Life everywhere

In idyllic settings of village
In bustling metro city
In a beautiful rose garden
In a noisy city street

What's common in these
Mind thinks this is better than that
It does not know it's the same
That grows as rose garden
Is the noise of busy street
Serenity of the mountain

One life that breathes
Rests and Rejoices
Angers and fights
Destroys and builds
Alive in a body and without that too!

Only one life that shines everywhere and in everything!

A crack opening in my Window

My window has a crack opening
For a small ray of right to peep through
To lighten up dark chambers of heart

As You had shone through opening
Gone are those darkest days
when I could feel nothing
I was grasping in the dark and
heart yearning for thine light

Alas some dark corners still remain to be illuminated
With unknown cobwebs lurking there

I am yearning for your grace to shine
For My window to open far and wide
Small ray of light to turn into flood of light
Shining  every nook and corner
Illumminating my heart brighter and brighter

Kaleidoscope

Situations change people change
I can only wonder at the Kaleidoscope of life

Sometimes I feel at the top sometimes at the  bottom
Sometimes I feel situations are under control sometimes the opposite
Sometimes I am angry sometime compassionate
My own mind mimics the  Kaleidoscope

Every time I look at the Kaleidoscope it throws up new scene
Complete in itself however completely different from previous
Things never vanish completely but they just change the orientation
Only to resurrect again to complete the circle
While I marvel at the scenery I appreciate the seer
The silent witness unaffected by scenes

What different scenes can make it to seer
as what difference waves have made it to sea?

If only I would be born as flower

If only I would be born as flower
would sway as you want me to sway
would smile as you want me to smile
would receive thine grace as sunshine
And will blossom as you want me to blossom

If only I would be born as flower
would be free from wandering mind
would be free from small little desires
And free from ulterior"ego"
which  separates me from thine

If only I would be born as flower
I would  ever shine as thine!

Outcome!

 Life is dilemma
 Heart tempts me this side
 And Head sways to the opposite

Which one to opt for???
 Mind is in perpetual conflict

 As it worries,worries and worries for the outcome
 It wants only the pleasure
 And is not ready to stay with pain

 However I can rest in peace
 By surrendering my action and outcome to thee
 Knowing that “Myself” is beyond the outcome
 Far Superior and greater than any outcome

Your Game is up

I searched for you in wind and trees, everywhere

I searched for you in people around

I searched for you in all the activities

Finally I searched deep in myself

Wow! Your game is up as I found you  hiding there

I had turned my life into hell

I had stood on my head

And turned my life upside down

I chased wrong things assuming they were thine

I had put my heart and mind in your search

As if  possessed by ghost

I had refused to relax and slow down

I had suffered at my own hands

Running after the things outside

Finally I found you

Now I will rest in peace

Assured in knowledge

that you are within me and not outside

Your game is up

Now that I found you!

Beyond success and failures lives me

Beyond success and failures lives me

Beyond all activities lives me

Beyond all opposites lives me

Do not stop at success

Do not stop at failure

Travel that extra mile

For I am the ultimate goal

There is nothing beyond me

Come to me from wherever you are

You are welcome whatever you may be

I am waiting for you forever

Now is the chance

Present is the time

To be free from all entangles

To travel back home only to become me!

Nectar

I did everything

I enjoyed everything!

Like a small bird on vast tree of life

Exploring one branch after another

Ran helter skelter from top to bottom in search of nectar

Hint of  nectar  everywhere but fruit of nectar nowhere to be found

More I search in sense experiences more tired it gets

Leaving me high and dry, bitter and hopeless

  

Oh Master

your grace shone on me!

You found me

And what a surprise I found my nectar!

I am the small ray of infinite light

I am the small ray of infinite light
I am priceless 
As essentially I am part of the infinite

Although I appears to be finite 
I have got everything to become infinite

Only thing that holds me back from achieving that glory 
Is I do not believe that I am the infinite!

I am the tiniest part of you

O Infinite existence
I am the tiniest part of you

With tiny body
And tiny activities all around

I am at the centre of own tiny universe
with small pleasures and sorrows whirling all around me

Sometimes I am at the top and sometimes at the rock bottom
This happens day and night without any respite

O my God !
While I am thinking about you
I realized
Not to worry
Nonetheless I am the part of big you
or rather I am you !
Infinite without any boundary!!

Oh Gurudeva you played my flute!

Oh Gurudeva you played my flute 
And brought out beautiful melody

You made it hollow and empty
And breathed into new life

You showed me the real me
And freed me from my own mind

You taught me to swim the ocean of consciousness
Wov!And I became the ocean!

