Child you are a God

Your look of intent and sometimes piercing
A mix of calmness and fearless intensity
You laughter careless, innocence beguiling
O child you teach us indeed on how to live

Your tightening embrace, the amount of trust
You hold my hand, and follow into the world
You suckle your mother, eat out my hand
I feel so special, blessed and entrusted

Great Atman you have chosen this
To live out your karmas you have chosen this
As I watch you sleep your divinity aglow
There is no fulfillment that matches this feeling

Aishwarya Rai - A complete talent

Beautiful, Talented, Hard working! Those are perhaps just three qualities to describe the immensely gifted Aishwarya Rai.
Crowned Miss world in 1994, committed to donatingher eyes after death, chose the film line and definitely didn't have it easy.
She has struggled as any successful star has, to gain recognition and reaching the top.
Her performances improved and reached their peak with Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Sarabjit and Devdas.
Her discipline with dancing skills also kept improving and reached their with Devdas and Dhoom 2.
Aishwarya had her share of heartbreaks but maintained a steady dignity in public. Eventually settling now as a mother of a beautiful girl with nice guy Abhishek Bachchan.
It is at times sad to see some call her plastic, maybe she should take it as a compliment for her looks.
I think Aishwarya has definitely can play senior roles and grey shades well as has been seen in a couple of her movies. She should continue to choose and play good roles!

O memories hold on

The orange painted sky
That magnificent view daily different
The rich canvas viewed from building terrace
O memory its sweetness do not wipe

The cycle that I loved
That I learnt my cycling from
That built my muscles for life

Took me every road to school and home
That I would shine every Thursday afternoon
That cycle may I remember, always even if it never could

Those books and chess and football tests
The poetry recitations byheart
The days of life in old years gone by

This Life is made of trifles as school father said
O memories may these you always carry ahead

Anand ki Leela

Holding my hands, first both then one, walking all around, home, and stairs outside.
You are always full, of laughter and mirth, couldn't be more, true to your name
You want whatever, your brother holds; you don't like if anyone, has an upset frown.
You have slowly learnt, in your thirteenth month, how to have it, all your way. Your stubborn cry, till we get it right, has me smiling, when I look behind.
And you show the same, love for music we have; Dancing in rhythm, to Amritavarsham tunes!

The happiness through touch

Don't you think he feels by mirth
When being carried around in search of sleep
The bliss and happiness I feel in his hug
And when I think of him wailing to be picked

I believe our minds, our feelings are porous
Just as the food carries the mind of the cook
Babies sense the mood changing, cries when his brother does
And rolls in laughter at even things that make no sense

Shivalinga

The glorious Shivalinga is truth
The form of Shiva just for our eyes

But the Shivalinga is him
As we just the Atman within

A thumb sized flame
Part of that blazing pillar

I bow in prayer and devotion
To that endless truth

A newborn touch

The touch of bliss the human feels
When he holds the child, and the child holds tight
There is no greater, feeling of trust
Than the child smiling back, a toothless joy

The blessings worth, the newborn bundle
The showers of mirth, the calmness within
You look with happiness, at the baby crying
There is tiredness, but  with strength of giving

Don't miss it

A part of you, belongs there
You miss it, and long to go back there
You grapple your sources, your friends and resources

There is all here, you don't deny that
But a pang exists, and one can't deny that
It's all right, like the memory of first love

Places and people, they all are of nature
There isn't a cause here, of the joys and knots felt
You will be led, like every life is
Karmas fulfilled, until you exhaust it

Not the doer

As leaves blown away by afternoon winds
As the ripples of the lake  scurry outward nowhere
I have sitting under trees watched all this and wondered
Isn't that just how life goes yonder

No matter what you think, you believe or feel
There was not one thing, you did on your own
Led by karmas of the past, weaving those to the future
Futile until realised, bound by none at all

The results in current life is Prarabdha, the actions lead to Agama

Indeed complicated are the behaviours and manifestations of Karma. We are taught that the current birth is the result of that past Karma. We are exhausting our current (Prarabdha) Karma. Even Jivanmuktas who stop accumulating Karma, have to live on until their Prarabdha Karma gets exhausted.
Sanchita Karma on the other hand is Karma from the past that has expired.
And Agama Karma is what most of us humans are accumulating, which will show results in future birth.
But there is also the apparently direct experience that when I sow the seeds, the crops grow. If I do not, they won't. If I study hard, then I'll get good marks, else I won't.
It really does seem so, but is it truly so? If it was indeed as simple as that, why does direct experience also report results to the contrary. We all have seen that we prepare hard at times, and yet the result is not in our favour. You slip when running the race, or your train is delayed to the exam location. Or you make that silly mistake in the exam or project.
Why do you think one of Krishna's best advices was to not get anxious about the result. That you don't have any control or even the right to it. That indeed the best approach is to surrender all efforts to God. This we because of two reasons:
- The purpose of life is to get moksha and stop the constant accumulation of Karma. Surrendering effort as service to God stops any expectation of results, and helps stop the accumulation of Karmic results that have to bear fruit later.
- The mechanics of the working of Karma: It's hard to believe but based on the experience of our ancestors who developed the theory of Karma, all the results that you get today were actually earned by efforts in the previous birth. There is also an exception to the rule that if the effort was intense, it shows result early i.e. in the current birth itself. This is difficult to explain and has a level of subjectivity. It is also difficult to prove from the standpoint of direct experience.
But also understand this is why Life does not look fair which all of us experience. People seem to get results despite not having earned them.
First lesson is to accept that they have earned it indeed, even if in the past life. And that for their wrongdoing now, they will get the resultant punishment, if not now then in the next Life.
Life and Karma are really most fair!

