Long You hid Beneath the static of my restless thoughts, Long You fled In the chambers of eerie ether, At last I found Thee Hiding behind the quiet desert dunes Of My desirelessness. Fastened with strong cords of devotion You are my Prisoner. I’ll keep You Locked in the dungeons of silence Fastened beneath the bars of my closed eyes. … Read More
Magic Sea
For You alone can make a sea With eyes of blue and measureless deep; With transparent heart All hidden with endless mystery. With flying fish perching, On Your silver hair of surf dancing, Somber sea-gulls resting On Your rich watery tresses As the sun bestows its kisses And makes them shine. O Goddess, blue Brine, Intoxicating all votaries with Your … Read More
Ocean of Intuition
Beneath the ocean vast Of intuition, deeply cast Yourself. You touch the Cause Supreme, Spread with pearly wisdom’s beam; And watch tumultuous difference and want retreat, When your soul the Supreme Soul would meet. Armoured by will of steel, Untouched by lamentation, worry sharks. Moving in deep wisdom’s light, Your darkness disappears. Soul solace will appear. With heart made pure … Read More
Peace
I obey Thee in the temple of discipline. I love Thee in the temple of devotion. I worship Thee in the temple of my love. I touch Thy feet in the temple of stillness. I behold Thy eyes in the temple of delight. I feel Thee in the temple of emotions. I fight for Thee in the temple of meditation. … Read More
My Littleness Changed
When I woke in You And my body-dream was no more, I found my littleness changed into Thy vastness, My body into Thy body. My eyes I found In every speck of space. My hands I found Working in all energies. I found all space The sensitive derma Of my vast body. And I can feel All creatures Of creation … Read More
Leaving Thy Vow
Blossoms come and seasons change, They all speak of Thee. The moon slightly shows Thy smile, The sun holds Thy lamp of life. When wilt Thou talk to Me, Leaving Thy vow of silence? Wake! Wake! from Thy sleep Speak to me now, O Lord. I have been swimming for Thee In the sea of my tears. In the arteries … Read More
I Looked for You
I looked for You Ever since You breathed individuality Into my soul’s dew And separated me from You. Because I am the wave Jerked out of Your sea and have Ever tried myself to reunite With Your boundless bosom of freedom and light; Though lashed And by other waves and by karma dashed Yet again and again The storm of … Read More
God Alone
I drank the crushed beauty of a sextillion stars; I sipped the sap of all sane pleasures; I made a bonfire of all sorrows and basked in the blaze of bliss. I quaffed the commingled love of all hearts; I mingled paternal, maternal, and fraternal love together, And drank that to the dregs. I squeezed the Scriptures for a drop … Read More
Freedom
Brave cords bind me hand and foot Yet lo, I am free, ever free. Disease, try your tortures, Yet, I am free, ever free. Health, try your lures, Yet, I am free, ever free. Death, destroy my body-prison if you will, Yet, I am free, ever free. Long chains of desires Forged in the furnace of incarnations Have tried to … Read More
Divine Joy
Bless us with Thy intoxicating, ever-new, joyous, supremely satisfying contact. Teach us to drink Thee, that every blood cell, every thought, and every feeling may become saturated with Thy joy and have their pleasure-thirst quenched forever. After tasting Thee, lead us to temptation if Thou wilt. After we are sure of Thy most tempting, everlasting gift of Thyself, then test … Read More
The Awakening
Make me transparent with purity, that Thou mayest shine through me. Make me luminous with wisdom, that I may behold Thee in me. Still the moving mirror of my mind, that I may behold Thy Mooned Face, undistorted by my restlessness, ever reflected there. Open all the windows of Faith, that I may behold Thee in the Mansion of Peace. … Read More
God First
Before the baby sky was born as the blue, out of the dark breast of Eternity, who existed? God first. It was He who with His omnipresent brush spread blue all over the ceiling of dark space. Who was it who peopled the hall of space with the family of planets? – God first. Naught could breathe without His first … Read More