Telugu. Telugu Language. Dravidian. Official language in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Telugu states. 100 million people speak Telugu. Fourteenth most spoken language in the world. Designated Classical language. Being a vowel ending word language, Telugu is referred as Ajanta language, and considered ‘Italian of the east’. Mostly spoken in Telugu States, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Puducherry, Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India; Telugu diaspora outside India – US, Australia, Malaysia, Mauritius, UAE, Saudi et al. It is a protected language in South Africa. Telugu, Tenugu may mean the ‘people from the south’; their language, Telugu. Also, it may mean people in the area of trilingas – Kaleshwaram, Srisailam, Draksharamam.
Telugu poetry is variegated from simple to complex. Avadhanam is a literary performance specially cultivated in Telugu. Astha, Sata, Sahasra. Telugu predominates in the evolution of Carnatic music.
Can we care to talk, interact, converse amongst in our mother tongue as far as possible?
Can we love? Can we live, lead, serve with love? Can we learn to love, live, lead, serve and love to learn? Can we love with the core of the core of the core of us? Can we transcend intellect, risking everything we know, we have to love? Can we transcend words, language, numbers into reflection, meditation, and silence? And action. Can we get a live mirror, companion mirror, or a true self-mirror, or both? Can we be alone without feeling lonely? Solitude. Can we remain hopeful, thankful, come what? Even in denial. Can we have the patience and be farsighted enough to see the rose, to see the dawn, to wait for the full moon? Can we journey within as we journey outside? Can we see the world, within and without? Can we endure the pain to give birth to utterance of joy ineffable?
Can we be ready to change within and without, to love, to seek love? Seek, we must. Seek love. Guru will come and pass through, in some form or the other, as we get ready. Let us not resist the changes in our lives, let life live through us, to love, with all their imperfections, defects. Only love can purify us, our hearts, our thoughts. Can we know ourselves fully? Can we love ourselves? Can we flow, rather than going with the flow, to love? Can we be in conversations, silent conversations animated, joyful? Can we in the present moment, in love with us, in timelessness? ‘Past is an interpretation and future is an illusion.’ Can we be free from time? To live, to love, to lead the fullness of the moment. We go deeper. We are sharper. We see and trust ourselves, our teams. When we are one, we do rather than one of us. We cannot blame one of us for not doing it. We need to love with an expanded heart for softening inside, for us to become stronger. Nothing is there, and nothing should come in the way of love and liberation. It is just us. The consciousness of nothingness keeps us going. Submitting, living in unperturbed tranquillity, even with existence of blunt opposites, to love. Renewing forward every single day, single moment, to change within. Parts change, the whole remains unchanged really ever. Love has no labels, definitions. Pure and simple, life that does not love is no life. As long as we live, as long as we have air, water, food, fire et al, we have love.
Can we care for ourselves, us all around, in this place, world, and universe? At this moment, fully. Ourselves, and our elders, children, are marginalized. To care and love, can we exponentially augment our agency for this? Agency on our bodies, foods, families, farms, teams-groups-organizations, villages, schools, governments, markets, systems et al?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Seventh L first. In N? maitreeyoga for 7L.