In Praise Of The MASTER

Though your body be comely and ever remain in perfect health, your name be unsullied, and mountain –high your boarded gold, yet if your life is not absorbed in the Master’s holy teaching, what will it all avail you?

If fortune blesses you with riches and a virtuous wife, with children and their children, with friendship and the joys of home, yet if your heart is not aflame through the Master’s love, what will it all avail you?

Though the lore of ancient knowledge takes it dwelling on your tongue, though you be learned in scripture, gifted in writing prose and verses, yet if your mind is not absorbed in the wisdom of the Master, what will it all avail you?

Even if you be honored at home and famed in foreign lands, given to pious deeds and ever averse to wickedness, though you become at last the emperor of the universe, you posses for servants the mightiest kings of earth, if every nation resound with your beneficence, yet if your mind is not absorbed at the lotus feet of HIM, by grace of Whom, alone, everything in this world is won, what will it avail you?

Whether novice or monk, ruler or worldly man, that noble soul who ponders these verses in the Master’s praise, and to the Master’s teachings applies his mind with constant zeal he will realize Brahman, the treasure coveted by all.

Adi Shankara

jai gurudev!!!

How It All Began.....................

I still remember the day it all began.

In an ocean full of grace and love

Though unaware, I was bathing.

With a heart full of excitement and innocence

Like a huge wave of unconditional love YOU appeared

And washed away all my ignorance,

Awareness dawned and I realised the truth

Though I saw YOU for the first time

I felt a bond of ages!!!!

YOU were seated far apart

High on the stage.

But I felt so near to YOU.

To YOUR sacred feet, my heart flew

Ah.....how innocent it was then

I knew YOU too had received that humility

How I knew I myself don’t know...

Tears rolled down my cheeks

The eyes closed themselves ;

My whole being swept into such ecstasy

Such contentment it had never known.....

The drop had met the ocean

The ocean welcomed it into its arms.

Since that day my life changed

Each night blessed with tears

Oh......tears of longing and gratitude!!!!

Full of gratitude like the ocean

Hollow and empty like the sky

This is what my very being is

Thank YOU, thank YOU..........

The search is over...................

I have reached home..

My home sweet home!!!

Jai gurudev

Pleasure in pain....:)

The whole day I wait and wait and wait.....

Lost in myself.....though I may look so not

I have the most beautiful gift.....

I do not want anything.......

Still my heart aches........

Such pleasurable misery......

Action in inaction and inaction in action!!!

There is such a thirst which never seems to quench...

Wherever i may go....it doesn’t leave me.....

Only increases day by day........

For how long can I deceive myself with this world....

When in my awareness only YOU are there....

Though for time being I seem to forget you; busy in daily chores

But this forgetfulness only serves to make the memory more solid.

Oh......only healing is YOUR presence....

Such coolness it brings............

Ah!!! But where to search, you are everywhere

Still so far from me...though so near......

Not expressing is stifling

And expressing is so limited....

I cry and laugh, sing and dance

And lo....I find rest in this restlessness!!!

There is only one wish.....

How much can I do for you.....

How best can I serve you........

And this wanting never ceases....

Joy gurudev