As Radha to Krishna

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

The Divine Dance

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

Dream - Continued

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 other hand the Gada - Mace

All the Devas amd Rishis are waiting on around Him in awe.

Oh Krishna! You are a dreamer. You are the Dreamer.

This is Your dream what I call as Reality. I have burnt all my dreams in this vision of You the Divine Eternal Dreamer.

The Devas are Your senses. Adisesha is Your sense organs(Five headed serpent). Wealth and everything in Maya - Sree is at Your feet. You are touching the Linga - ever Aware that You are He.

Your eyes are almost closed as though in a dream. Bramha - The Shrishti Kartha emerges out of Your being as the projector. (Our Upanishads explain Shrishti as projection not creation. Projection as in a dream projected in the Mind. Similarly the Jagat - World is projected in His Consciousness)

You are as though asleep in Your Infinite Ocean of Milk or Your True Nature of Bliss. Oh Lord. You the Eternal Dreamer. 'I' am but You in Your dream.

Tell me now Oh Lord. What is 'my' dream thats not 'Yours'

Why dream? Show me the way. Dreaming is serious business. Teach me to dream ... I wish to realize. Reveal the dreams You dream.

This is my dream. My prayer.

Om Tat Sat

Dream

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, music and women and make Indra look ordinary.

That was just a try.. still no good. Just dream my boy.

Mind rejects.

Somewhere while growing up and experiencing the so called ups and downs of life this dream aspect of my being seems to have jumped into the back ground and got faded. Everything is looked at as facts and figures. Plans and results. Yes and No's. Black and White. The colours seems to have faded away.

Why Dream

Break free oh Thought you are trapped in this tiny head. You are infinite. If the sky can be reflected 'unconsciously' in your mind when you are asleep, ask yourself this question are you limited inside the physical skull of yours or are you as Infinite as the sky that can be simply imagined even unconsciously without the slightest of efforts.

What stops you from dreaming Oh Bharatha - He asks

Why the limitations? Why do you carry these iron shackles around your mind. Let go; let free this mind. Let it dream

Why not dream

Why dream

What are your goals. What are your targets. What are your plans. What are your requirements. Why are futures traded. Why is tomorrow so important that you invest today? Question Questions you may scream ... but are all these not somebody's dreams realized and being lived today.

We dont want surprises. We dont want to fail. We dont want to behave or act different than norms set for people to behave and act. I dont want ... I dont want

What DO you want. Dream it. Break free

Mistakes is part of life. You learn. Limits can't be drawn on every scenario, every solution, every behaviour pattern, every future incident. We are so drawn to making fact based studies and compiling them that we dont stop and tell our self that this is what we want.

Consider this arguement - 'It is not there today but it will and can be there tomorrow because its my dream'

If there has to be a better tomorrow it has to come from a positive mind that holds a vision of time and space with conditions that makes happiness possible. But is that not somebody's dream.

So why not dream? What is the difficulty in dreaming? To come about a situation where the dream becomes a reality the dream has to be sustained and worked upon to be achieved. But without the dream in the first place where is the question of a better tomorrow.

Where did the dreaming process stop? Why so many arguments to just dream?