Pranalingi - Aikya Sharana - Aikya AIKYA

The Final Resting Place

Poetic RenderingWhere does the boundless ocean rest?Upon the broad and patient earth.Where does the earth itself rest?Upon the mighty serpent’s jeweled hood.And where does that serpent rest?Upon the sacred emblem…

Aikya - Prasadi PRASADI

The Pearl-Maker’s Yearning

Poetic RenderingLike an oyster lying open in the vast, restless sea,I watching, exposed, helpless in my longing.For without You, I cannot form this pearl within;Only You can enter as that…

Pranalingi - Aikya AIKYA

The Ocean’s Repose

Poetic RenderingMy devotion rose like a mighty oceanthen softened, settling as dew upon a single leaf.In that tiny bead of rest I laugh aloud;in that same bead I whirl into…

Aikya - Pranalingi PRANALINGI

The Dawn Beyond Fate

Poetic RenderingIf in the early dawn, as awareness first awakens,the mind turns wholly toward the Linga,then calamity, untimely death, and the knots of fatefall away like shadows before the rising…

Sharana - Aikya AIKYA

The Linga Anga Yoga: The Confluence of Two Lights

Poetic RenderingThe sunlight rising is the life-breath of the lotus;The moon’s cool glow is the life-breath of the water-lily.So too, within this fragile body,the meeting-place of devotion and awarenessis the…

Sharana - Aikya AIKYA

The Cosmic Joke

Poetic RenderingCan I call the all-embracing Siriyalaa devotee who offered even his only sona mere merchant?Can I call Sharana Machideva, radiant in truth, a washerman?Can I call Sharana Kakkaya, pure…

Aikya - Maheshwara MAHESHWARA

The Covenant of the Self

Poetic RenderingWhat binds the Primordial Awarenessto this fragile vessel of flesh?It is this alone:that the vessel speaks only what is true,and walks precisely the paththat its own words have declared.But…

Sharana - Aikya AIKYA

The Altar of the Self

Poetic RenderingBeneath the festive garlands, the sacrificial lamb grazes, unaware.Unknowing of the knife that awaits its throat, the feast that demands its flesh.Was it born for this purpose? Was its…

Aikya - Prasadi PRASADI

The Flood and the Foundation

Poetic RenderingWhen a flood rolls forward with fortune on its back,the lakes beside it brim to their edges.What belongs to another remains theirsnot even kings or clans can claim its…

Sharana - Aikya AIKYA

The Divine Armor

Poetic RenderingBehold the golden bangle that circles the wristit shines for all to see,yet it cannot be passed from hand to hand.See the armlet shaped to one man’s measurewhat fits…