Here are the words of a very old, and much-loved song, translated from the Indian Marathi language. It refers to the life force, the Kundalini, as mother, and begs her to rise up through the system to the Sahasrara and so bring about Self-realisation – the Oneness with the Divine, the Union, the Yoga, the Enlightenment, […]

 
Beyond the trees, beyond the mountains,
We are all one.
Beyond the clouds, beyond the seas,
We are all one.
Beyond the skin, beyond the word,
We are all one.
Beyond you, beyond me,
We are all one.
Beyond everywhere, beyond everything,
We are all one.
Beyond everyall, beyond everyone,
We are ONE.
Meenakshi Pujari
(Photograph courtesy of wikimedia.org)

 
Why are my words so inept in conveying the magnitude of God?
How can human mind encompass and understand
The vastness and omnipotence of God?
The truth is that it cannot.
Yet, when we know we are the Self,
When we become One with the All-pervading Power,
Then we are able to glimpse, ever so faintly,
The depth and breadth and height
Of […]

In the resurrection of Christ,
Death has suffered a humiliating defeat by its own death,
And my Lord has emerged out victorious over Death.
To celebrate the resurrection of the Lord,
the whole Cosmos appears to be jubilant
And have decked up to welcome the victorious Lord.
Likewise, even in Heaven, Angels have assembled like an army
To accord their welcome to […]

Grass is humble, always grass.
So that we’d know it anywhere –
Africa or Italy, walking
In and out of time.
Blink, and a century is gone.
The whole delicate web that makes
a world – intricate,
insistent as this pulse
inside my wrist –
continues without effort.
There’s no weariness now,
no sense that I must shoulder guilt,
assume responsibility.
I have put down the world, grown […]