Shut down

When the “enter” key got stuck

A number of windows opened

One after another

Like a mind gone berserk

With a million thoughts all at once

In a million directions

To move on

The only way was to shut down

For a while

Both the comp and the mind

To connect back to the source

In silent mediation

Even if it be for  just a while.

Jai Ganesh

One so tall

One so huge

Breathtakingly awesome

With gentle wonderful eyes

That speak so beautifully

Of Love and compassion unlimited

A silence that is eternal

Magnificence of divinity in each

See Ganesha is the idol and in all that those

Around

That cheer loud and dance in joy

Omnipresence indeed!!

They clap and dance when he comes

And sing and dance when he leaves

Symbolize life and celebration

Celebration in birth and dissolution

There is brilliance in a worm

Beauty and grace

In that which in mundane terms

Is a pest

To a mind that seeks ‘a cause’

And use in everything---

Pet to some

Pest to some

Life sustains life

Yearn to sing to you so much

The Love that fills me so much

Have not words that can express enough

Love you is all I can say through tears

To meet you  I have to drop

To meet to merge

Would be to shed

Every clothing of this soul

Of the mind

Of the intellect

Of everything

To turn nothing

Nothing just the

Presence that’s One

Your absence invoked your presence so

Understand now why Radha to let you go

For in your physical absence

Did she merge

In your Omnipresence

As You in spirit

One with you forever

She was truly blessed

Yearn for this union

Always

To merge in that which is

Devotee:  You my Lord

Are my Only God

Never think of anyone thus

Love you thus as my God

God:  “Your God meaning?”

Devotee:  The One I turn to when in need

You, a shoulder I cry upon when the world

Proves too much

Look up to you for everything

God: You turn to me in need

 Yes Indeed!!

When not in need?

Forgotten?

Devotee: No dear Lord I remember you every week

Of course make offerings

For your blessings

God: Yes of course

One rupee in return for a lakh

And a million curses should I not oblige?

I am the Creator what would I want more?

Creation Born of Fulfillment

Eternity

Seeks none

Favours none

You love me

As one who fulfils your every need

Cry out in sorrow

I am just a support a source of solace?

I am such

But  am much,  much more should you see me as you

In happiness and sorrow

In times of agony and ecstasy

The unchanging One that remains

Unite with me

As is me

and that unruffled state is yours

In joy and sorrow

In success and failure

All opposites are twins born

They are always together

Look beyond both polarites

The Ulimate One

That is me and that is in fact… You

I stepped in through the doors

of the place once home

Memories came flooding by

Of children their laughter

And clatter

Memories of seasons gone by

Of fun and frolic

Laughter and sorrow

Then for just a moment

Just let the memories go by

Experienced the stillness left

Behind

Like a sky when the clouds pass

A stillness present

Then and now

Eternally

A space untouched by none

Without a name

Eternity

Looked down upon my dress stained

While at work

Wondered why I did not wear an apron

For it would have kept the stains off

Then as I wore the apron there came a little whisper from deep within

"Just as you wear an apron to work

To come out of work unstained and unhurt

Thus shall  you wear the apron of non-attachment

Not be stained by like and dislike

Opposites of every color and hue

Working living a full life of all hues

Yet untouched by  all"