Each asks for what he wants most from You
Wealth riches, name and fame
Gifts of the gross
Important to the one who seeks them
For the moment
Transient as ever

I ask you of yourself
How greedy can I get?
When your words no longer suffice
You form no longer can quench that thirst for more
Deep within
I seek as a moth rushes to the flame
For blissful oblivion
A ‘dissolution’ of sorts
To remain in the union that always is

Janamasthami

The Birth of Krishna within
How can the eternal have a birth? That which is omnipresent is Divinity. If there is a birth then there must have been a time when Divinity was absent. Birth will automatically mean there is a death. The One that cannot be captured in the framework of time and space is Krishna, the Eternal Consciousness beyond birth and death.
To celebrate the birth of Krishna is to celebrate the birth of the awareness of that Omnipresence within each of us. A time to rejuvenate, to shed some of the layers of conditioning that creep on in everyday life, a time to look within beyond the corridors of the mind and experience the ever-present divinity within... even it be for a few moments.
Every festival is thus a time to invoke the deity within and a time for rejuvenation

All the religious practices are towards this end, to realize the Presence that has always been.

O My God!

If I were to fashion a God it would be a super man
Something bigger and better than me
To be my savior to pick up the pieces when Life is a mess ?
To be around when I am in distress
Or else when I am busy not to trespass?

Who would grant me boons at will
As I wish and will?
Run the world as I would have it

Be mine and none else?
Destroy my enemies
Favour my friends
Help me make a million
In return for a few praises?

This is Not GOD
Just a moronic fantasy
To indulge in this is not devotion
Its hallucination

‘God’ is a Force beyond
The fulcrum of existence
Around which all revolves
Praises nor curses
Affect this

Every prayer and praise is to trigger the Divine within
To be in tune with this force
Is to know ‘God’---------------