Serving with wholeness
It's the journey of every soul,
to become whole,
before it begins
to serve the whole.
For unless it becomes whole,
it cannot brings the whole
of itself to service;
and till then, the service
remains unwholesome.
For, it is in our becoming whole
that we become of the whole.
And then we can serve
the whole, as the whole.
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O! You Ocean!
I bow to you,
O! Living piece of God.
One that's on its way
to merge with the whole.
One that's on its way
back home.
As all rivers are.
Moving steadily every day
to meet the mighty ocean one day,
when they dissolve into its waves,
with boisterous laughters
and rapturous cries of joy.
Merge today, O you wave!
why wait for tomorrow
for the Ocean that you seek
is right here, in you.
Know that, all that you seek,
you already are.
End this journey now
And be who you really are.
Know that you already are
home.
I bow to you, O! Ocean
that you already are.
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Pick me up
Lost baggage
I am yours.
Pick me up
O Lord.
I have been around
this conveyor
for a thousand years
yet I still am alone,
unclaimed.
Claim me,
I have always been
yours.
Pick me up.
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Antar Milan
Mann bhayo Vrindavan
jab sang bhaye Nandkishore
ek hi chabi dikhey
ab chahu ore
pag pag Nandagaon
jab sang sang Nandkishore...
Knowing about God and Knowing God
Unless you become light yourself, you cannot know the light, you can only talk about it. That is why, no enlightened person would ever want to create a religion; they would just want to spread words of love. So neither Jesus created Christianity, nor Mohammed created Islam, it was their followers, who later organized themselves and started calling themselves so; that is why they are called 'organized' religion.
So if you wish to see the true forms behind these religions, look at the mystics in these traditions.
When we enshrine, such enlightened people into temples and mosques, we forget their life's messages. We simply chant their words to one another without following them in our own lives. You must have noticed people who truly follow them, they seldom feel the feel the need to preach them or fix other people; they just follow their hearts, as they trust that God will do the rest, and know that they will be guided when needed.
When we enlightened people into Gods, we forget their teachings and their love, out of the window. We simply forget being them, we simply want to preach like them, they preached because they we are asked by God to do so. So let’s first meet the Divine within, and then talk about preaching to others. When we are ‘light’, it spreads automatically, no matter where we are. So talking of light is very different from being the light. Not knowing that difference confuses us.
The confusion also happens because we confuse when we can mouth great truths, we are also following them in our own lives.
That is where most humans go wrong, unless we have lived those truths, we don’t become worthy of preaching them. No robe can give us that virtue, nor can any decree, though a simple ‘presence’ in our hearts can.
You must have notices how most 'super' religious people find it so hard to find their spiritual backbones. The reason is that for so long they have confused it with the spines of their holy books or the moral compass talked about in them so eloquently.
They never make an effort to connect with their inner voice, through intuition; they rather open their books each time they are confused rather then opening their hearts to listen to voice of the Wise One, sitting within. Just as they confuse knowing about God with ‘knowing’ Him. Just because they know enough about God, they think they have experienced God.
No book can do that for us, no one can take 'gift' us enlightenment, we all have to bear our personal cross, Jesus did it, so did Mohammed and Buddha, the cross to enlightenment is a personal journey for each one of us. And it is a journey we all are already on, whether we realize it or not. The more we make it consciously, the easier our lives get.
"The good news is that one day, we will all be, in God."
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Transforming Karma to Bhakti
The journey to the divine or our destiny begins with following our intuition, moment to moment, and that is what true bhakti, or a spiritual practise is, when we allow our spirit to take charge of our life. With the practise of surrender, we learn to use our freewill not only for our good, but also as a practise to serve the divine, by doing only what the intuition guides us to do, in the moment.
When our every action is guided by our intuition and surrendered to the divine will, then our Karma becomes our Bhakti. Giving up the doership of our Karma, and surrender its fruits to the divine is freedom from Karma of life. Once we learn to do that, we become Jeevanmukta, a free spirit, with no bindings of the mind over the soul. That is what true liberation is, in practise....
Silence Speaks
God, the 'all-knower' listens to all our silences.
No matter what we might be speaking verbally,
He knows to what we are thinking of, in our hearts.
So we need not have any conversations with Him,
or have plentiful silent conversations,
where we will come out with a feeling of 'being heard'.
These conversations can last an eternity,
though the true challenge lies in ‘allowing’ the Divine in.
To allow Him to speak through us,
live through us, and walk ‘in’ us.
That is when, we truly serve our sole purpose
as human beings, as being the channels of the spirit divine.
Allowing God, silently - our greatest devotion
and spiritual practise of all.
For in our silences, God speaks
through us, and with us.
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