{"id":305,"date":"2008-02-04T06:28:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T06:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2008-02-04T06:28:45","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T06:28:45","slug":"mythology-or-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/mythology-or-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythology or Psychology ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>where lies my true self ?<br \/>\nam I a creature of my psychology<br \/>\nor does my deepest self lie<br \/>\nin the burning fires<br \/>\nof my mythology ?<br \/>\nso bold and so gripping<br \/>\nthat every feeling, every act<br \/>\nlies in the imagined stories<br \/>\nof God&#8217;s and Goddesses<br \/>\nof demons and of angels<br \/>\nof the impossible dance of shiva<br \/>\nof the   the cruxifiction of christ<br \/>\nof the contradictions between the eternity of the universe<br \/>\nwhere everything is and is not<br \/>\nall at the same time<br \/>\nof the questions between illusory and the real ?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nwhere do I find completeness ?<br \/>\nwhere do i delve to find answers<br \/>\neven to everyday life<br \/>\nam I trapped in the arrogance of intellectuality<br \/>\nam I trapped by the cages of fear<br \/>\ncreated by by my own mind<br \/>\nwhy do i struggle everyday<br \/>\nbetween my psychology<br \/>\nand mythology ?<br \/>\nwhy can I not take flight<br \/>\ninto a realm that is impossible<br \/>\ndo I exist in the impossible ?<br \/>\nand if so, why do I not see it all the time<br \/>\nwhy am In so blind ?<br \/>\nthat the universality of my existence<br \/>\nis an argument I must have<br \/>\nwith myself everyday ?<br \/>\nwhy am i not able<br \/>\nto plunge headlong into the unknown adventure ?<br \/>\nwhy am I not<br \/>\nable to plunge my psychology into mythology<br \/>\nwhy am I so stuck in an argument<br \/>\nbetween words that I said yesterday<br \/>\nand the words that come out today<br \/>\nwhy am i stuck in meaning ?<br \/>\nwhen there is no meaning to anything<br \/>\nyet in giving up meaning<br \/>\nis the gate way to understanding<br \/>\nwhy must I make sense of words that I write anyway ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>where lies my true self ? 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