‍ ലയിച്ചിറങ്ങും

അവര്‍, നാലു പെണ്ണുങ്ങള്‍,
ഞെരുക്കങ്ങള്‍ക്കിടയിലും
എത്താക്കനികളില്‍ എത്തിപിടിക്കുന്നു,
അവനോടുള്ള സ്നേഹത്താല്‍.

അവന്‍, അവരുടെ കുഞ്ഞനുജന്‍
എന്നും അരുമയാമവന്‍
പ്രതീക്ഷയും ആശ്രയവും അവനില്‍ അര്‍പ്പിച്ചപൊഴും
സ്നേഹം തീര്‍ത്തും കളങ്കരഹിതം
അവയില്‍ സ്വാര്‍ഥതയുടെ ഛായം പുരണ്ടിരുന്നില്ല.

അവന്‍, അവരുടെ കുഞ്ഞനുജന്‍

അഗാധവും അപരാജിതവുമായ
രോഗത്തിന്‍ പിടിയിലിന്നവന്‍
കണ്ണുനീരിലും ഗദ്ഗദത്തിലും അവരുടെ
സ്നേഹത്തിന്‍ അണ പൊട്ടിയൊലിച്ചു
നിരന്തരമായ ചോദ്യശരങ്ങളിലും,
അകാംഷാഭരിതമായ മിഴികളിലും
കലര്‍പ്പില്ലാത്ത സ്നേഹം മുഴച്ചു പൊങ്ങി.

അവര്‍ , നാലു പെണ്ണുങ്ങള്‍
നിസ്സഹായതയുടേയും ദാരിദ്രത്തിന്റ്റേയും നടുവില്‍
അവര്‍ കര്‍മ്മമഗ്നരായ്.
ദുഷിച്ച സമൂഹത്തിലും മരവിച്ച മനസുകളിലും
അവര്‍ പ്രതീക്ഷയര്‍പ്പിച്ചു.
നിസ്സഹായനായ ഭിഷഗ്വരനിലും
കനിവു വറ്റിയ സ്ഥാപനങ്ങളിലും
അത്ഭുതങ്ങള്‍ക്കായ്,
ദേവസാനിധ്യത്തിനായ് അവര്‍ കണ്ണിട്ടു.

അവര്‍ , നാലു പെണ്ണുങ്ങള്‍
‘കൃഷ്ണ, കൃഷ്ണാ’ വിളികളിലും
അസ്വസ്ഥാപൂര്‍ണമായ വാക്കുകളിലും
സ്നേഹത്തിന്‍ മുദ്രയിട്ടവര്‍.

അവര്‍ക്കായ് എന്‍ മിഴികള്‍ നനക്കട്ടെ
അറ്റമില്ലാത്ത അര്‍ദ്രതയോടെ അവര്‍ക്കായ്
ഞാന്‍ കണ്ണുനീര്‍ പൊഴിക്കട്ടെ.

He is one of the greatest poet in human history. One who embraced love and revolution with the same passion. One who offered mankind the only ultimate expression- the expression of love and sacrifice. One who was proposed to be the President of his nation from which he happily withdrew for the greater good and unity of progressive elements in his country. Poet par excellence, arising from the streets of Chile, growing throughout Latin America, Spain and later in to the very consciousness of modern world- Pablo Neruda.
Neruda poems depicts his heart felt love and passion for his nation, its nature, culture and heritage. But he gains his present enjoying position in human mind through his timeless words dedicated to the unambiguous love he had for his fellow men- especially the downtrodden. His words were the best weapon possible, then and now, for the anti-imperialist and antifascist movements not only in his country but also all across the world. He is proclaiming to the proletariat to unite against its suppressors. He tells them to procure strength from the ever rising waves of the sea hitting hard and persistent on the rocks. He stood with the tortured souls shoulder to shoulder and sang their fury out to the rulers-"...We demand punishment......."

Arise to birth with me, my brother.
Give me your hand out of the depths
sown by your sorrows.
You will not return from these stone fastnesses.
You will not emerge from subterranean time.

(canto general)
Even when he was performing his historical role as a motivator and fellow traveller of the proletarian movement, he walked directly into the hearts and souls of all men and women especially youth through his magical poems of love and passion. He sang-

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example, 'The night is starry

and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.

I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.

How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Every reader should have a taste of Neruda poems in them as it will take them more towards the Social goodness that humans have procured over time. This Nobel laureate will surely find his place up in the list of men that changed our lives and thought everlastingly.

Cogito ergo Sun

Cogito ergo Sun --- I think, therefore I am
-- Rene Descartes

This is a discussion in which everyone will be interested- discussion on atheism and religion. May be in human history more than anything else this has existed as a basic query of human psyche.
All along the timeline atheism or materialism as one might call, even though in small fractions of society, existed as a formidable philosophy. Although not exactly the same, for the general public atheism and materialism are synonyms of the same idea. Materialism is the philosophy in which matter holds the centre stage. Every other experience is derived from the mutual interactions and totality of this matter. May be an easier example is cited in a computer. Here you can consider hardware and software as the basic matter and the functions it provide, the experiences and usage it provides as the psyche or say " The spirit". It is very easy for an involved user to ultimately forget the basic existence and complexities of the "matter" in it and just think of the "spirit" as the actual truth. Apart from the materialistic ideas pioneered by greats of modern era like Rene Descartes , the idea of materialism existed in every civilisation in ample strength. In India they existed as the Charvaka school of philosophy which included many like Kanaada as its supporters, In Greek civilisation through Democritus, Thales etc, In China through Xun Zi and his Confucian philosophy, In West Asia through Arabian philosophers like that of Ibn Tufail (Abubacer).Almost everyone of them have contributed greatly to the development of Human philosophy and mind to a diverse and rich one that we have now.
But the bulk of the society has always followed theist philosophy in different forms. Here every philosophy (ultimately giving rise to different religions) has slight variations in their beliefs. Some giving a supreme self or "spirit"(God) the highest stand considering it as the only truth (majority of the religions is dominated by this stand-which includes both monotheist and polytheist religions) and some considering the philosophical stand that “God” and Nature are the same and inseparable( pantheism).
All together theist philosophy has dominated the human viewpoint from the time immemorial. It, especially the organised religions have both helped and pulled back the social development of human beings at various stages. It provided the much needed passion and positive outlook to human kind for its survival and civilisation. It provided the helpless with the “opium” (analgesic) by which they can pull through the rough terrains of their life. It provided human race the utopia where ultimately the “good” wins over the “evil”. At the same time it became deeply conservative so that it almost destroyed human development several times. It blinded the masses from accepting the progressive ideas much for its own comfort.It became the most valuable and powerful tool for the rulers to suppress the majority of the society into its clutches.
This discussion will continue as long as humans exist in this world. As science advances the materialist viewpoint becomes more and more logical and gains increasing support. But as human is the only animal with developed psyche more than a particular level, a level up to which it finds itself detached from the nature even able to modify it, he feels more and more isolated and alone. This creates a psychological necessity for a constant support for his existence- some gains it through their social concepts, moral values, various ideologies and philosophies. But for the common masses the only easy support for his loneliness is the belief in a supernatural or divine creator- The God. So even if the discussion over existence of God, dispute between atheism and theism shall prevail, one thing is quiet blatant that the belief in a Divine self is a basic psychological necessity of the majority of mankind for their survival at least for the time being.
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