Maheshwara - Bhakta Aikya - Bhakta BHAKTA

The Two Hands of Grace

Poetic RenderingWith a bowl of milk in one hand,and a staff of discipline in the other,the Jangama comes to me as fatherfeeding with love,guiding with firmness.He is the living shrine…

Maheshwara - Bhakta Pranalingi - Bhakta Sharana - Bhakta

The Urgency of Now

Poetic RenderingWhy wait? Why wander in delay?Before this body hardens like unripe fruit,taste the sweetness of truth now.Life is a spark hidden in a dying emberbefore it cools to ash,…

Prasadi - Aikya Bhakta - Aikya Maheshwara - Aikya

The All Consuming Radiance

Poetic RenderingWherever I turn my eyes,Your radiance meets me first.In joy, in sorrow,in the quiet chambers of thoughtonly You shine.How can darkness standbefore the face of the sun?So too, when…

Prasadi - Aikya Sharana - Aikya Bhakta - Aikya

The Cosmic Body of God

Poetic RenderingWherever I turn,only You shine before me.Eyes of every creature are Your eyes,faces in all directions are Your face.The hands that hold the world,the feet that steady the earthall…

Bhakta - Aikya AIKYA

The Final Surrender

Poetic RenderingWhen my heart is full,when my mind is clear,when my tongue ripens in Your songthen, Father, pour into methe nectar of Your name.Let this blooming heartsoften, fall,and become dustat…

Pranalingi - Aikya AIKYA

The Eternal Fragrance

Poetic RenderingSome say I am born,some say I die but in birth I drinkthe water of Your sacred feet,and in death I fallto rest upon them.What matters where a tree…

Sharana - Aikya AIKYA

The Final Breath of Surrender

Poetic RenderingLet troubles come as they willI shall not fear.Let my bones tremble,let my nerves quiver,let my breath falterI shall not fear.Even if this headis severed and falls to the…

Prasadi - Aikya AIKYA

Poetic RenderingLord, make my body Your flute.Let my head become Your single-stringed bow,my nerves the stretched and trembling strings,my fingers the living plectrum in Your hand.Play upon me, Lord,as the…

Aikya - Prasadi PRASADI

The Ripening Fruit

Poetic RenderingMy gain and loss are Yours,my rise and my ruin are Yours,my honor and my shame are Yours.Like a fruit ripening on the vineonly by the sun’s grace,so does…

Sharana - Aikya AIKYA

The Witness of Humility

Poetic RenderingNone is smaller than I am,none greater than the devotees of Shiva.Your feet bear witness to this,and my own heart affirms it.This alone is truth,O Koodalasangamadeva. Basavanna declares the…