GANDHI:Radical Wisdom for a Changing World

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Gandhi: Radical Wisdom for a Changing World

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MOTHER DIVINE

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MOTHER DIVINE

Sweet Mother Divine waits at heart's doorway,
When she sees time is ripe she takes a peep.
That's the red rose dawn of awakening's day,
When she'll rouse us up from life's dark sleep.
She's full of mercy compassion and love,
Watching and guiding us from high up above.
She enters our hearts with a massive leap,
Pushing vasanas out with an almighty shove.

Poor pilgrim struggled hard for years and years,
Performing sadhana with faith and zeal.
Then Mother Divine, this duty is her's,
Took pity and came, his sad soul to heal.
Dear Mother Divine loves the true devotee,
She comes when she pleases to set him free .

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LIFE'S MYSTERY

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LIFE'S MYSTERY

 

Ah sweet mystery of life at last we've found thee! All hail

Bright Sun of Self ! By vasanas hiding behind a veil.

For our soul's development, you preordained our life.

Now we're on the razor's edge, sharp as a well honed knife,

 

Strong effort of Self Enquiry, along with Surrendering

The egotistic mind, are gladly practiced, thus rendering,

And scattering those dark black clouds away, revealing

The great light of Self filled with blissful love and healing.

 

So we surrender without precondition or demand,

Worry and fear must end for ever now. Out of hand.

We leave all cares to God in every possible way,

But aim to do the very best we can each single day.

 

So we let go of the past, it was only a pack of  dreams,

As all that which appears is not exactly what it seems!

 

 

 

CHOCK A BLOCK

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CHOCK A BLOCK

Life's chock a block with many distractions,

Like pretty baubles with bags of attractions,

All sent to tempt us from the Holy Task.

What is that? you may very well ask.

To pose the essential question 'Who Am I'?

Is our most needed task before we die.

Sadhak climbed upwards on the Mountain Way,

He spotted a beautiful girl one day,

And quickly stopped to chat and spend the time.

He'd forgotten the sacred purpose of his climb,

To reach the Heart of Self and then be free.

He married, and spawned a binding family.

So if its enlightenment that we truly desire

We must work hard for freedom or else expire

GANDHI; RADICAL WISDOM for a CHANGING WORLD

Gandhi: Radical Wisdom for a Changing World

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Book Release Gandhi: Radical Wisdom for a Changing World (Watkins Masters of Wisdom) (Paperback) Once again Alan Jacobs, President of the Ramana Maharshi Foundation UK, has compiled a masterly anthology, skilfully drawing on the 100 volumes of speeches, letters, press cuttings and memoirs. See Amazon UK and .com

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WAKE UP FROM SLEEP

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WAKE UP FROM SLEEP

From heavenly space lightening strikes,
Its power shocks mankind with mighty force.
It's the epic emblem for Brahman of course,
To waken sleeper from dreams he dislikes,
Bathing in crass ignorance and harshest pain,
Unaware of truth and set to be born again.
From a cosmic standpoint we're all insane,
It offends the Sage's blessed no-mind brain,
To doze on this madcap lunatic planet earth,
And suffer yet another roller coaster birth.
So wake up from this nasty nightmare death,
By patiently enquiring with all of one's breath,
Posing the great koanic question 'Who Am I' ?
Praying to know one's real truth before we die.

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LIFE BOAT

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LIFE BOAT

The confused errant soul in life's frail boat,
Is steered by dear Guru who keeps it afloat,
To lead him cross the stormy sea of dreams,
For a better safer shore where it seems
He or she Realises their eternal Self,
No more tyrannised by ego demon elf,
Threatening to sink the weak boat in time.

So brave sailor struggles hard in his prime,
Obeying dear Guru's voice rowing onto shore,
Remembering his Self, and what is more,
Surrendering all to Guru deep in heart,
And from his guide he'll never ever part.
Soon he reaches the land of perfect love,
Eternally grateful to his great Lord above.

TWO METAPHYSICAL SONNETS

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METAPHYSICS

1

SONNETS  METAPHYSICAL

Proud Philosophy proposed to Poetry pure,

Coaxing, cajoling her to serve him as his Queen.

Reluctant, she succumbed, hair-dragged to his lair,

Lured and bedded behind his mental screen.

Uneasy waged their wedlock, heavily hard to bear

Her fairy fancies with his rigid thought machine.

Divorce seemed certain, until from who knows where?

Fourteen lines of metre meandered on the scene.

Metaphysical sonnets solved their crisis soon

To knit ideas with verses in a subtle form.

He shone as Sun, she swanned as silver Moon,

Reflecting wisdom in stanzas, heartfelt, warm.

They grabbed the avid reader like a thunder storm,

Metaphysical sonnets became a cultural norm.
2

METAPHYSICS

In this persistent panasonic panorama called life,

The sharp steel of destiny cuts through each like a surgeons knife.

Inside each errant soul on earth down a vertical line,

Their predestined karma unfolds in course of time,

Invisible to the dreamer observing this mundane game.

