Improbable yearnings

Mar 29, 2024

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Can we abandon all our stories 
That are woven from the mists
Of the belief that we can know 
All that remains unknowable?

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Can we step into the intimacy
Of embracing the ungraspable
Without attempting to hold on
While being tossed to and fro?

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Can we open ourselves up
To the ache of inchoate longing
So we may notice in glimpses
Sweet solace in the unfathomable?

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Can we value the questions 
Recognising the unanswerable 
As the only key to presence
Where all the cravings cease?

Sudipto Ghosh

May 4

Wow! You have said it beautifully, profoundly. I am so deeply moved by this. To “seek sweet solace in the unfathomable”.

And then you end with,

“Where all the cravings cease?”

I have often wondered about this place. Where desires disappear. We call it paradise, the garden of Eden, swarg, jannat… where all wishes are fulfilled till nothing else remains. A place of immense beauty. Nothing but beauty. Beauty without desire, fear, longing.

Something doesn’t feel right! Can’t put my finger on it somehow. Need to think a bit more on this…

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