SHINE!

The sun makes no effort: its presence dispels darkness and bestows life and light on all .
Grace is a light that cleanses all stains, dissolves all blocks, unties all knots.
The Guru is the Sun of grace and love infinite.Without motive or intent, desire or discrimination, this radiance shines on all.
Like the glorious sunrise paints the sky with flame, the Lord of my Heart dispels my clouds, my darkness and turns me into Light.
In that new borning, there is no “me” left- only endless peace in the One.
Arunachala Ramanna, sweet Lord of Light ,- shine!
Oh mountain-shiva, eater of egos, - shine!
Thou destroyer of ignorance, dissolver of “I”……shine!

Return to the Source

               

          

"Come, Come, whoever you are  - wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving! Even though you have broken your vows a thousand times - come! Ours is not a caravan of despair." Rumi

Consider your Source! Conceived as a single cell in your mother’s womb, you were gloriously divine, a spark of God-stuff. When you were born, naked and crying, you were still totally divine, formless infinity manifesting in the magical play of life.
And now? Covered with layer upon layer of  brain-washing,like a concrete shell,  you cry out in despair!  Is it anyone’s fault that you wandered away and got lost in an illusion of suffering and sorrow?
Listen, my friend! You are always divine. Just drop the layers, shatter the conditioning, break out of your self-created cage and be free! 
Stop this futile outward pursuit and turn your attention within. Find your divine origin, your source…it shines like the sun in your Heart.Returning to this source, you are going home to infinite, immortal, eternal awareness-bliss. This is the divine spark, the Self, that you always are.
Wake up from your nightmare, o child of grace! Now, before your body dies….seize this precious lifetime and find your true Being.
Come home to the Divine…your source and your goal.Be the Self and be happy and free!
( Picture by Meenakshi..the Source- Acrylic on canvas)

MAHA SHIVARATHRI

                                

Om Namah Shivaya.

Sing the praises of the Lord of Love, the formless infinite One they call Shiva. Know Him to be the source and the goal of everything, the Self of the Upanishads, the secret in-dweller in all living beings.

 For the delight of His devotees, He dances with names and forms through all eternity, while ever remaining the timeless, nameless, formless Perfection at the Center of it all.

Great King of Dance whirling through infinity, creation and destruction are but your sport. Dance in the hall in the roof of my skull and free me forever!

Facing South, your benign Silence removed the doubts of the four sages and granted them the ultimate knowing of Brahman. Gracious South-facing Lord, may your silence bless me with that same knowing!

Spouse of the great Goddess, O three-eyed Lord of Lords wearing serpents ,destroy my blindness and restore my infinite birthright of being one with you!

With Ganga flowing from your hair, O bearer of the trishul and player of the damarru, wild ash-covered Lord of Kailash, I surrender at your sacred feet.
Pray embrace me and absorb me into you!

O rider of the bull with the moon in your hair, bless me with your Grace! Sweet blue-throated Lord who swallowed the poison of the world, remove the poison of my ignorance and delusion with the sword of your gaze.

You who became an endless column of flame to teach Brahma and Vishnu the truth, and now bless us all with your mountain form as holy Arunachala, eat up my ego and let me dissolve in you!
O great Rudra,bless me today! 
Har,har,har Mahadev!

Surrender in the Heart

There is a cavern in my chest where all the  lifetimes lead.
A sun burns there with a cool light filled with infinite bliss.
This is the secret Heart praised by the sages, the home of the one Self that is the source and the substance of all things.
This is the goal, the ambrosial treasure, the subtle godhead.
God, the Guru, Sat-Chit-Ananda…..all part of this Light.
This is also the source of “I”, the place of pure Being.
I bow again and again to the sacred feet of the Guru, seated majestically and permanently in this Heart-lotus.
When one's gaze turns inward with the humility, focus, love and devotion of total surrender, the ego-mind dissolves in this flame.
Effort ceases here…and Grace takes over.

Nothing more needs to be done.

The Wedding

Inwards

Happiness is a state of being.
True and lasting  happiness does not come from objects or people or things; it wells up like a mountain spring from your own inner depths.
Turn inwards and find the Source of being , the Heart inside you, the place where "I" emerges from.
This is the greatest discovery you can ever make.
It is your birthright, this inner treasure, an infinite and eternal source of love and joy, strength and light and peace.
It is the Self, the power behind everything, the fount of divinity.
Once you have found it, hold on to it, stay rooted in this perfection.
It is yours always, the greatest gift of all.
This is the real purpose of your life, the truth of who you really are, the meaning and love and bliss that you have been searching for through thousands of lifetimes.
Right here inside you, right now.
So reverse your attention, go inwards, return to the source.
All you seek will be found.

Prodigal Son

“Somewhere in my youth or childhood

I must have done something good.”

There is truth in old songs, different times, distant lives...

I do not know what I ever did to deserve such blessing!

Suffering and weary, I came home to great Arunachala, 

I traded my rags of ego for the treasure of Self.

I offered the mite of my existence in humble surrender....

and was welcomed like a son of the house!

With forgiving compassion he took me into the perfection of his embrace-

Now ,clothed in the fine silks of eternity,

a diadem of infinity upon my brow,

 I feast in my father’s hall like a prince of old!

Lord of Lords

O Lord of lords,

Sweet Bhagavan,

Eternal and infinite  sun who shines on all,

You are the ultimate alchemist-

The touch of the edge of your shadow turns this human lead into divine gold.

Even in a lowly clod of earth ,like me,

Your compassionate grace is endless.

Like an elephant entering a tiny hut

You have filled the Heart in my chest -

How can I describe that bliss??

There is no I to thank you,

Just a hollow tube of  surrender running up my spine,

Through which you flow up like blessed white smoke

And sit like an emperor on the rock of my sahasrara chakra,

O Lord of lords,

Gracious Bhagavan!