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Ttuth
explores enlightenment
Truth
evinces elucidation
When
ignorance and desire come to the end
We shall
understand Dharma thoroughly
Explication
This is the
poem that clinches up the six poems that we have read. The seven poems together
constitute the Striving for or Trying to Get out of.Wherefrom does the poet try
or strive to get out? Well the poet wants to get out of the world where
we circle tirelessly in love wrath greed and misperceiving. In fact our minds
are never stable and tranquil. Our minds always shift from one emotion to
another and we are tossed by the multitudes of emotion ever along a vicious
circle .So does the body change from infancy to old age. Neither the body nor
the mind is permanent. Desire wealth and prosperity are all that the mind
ordinarily asks for. And thereby mind serves the body. The body consequently
puffs up to the utmost. A funny sight. A body
about to burst .But Pompen says that the starved soul cries in silence. Thus
Pompen posits three levels of existence in physical mental and spiritual . Once
Pompen takes the soul into account the imagery of the circling could mean
circling along birth and rebirth experiencing
the same emotions like greed and wrath. Desire for happiness while moving along
the circle is self defeating. People war over happiness at all costs. And too
much of happiness there is no peace any
more. This is a grim portrayal of the life that we are born into. And turning
and turning on the gyre of births and deaths joys and sorrows is
there no
respite?Pompen says –Hope and don’t despair,This has a tonic effect on the
readers. Pompen exhorts—Fight to the
end of your energy and wisdom. This is
striving or giving great efforts. In our minds eyes the figure of Pompen shows up.The frail lady in her sixties , a
historian, smiling at her physical infirmity will seek strive fight and never
yield to the journey of life along vicious circle. She will not be a plaything
in the hands of capricious world and time. Oh Life! Oh Time! She is our role
model.She has told us that we have been the playthings of emotions only because
of our misperceiving. We must not give in to the emotions but smile at them.
Pompen has been a harsh critic of our perception of life.She has proved our
desires to be hollow sham. But truth is
its own dowry.She uncovers the reality from the vestige of appearance. And this
truth however bitter it might seem to us on the surface explains enlighten
ment. What is enlightenment? It is the act or means of enlightening or the
state of enlightenment. To explain the enlightenment means to give a reason to
justify striving for enlightenment or be cause or motivating factor for
striving for enlightenment. The notion enlightenment might seem to us too difficult to understand. But
Pompen says that the truths in the contingent that she has laid bare evinces
elucidation. Leading a life in the light of the truths uncovered by Pompen will reveal the content of enlightenment. The
road prescribed by Pompen is as killing
as the razors edge. Who can walk along a razors edge? Because we must get rid
of desire.Is that humanly possible? But it is desire alone that propels us through different stages of life as well as
through countless births and deaths. Once we get rid of our desires ignorance
vanishes. Consequently the cup of our minds will be empty and dharma will shine
in our minds on its own in its peerless effulgence. Pompen does not explain
what dharma is . Like a deft narrator she keeps us in wait. We expect her to
explain what dharma is. Pompens
poems are different. They seek the road to freedom from worldly groans.
That is not all. They make us think of life in an emergent way and motivates us
to follow an emergent form of life.
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