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One with the universe

Shveta Vashist Gaur

My friends are yellow, brown and white,
What difference does it make to light

Contemplative and simple, Ponder a While is not just a composition of
some 66 poems, but an experience that leaves you with your thoughts
alone. "I knew this would happen," says Mohit K Misra, the 37 year-old
former Merchant Navy sailor who underwent a revelation that not just
changed his life, but also changed him as a human being.



"It happened when I was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and found
my enlightenment," he recollects. So, while you go through the immense
response that Misra has received for his work on the internet and in
person, what leaves you wonderstruck is his way of composing his
feelings. Framed in couplets, his poetry canvasses spirituality and
the human mind. "I write in dohas to make even the most complex
subjects simple. My emphasis has been on the metrical length and rhyme
because that pattern is easy to understand and even remember," he
says. Very much so as the language is so unmistakable straightforward,
that even a child can understand it. "

Having sold 1,000 copies so far, Misra wants to concentrate on
propagating his message-oneness with the universe. "We usually
separate ourselves from the universe and keep complaining about our
misfortunes and various negativities. My book asks the reader to unite
with the universe and be one with it," he explains. Deriving
inspiration from god, love and light, Misra says he has spent the last
seven years reading extensively on spirituality and then was able to
write on it. "One has to be prepared for death and know that we will
all be gone one day," he says.

Ever since Misra's spiritual journey began with An Autobiography of a
Yogi, he has read almost all the spiritual writers around, right from
Herman Hesse to Mikhael Naimy and many more. And, it wasn't like Misra
was always prepared to talk about his thoughts openly. "I have thought
a lot and only when I was ready about it, did I talk about it," he
says. The message that he now wants to propagate is, "God is not for
others, he is for us only. And, it isn't that sages and saints are
people from another planet, they are all as human and as normal," he
explains.

Misra will soon be heading to Delhi for a poetry reading session for
Dahiya Badshah, an Indian poet from Philadelphia.



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