#Day27 NaPoWriMo Changing or Becoming? Where am I evolving?

From the cocoon to the caterpillar

I crawl my path with stages of life

Silently, forgoing the comfort zones

Surviving through the pain and suffering

Happily coming through the subtle changes

Only because decided to welcome transition

Did not crib about the bodily changes

Or the colours of life falling off

The shades of thoughts wavering in life

That’s when the truth of life emerges

With the purpose of our own life

Why we are born, what we are to do

Irrespective of how this journey may end

The life lived matters with people we touched

The only thing that we can spread

Is the care and compassion and love

With unlimited horizons to spread!

That’s when the change happens

Of what we are supposed to be ‘Becoming!’

#Day26 NaPoWriMo Z - Zen State of Mind

Oh, The Eternal Cosmos,  Bless me with the Zen

The state of mind with no- mindedness

A mind that is calm and vacuum and plain

With no thoughts or wavering emotions to drain

Letting me to connect within and with the Universe

Let me not thinking about thinking anything

Or the mind running behind the train of thoughts

Letting me be peaceful, relaxed and eternally calm

One thing at a time, worth a dime

Making me do things slowly and deliberately

Doing less, but doing completely

Taking space between every sublime thought

Or above all, being thoughtless

Rituals that are not hard on, but discipline

Keeping time quietly for everything to do

Making possibilities more of every moment lived

Taking moments of silence and in deep meditation

Smiling at oneself every day, and passing it on

Serving others, cleaning things and the mind

Only thinking what is necessary

Living simply, leading the regular routine life

With no qualms or excitement that spoils the zen

#Day25 NaPoWriMo Y- Yashodhara, the Invincible Spiritual Seeker

Here remained a woman of strength

Buddha's non-impediment to spiritual journey

What the great Lord attained by meditation

following deeper practices and processes

Yashodhara acquired it by her sheer oneness

the thoughts of devotion, understanding and love

She did not have a Bodhi tree or could leave

the Palace, her offspring or her responsibilities

Yet, she was like a soft summer breeze

slowly going down deep as the ocean’s depths

without abandoning anything, yet towards her own path

of spiritual quest and enlightenment far solid

She was not just an epitome of beauty and compassion

But Buddha's real queen, the bearer of the glory

who did not succumb to Buddha's leaving her in pain

but led her life with valour and courage

She did not obstruct his quest for enlighten

but silently initiated into him from the palatial walls

Luxuries no longer matter, nor did the fancy meals

matching his dispassion for life living his lifestyle

Enlightenment can happen to anyone

not just to those give up on the worldly pleasure

Sincere desire and open mind to allow the universe

to whisper the infinity without universal differentiates

True love knows no boundaries

just like the Yasodhara’s love for Buddha

she was aware of her life after marriage

as she heard the heavenly messengers’ words

Living his simple life, choices she made

life of a virangna...facing life with courage

still doing her duties and responsibilities

She was in her own penance supporting Buddha

A real woman warrior she was, a great valour

who stood for Palace duties and parental needs

Kept her quest of learning about life

doing things that a father would do

Kindling respect and love in her child

to adorably follow his father's footsteps

Fulfilling her spiritual destiny

within the cycle of birth and death

Silently but compassionately led

the life above all hardships and obstacles

First of his great disciples attaining powers

Yashodhara. amidst the palace walls

led the life of a Bhikkhuni...a character

that not many women can adore and inspire

Wise and sensible choices proving enlighten

can come to anyone who has a quest for it

A purpose truly fulfilled of her existence

Not hindering Buddha's progress or liberation

But silently letting him do what he was intended to

a protagonist who always remain an unsung hero

#Day19 NaPoWriMo S for Serendipity - the magic that works for miracles!

The miracle moments of serendipity

when life was sulking with the trashes of pity

Harnessing the luck of pleasant surprises

As the stroke of serendipity touches our lives

In the deserted lands of hopelessness

there comes the unexpected showers of rain, rain of love

When the end of the tunnel just did look darker

there emerged the light of enlightenment within showing hope

As the hate over poured with anger and pain

Love appeared as if waiting to happen

to brighten up the darkest days

turning tears and fears of darkness to light

Call those magical moments life's coincidence

or the God's hand in sending surprises brilliance

for the love that was not felt or seen

spreading just and fair deals as it all means

As the luck of serendipity spreads its wings

things became possible and luck started to line up

Universe conspiring its way to give you what you want

Green lights shining in its own way

and the brighter side of life shines without delay

The world around seems to be on its own on repair

and hope the human races finds its serendipity to spare

As the world goes towards a forever heal it brings

Let’s raise in humanity to support with little happy things

There are ways that we can lift someone's days

and gift luck, love and life in our own ways

Let us spread love and light and blessings to see

for making serendipity the spirit of life is the key!

#Day18 NaPoWriMo R for Sri Ramana Maharshi- Your Real Nature is Happiness

You are the real Rishi..the sage

and your thoughts inspire all ages

How true that the hands can still work

when the mind remains silent and still

How can we stop whats destined to happen

So when the act of God is certain, remain silent

Happiness should be our Nature

And why regret when we truly desire it

The repeated search of self of 'Who am I'?

sometimes make you dissolve in true self

clinging to the feet of the Guru

who may be your equal, may be superficial

through the thoughts of divine grace

Bhakti makes the mind super-conscious and still

Desire of God is the biggest of the desires

that makes you free from the fear of diseases

Who are you Ramana....our eternal Guru?

