Days, weeks and months pass,
time fades away, but not my love for you!
With my heart deeply filled with love,
I await for the day to hold your hands!
How long this testing, my love?
Years of patience is insufficient?
Forbearance to heal the scars,
I await for your love, your company!
My prayers deep from my heart,
crying out for the special day!
Where we unite in love forever!
Forever treading the path of life here and hereafter!
Each day passing by,
Wondering what is of utmost importance.
A chase for livelihood or a higher pursuit?
Oh Krishna, there can be no greater happiness than your service!
With every ticking moment,
both my hands being pulled in two different directions!
A life of materialism and riches or an enlightening path?
I choose to surrender to you Mukunda, you are my savior!
In every stage of life, flowers of attachment bloom to take me astray,
and the illusion of the mind, that takes me away.
I choose to meditate on your name,
He Govinda, your name which liberates all suffering!
Every moment gone without having surrendered to you,
Every moment passed without singing your glory,
Every moment whiled away without reading your glory!
Every moment lost without taking steps towards you,
is an utter waste of this precious life of mine!
With this realization, I pray to you, Sripathi,
guide me always to be immersed in your thoughts,
Note: A poem inspired by Bhakti. A realization that dawns often making us wonder what the purpose of life is. At times filling us with guilt for not having spent it for the highest purpose, that is self realization or attaining divine knowledge.
In every birth, mistakes drown me in an ocean of sorrow!
Oh Teacher, forgive me, without your grace life is meaningless!
Clouded by illusion and confusion, faults take me astray!
Oh Teacher, forgive me for you are an ocean of compassion!
In life's whirlpool my intellect is blinded and ego may rule over!
Oh teacher, forgive me as a mother would her child's mistakes!
In every step of my life, your knowledge is the pillar and my strength!
Oh teacher, forgive me like the Lord would his devotee's fault.
When the mind is unable to see nothing, it sees the light in your teachings!
Oh teacher, forgive me as without you no achievement is possible and success is meaningless!
Life is a journey with tests on the way, where I may fail multiple times!
I learn from them to not fail again and move ahead with your guidance!
Like the earth sustains not without sunlight, so is life void without a teacher!
Oh teacher, forgive me and guide me always! Forgive me and guide me always!
Drowning in a river of illusion,
of discrimination, of pluralities!
That I am different from you!
Ah what foolishness! What delusion!!
Neither scriptures, nor rituals!
What use are they when the heart is veiled by dirt?
That I am different from you!
Ah what pride! What delusion!!
In a world where Gods are adorned with flowers,
but the filth in the heart is no where gone?
Divisions of caste, of creed dividing and dividing further!
Ah what a pain! What delusion!!
In a sad world where the boundaries are drawn
distinctly decided purely on the basis of birth!
Not from character ! Not from actions!
Ah what bias ! What delusion!!
Where true love is burnt away!
In the name of caste and sub caste or religion!
In the name of saving culture!
Poisoning life! Poisoning everything!
Ah what a pain! What a pain! What a pain!
Amidst all the turmoil and confusions of life,
I find solace in chanting your name, Śri Rāma!
In dreadful fear and uncertainty,
I find courage in chanting your name, Śri Rāma!
Money and material belongings seem worthless,
compared to the priceless treasure of your name, Śri Rāma!
In the ocean of sorrow and pain,
your name brings bliss, Śri Rāma!
When merriment, joy and pleasure entertained common youth,
Singing your glory makes my life purposeful, Śri Rāma!
Your divine name is the boat to cross the ocean of Saṁsāra!
Your divine name is the key to open the door to Ātmajñāna!
Your divine name is the pathway to eternal freedom, Mukti!
Hence immerse yourself in chanting the name of Śri Rāma!
She was made for him from time immemorial,
the inseparable pair, eternally blessing creation!
Yet, her union with her lord, wasn't an easy one,
full of tests, learning and pure devotion!
To be his equal, to the Lord of the universe,
was not a easy path, one requiring immense patience!
From Dākṣāyani to Pārvati and the journey,
and the Lord testing her in every step!
Intense tapasya, shunning every tie and bond,
every comfort and every belonging!
Considering him alone as the be all and end all!
Neither fire, nor storms or countless failures!
Her devotion subdues not!
Her faith shakes not!
Her yearning growing brighter!
Her love getting stronger!
For the only word and world for her
was Siva Siva Siva!
