Emotions

Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha Question: Swamiji , you said that developing the right attitude should be the technique for eliminating passion and prejudice when executing our actions. However, many a time, emotions seem to overcome us and we act upon them. At times, it seems as though we are helpless! How can we avoid this? Poojya Swamiji: Both attitude and aim are something you have to decide upon and grow in your mind fondly, judiciously. This itself is an introspectional process, vichaara-saadhana. Understand how vichaara becomes saadhana. Vichaara is a process of inner churning. Think and reflect: "What is life, and what are its aims? What is an activity, and how does it relate to life?" Pursue vichaara until you become clear. Once the answer or outcome gets infused into the mind, it will irresistibly govern all actions that you perform. Culture of any attitude is just like culture of truth, truthfulness. Vichaara is itself a pursuit, by which the mind changes drastically....

I do not have anything to write now I can't even find the thoughts within The words that I know make no sense For eternity cannot rest is words

Do I see you as a man Or the mountain in the north Or do I pray to you as the life That is the visible world Do I hold you as the thoughts divine or do I see you in the elements that make up this world Or is it just a small symbol Do I feel you in the senses That make up my human input Or do I pray to you as the consciousness  within That rests not even if the mindas disappears in sleep Or do I just pray to you as the One in deep mediation with Shakthi by Your side Or do I see you as One seated on a bull With the hosts of demons by Your side Show me Thy form For I am mad in this state Dance Oh Lord on this form of mine Let me see Thy dance from below Thy feet! Oh Shiva! Oh Shankara! Oh Nataraja! I am... Om Tat Sat

Image from http://www.universdartistes.com/2011/11/eriks-moment.html The thought of discovery The yearning to know These doubts that linger And all the memories within I cringe and hurt With every new thought Those that surface Are empty without hope Escape seems probable A Momentary hope Yet places and people may Change yet dont help Outside seems to empty and the inside too noisy I cant help but scream Into a world that cares not for me I try to seek meaning I think I know the solution Yet there seems to be a wall A Wall created with my imagination Free I wish to be And free I am told I am Yet happiness seems to slip And happiness I am told I am In this discovery I seek Meaning of all this work Meaning I am told I give To everything I do and wont I cannot but hold a Higher Behold someone or thing That which is bigger better Than me at this instance called time. I seek Thee Oh Imagination I seek Thee The dream of man I seek Thee That fue...

Noise Noise Noise inside my head The thoughts just breaks loose As I try to control they break out again And destroy any inkling of peace I need a way out I need to stay calm I need to hold on I need to break through The waves rise and rise And fall with a crash The noise explodes into a scream The conscious within implodes into fear The raging sounds change desires into anger The emotions locked within break out The body shivers in confusion And the effort falls flat in vain Just then.. I hear anklets from within Steps taken in wild dancing The waves lashing on the shores Musical instruments play in rhythm A heat emanates within The awareness stills the thoughts And the noise slowly pulls back The music takes control Fire erupts on all sides Light fills the whole mind The darkness recedes into nothingness Suddenly the scene reveals a dance His feet with anklets tap on a monster below His legs raised with snakes on them Seem to reach the sky An...

What is supernatural What is so ordinary What is so pleasurable What could not be so What could be more unbelievable Than the fact that for no reason I wake up again and again To do things that will get removed by time What else could be possible oh Lord Than the reason that I exist Is for Your pleasure While I remain the dream and You the dreamer What could possibly be the reason That I suppose I am free And play this role of a seeker While You oblivious to my pain dream on as me Oh Lord! Wake up as the four armed Wake up as the One wearing the snake on Thy neck Change this dream to play your games May this dream body of Yours be fit to work Thy plans What else could possibly be the reason For me to wake up but to submit this false free will To Thy service to Thy games Oh Lord! I remain... I remain Thy dream .. Wake up I am.... Sat Chit Ananda

You wake me up In the middle of the night Shining bright on my face For this one night in full Borrowed is Thy Light That shines down on me Yet bright and lovely You are Like this mind I call me This too is borrowed The thought that tries to speak The same light that hallows you The same One that cannot be spoken about I am these thoughts that emerge From the screen of the mind Like a projector He streams Not judging not controlling Like you who waxes and wanes My mind peaks and drops To levels I choose not to reveal Yet the same Light is He who lights me I behold oh moon Thy beauty I pray to the Light That reveals us To shine through my mind always Always so that I may be bright as you oh full moon This thought that speaks of You Oh Lord Is but Thy light shining through Yet I have no way of being You For I see me as an entity other than You Make me see Your Truth Make my mind clear as crystal Make these words speak Thy name alone May my mind be in t...