Guru who is external and internal

From the outside, pushing the thoughts of mind

to turn to inner self,  much deep inwards

From the interior, you pull the minds towards Self

and helps in quietening of the subtle mind!

Thank you

#Day15 NaPoWriMo - Osho- When Love breaths into words!

Osho-   a unique preacher of his kind

Who rose beyond the normal fences of life

Teachings that inspire to live life of our choices

Who charges you to feel still, feel loved and feel life

In his world, nothing is wrong, nothing is right

The way you understand life and live is only might

There is only one thing of life…the soul embodying truth

No body, no form, no language, no restriction

Life is just the way you live truthful to your thoughts

The only love is not to harm fellow human beings

Ocean of life, filled with every drop it sure strings

What else can you offer, than the only real wealth

Wealth of love for those who surround you in dearth

The only final unison of the mind, body and soul

Can be of you with the larger universe as cosmic will

Go deep inside you awakening the real inner you

Fill life with love, music, beauty, peace and poetry

With dreams of happiness, the pain and suffering ceases

When life is filled with the eternal songs, pain descends

Raise in silence,  the beauty of the calmness of mind

To rejoice life, to celebrate love, in unison with the cosmos

Surrendering to the Supreme is the only destination

In vacuum and absolute stillness and silence

Is when you will truly find Him in horizons

Know Meditation...Know Life...Osho!  Pic: Umasree in Nagalapuram

#Day11 NaPoWriMo2020 - Krshna - My Eternal Friend!

O Krshna,

Come to me my Lord

You are my love, my eternal friend

who knows me in and till my end

You are not the God I adore

But the divinity within me

You are not the man I love

But the humanity inside me

Art by Sri Keshav Venkataraghavan

O Krshna

In this sea of life

I want to ride your boat

Boat of consciousness

Far away from the brutal history

Towards an unrivaled spirituality

I try to read the Gita

Yet, I understand nothing but you!

O Krshna

My eyes are tired with tears

Sing me the songs from your flute

In your songs of comfort

Let me go to much needed sleep

This body seems be nothing but dust

When I feel your love,

Its ultimate plenitude

O Krshna

As the humans hurt around

In your love, I found

A shore less ocean of bliss

What else I can do

Then dedicate me to you

My forever love!

To you, as I surrender

I find life more merrier!

O Krshna

My eternal love

Forever Bliss

Ganges - The desperate call to Lord Shiva - to raise as Coroneshwara!

The call of Ganges to Lord Shiva! 

When the infinitesimal is killing the infinite!

OhShivaya,

Let me flow, atop from your cranium full of wisdom

And wishful thinking for the gracious ecosphere around

The world time stands still on the shores of pain

Let your silhouette emerge with her flowing waters to drain

Taking the world towards the moments of transition

From the mundane human pain to divine grace unison

As you see the Earth folding her hands in obeisance.

Oh Shivaya.

I have been emaciated by the garlands and ashes together

For ages hearing along the conch's cry and temple bells

The boats today standing still on my Assi Ghats

As the world shrills in pains of the deadly virus walls

I hear the chanting mantras and the desperate calls

With every passing day and rising frightful sun

Pour your blessings on the mankind to heal from suffering

Oh Shivaya,

The glittering aarthis on my banks in reverence to us

Are no longer the evening moments of bliss

The marigold garlands that lay there in drifts

Oblivious, to the facts that I, the Ganges, face

A frail and weak old woman come to my banks

With the small flower strings and lighted lamp

Setting it float,with the prayer for a better tomorrow

Where will I go my Lord, then to look upon you?

Oh Shivaya,

You are the destroyer, yet the beginning of new life

In your strength and charms emerges the cells to survive

Give me the purpose to help the mankind and the power

To clear the miniscule troubles of humans with my showers

May my waters help cure the human ailments soon

And your blessings to bring back the divine boon

Death is the only permanence to life, but this way, why?

Oh Shivaya,

People come to your peaks with reverence to get the divine grace

And then dip in my depths for the spiritual sacred face

Carving the edges of the banks that I reside and flow

Help me, to let them raise from the pain steady and slow

With you, the blessings bestowed are unending and numerous

But the fear of the disease and the wrath suffered is furious

Wake up oh my Lord…to let the eternity giving life raise again

Oh Shivaya,

With the passing of every day, the cycle of time spins its wheels Brings in catastrophes and rejuvenating the chakras of life frees

I see people sitting in fear and tears lighting lamps of hopes

Bless them oh Lord,

even in death they seek reincarnation of the souls

With this new fear that dawned on them to look back to roots

Raise up on my Lord,

smearing enough ashes already around

To end the human suffering and let the life earth stay ground

As I flow back to my eternity of hope, as people call me the river that never fades!

Ganges, I am, pleading sitting on your head……Oh My Shivaya!

Umasree Raghunath

Written on 30 Mar 2020.