Monkey and me

On the top of the summit

In the deep danger

On the moon

In the mysterious matrix

Rising,

Falling,

Moving,

Fast ….Slow…..

Unstoppable,

Here one moment,

There another.

Watching it in motion

Is

……..Stillness.

Call it :

Witness

Observer

Consciousness

Awareness

………………

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"Mind is like a monkey" Satya Sai

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OSI Prompt : Stillness

Born free

Born free.

Taught importance of

Grades

Success

Power

Control.

Passing through life

preoccupied

By desire to win…..

Manipulating,

Toiling

Tired…

....Voice from within

Heard in quiet moments

“Life is not a game

To win or lose.

It is about

Being open to love…. freely.

It is a dance

Enjoy!

Celebrate!"

-

OSI prompt: Win

Mountains

Mountains

One more among the crowd

I carry within,

Died today.

I feel better as I light his pyre.

It has made me lighter.

With each death within,

I am getting lighter & lighter….

I can fly higher & higher.....

Love for him now is genuine.

No wants, no demands.

Just love…for being part of my world,

Love of one being to another.

Looking back I wonder

When did he get into me?

Why did I carry him so long?

Why?

Questions lead me

To a dead end

Beyond which are huge mountains….

I am unable to cross….

With each death within,

I am getting lighter & lighter,

Gravity weaker and weaker…

I can fly higher & higher.....

Will I cross this MOUNTAINS?

……To freedom?

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OSI Prompt : Free(dom)

Fun & Play !

Stiff, unable to bend,

Left alone to fend,

Life isn’t child’s play.

Bend to meld and blend

And never alone to fend

Life is fun and play!

-

OSI Prompt : Meld

Shuffle

WRITTEN FOR THREE WW

Prompt :SHUFFLE  ADVANCE PANDER

Once hated lusty advances,

Shuffled by time,

Now pandering, she invites it.

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To Sir, ... with love.

As Teachings,

With experience,

Get founded within

As truth of life,

Respect for teacher

Gradually transform

 To

Reverence,

Love,

Worship.

….Service.

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OSI Prompt :Apprentice 

Apprentice

Apprentice

Teach me lessons of love,

Train me to attend,

Prepare me to assist,

Groom me to be your servant

And

I tender a bond

To serve You for life. 

Teach me to ‘play'

And I will play Your tune

Till eternity.

-

OSI Prompt : Apprentice 

Echoes

(  ( (  (((  E c h o e s  ))) ) )  )

Whisper so low,

Almost feeling and not voice.

Always playing

As if continuous echoes

Of flowing stream in a valley,

Heard clearly

In my silent moments,

Guiding me to walk

Path that lead to

Space Within.

……Many times not in the direction

That logically led to

Actions

Excitement

And immediate success.

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OSI Prompt: Echoes

Pause

Pause

“Not going well,

Not happy with it,

……………..

Given every try,

Tried every possible way,

What do I do now??”

“Friend,

It is a time to pause

And complete

And

Start afresh,

…..Leaving all unwanted baggage behind.”

                                     *                                

Pause is a space to

Rest

Recharge

Connect

Complete

And sometimes

 put a full stop.

-

OSL Prompt : PAUSE

SAAL MUBARAK

Festival of lights, celebrated at the end of Samvant Year (Hindu Calender). 
Celebrating victory of Godliness over evil. 
War with evil ends.


New year has only 
LOVE.


Every word, spoken or written
every intention,
every action, 
will have
only
LOVE.


Wishing all my friends on Blog & OSI and their loved ones lots of love
in coming New Samvant Year 
&
thereafter...


SAAL  MUBARAK
(Happy New Year)


Harshad.

Photo Album

Happy moments of life

Smiling faces,

happy gatherings,

Receiving awards & degrees…..

Captured,

Seen, later

Shown off.

Between two pages

Unseen remain

Many difficult,

Sad,

Struggling,

Unpleasant,

Unhappy

Moments.

Not captured in pictures,

Yet core of life

And love for life.

Unseen

Unfancied.

-
OSI Prompt : Fancy

Blessed Moments

Blessed Moments.

(OSI Prompt: Fancy)

I FANCY

Those few moments

When I ceased being me,

Dissolved

To

Be one with you.

I found real me then,

For those few moments….

-

Looking up

One Single Impression: Grace

Dancing stars

Always inviting to join,

To play.

Unaware me

Busy in petty games,

Ignore.

His grace and

I look up,

…And smile pass my face.

-

Please Take Over….

Demolished and dissolved ego

Flow out with tears…

As i pray.

Caught in the process

 Champion of the cause she was.

No child labor – for she cared for children,

Fighting very hard for the cause.

Visiting places,

Meeting likeminded people,

Presentation on cause,

Explaining,

Interviews,

Discussions on TV…….

So important was fighting....

For the cause,

It took most of her time,

Most of her energy.

She hardly had any time

For her children,

Champion of the cause she was.

Known as such.

-

OSI Prompt : Champion

Crazy craving

Since ages....

My relentless efforts 

To merge with you

Is on.....

We meet,

We are together

We embrace,

Yet never one.

You remain you.

Stubborn.  Hard.