Yet a horizontal coloured picture's formed just the same,

Events flash by like cinema films on pure awareness' screen,

But those observed events aren't exactly what they seem.

Mad mankind is baffled by wierd world's horrific drama,

The answer's in understanding this phantastic cyclorama.
If this perverted wandering monkey mind we wish to heal,
Contemplate and meditate that this world is not really real.
In this khaki field of karma all things happen for the best,
As we can't perceive 'THAT' let worldly problems have a good rest.

LOGIC CHOPPING

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LOGIC CHOPPING

Whether it be a pot or heavy lump of clay,
Or the microcosmic atom in my breath,
Whether it be smoke, fire or mountain way,
Will any serve as a cure for painful death?
I‘m only blocking love by logic chopping,
I must bow to praise Sri Bhagavan's feet.
But monkey mind keeps dropping off, hopping,

Instead of abiding in His bliss replete.
The heavy weight of reason and causation,
Will never take me to Self Realisation,
Instead they lead to endless frustration,
A kind of morbid mental perturbation.
I take refuge in Sri Bhagavan's grace
Inside my heart, true Saviour of the race.

DIVINE HARMONY

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DIVINE HARMONY

Love's harmony dwells in sweet unstruck music,

Heard in the spiritual heart by all whose ears,

Are tuned into this subtle sacred angelic art,

And hear ethereal rhythms from galactic spheres,

There are no words to describe this awesome sound.

Once heard prison walls of selfishness all fall down,

And blissful inner feelings in unison resound

With holy joy, bestowing love's most precious crown. 

A deaf mute deprived of hearing and vocal speech,

Prayed to hear the magic of a chanting human voice.

God in His mercy which he always grants to each,

Cured his ailment so the poor man could now rejoice.

The highest form of music to him was then revealed,

By such harmony divine, his affliction was healed.

DEVOTION

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DEVOTION
The Self is dear to all as perfect love,
Unbroken devotion a stream of purest oil,
Our Sage finds Self within like God above.
His child  after hard and persistent toil,
Finds ego's most resistant mind soon melts,
Sadhak finds certain faith in God alone.
This golden flowing stream of love smelts
Foul dross, his heart's desire becomes his own.
They who once linked form to God's Holy Name,
In time transcends that image just the same.
With Bhakti ripe and hearing Truth complete,
Heart's blossom on the bough flowers replete.
In love with that one most truthful emotion,
They sprout a fresh white lotus of pure devotion.

WINTER

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WINTER
 

The wintry sun pours through my window frame
Opening wide to an endless sky of saphire blue,
Snow drops are sparkling with diamonds of dew.
My heart hymns praise to Him without a Name,
A love for Self and all are equally the same.
I draw the curtain in my room enlarge the view,
From tattered folds, a powdery dust soon flew
Across the scene obscuring sunlight's flame.

As cloud did clear I saw each dusty grain,
Like a world held in a solar radiant beam,
Universes in Brahman's mighty magic dream.
My mind fell in my heart no words can explain;
I am the light, the sun, the room, the view,
The dust, the Self, Brahman, and so are you.

THE HOLY TASK

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THE HOLY TASK
Spiritual heart and intelligence well knows,
But ego mind betrays us and delivers blows.
When will this holy war cease in perfect peace,
And the Grace of the Guru grant us release?
Thiat's an earnest question each sadhak must ask
As he ploughs the hard ground of the holy task.
Self enquiry and devotional surrender,
Are certain ways for ego mind to render
Itself at feet of Sat Guru in the Heart,
Who's promised he'll never ever depart,
All earnestly practicing his wondrous teaching,
Which from Arunachala he was ever preaching.
So we continue to strive at the Holy Task,
Who Am I? is the urgent question we must ask.

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CRAZY LIKE A HORSE

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CRAZY LIKE A HORSE
Tame the wild horse stallion of the racing mind,
Break him in with reins of breath control and japa,
'Whip him with rigorous vigour' said Lord Krishna.
Such words in Great Sages writings we often find,
Blinker the mad colt so he'll never look behind.
Mind control was taught by Bhagavan Ramana,
Essential part of his great teaching sadhana.
Mind will lead you astray like blind lead the blind,
He'll gallop off madly, so tie him down and bind.
A gallant rider journeyed on his pilgrim way,
The rebellious horse bolted and off he fell,
He knew he must train this bad nag that very day,
Or else riding him would become the sheerest hell.
So we control the errant mind as well we may,
And enjoy the ride while in life's strange dream we play.

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Thursday 8th November
10am-11am Mary Magdalene With Alan Jacobs
11am-12.30pm Jesus In India With Alan Jacobs
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END CONFUSION

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END CONFUSION

Once and for all, end chronic confusion,
Brahman is Real the world's an illusion.
We're tricked by six senses and fickle mind,
There's nothing truly lasting here to find.
All's a mirage of mobile flux and change,
Beyond our limited perceptual range,
The planet's perishing and in decay,
But Reality's unchanged in every way.
Sadhak met a Sage on a mountain preaching,
Gladly he asked "Give me some good teaching".
He answered "all you see isn't as it seems,
The life you live is like a film of dreams,
So wake up child from this sleep of delusion
Once and for all end chaotic confusion"

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and When Jesus Lived in India.