The bed on which I sleep Is dead wood The ground I tread Is volcanic matter The world as I see it Is just a recreation As electrical pulses in my head The identity of the I that speaks now Is just an illusion of memory Where from this journey where to this path Where are the Gods Who maketh my hopes When all there is is just thoughts This thing called hope And love and faith These words used loosely To claim and embrace My work and thoughts for Years in pain what for I ask Cause its just another pulse within Loss of things and hope we speak Things that pain and hurt within Love and faith that make sense to live Shall change and let nature prevail The world is ruthless and hard as it is The now is changing every cell that is Certain is change as death for that mind That holds these thoughts as itself in I Where then is love or hate or faith For all that is is change and flux So I hold on to sanity and remain Watchful of this change as my God within These...

I lose control because of you babe I lose control when you look at me like this there's something in your eyes that is sayin' tonight I'm not a child anymore, life has opened the door to a new exciting life I lose control when I'm close to you babe I lose control don't look at me like this there's something in your eyes, is this love at first sight like a flower that grows, life just wants you to know all the secrets of life It's all written down in your lifelines it's written down inside your heart You and I just have a dream to find our love a place where we can hide away you and I were just made to love each other now forever and a day I lose control because of you babe I lose control when you look at me like this there's something in your eyes that is sayin' tonight I'm so curious for more just like never before in my innocent life It's all written down in your lifelines it's written down inside your...

The wise man said just walk this way To the dawn of the light The wind will blow into your face As the years pass you by Hear this voice from deep inside It's the call of your heart Close your eyes and your will find The passage out of the dark Here I am Will you send me an angel Here I am In the land of the morning star The wise man said just find your place In the eye of the storm Seek the roses along the way Just beware of the thorns Here I am Will you send me an angel Here I am In the land of the morning star The wise man said just raise your hand And reach out for the spell Find the door to the promised land Just believe in yourself Hear this voice from deep inside It's the call of your heart Close your eyes and your will find The passage out of the dark Here I am Will you send me an angel Here I am In the land of the morning star Here I am Will you send me an angel Here I am In the land of the morning star

This dance of Yours Such is Thy Life As these plants that shed flowers As the waters that roar As these thoughts that surface As the sky so expansive As these insects that crawl As this earth that sustains As this soil that nourishes You encompass this All You bring to Life me And give me a false identity For Your mirth Oh Lord! what game is this Lead me to the Truth And dissolve my identity in You May my actions be lead I know not my role Lead me Oh Lord to You Om Tat Sat

I pray today I pray today for a tomorrow Peaceful and bright Whence  I can sow the seeds Of love for your children I pray that my work Shall yield results and Carry your blessing In every step I take Lead me Lord for Thy feet I seek Hari Om Tat Sat

Voices of wailing accompany me As I walk this hollow earth Lives and dreams shatter into pieces As my feet treads into lives that end Who am I .. I've sought forever From the beginning I've walked alone Some fear me and some hallow my name Yet I can spare them not for I am death There is no hurry in this quest There is no direction for my steps I walk in and out of doors That my weary feet seeks to rest Voices within call out fate Thoughts race through when I get blamed Yet I need to carry on as my feet tells Carrying the burden of one more dead I am death... I am the mortifying entity I seek a direction I am denied For my thoughts shall seem to rest When I am dead I laugh at myself When words lose meaning For words are just a play in my head How could I who am death die and see death in the eye I carry on For I am death ... I seek no God I seek no end I seek no love For I AM all the above I am death... In me all shall end I am..

"Breaking The Habit" Memories consume Like opening the wound I'm picking me apart again You all assume I'm safe here in my room Unless I try to start again [Bridge:] I don't want to be the one The battles always choose 'Cause inside I realize That I'm the one confused [Chorus:] I don't know what's worth fighting for Or why I have to scream. I don't know why I instigate And say what I don't mean. I don't know how I got this way I know it's not alright. So I'm breaking the habit, I'm breaking the habit Tonight Clutching my cure I tightly lock the door I try to catch my breath again I hurt much more Than anytime before I had no options left again [Bridge] [Chorus] I'll paint it on the walls 'Cause I'm the one that falls I'll never fight again And this is how it ends [Chorus:] I don't know what's worth fighting for Or why I have to scream But now I have som...

As the music fills up my mind Words flow down meaninglessly And thoughts of scenes rush by As the intellect stops its work These tunes from across Break the rhythm of the day As the past stands unchanged While the future appears brighter Where from have these voices emerged That were under wraps in war While love thrived beneath Risen now have these works That set the path of peace God breaks His silence in rhythms While I get immersed In my own silence within..