Mind Transformation
As a leaking vessel never can fill
Waters of Life so pure and still
So distracted mind fails to retain
Wisdom’s nectar in its brain
To fill waters from wisdom’s spring
Our minds we must to stillness bring
Then our crystal bowl of tranquil mind
With Gnosis fills of supernal kind
But if the very thoughts of mind
Be as fleeting deer and hind
Darting wayward ways they find
Such men to wisdom’s ways are blind
To ease disease of random mind
A remedy suitable we must find
A rhythmic breathing tension free
With Absorption the sovereign key
Steady poise the arrow your will
And shoot the fleeting mind to still
the deer of thoughts, hinds & harts
Felled by your concentrated darts
As one by one they die away
Mind opens up to new day
Streams run tranquil willows sway
Here tame and gentle deer do play
Tamed and tuned to natures flow
Mind melts into the opal glow
Which radiates from the soul within
Where Wisdom’s mystic fire is king!
Hamsa Still
Opal Hamsa of the mystic skies
From whose bosom doth thou rise?
Where to where do flight you take
What fathomless Truth you awake!
I have no birth nor death in time
Unborn awake I never sleep
Kundali is the self-born Me
Moving creation from the deep!
My true self is the selfless Self
I came to be by Being!
Pulling the veil of Maya
By my will I am the Hamsa Still
Hamsa Eternal how may we
Being work-bound yet be everfree?
Enlightened action is the key
Which gives that final liberty!
Action from desires of the seeds
Of past or future thoughts
Creates a Karmic bondage which
Is ceaselessly with troubles fraught
Enlightened action doth arise
Within your crystal conscious skies
Experience of the Hamsa Still
Make you know Divinity’s will
Death
Why do people think of me,
What I am not supposed to be?
Death’s cold hand they often say,
Will snatch away your earthly stay.
They call me Death and yet
I take them to eternity.
Oh this paradox of Ignorance
Deludes humanity.
Men steeped in earthly ignorance
Do dread me as their foe
Knowing not that to their Souls
The Light of truth I show.
Ye Sons of Light, I am not night
Of darkness and despair
I come to save you from your woes,
Your worries and your cares.
To take you to the stillness
And that peace you often craved
That plenitude of quietude,
Land of the pure and brave.
I am the one and only way
To reach the goal sublime
Pass through my gates of Death you must
To meet your Lord Divine.
Then shun me not ye mortal men,
But Maya dream decline
She binds you to mortality,
I to Eternal life sublime.
Rejoice then when I come to you,
Each time at end of life,
It is to take you in my arms,
From worldly storms and strife.
Then with great lovingness and care
I’ll put you at His feet
Beseech of Him your cyclic ego
Never to repeat.
Such are my humble services
I offer to mankind
Do I do this for recompense?
.…No!….
It’s just my love that’s blind!
KARMA
(A Soliloquy of Mind and Spirit)
I brushed aside the curtain
Of the window of mine eye
And beheld the sparkling Truth,
That within me did reply.
Oh Man you’re not this house of flesh
Which sleeps decays and dies.
You are immortal consciousness,
King of the earth and skies.
Then burdened why am I,
With this coat of flesh and bone?
I questioned earnestly that Truth,
My very conscious home.
This coat your seed desire was,
Whose fruit is now your own.
Created by yourself you must,
Reap what you have sown.
Is this also the reason
For the hardships of my life?
Yes! Each cause has its relation
Just as Husband has a Wife.
Every action its reaction has,
With certainty that’s True.
Do good works results of which,
Shall mould your life anew.
Pray tell me why the difference
Twist the people on this earth?
Why do some have poverty
Some no financial dearth?
Why some sad and others gay
Some sick and others strong?
Is this the outcome of past deeds
Of personal right and wrong?
You’ve spoken well and seem to know
God’s Mathmatical Law
All wrongs must be redressed indeed,
This fact it has no flaw.
All rights are rewarded
In proportion and no more.
To each one is meted out
His exact and proper score.
This unbribable Judge we people,
Call “The Karmic Law”.
The supervisor of the Fates
Of our worldly see-saw
Who justify balances the ups
And downs of lives of man
Fitting the jigsaw of our fates
As we ourselves had planned.
What proof Hamsa Atman,
Can one get of his former karma?
The proof your own existence,
Circumstances and your dharma.
Your individual present,
Tells your reciprocal past.
As per their past desires,
People get their present task.
To the Truth is Truth begot,
The liar gets his own.
So make your actions such,
Whose reactions you don’t moan.
To the likeness of your thinking
Shall your character be made.
Dig deep your mind for noble thoughts,
With intellectual spade.
Oh Hamsa Spirit of my soul
What is my final goal?
Is there any such remedy to
Break this karmic hold?