CHILDREN IN THE DARK

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CHILDREN IN THE DARK

We're like bad children in the black of night,

The brilliance of Brahman Self's sunlight,

Is darkly veiled by vasanas and mind.

To awaken from this dream we need find

Great Truth granted by our Sat Guru inside,

Whom in our spiritual heart does well abide.

He says "Surrender and Self Enquire within,

Then I'll save you from such egotistic sin,

Soon you'll awaken to enlightened bliss,

Heralded by Divine Mother's loving kiss.

So never ever suffer from sad despair,

I'm within you and I am everywhere.

My name dear child is Bhagavan Ramana,

I'm here to free you from this dread samsara".

SAMSARA

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SAMSARA
How to escape dread sadness of samsara,
Continuous cycle of death and rebirth?
A vital question for wise women and men,
Who struggle might and main for all their worth,
In this complex life yet to be born again.
The answer's been stated throughout the ages.
Simplest is that of Bhagavan Ramana,
Known to be one of the highest Sages,
Who teaches surrender and atma vichara,
To rid us of demonic ego mind,
Leading us on to sat chit ananda,
Which in bliss of Self Realisation we shall find.
So sing the praises of Great Sri Ramana,
Mighty Sage who taught from Arunachala.

SPORT

Sport

He is out today.
Every bird is singing his name
every tendril towards him yearns,
each drop of morning dew
reflects the ocean of his grandeur.
The curtain of blue has lifted
to reveal a glory of Sun resplendent.
Sometimes behind a gloomy cloud
He hides in mischief sulking.
But having glimpsed in undergrowth
the hem of his robe, I know
that he is somewhere about
and enjoying the play.

Look who just flew into the room
in food-moth form!
searching for a flame
in which to be consumed.
Sometimes you wrap
Yourself in a cloak of pain
to chisel away at my basalt rock
an image of thy Name
and other days you send
a Cup of nectar
for my honeybee soul to humbly sip.

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GREAT FAITH

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GREAT FAITH

Take the deep leap into firm certainty of faith,
With determined unshakeable fearlessness!
Let blessed mount Arunachala be our shield,
Against sense storms of restless rebel mind.
Enjoy wholly untroubled carefree satvic calm,
By handing over our whole fictional burden
Of worry, concern stress and fancied anxiety,
About preordained duties and many affairs,
To our Lord of Love and infinite compassion,
Bhagavan Sri Ramana, Self of our own Being,
To whom we've unconditionally surrendered,
Taking refuge in the spiritual heart with devotion.
Even tribulation is welcomed as for the best!
We gain mind control through Japa of His Name,
And dive into the Heart, questing for source of 'I',
Full of gratitude for his boundless love and grace.

BE PATIENT

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BE PATIENT
While we wait quietly in our Guru's tigers jaws,
We'll soon discover that he takes plenty of time,
Because he follows his own wise sagacious laws.
When we're prepared, ready to know the the sublime,
He'll lead us into our spiritual heart one blessed day,
When the nadis are well attuned to bear the power,
Of pure consciousness awareness' auspicious way,
To know 'That' each second and moment every hour.
Then if earnestly to our Self we give attention,
Vasanas and latent tendencies will be destroyed,
No longer will ego mind annoy us by their retention,
And joy of sat chit ananda be no longer cloyed.
So don't be troubled by being clasped in the tigers jaws,
Just be patient and keep still between his paws and claws.

ALL IS VANITY

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ALL IS VANITY
Vanity vanity all is vanity,
How on earth shall we save our sanity,
Slaves of perverted parrot mind?
The highest teaching one must surely find,
That of Great Sri Bhagavan Ramana,
And then practice his sacred sadhana.
Surrender and Self Enquiry are His way,
To be practiced earnestly every day.
Then one glorious dawn we'll feel free
From bonds of samsara plaguing the 'me'.
In a nut shell our Self is always there,
But veiled by dark clouds in murky air.
To remove that obscuration is our task,
What more can a human being crave or ask?

THE ARCH USURPER

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THE ARCH USURPER
To claim I am the sole doer all alone,
Is the cardinal crime of woman and man;
It means that ego's usurped God's throne.
To be free of this grave sin, if we can,
Surrender ego mind at His lotus feet,
Then Self Enquire with all of one's might.
This way we'll become whole and complete,
Revealing Self source of truth and light.
The Universe is held in Brahman's arms,
In joyful bliss of sat chit ananada,
Devotees are blest by Bhagavan's charms,
Inside our hearts dwells Great Lord Ramana.
Let him take over our whole burden of life,
This way we end all mental stress and strife.