After Covid-19

Stillness all around

Brings me to stillness,

And the moment expands.....

 Body confined in a room

Soul expands and growsBigger... and bigger.....Including whole world 

Soul sees new world order emerging. 

Boundaries fading

armies waning

Richness getting new meaning,

Silence is loved

Felt and cherished is Godliness, and not elusive God .

Divisive religions disappear. 

One world without boundaries and armies,

Religions and nations,

Plenty produced and flowing throughout

In streams of love.

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Harshad

6.04.2020

Bliss

A painting with a verse. 

(Watercolor on white drawing paper 15”x11”)

Often there is an illusion that I am giving.

Meditation brings me back on the right track!

And peace  again!

Search!

Search me

You will see many wounds

Some healed, some healing and

New appearing!

Yet I stretch beyond my limits

For it creates more space

New terrain,

And gives me moments

That helps me discover new me

Wounds heal with time

Space created remain within for ever

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Come Soon....a call

Space where

I am not sleeping

Yet not awake, though aware

In the wonderland

With wings on

Gliding slowly

Far above grounds of reality

Far bellow hollows of dreams

Waiting for you,

Here is where I will be found

Space where

No gravity applies

No pain exist

No efforts needed,

Here is where I will be found,

Waiting for you

Always

Come soon

My friend

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Reflections

Overwhelmed by events,

Reacting

And

Whirl of cause and effects follow

....... Pause

To reflect

And deep within a voice

Heard

“Let go...

 Love is to surrender”

Easy comes
reflections in nature.

Acrylic colors on canvas.
Size of Canvas:  18" x 15"

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Living

Living

A candle

Spreads light

So others may see...

And when

Its time is over

It stops being

No demands

No expectations

No traces

Just passing through....

Some call it burning

I say it is living

--

Raas Lila

Silence creates the space

Separating mind from heart

And heart from soul

In deep silence

Soul often reveals

Secret of universe to heart

In a language unknown to mind

Heart can only pass it to

Another heart, also

In silence

Two hearts communicate

Play, dance

Celebrate.....

As long as in silence.

Acrylic colours on white drawing paper (21"x15") by Harshad. 

Bare Naked

Bare Naked

On a cool quiet of night

Alone

Rested facing sky wide open

I lie for a while

Calm and vastness

Combined

Play its magic…..

Soon I feel my breath

and

Hear my heartbeats

Slowly

Trivial frills drop

and

Truth revealed

Bare

Naked

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OSI Prompt : Naked

Beautiful Emptiness

Felt like indulging in gossip

Just about to ring up a friend,

I halted….

A moment of awareness

Looked at

That emptiness, I was

Seeking to fill with useless gossip

Closer look revealed....

She is so beautiful,
this emptiness!

I looked at her closely

Dwelled in her for some time

And

She filled me!

There was no need to gossip!

No need to raid fridge!

No surfing TV aimlessly!

Enthusiasm for my new project took over!

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OSI Prompt : Peace

Moving on

 Watching world same way

Life a repetitions

Moving in circle

Looking within cleaned

Mist on Eyes

Granting new vision

Now seeing better

I move on

Not stuck anywhere

--

OSI Prompt : Watching

Haiku Heights Prompt : New

Creativity

A Loving heart struggle

To bring out

Beauty felt within

In infinite

Different ways

In her

Elating work

It is her answer to the call

I call it creativity.

(Image Credit : http://kristinagrant.blogspot.in)

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True Nature

A Bud

Opens up to nature

Revealing its true nature

Just let it be

It will attain.

--

OSI Prompt : Nature

Constant

'Change' is Your rule
Your grace
an exception to the rule

OSI Prompt : Constant

Echo

Echo

Love receive in

Only love

Your being is enough

Everything else is returned

Name, title, claims….

Even sound,

As it violates

Be it ego

Be it echo

It repeats
till its death

--

OSI Prompt : Echo                   

Dip in Depths

Dip in Depths

I have been a seeker

Since many years

Since many lives

It used to be Books

I will dig in

Then lectures of Masters  & Gurus

But all told me what was known

It brought no change

In silence,

In its depth

Revealed are new dimensions

Knowing

Got different meaning

Words fail me, but I can say

It comes to you in depth of silence

And you do not seek it

You just be there and receive it

Every time I take a dip in depths 

And be there,

It comes in many forms

Like deep water beings of different sizes, shapes and colors

Touch me, feel me,

Some enter in to me, to remain in me

And become part of me.

With every dip

I am different

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OSI Prompt : Transition

Elements Lost

Beautiful fishes

Long and swift

Playing around sea plants

In deep within

So beautiful, mesmerizing

Sometimes Golden

Sometimes pink, blue…..

…..Different moods

Wanting to show them to you,

I try to shape them in words

Add sketch or photos

But at best is a very poor mock up

I still persist

Trying to bring those deep water beings

Into dry air

And present to you  

But

Dead fishes

Elements lost

Please see my limitations

And forgive me

--

OSI Prompt : Elemental

connection

Connection

Thanks to smiles

To my small gestures,

Thirsty soul feels quenched

Loved and esteemed.

Small relief seen on faces

Connects me in that moment to

Infinite source of bliss

Indebted I am to

Those smiles.

“In dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed” – Khalil Gibran

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OSI Prompt : Smile

River of Life & Harmony

River of life

Sitting on the bank

Looking at the flow

Just seeing…..

Whirls, weaves, pace, swell, drop, current…..

Just seeing…..

Is

so cooling

So gratifying….

Isn’t thinking to change it foolish? and

Efforts painful and futile?

Yet indulging often in that foolishness!

                       

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Harmony

Loving is flowing with flow

Surrendering needs no efforts

Going against brings pain.

-

OSI Prompt : River                                                                           

One Single impression: Silence

One Single impression:   Silence

On a garden bench

After morning walk,

Relaxed

I see…..

A quill floating in the air

Drifting slowly up

and down

A butterfly with green and red spots

Passes over my head

Then goes on to flower near,

A call of cuckoo

Soon answered by his mate,

Two friends on a bench next

Sharing a joke…laughing loudly

Cool morning air

Passing through my nostrils

Touching deep into my stomach

……….Making me

Lighter

Lighter…..

Floating with quill

Slowly up

And down……..

Flowing …….with flow

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OSI prompt: Silence 

Silence and wants

 Silence   and   wants

After rapid spirited climb

To the peak

…….Warm breathe cooling and slowing,

Still feeling pleasing pain 

of pulled hair

Head resting over her heart…..

Hear pounding of her heart beats

Dhak…..dhak ….dhak

Her hand moving in my head

Playing with hair,

Her heart beats loud and clear

Dhak……………….dhak ……………….dhak

Pause between two beats

more spacious.

In that space

I vanish.

Remain

Just..... silence

…….No wants

Just silence

For a few moments.

(Silence visits in many ways. Are we there to receive?)

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OSI Prompt : Silence