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nasato vidyate bhavo nabhavo vidyate satah.

The Bhagawad Gita

Common Affliction-Cross Rubicon

Jangbir

Foreword Common Affliction-Cross Rubicon

Not in least unexpected however rampant common, the creed of self service shames, character of callous indifference. Viral, virulent strain of perversion, mock insouciant- insentient, lust unparallel- uncommon, debase life alas gaining matter currency every moment. Work is no more worship, labor smeared with sin, medicine is poison, business disease. Poor be rich, high or low, each unto own, little restraint even less inhibition. Virtue and right have no meaning, truth otiose. Freedom become vice, man beast. An affliction, contagion entrails and in seeds, pall looms, retch morbid feelings. Rush random and rancid, ribald greed, self- for self alone live, gory tragedy in making. Jangbir

An affliction Artificial condition Lays siege on man, A delusion More perversion Courses his vein, Heart, soul Sinews and brain Serve with belief Mammon fain, Vile lust Brazen vain Little but faith Life profane, Flesh but veal Body seal Self sheen Let spirit weal.

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A dime dare Value over life Victuals offer Refuge to life Doles ennoble Offer lease to life Bowl better Bow before Christ.

Womb for few Tomb become life To mother hold dear Fear for life Suckle as much Last of life Layette for few Shroud become life.

Few scrounge Scoundrel make life To dark banish Exiled life In tatter Asunder life Tragedy live Travesty of life.

Few rob Steal for life Disgrace as much Mock all life Cross unbearable End life Crime, sin No escape from life.

Pity have Pittance for life Charity do Make lofty life Virtue reflect Void in life Amends do Justice have life.

Outcast live Life ostracize Fissures real False make life Poor, poverty Chimera in life Mirage cause Chasm in life.

Cannons, tombs Divine is life Service, sacrifice Struggle is life Karmas is Rewards of past life Poor, rich Unreal divide in life.

Each its own Suborn, own life Poor lament Rich laugh in life Each state Weak, lavish in life No less deserve Gods grace in life.

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Laws enable Enact justice Money summon Bill of rights Need no mercy Noble seem life, Ill begotten Laws over life Blind justice Have no rights Devoid of spirit Ignoble make life.

Politics viral life Sophistry, casuistry Sops and alms Specious virtuosity, Leaders motley Contagion, inflame Initiate, vitiate Flux, vitriol propitiate.

Rampant not random Labor levity Work nor more Is not anymore worship, Sweat smeared with swear Save of integrity What outcome Value of labor foregone.

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Demagogue in vogue Insipid, vapid Unlighted, vacuous Per function function, Effect to cause Object light subject Entrapped is life Rote, to sundry prejudice.

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Trade of interest Business for profit Day, in dark Practice coin craft, Produce of one Profit motley anon Value come none Black become, Web of trade Wasteful practices Void activity Base economics, Hollow, vile Virtue none Commerce of circulation Discredit, more deception.

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Medicine worse than poison Sick more than any disease Patient commodity Life, death also business, Advance in science Doctors note, annotate Prostate, paraphrase Submit to, do as machines dictate, Endless test No chances can take Trial make life High are stakes, Cure, hope heal Pray to machine God for mercy Doctor clemency.

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For all cause Suffering and disease Day more dark Dare not dream To silence retreat Grace in defeat Kneel folded arms Victuals and alms Fear the day Judgment call Wrath of God Truth fall on all, But what Is sin not such survival? Subjection, life surrender Baneful incarceration, Pray, plead Solace seek In pity Slave be, masters empathy, Embrace an effect In essence a disgrace A life denied To darkness condemned.

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Compass novel Radical, be ridiculous Serve self Others do as well, Few moments worth Life is anyhow hell Make the most Why hold, have foremost, Better enjoy Suffer, sacrifice Let bad suffice Dare life.

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Virtue, karmas Justice, dharma Relics, redundant Irritant, infringe, Tether, bind Rein life and dreams Wings clip Wither, life slip, Past shadow Pontify, preach Change it resist Fun is life, seek.

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Why do, work As others bid Of labor others Few dreams reap, Few enrich Beggars most, beseech Rise not As much others sink, Heap of virtue Lights, law for rich Why faith for poor All and sundry preach, Cast, shed Poor is bad Idle be Doles not bread, Enjoy the moments Cherish freedom Make choice Self over service.

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Breath free Hope and dream Day be dark Light the night, Flesh need food Succor and shelter Spirit but rise Simple be, pristine, Faith have Self belief Beyond horizon Across Rubicon Truth is Life free.

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Break free Shackles and chains Fake, imitation Web of deception, Live free Guilt and shame Facade, false Cross, Adharma, In Maya Light is, awakening Unravel the real Envision presence, In absence of Maya Truth reveal, descent Eternal reflect Immanence presence.

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Lights elude Tombs and tools Wisdom, intuition Cosmic perception, Not alone One, common Finite is infinite A moment eternal catenation, As white in color Sound immanent in silence Grain reflect cosmos Shade all supreme.

The End