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’---------------

On waiting

I waited at your doorstep
Wondering how long will it be
Before I gaze on your blissful form
Every moment an agony and an ecstasy
At once
The next moment couldn’t be soon enough

Then came a Silence a pause
As if in answer...
A thought that drifted in

‘How long have i kept You waiting
You called me so many many times
Not from afar
But from less than a whisper’s distance away
And yet…..

Though so intimately close
I was afar
In a land beyond reach
Chasing shadows, earthly dreams
That vanished
As I went near
While You wait endlessly…

H O L I

To meet to merge
Is the urge
Let me thirst evermore

Wish to adorn myself
with all the colors
shades of every hue
that is You
Adorn ALL your colors through devotion
Colors of love joy, compassion
That surpasses all
Of every conceivable difference
Where is but one hue
That is You
To see You in all

Where ‘i’ die a blissful death
And become that which I yearn

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 chose 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

A season to give and receive
Gifts….
Gifts of the gross transient
Effervescent
Last a while

Gifts eternal
Of love and joy unbounded
To all around
Wish each one
The very best may happen
In their lives

Gifts unbounded
I receive each day
From Existence

Of light and sunshine,
Nature and nurture
I have a lot to thank for each moment

Each moment here is a reason to celebrate.
'Thank you' is a small word for gifts
Just an attitude of gratitude
In Silence