Avudai akka
Fasting and praying with great devotion
Avudai akka sat near the Kaveri in such deep meditation
That the sand had compacted where she sat
And when a flash flood roared down,
It piled sand to form an island around
The saint, who sat there, unfazed
In a state of grace.
Later, the king gave her some golden leaves of Bilva-
The preferred offering that was given to Siva..
After the worship, the very next day,
The dry flowers and gold leaves she cast away
Seeing no difference between the dust and the gold
For she was an enlightened soul ..
GB
Inspired by Avudai akka -Brahmam Ekam-
A point of singularity in Nothingness
Is what we call Brahmam..
A single point source, projecting through Maya’s prism
Multitudes of multiverses. The substrate
beneath
Ours, five elements that also sheathe us.
Busy in our own sphere,
In the now-and-here, can we look behind
The obvious, sharpen the mind
Guided by great Gurus, let us find
An iota of that joyful peace
Beyond the veil of space-time
Beyond any mortal paradigm,
A miniscule glimpse of that Brahmam…
GB
Inspired by Avudai akka-aadudi maane–
Dance with abandon, O doe-eyed one,
Discard the clumsy ties that take away your grace
Differences of gender, of class, of race,
Tap into that eternal energy to find bliss
For you are part of that Consciousness that ever was, and is….
Find peace, mental stillness amidst your ecstatic dance,
And awareness of Bhrahman flash out from every glance
The inner nature of all….
GB
The flipping of the Sun’s magnetic poles will cause intense solar storms, which can “open up Earth’s magnetic field and allow much more energy and mass to enter through, and when that happens, then we tend to see all kinds of impacts,” said Boulder Delores Knipp, an engineering professor at the University of Colorado, …7 days ago
As the great body rotates,
The plasma and magnetic field inside
Twist and stretch and get so distorted
They collapse
The core of the rotating giant
Is plasma that’s molten and pliant
Creating its own magnetic field
That reaches out far into space….
But the rotation causes it to twist,
Stretch and collapse, and reverse, and this,
Once every eleven years
Leads to gigantic storms and flares,
A redux of the magnetic flux..
We do hope our instruments will cope
With the spreading range and scope
Of the impending reversal
Of the magnetic poles of Sol,
our Sun…this year…
GB
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