Bread

O my mind
Why have you drifted so far from your home
To the cold shores of abroad

What are you looking for
comforts and convenience
Sense of adventure
or some extra money

Why have you left your loved ones behind
to  pamper in so called comforts of life
Only to wander in plush  malls
staring at the goods you already have

May be it is the foreign culture that has allured you
But how are you going to grasp everything in short span of time
what has taken some centuries to come alive

You are like a plant transplanted in foreign soil
Struggling to survive and hold on its own
In the face of new weather and new soil
Making daily adjustments just to survive

Or you had become like Alexander the Great
Who had come all the way to India from his homeland
Only to discover that Bread is same everywhere on Earth
Be it India or be it Europe

Would you be Santaclaus for somebody

O my mind 
Would  you be Santaclaus for somebody

Would you feel the pain and suffering of the fellow beings
Would you be able to do something to alleviate their suffering
Would you be able to bring them gifts without asking

Would you be able to take some time out of your celebration
And be ready to share small part of your abundance
To be Santaclaus for somebody

Would you be able to expand your universe to include everybody
And stop thinking only about yourself
To be Santaclaus for somebody

Only If  you have understood the true meaning of X'mas
Then you would nothing but be Santaclaus for somebody

Why don't you feel

O my mind
Why don't you feel
the Pain and Joy of fellow beings

Why you had become like a rock
steadfast in its hardness
From outside to its inner core

 You were not like that from beginning
Living this life had strained you to the limit
And your own follies have added to its troubles
Life had pulled you tight from all sides
Draining you of all the energies and all the life

Mind retorts:
Forget about other beings
I could no longer feel the joy and sorrow of myself
No longer remembers last time when I had laughed heartily
or cried in grief like a baby

I no longer lives but merely exists
I am insensitive at my best
Neither joy can make me happy
Nor pain can cause any major hurt
I faintly feels that something is not right
But do not know from where to begin
How to let go the hardness
And bring in the naturalness and ease

By my sheer luck I came across Master
Who Transformed my mind
from small puddle to big ocean
Soaked up my mind in Joy
Squeezed out all the miseries
Took away all the hardness
Infused it with new life

Now I feels the joy and sorrow of myself
As well as of others
I had been restored back
To my original purest form
Free from all the external impurities
which is fountain of Life
Effervescent with Joy

My Window

I stay in a big house
With a large Window facing the sea

I am proud of my Window
As it provides me nice view and the sunshine

One day there came the thunder storm
Loads of dark clouds came pouring the rains relentlessly
Mighty wind blew hurling lot of dust with gusto
Muddying my Window and blocking my view

Storm subsided finally
leaving my Window dirty and unclean
It blocked my view and dimmed my sunshine

My perception became hazy
Making me nervous and crazy
As I felt whole world was up against me
Leaving myself sad and lonely

By my sheer luck Master happened to pass by
He saw my plight and my Window got cleaned
I got back my view and the sunshine

I stay in same big house
With same large window facing the sea
Secure in the knowledge that Master is by my side

If you can feel affection for me

If you can feel

affection for me

I may not be the best

And far from perfect

In spite of it

If you can feel

affection for me

I may not have fulfilled all your expectations in past

May not be able to fulfill any in future

If you could only stop

expecting from me

And recognize that

to give is your nature

I may not have always expressed  affection for you

And may not do so in future

As this might be my nature

That does not mean I do not care

only if you could recognize

I could have been more needy

If you could let go

All the past baggage

And expectations from future

And recognize that love, affection and joy

is your basic nature

Then only you could feel

affection for me

And everybody

About Anand Yatra -Note to the Reader

Dear Reader,

All living being wants happiness in life and they pursue this happiness earnestly in life.So this happiness called as Anand in Sanskrit is the joy or the nectar that everybody is seeking.And Yatra stands for the journey.So I am also a fellow compatriot like you searching for this elusive joy.I welcome you to join my literary journey i.e. Anand Yatra. 

O my joy

O my joy

Where did you went into hiding

I tried to find you everywhere

But you were nowhere to be found

Unfortunately I mistook you for the pleasure

Searched you in work,wealth and position

But you were nowhere to be found

Searched you in relationships, austerity and ego

But you were nowhere to be found

More  I searched you farther you went away

Making myself more and more miserable in the way

I turned my whole world upside down in search of you

But you were nowhere to be found

Watched in desperation as time went by without any clue

As a last resort searched in myself for the elusive you

And  by Master’s grace finally I could locate you

Oh my joy you were hiding in myself 

As I discovered “I” am you

O my small mind

O my small mind

Can you be more kind

When you would let go

Small Small things

That really does not matter

When you would stop

Brooding over small calculations

Of gain and loss

Where it really does not matter

Whether you have gained or lost

When you would stop chewing over

Small insults happened to you in past

And small desires which could never be fulfilled 

When you could see big picture

You could feel you are nobody and nothing

You are stuffed with really small things

That really does not matter

When you would connect with big mind

You would realize that you are part of big picture

Then you would let go of all small things

And Smallness itself