PONDERINGS

 

The flight of the eagle leaves no mark,

Neither does atom, molecule or quark.

Nothing moves quicker than the speed of light,

But it's mind's illusion, just a defect of sight.

Life's a magic mystery school no doubt,

Say yea to it all with a mighty loud shout.

As soon as it comes, it flies and goes by,

It has no real substance and soon it will die.

Life is transient like a mere whisp in the night,

But with Gurus firm grace there's no need for fright.

So surrender and into ones self please enquire,

Realisation comes for all who persist and don't tire.

SPRING

The spring sun streams through my window frame
Opening endless vasts of saphire blue,
Red roses are sparkling with diamonds of dew.
My heart hymns praises to Him without a Name,
A love for Self and all equally the same.
I draw curtains 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
As a world held in a radiant beam,
Universes in Brahman's magic dream.
Mind fell into my heart, no words explain;
I am the light, the sun, the room, the view,
The dust, the Self, and Brahman; so are you.

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MAN CANNOT DO

You can't stop iron gates from banging,
Or express railway trains from clanging,
Nor men or women from acting as they do;
Because they've never posed the question 'Who
Does every action which they perform,
And why does there arise a mental storm'?
It's all ego, dear friend, that's the cause,
Man cannot do! so take a long hard pause.

A perplexed pilgrim plodded on the mountain way,
Disturbed about how to spend his 'pilgrim day',
Then Grace, an inner voice, cried from deep inside,
"Enquire into Real Self and there abide"!
He practiced what his Inner Guru preached,
Soon enlightened, Eternal Self he reached

VICTORY

Victory to the powers of Great Lord Ramana!
 Which flow from the blessings of His kind
 Removal of sorrow from my mundane mind;
 He frees me from great grief of samsara
 To know soul's lagoon flooded by Nirvana.
 Such awakening from hypnotic sleep we find
 Are streams that cleanse the soul, they wind
 Through dense mud and mire of false ajnana.
 They cause destruction of pain and sorrow,
 We live in the present, no fear for tomorrow.
 We thank Bhagavan with all our might and main,
 Chanting His praises for sacred is His Name.
 We read the miracles of His great life story,
 And bathe in the light of His Self effulgent glory.

BEAR WITH IT PRINCES AND PRINCESSES

Let's welcome challenge as our golden gate to Liberation!

Any resistance prevents the gain of our promised Realisation.

Mind must never strain to explain nor ever needs to complain,

About what in His great wisdom our  Lord deigns to ordain.


He blesses us with the most precious gift in the whole of creation.

So pray to surrender irreversibly without any pre-condition!

Worry, fear,despair and anxiety must cease ever more,

If we're ever to open spiritual heart's  sacred door.


Leave all burdens and concerns to God to solve in His way,

Yet we strive to do the very best we can each and every day.

And we let go all of the past, they were just fantastic dreams,

As that which appeared was unreal, and not what it seems!

DAY BREAK

Ruddy radiant dawn breaks and shatters dark black night,

Revealing a gleaming world full of splendid life and light;

So 'twill be with frail fractured inner life of pilgrim's soul,

When sudden moksha dawns, ending dark night to make him whole.

God is perfect love, and he calls all here on Earth, to save

Us from harmful hidden habits acquired, and if we're brave,

And follow Guru's promptings, felt deep in one's spiritual heart,

He'll surely lead us back to Self Realisation by the much needed art.

So ruddy radiant dawn breaks and shatters dark black night,

Revealing again His gleaming world of splendid life and light.