Muse

She  bathed in the warm sunlight,
reflecting deeply as she watched the dark clouds passing overhead 
not realizing that she herself had actually become the perfect Muse, 
a guiding spirit, 
a source of inspiration, 
and a divine poet ...

Narayan

Whispers in the Dark

I had a dream last night,

As I fell asleep,
Looking at the clear dark sky,

The stars began  whirling, 
dancing

The Moon  began to whisper,

As she brushed against my cheek,

"I AM ... what you seek",

"I AM ... what you seek."


As she lifted me higher
into an eternal, cool night sky,
I beheld her beauty,
Silver Rays filled my being 
And pulled me into  light. 

I flew ,
Above fields, 
 streams,
 and Bays.



Then,
Just before I woke up laughing...


She whispered, 

"Know that I AM with you,
Know that You are Free...
Know that I AM with you,

Know that You are Free"

Narayan

 

 

"Those who love you know your song, and they sing it to you when you have forgotten its vibration. Those who love you do not care about the dark and ugly things you sometimes become. They hear the beauty of your song. They remember your light and know the sweetness within you".

Takatoka

When the mind sheds it's desires, 

it feels the sweetness of peace and bliss descend over it,

as if it were the lustrous moon in the heavens.

Yoga Vashishta

Less is ............MORE

Hafiz came over last night,
while you were napping...

We

 danced 

Under a big Mango tree.
As I was twirling ecstatically ,

He said,

"Crazy Boy!"

"SIMPLIFY!!!"

"Less is  MORE "!!!

"Less  Desire,
Less Worry,

Less  Attachment,
Less  Possessions"

MORE

Freedom,

MORE

Light,

MORE

LOVE !!!



As I spun around to Thank him...
Hafiz took a Ripe Mango 
And hit me,
right between the eyes...
Boom!

When I woke up this morning,
in the gentle rain
under that Old Mango Tree

Hafiz had already left,

He had left me 
sleeping soundly
in the cool mud,
covered in sweet mango juice...

One of his wild ducks was still

 nibbling nectar off of my left ear...

"Hey YOU Crazy Duck", I yelled
  "I need that Ear!"

As I rubbed the bruise between my eyes

I realized 

I had

Never 

Slept better.... 

Narayan

       

                                                  



            

Your Shape of Laughter

Let my words become like a skilled 

Potter's hands,

Quieting,

Smoothing your life

With their knowledge,

Reaching into your tender core

And spreading you out like the morning

That leaps from the sun's amused wink

Onto hills, brows and the backs of so many

Beautiful laboring beasts.

God's duty is to make perfect

All your movements of mind, of limb,

And your ascending shape of laughter.

Watch the way my hands dance

With their diamond-edged brilliance

Cutting you open with music,

Reaching into your heart

And spilling the night sky-jar you carry

That is always full of giggling planets and stars.

My words are a divine potter's wheel.

If you stay near me,

Please stay near to me -

And Hafiz will spin you into
LOVE.


Hafiz

Oh Death, 

Take away this body if you please, I care not. 

I have enough bodies to use. 

I can wear those silver threads, 
the beams of the Moon and I live.

I can roam as a divine minstrel putting on the guise of hilly streams and mountain brooks. 

I can dance in the waves of the sea. 

I am the breeze that proudly walks and I am the wind inebriated. 

All these shapes of mine are wandering shapes of change. 

I came down from yonder hills, raised the dead, awakened the sleeping, unveiled the fair faces of some and wiped away the tears of a few weeping ones. 

The banyan and the rose both I saw and I comforted them.

I touched this, I touched that,

I doff my hat and off I am. 

Here I go, 
There I go , 
None can find me.


Swami Rama Tirtha
Poem found on
Swami Ram Tirtha's desk
Written just before leaving for his last morning bath in the Ganges
Taking Final Samadhi in 1906 at the age of 33 yrs.