Stillness Of Being

In Stillness of Being, his sixth anthology of poems, Indian-American poet, Maharaj Kaul, describes the human conditions we all must experience. In the poems: Stillness Of Being The World I Left Behind A Struggling Dream Never Complete Hope Never Blinks Life Is A Playground Dreams A Spiral Of Time Music Of Earth Will Never Die The Paradox Of God Beloved.

In the poems:

Stillness Of Being

The World I left Behind

A Struggling Dream Never Complete

Hope Never Blinks

Life Is A Playground

Dreams

A Spiral Of Time

Music Of Earth Will Never Die

The Paradox Of God

Beloved

and fifty more, the poet reflects on the joys, dreams, suffering, and will to live a man experiences though the grand and mysterious process called human life.

From the poem Stillness of Being:

Mind plots revolutions,

But inner being wants harmony.

Life came with music,

But world moves by agenda.

Childhood was a pristine dream,

But wisdom turned that into a project.

Ambitions vault our existence,

Energy seethes from our pores.

But we came with a faith,

Our elements beckon tranquility.

There is a more sublime state than success,

World wants tumult but soul seeks stillness.

Maharaj Kaul was born in Kashmir, India, where he spent his childhood and boyhood. He graduated from Banaras University, in India, in electrical engineering and went on to Polytechnic Institute Of New York for the master's degree. He worked as an engineer for 40 years, out of which the last 30 years with American Cyanamid (which later became Wyeth, and then Pfizer). All his life he has been interested in the foundations of the human mind in the areas of science, religion, and art. In recent years he has been involved in the study of the impact of technology on human values and happiness. Out of that immersion have come out eight books, including the present one, which includes 60 poems. He lives in Suffern, New York, USA