From Herd Consciousness to Divine Civilization

Poetic RenderingWhat is a human,if Shiva’s light has not dawned within?In cow dung, countless tiny beings are borndoes that make them divine, O Lord?The herds of the forest stay together,the…

Aikya - Prasadi PRASADI

The Unshakable Faith

Poetic RenderingHow can you call faith small, O seeker?It is the very seed of devotion!How can you call the sun smallthe sun that bathes the whole world in light?How can…

Aikya - Sharana SHARANA

The Boundless Fellowship

Poetic RenderingThere is an end to dance,an end to song,an end to ritual,and even to daily worship of the Linga.But when the Sharanas of Kudalasangama gather,love has no boundary,giving knows…

Aikya - Sharana SHARANA

The Economy of Awakening

Poetic RenderingWhy take birth in this passing worldonly to gather and guardwhat slips through our fingers again and again?What value is there in such a life?Far better to sit, to…

Aikya - Prasadi PRASADI

The Antidote in the Bite

Poetic RenderingWhen I grasped the serpent of this worldly life,the fivefold senses bit me, injecting their venom.I was struck down, I stumbled and fell into a pit,though I kept chanting…

Sharana - Aikya AIKYA

Poetic RenderingIn the thick jungle of this worldly lifethere are indeed tigers,there are indeed bearsdangers seen and unseen at every turn.But the Sharana walks unshaken.Even where others tremble,his steps do…

Aikya - Sharana SHARANA

The Gust and the Market

Poetic RenderingThis world we chase afteris only a passing gust of windhere now, gone the next.And wealth?Just the noise of a crowded marketplace,a bustle that fades with the evening dust.Why…

Aikya - Prasadi PRASADI

The Ocean and the Cry

Poetic RenderingThe waves of this ocean of worldly liferise and crash, dashing against my very face.Tell me where is its shore?Tell me where is its depth?When its furious waves have…

Aikya - Pranalingi PRANALINGI

The Taste of the Real

Poetic RenderingWhat use is a pot brimming with sugarif the tongue never tastes its sweetness?In the same way,if the arm does not clasp the Linga close in living worshipif devotion…

Pranalingi - Aikya AIKYA

The Alchemy of Presence

Poetic RenderingWhen two beings, whole within themselves,meet in a single, unified visionthat very seeing becomes sacred.In that union of awareness with awareness,no second remains.There, O Kudalasangama,You Yourself gather and shine.…