Marghazi day 1.
Inspired by tiruppavai
In the long night of ignorance in the soft moonlight
Our silks and jewels shone out bright
Then in the eastern sky there came
A golden nimbus, like a lion’s mane
What had once been valued seemed inane
Sunrays like spears heralded the dawn
Blood thrummed in our veins…
The dark night was gone.
GB
Marghazi day 2.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Ever active, permeating all
Though seemingly quiescent,
Is the cosmic energy.
A concept so hard to define
That minds must be prepared, aligned,
By decluttering the material
Ignoring the trivial
Disciplining, polishing the self
To glimpse a reflection of the divine….
GB
Marghazi day 3.
Inspired by tiruppavai
The worlds and their mighty ones pale
When measured on the cosmic scale.
Yet disciplines self-imposed
On commoner and King alike,
Enable fresh cool rains to fall,
So red paddy stalks stand tall
Fish sporting amongst their roots…
As yellow striped bees hover over lotus ponds
And from grazing in green grassy fields
Cows give record yields
Of milk,
These are treasures that cannot be weighed
The true wealth that does not rust or fade…
GB
Marghazi day 4.
Inspired by tiruppavai
In endless cycles the water flows
From sea to cloud to earth,
As the Primal Energy source
Moves across death to birth,
The thousand petalled lotus blooms
As lightning flashes and a great conch sounds
It’s clarion call.
Showers of blessings fall
On those who aspire
On those who try to rise higher..
Seeking the undying eternal.
GB
Marghazi day 5.
Inspired by tiruppavai
It’s impossible for mortal minds to realise
Omnipotence, infinity, the stratum that underlies
All.
The waters of the Yamuna
Where the Cowherd once sported
Are just as pure and cool
As those of the Vaigai near which great kings ruled.
In a Mother’s eyes, the light
Of love is as golden bright
As any glowing flame.
As is the remembrance of the Cowherd’s name
That burns away all sin
But all that we can offer Him
Are our praises and flowers ….
GB
Marghazi day 6.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Heralding the dawn, denizens of the air,
Calling on high from the rarefied atmosphere
Echo the resonance of a great conch..
Dispelling the darkness of ignorance
Awakening, stirring every sense,
Sounding a clear, though subtle alarm,
Signalling that evil comes in many forms.
Warning that only a mind that’s calm, at peace,
With an image of the Creator at its core
Is a truly mystic Yogi…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 7.
Inspired by tiruppavai
The brisk milkmaids with flying braids
And tinkling ornaments churn
The butter as fork-tailed drongos sing in turn,
The young girls singing in the street
Add their tones, all high and sweet…
The soul opens up, become receptive,
To the Primal Energy, the creative
Force that underlies all…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 8.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Eastern sky aglow, harbinger of day
Silver heralding the gold, lighting the way
Of slow bovines
To dew drenched grass.
So are sleepy minds awakened to the play
Of the cosmic energy that slays
Sloth, greed and anger.
That omniscient fire answers the call
Of the small sparks below
And this synergy powers the universe…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 9.
Inspired by tiruppavai
In the dark season
Bereft of reason
Their potential lost, lie supine
Many-faceted minds..
It’s only when a single beam-
From the light of the Supreme-
The Creator- refracts inside each mind
That each coruscates and realises its true splendor….
Rainbow arrays of light, the fragrance of incense
Break the spell of indolence
That holds even the awakened soul in thrall…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 10.
Inspired by tiruppavai
A moment of carelessness
A small slip of the tongue,
And a strong man’s wish for power
Came to nothing.
Indrasana, Nirdevatam
(Indra’s throne, the devataas’ death)
Became Nidrasana, Nidravatam)
(A bed, and deep sleep)
Became his life…
The honed edge of an arrow struck,
And it was then he awoke
To a truer understanding…
May we become aware
Of Something purer and higher
Through service and prayer…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 11.
Inspired by tiruppavai
How prolific the output of the innocents than those
Wiser, more mature
Occupied with the world’s worries and woes….
Like the golden creeper or the peacock in its habitat
Beautifully confident…
But when they become aware of
themselves as part of
The magnificence of creation,
Creation itself will bestow
It’s strength to let them grow
Even greater….
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 12.
Inspired by tiruppavai
In the security of her wealth and
Overflowing prosperity,
She sleeps in peace
Her senses unaware
Of the glory of the cosmos
Whose tendrils knock urgently
On the front door
Calling her to partake in its glory…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 13.
Inspired by tiruppavai
All demons vanquished,
The time for weighty matters is done,
Jupiter has set, and the creative feminine one,
Venus, arisen. the deer and birds
Frolic as lotuses bloom.
It’s time to meet and together, greet
A bright blue energising dawn of understanding….
