The Ultimate One – I

a poem by Ramesh T A

Let not failures go to the heart as the poison to the blood!
Let not failures make farce the great cause;
Let not failures make false the true ones;
Success or failure does not end the game, but the ultimate one.

What is the Ultimate One? We live only to know.
Neither have we known the beginning nor the end of all things;
Instead of thinking this way what way we think, live and spend our time?

Life is not just for eating, working and loving
But life is for living a life of achievement.
What best thing one can achieve, one should think,
Explore new things or discover new continents
In the Eureka, America and India spirit
Like Archimedes, Columbus and Vasco Da Gama did!

Then came Galileo, Newton, Einstein and others
And revolutionised the thought and advancement of the world!
Now the exploration is the ultimate in the outer space;
Space-Time, Matter-Mind, Nature-Spirit and Man-God
These Locke-Hume, Spinoza-Kant, Vivekananda-Aurobindo thought
And expressed ultimate thoughts for mankind to probe and proceed further.

The pursuit of creative culture is perfection;
And the pursuit of perfection is endless effort in Ultimate Reality.
Such exploration of the ultimate in everything offers knowledge of truth
Of the beginning and the end both reversible and irreversible.

The world is a wonder suspended in the Universe,
A suspension of a particle of saw-dust in a liquid full of life!
Like a potter making a perfect pot out of clay
The supreme creator has finally evolved man out of animal.
Satisfied and stopped creating anything further
Leaving man to evolve himself higher with his mind;
Man with his mind developed himself into an intelligent man,
Discovered spirit and is evolving himself further into a Superman,
Perhaps to become finally one with the Supreme Creator.