Sohan Qadri - Books

The Dot and The Dots is the piquant title of a slender volume of verse by Sohan Qadri, born Punjabi but now a citizen of the world settled at Copenhagen. His first love was painting, literature a second interest and hobby. The very first poem of the volume, five half-lines long (or is it short!), a dot of a poem, underlines the intent of the title.

The Line
Is the foot print
of the Dot
on the face
of space.

The volume then is a line made of similar dots, a circlet of the pearls of wisdom like the celebrated Rubaiyat, a garland of gnomic verse where a world of meaning is packed into minimal words. Each poem is a comment on life in the abstract as also a prescription of ready rules for the common man. The very essence of Buddha´s teachings gets distilled into the telegram.

"In the loss of longing
belonging gets lost
hence emancipation"

Wordly success hinders and preludes spiritual progress.

"With inward rising
All else is raised
Skies are reaced
With outward rising
All else is demeanched
Hyprocrisy is preached"

The paradox of life lies in its cyclic nature where birth and death merge into each other, where the beginning is the end.

"The seed dies
Into the first root
And the first root
to be born again"

and again.

"The feet
Following their own footprints
Retreat
To reach the source within"

He bids us however beware of dogma.

The Truth
Cast into idea
Loses its truth
The mould takes hold"