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 14.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Blue-black night has fled
The dawn’s energetic red
Has woken the saffron of wisdom gained
Through burning to ash the dross
And pearls of wisdom gleam across
The path, lighting our way
To where the conch resounds,
The flash of the spinning wheel of life
Calls us to where the wide arms
Of the Cosmic energy wait to welcome us….
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 15.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Though the intonation and cadence are sweet
This is but a repeat
Of what has been memorised, not internalised.
For those who are like parrots to become
truly wise
They must experience the world outside,
And realise the vastness and omnipotence
Of the cosmos….
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 16.
Inspired by tiruppavai
A high-flying banner marks the place
Where the great door stands closed
Ornamented, gem-studded,
Leading to the only true, sapphire blue,
Cosmic Consciousness.
Sentry, open the door,
Guide, lead us inside.
Like the parai, the frame drum
May our hearts thrum
As we catch a glimpse of the Formless…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 17.
Inspired by Tiruppavai
Beyond the limits of our gated consciousness
Lies the realm of the Universe.
Through its Stars it synthesises all matter
All that men could ever need, all provender,
Beyond divisions of gender
Beyond relationships,
Generosity beyond imagination…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 18.
Inspired by Tiruppavai
The immensity, the raw strength of the Cosmic spirit
Cannot be directly approached with our limited senses
We must grow, look up from the earth to the sky
To where the birds sing on high.
Only One who is Enlightened must teach us the way
One to whom the world is like a ball of clay-
One who has transcended the mundane,
Like a lotus blooming,
Rising through the mud
To the stars…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 19.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Fuelled by the oil and sweat of striving
The flame of intellect burned
Till, having merged with the Creator,
Lies, lulled and dormant,
Supported by elephantine wisdom
And the softness of patient endurance,
Forgetting that others await guidance
From One who has blazed the trail…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 20.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Spirits of earth, water, air and space
Are supported, protected, nurtured by The seemingly quiescent Creator of all.
Mirroring that majesty and beauty is the Divine Feminine
A Projection that humans identify with compassion and love
For mortal understanding has yet to mature
To awaken to the spiritual realm…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 21.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Just a realisation of the Cosmic Energy
Makes mortals overflow with effulgence.
Not even the highest intellects
Can comprehend its immensity or omnipotence
Those most powerful pale and stand stripped
in its presence…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 22.
Inspired by tiruppavai
The crowned heads,
The great intellects are as nothing
Compared with the majesty of Creation.
A miniscule portion of the Cosmic Energy
In the form of our Sun
Is enough to drive away darkness…
Is this night of our ignorance gone?
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 23.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Dormancy, season of monsoon
When mortal energies are low
And grey skies weep
The Creator,
Unlike the beasts who sleep
Dispels the dark
With just a ray, a spark
A drop of His effulgence…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 24.
Inspired by tiruppavai
We try to measure the immeasurable
Using the yardstick of our comprehension
How miniscule our understanding
How all pervasive the energy
That can move mountains and traverse
The realms of existence…
The multiverse …
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 25.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Given a form by many mortals
Though intangible and hidden,
Belonging to all,
Gracefully, calmly,
Facing malevolence
To restore the cosmic balance,
Dousing the fire
Of greed and desire
With overflowing love…
Gita Bharath.
Marghazi day 26.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Infinite blue of sky and sea
Green of the auspicious banyan tree
Quiver as cycles of life and death pass by.
Only the ancients’ wisdom endures
The steady discipline of body and mind
Passed on through the war drums’ resonance, the light
Of the nacreous conch, the glowing bright
Lamps, the Vedic chants,
As souls are drawn
Upwards in the dewy dawn.
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 27.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Through scepticism to understanding
That the Cosmic Energy cannot be comprehended, realised
By limited mortal senses, the wise
Know that the Energy itself must grant clearer sight
Keener hearing, muscular might
So that mortals may ingest, assimilate
A miniscule portion of that great
Omnipotence…
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 28.
Inspired by tiruppavai
Inseparable miniscule part are we
Of Krishna , the Manifest Energy.
Ignorant of all but a narrow sphere
Of existence – the now-and-here…
Yet we know that all life, both high and low,
Is connected to that pervasive divine glow
The Consciousness that’s spread
Like the warp and woof of thread
Underlying the entire universe….
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 29.
Inspired by tiruppavai
We have reached the foot of the mountain
It’s peak lost in cloudy mists
We’ve just begun to comprehend
That we’re part of All that exists
Mighty stars and galaxies obey the same laws
As atoms in their orbits and this has come to pass
Because matter entwined with energy
Is the basis of all, and you and me …
Gita Bharath
Marghazi day 30.
Inspired by tiruppavai
The catalytic cosmic energy
Created, the primordial ocean
And churned it…
To manifest all grace and beauty…
The thousand petalled glowing lotus
And speech, poetry and song
To raise human imagination
To exalted heights where it may sense
The Creator’s omnipotence…
Gita Bharath
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