And I have to retreat.

Yet that crazy craving to be one with you

Makes me try again and again

Again and again……

…..Someday you will give in

And……. it will be all over.

No wanting

No desire

No craving

No loneliness.

-

OSI Prompt : Lonely

Lonely not.

Dear friend,

We met,

We talked,

We shared, we played,

And we loved.

Hours passed

in as many moments.

                       

When it was time to go,

You left.

                   

Here I am left alone….

Yet my heart is filled with your innocent love.

My mind feels light & confident.

I can sing.

I can dance,

I can laugh,

I can read,

I can write,

I can dream,

I float in moments of

Oneness with you.

Alone I am.

Lonely not….

-

OSI Prompt: Lonely

Child Within

I pretend to be independent…….

Yet there are times

I want to be taken care of,

Want to be looked after,

Want to be led, held by my finger.

There are times

I just want to drop all my guards

And be carefree…

There are times

 I want to cross borders

Want to rebel…..

Yet know that I am loved,

 safe, secure,

Taken care of,

Need not worry…

These are the moments…….

I feel lonely.

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OSI Prompt : Lonely

Cleansing

Don’t feel like reacting,

Keeping still….

It gets heavier…..

Silently...

Eyes get wet

Filled….

It slowly drops out,

……flows……

Washing away

Many illusions.

Smile passes my face,

As I feel lighter.

-

Just do it

It is difficult….

…..but I will ‘try’ said she.

What she meant was,

If it is done, ‘I’ have done it

If fails, it was difficult in any case.

‘Try’ is tricky

Diplomatic,

Sitting on the fence-

Head I win, tail you lose.

Non- committing

Half hearted, at the best.

Instead, 

“just do it”

takes long way.

-

OSI Prompt : Try

A different approach

Trying life

Tired me

Till I stopped trying

Now I am a relaxed witness.

-

OSI Promt: Try

Unexpected Guest

I wanted her.

I tried very hard to get her,

She was always in my mind,

She was always in my heart,

But she kept eluding me.

One morning I got up,

And got involved with my work,

I forgot her,

Working hard with all my heart

While I was busy working,

Someone knocked my door,

It was she! His grace bestowed.       

Success is her name.

-

OSI Promt:Try

Indestructible

Monuments, expression of

Deep respect & love,

Inspiring values

Helping us to be better being.

When destroyed,

Just structure gets destroyed

Values they inspire get multiplied

…..Many folds.

Will spirit of Buddhism – peace & love

Get destroyed with demolition of

Buddhas of Bamiyan?

Vacant space there

Silently transmit

Message of love to all,

Specially to those who committed its destruction

For they don’t know what they are doing

So do space at

Ground zero of

Twin towers, symbol of free world.

--

(OSI Prompt : Monument)

Monument

Cooling breeze of love

Sway souls, Conscious rise beyond sky

Monument stand inspiring




-
(OSI Prompt : Monument)

Joy of Living

Joie de vivre

(Joy of Living)

Blessed I was with its glimpses

When in love,

When playing with friends,

In achievements and success,

In food & festivals,

In luxury and comforts,

In mountains,  rivers & woods.

I savored & chased those moments

And found

Its infinite source in

Space Within.

 I just need to remain connected.

-

(OSI Prompt : Joie de vivre)

The fun of Passing....

The fun of Passing…….

We play, we quarrel

We love, we fall out

We sooth, we hurt                                                                                                         

We breathe, we eat

We dream, we despair,

We see divinity in a tiny flower on the roadside

And pass through divine forest unaware!

We are so similar

And differences so insignificant!

Yet……?

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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx!!!!

HA HA HA HA HA……..

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(OSI Prompt : The Passing)

Passing.....

                                                      The Passing.... 

Flowing like a river,

Given way,

Eager to meet & merge in

That vastness of sea.

Anyone who cares

Quench her thirst.

Unfortunate are those who keep away.

 I move on…

--

(OSI Prompt : The Passing)

All Within

A pair of eyes

Same scene

See beauty, see evil.

--

Haiku Height Promot7 : Beauty

HIS GRACE

Who am I ?


  I have my fears  &


  I have my hopes.

I am my fears when

I talk about it,

I take shelter behind it,

I make a show of it,

I let it rule me,

I let others address it or

When I think I am it.

          

  I am my hopes when

  I see it,

  I talk about it,

  I think it will come true,

  My actions are ruled by it,

  I am working for it,

  Others address to it or

  When I think it is me.

  Who am I?

  My fears  or

  My hopes?

  Whose choice is it?

             

                                                      

                                                                            30.8.04

                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 Friends, 

‘Who am I?’ was written six years back in ’04.  As the poem reads, I then thought it was a 
choice of an individual to select an attitude and live his life.

Today there seem to be a shift. As the haiku ‘My Choice?’  reads, I think though it may appear 
to be my choice to me, awareness of choice itself is a result of His grace. 
One can easily slip in a state of mind that has no choice. Isn't it?

Life has taught me this in the the span of six years . HIS grace.

                                                                **

My Choice?

His grace

And

You remain aware of choices, always.

                                                                 

                                                                                                                                 5.9.10

OSI Prompt : Choices

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