No comparing

Why to compare, when your purpose is known
Yes those you worked with, earn far more or less today
Those you laughed with, cry or are in bliss today
Those with varying skills, are doing things totally different

But can you ever see, what's inside them, when that's what only matters
Is there the peace, or even pursuit of it
Is there the blessings, of being with loved ones, when it matters most

There can be no comparing in this
To each his own, the purpose known
Not here you to earn the most
Indeed rather to earn what comes

Let go, you are not the doer

There is the laughter, the chuckle of children
The bubbling joy of being born, the mirth of playing in mud
We think our life is full of tensions
Just watch how children live with none

It is nothing but ego, the feeling of importance
The feeling that I am the doer of all
Forgetting that there is a higher power
That brought us here, gave us this all.

Buy organic or settle for cheap

We all know it's good for us. We all know feeding ourselves with pesticides and some also agree that eating genetically modified or artificially grown stuff does not seem correct. Yet, we do it..

And the reason for this reflects the short-sightedness with which people live life today: The immediate cost

Gone are the times when our forefathers prayed and thanked God before eating. Or mentally offered the food first to those we are indebted to for this Life. Who knows, even the gods rather not eat the chemicals mixed into our food..

Organic food is grown sustainably, and using natural ingredients for seed, soil, fertilizer and pesticides. It is even scientifically shown that usage of chemicals makes the soil arid over time.

Of course, this investment to ensure we use nature's gifts while not abusing or exploiting it means an artificially created higher cost today than natural options. But isn't it worth it, considering we would thus be protecting it for our children!
Think about it: We humans have been cultivators for centuries. It's only now that with the use of chemicals that resources are getting poisoned. Isn't that reason enough to put an end to it and go back to natural means of growing things.

And when you go back to root causes for this, it started with human greed, to achieve a higher yield per capita. Not very different from consuming steroids at the peril of our own long term health for a short term advantage!

It is also known these days through scientific studies that keep getting muffled in the noises made by vested interests that reading chemical laden stuff is carcinogenic.
Yet common sense is not common, very much like how the stacks are put up against Ayurveda.
And we continue to eat the proliferated poisons.

Prayer to Devi and Maheshwara

Shiva Maheshwara Jatadhara Deva
Guide this ignorant one, you keeps repeating folly

With Devi thy consort, this delusioned soul seeks comfort
As a mother cajoles, to wake up and go forth

May you both forever reside
Light the darkness of my heart
Clear the cobwebs of desire
And fill the emptiness with nectar

Silence in Love

Silence marked the love in both
They needn't words just as nature works

They held hands, she trusted him
Which in turn, gave him confidence

Leaves swaying in breeze, would best describe
The union of two, bound by silent love

When ignorance is tired

In this world of Avidya
Where we live out the wishes of senses
Mother Devi please bless me
Relieve me from the cycle of lifetimes

Tired my soul, has seen it all and again
Forgets the past and fooled into repeating again
Meant to live out karmas but keeps building on
Mother wake the Tired Atma, from sleep in your lap

Four feathers that fell

Didn't complain at the irony of destiny
They fell to the ground with no one around
They left a mark in Karmic path
That till today inspire peace

World out there, Life in here

We miss the beauty of the world around
In routines the world has tied is to
The schedules the commutes the various chores
Leaves no time but still focus
Not supposed to look around

The expectations we let others set up for us
Makes mind ruthless with this Life
A life that's gifted, meant to live complete
A Life with purpose, to achieve Moksha is forgotten

Excel with what you do right now
But plan and set expectation to stop, no matter what the cost
Look past the crimson sun, at birds flying to their nests
Absorb the vast blue sky we live beneath,
And the green pond reflecting trees

Sit down in quiet and search within
For emptiness precious, throw out the rest
Forgive and let go, enjoy the music and walk
The opinion of others never mattered, don't fret and burn out in it

Let our voice and vote ask for more
Not just money, but a Life fulfilled

Last and most important of all
Insist life is joy, and all you do