Evening. Closer to truth.

 As a day slowly turns into an evening,

Brightness, shine and brilliance fade,

Vigor diminishes.

And

Revealed are true colors,

Beauty that cools.

For

Consciousness reveals itself easily

Through a fading form.

Sense of beingness begins to free

From mix up with form.

Soon

Form will dissolve.

Day will be over.

Stillness of night

Is eternal.

Truth.

Expressed again as Dawn.

-

(OSI Prompt : Evening)

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

        **

OSI Prompt : Stillness

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?

-

OSI Prompt : Free(dom)

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.

--

OSI Prompt: Echoes

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

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)

What doesn't Change?

What has changed ??

Then,

I loved you for your glowing complexion,           

I loved you for your sharp features,                                                        

I loved you for long & silky hair,

I loved you for your figure,

I loved your smartness.

I loved for what you possessed.

Now,

I love you more for you don’t have a baby complexion,              

I love you more for you have lost your teeth,

I love you more for your hair expose your scalp,

I love you more for you have a hunch,

I love you more & more as you loose each of your possessions.

For without your possessions,

Revealed is real YOU.

YOU  are  beautiful.

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Note : 

Friends, before putting your comments, please pause for a minute.

See what change and feel that never changing constant presence. 

Please let that flow in your comments. Words in your comments may or may not make meaning – it is not important here.

Lots of LOVE --- Harshad.

Opening up.....

Opening up…..closed windows

Why? Why should I??

Why not?

Not in my interest….No, not at all…..

Tense, restless,

Suffocated…..

Feelings trapped…..

Not finding a way to deal with the situation,

Tired…

I go to sea shore nearby.

Seated under open sky,

Pensive,

……Watching sun set.

Slowly……

Cool breeze, sound of sea,

Colorful sky…….

Get into me.

Body loosens & feels relaxed.

Beauty of nature outside

Connect and awaken

Within me

Its formless counterpart -my true nature,

Opening up closed windows.

Fresh breeze flow in.

Now……

Concern for my rights and interests

Changes to compassion & consideration,

Wanting to control replaced by desire to serve.

Suddenly,

Situation looks different....

there are many ways to deal with.

Smile passes my face.

Image from :  splashvision.com 

Excellence

  Excellence

Humming, singing

Spinning wheel

Creating earthen pots

That earns her enough

For her to call it good.

She felt calm, content.

Love spilling to show

On the pots she made.

“Excellent. These are best in town,

Strong & well shaped”

Said a customer to another

Visiting her hut.

Smile passed her face.

Where is the beginning 

of 

Excellence?    

OSI Promt : Beginning

Within

Within

Lines being added

Colors splashed,

Perception of what is it

Changing with passage of time,

A connoisseur is in awe

Wondering who the painter is!

Prompt-128-connoisseur          

Out Casted

Out casted
(One single Impression - Prompt : Oubliette)

They all left

Never to look back,

Leaving him alone..

Out casted.

He

Restless.. ..lonely….cursing…..suffering….

Confined to himself,

In oubliette.      

Nights darker & longer,

& tears heavier.

Gradually….

Reality sinks in.

He is calmer….

Silent…..


Having passed through those dark nights

now

He rejoices in twilight of   space  within.

He no more curses

He has empathy for them….

For all.

He is no more alone.

-

Just different pots....

Just different pots.....

My hopes

My dreams, my vision,

My belief, my confidence, my trust,

My esteem,

My sensibility, my compassion, 

My pains, my sorrow,

My vulnerability……..

Make my space within.

You are a frequent visitor here.

So am I,                                                                                       

To the space you treasure within.

We share same kind of world,

Same kind of fire warms us,

Same drinks quench our thirst.

Aren’t we

Water of same stream

In different pots?

Love

                                 Image from: http://www.uulyrics.com/music/rasa/album-devotion/

Love

I was restless 

I was searching…….

In books and temples,

In prayers and bhajans,

In friends and family,

In flowers and bees,

In gardens and trees,

In sunrise and sunsets,

In city and jungles,

In known and unknown………

At last, I found it in you.

…..Meaning of my life.

I found in you

My way to Space Within.

-

Someday I will cross.....

One more among the crowd I carry within

Died today.

I feel better as I light his pier.

It has made me lighter

And I can fly higher.

With each death within,

I am getting lighter & lighter….

I can fly higher & higher.....

Looking back I wonder

When did he get into me?

What made me get him into me?

Why did I carry him so long?

Searching answers to these questions

Takes me to the dead end

Beyond which is a huge mountain….

I am unable to cross….

I am getting lighter…..

My Home

“My Home”

Exploring world outside

Failed to take me to

Peaks & valleys,

Depths & heights

Turbulences & calm,

Vastness and fineness

That exploring   Space  Within  did

It also took me to a place 
that is always pleasant.

I call it ‘My Home Within’

Connection

Friends,

Some places call again & again.

Peace and rest is found there like nowhere else.

Siddhi Samadhi Yoga (SSY) ashram at Dehari, near mumbai is one such place for me.

 Connection....
                                   with final destination?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Dehri Ashram –

A place that pulls me

Like a river by sea.

I wonder what brings

Me here so often?

Alone,

With my children

And now with grandchildren?

What is so charming, so magical about this place?

Searching for the answer

In space within

I come back to a point,

Where I always stop –                                                                                                                   

What keeps me living?

Is it here that I first found vastness of sea,

Where river could easily disappear?

                                                                                                                                Harshad

                                                                                                                                                                           31.1.10