English is beautiful with figures of speech, isn’t it?

Today’s English
July 23rd, 2017

Disciple: Master, Who is a master indeed?

Master: He that has found himself. A tiny drop, yet carrying the ocean within. The one who has come Home. He, like a bird, flies in the sky with liberated soul and yet his footsteps are unknown to many.

Disciple: is not a teacher a master?

Master: The former, as the sculptor does, brings a stunning statue out of the unheeded rock and breathes life into it and the latter keeps a mirror unto its soul to discover itself.

Disciple: tell me of true love, Master.

Master: When you find flowering of yourself, you find love, the fragrance of your soul.  Love that expects locks and lashes you and that which gives leaps in joy and leads you.

Disciple: How do you see power and money?

Master: Power that crowns you crucifies you. Money that promises pleasures brings you pains behind. With each brick of power and money, you build your own prison.

Disciple: Tell me of hypocrisy, Master.

Master: Which bird will come to thy tree that has the unripe painted in yellow?  Let them wear masks till the timely rain of truth showers on them and keeps them in true colours.  Pigs cannot be parrots, nor can devils be angels. Let them draw beautiful pictures on water in vain and pain.

Disciple: How should a wife or husband be?

Master: A wife, neither a product in market nor a slave to serve, is his other half. A husband, being master of home is but a slave to her love. The marriage tree planted and watered by kith and kin looks skeleton if the green leaves of love wither out and turns the heavenly home a hell.

Disciple: One more question, Master. Enlighten me of anger and ego.

Master: Expect to respect or others to be perfect and you sow the seeds of disappointments that make you jump and hit the ceiling. Anger sucks your energy and wisdom only to dig a ground for yourself and your other selves. How can wind be superior to earth and water be inferior to fire? Each in nature is unique in itself. You too carry the soul of all, of the whole world of past and future within you, yet unique in yourself. Ego that is born when you strip off yourself from others dies when you get united with all. Enough for today.

(The figures of speech used in the above dialogue are:

1.Alliteration – repetition of beginning sounds
( locks and lashes, leaps and leads…)

2.Oxymoron: contradictory terms used together
(a tiny drop, yet carrying the ocean within, crowns, crucifies)

3.Personification: giving human qualities to non-living things, ideas.
(Anger sucking your energy, digging ground)

4.Simile: comparison with the words like, as..
(Like a bird, as the sculptor does…)

5.Metaphor: comparison of two things without the words like, as
(Pigs cannot be parrots…)

6.Irony: a contrast between what is said and what is meant
(With each brick of power and money, you build your own prison)

“ Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.”
-Trevanian, Shibumi