Emotions

His glance, His gait, His control His poise His deeds, His play His Love His Grace Evokes in me this desire To hold on and praise His power over me And His Divine embrace I am aware of You around me Your enveloping presence around this body This ever brilliant experience I forget And dwell in the finite fleeting moments Thy playfullness I seldom see And complain on fate and past deeds Forgetting to notice Thy Loving sport I recogonize not Thy presence in those My love for Thee is divided Part spiritual, part for greed Pray, these thoughts other than Thee Make them melt in Your loving heat Oh Lover, shower me Thy grace Let me be ever aware of Thy embrace Radhe Krishna Gopalakrishna Radhe Krishna Gopalakrishna Om Tat Sat

As He dances eternally Spiralling time and matter His matted locks spinning Catching up ... His Divine dance breathtaking Fire blazing on His sides Snakes whirling around his frame Shiva! Oh Divine Father Without You even Om loses its meaning Pray dont stop Dont stop this Vision Your dances is this life Let there be nothing else Let there be Love Let there be Peace The Earth, She spins This Sun, He spins This Universe spins All, Sarvam ...spins As you spin Oh Lord All this is an extension of Your dance There is no sound There is no life But for Your Dance Oh Lord Nataraja Om Shanthih Shathih Shanthihi

Why did I forget to dream? Still why this lamentation. Klybhyam ma sma gamah Partha. Where from this eunuch like nature? You need to know where you are going. Why the doubt? I gave up my dreams. I burnt my dreams in the fire of prayathna-effort. I took whatever I held as thoughts and threw them out of my being. Why? They were not in tune. Tune to what - Tune to my being. I needed to know emptiness. I needed to know if there was emptiness when I removed all. I needed to know if I would get dissolved if I did not think at all. I needed to know if there was salvation if the mind was stopped. In the process I somehow did not channelize this unique gift; the ability to dream. Here now in my vision is Lord Narayana lying down on His serpent Adishesha. His eyes half open as though in a dream. On His feet Sri Lakshmi. Through His navel Brahma emerges and is seated on a lotus. His right hand touching a Linga. His Divine feet - Grace. The Shanka - Conch and Chakra - Disc on His sides. And on His...

I wonder which is more difficult. To have a dream, to sustain a dream or to realize a dream. I am stuck at a point in my mind where I find it difficult to dream. Silly! I ask myself this. What does it cost to dream. What is the validity of a dream. Where is the necessity to prove or disprove any dream. Etc etc. And to all these questions, I answer them logically and fail. A dream is but a dream. A fantasy with no reality other than a visualization of time and space in my mind to entertain, captivate and develop a desire to make the multi sensory imagination come to life so that it can be shared with loved ones and those yet to be loved in the 'real' world. What a pathetic way to try and define what a dream is. This brings me to the thought, 'Why dream?' Questions questions rumbling in my head yet I find it so difficult to just dream. Man... I miss being a child. To look at something and just superimpose your thoughts and imagine rockets, ...