This duality of opposites,
Teach me to override.
Take me with thee oh spirit free,
On to the other side.
I am the Sun you are my ray,
You must become the whole.
By good conduct and service,
Your character shall mould.
By devotional meditation,
I-your spirit shall unfold.
The ray become the blazing Sun,
Yourself as Me behold!
Yogi’s Grand Voyage Home
Wild flowers so fresh in life
Breeze through alleys of my mind
Fragrancing memories of the past
In mountain lakes reflections cast
In wooded valleys berries crushed
The flavor of the mystic musk
Within me did old memories rise
Devotions to the sunset skies
Forest aroma deep in damp
Wild smell of the wooded pines
Oh! the déjà vu of jungle times
Of long past meditations lives
Where in sylvan bowers I sat
Not in this world nor in that
Just in the joy of Selfing mirth
The odor of the fragrant earth!
My mind a laughing gurgling stream
Running the bedrocks mossy green
Becomes a calm meandering dream
Flowing into Myself serene
My melting mind a flowing stream
Entered the rainbow ocean light
There was no fear nor sorrows night
Except awareness and delight
How long I sat there no one knows
The eventide its shadows cast
In many a sunrise rays I basked
No one came nor ever asked
The trivial round the common task
Meditation then to me became
A natural mind in tune so tame
Transcending frivolous name and fame
Just being quiet was so good
A lying log, a forest wood
Moving with the natural breeze
Amidst the deep dark forest trees
With body dead consciousness live
Expanding in eternal skies
Beyond mayas conditioned dream
The self merging in Self supreme.
My Cup of Tea
The morning sunshine on my back
Gentle breezes blowing through
Gold brown books on the old wood rack
Oh! My steaming cup of tea that brew!
From which mysteriously did spring
Nostalgic memories old and new
Wafting my mind aloft and light
To another worldly inner flight
Of mystic flavors colors too
Of which never ever I knew
Yet somehow from my inner most Being
I experienced True what I was seeing
A Bliss experienced oft before
It satisfied my innermost core
Knowing it to be myself and more
Of my own larger treasure store
All things were made of spiritual light
Swans lake to lake in glorious flight
Fainting fragrance Lotus bloomed
In this Paradise the mind was doomed
Thoughts die dissolve to live in knowing
That boundless consciousness all growing
In ever expanding Love and Joy
All things of matter but a toy
A figment of the conscious Self
Conditioned mind a sneaky elf
Of negativity in time
Was transformed to Gnosis sublime
Heard it but I didn’t hear
The dog barking so far so near
In the backyard chasing hens
Fluttering hither to the fence
The neighboring housewife I beheld
Brisk and about her daily chores
Washing dishes cleaning floor
Sweeping in and out of doors
Yet all my consciousness was me
In spite of all this revelry
Immersed in my awareness me
Bound to worldly task yet Free
Fame nor position matter
To one’s inner life of peace
Virtues used as virtues such
Cause all sorrows to cease
Dedicated to Shiva Goraksha Babaji
Who art Thou?
I know Thee not and yet I am of thee
I cannot comprehend thee,
Oh Thou Emperor of Divinity.
I sit and melt in silence of
Thy Love Oh Infinite.
Make me thy Truth,
Make me thy Love
Eternal Lord of Light
Countless creations do you make
Goraksha Nath Divine
A thought projected by you
Makes causation, space and time
There never was a Sage or Saint
Who was not born of Thee
Thou art the essence of their Souls
Divine Paramatma Free
We jivatmas also Lord
Have our birth and being in Thee
The Thou must also be in us
Supremest Monarchy.
How shall I love Thee Babaji?
Words are so dry and dumb
I can’t express Thy majesty
My intellect runs numb.
My heart it bursts oh all in all
To love Thee endlessly
But Lord I cannot bring to words
I’m tongue-tied hopelessly.
Give me the strength to shout Thy love
Across the seven seas
Deludging this world with light
For infinite eternities.
In solitudes of my mind
My devotion it dost burst to hear
Thy song immortal song of love
Thou everlasting Seer.
As long as darkness covers me
And ignorance doth do us part
So long in agony I’ll be
Striving to be with Thee my Heart.
Through pain and hunger I shall strive
To touch Thy feet oh Lord
It matters not if bones or body
Perish in this battle fort.
I’m burning in My love for Thee
Eternal infinite
I cannot rest in peace now
Till I do become thy Light.
In silent supplications
I do burn and yearn to be in Thee
Hear Thou my soul cry
Break my bonds Babaji
Set me free.
Set me free to be in Thee
Let there be none of me
Then me in Thee
Thy love in me
I shall become of Thee.
Pleasures nor palaces exude
That Bliss of peaceful solitude
Attunement with the Self alone
Gives that final beatitude!