The Useless Treasure

Poetic RenderingO warrior in the battlefield,Why cling with greed to your arrows?O servant of the Divine,Why yearn so much for your life?O true devotee,Why desire the wealth of body, mind,…

Maheshwara - Prasadi PRASADI

The Rain of Compassion

Poetic RenderingRain may fall on stone it will not wet;if forgotten, it remains unfazed, unchanged.No matter how much one prays or devotes to the Linga,it continues beyond accounting, eternal and…

Maheshwara - Bhakta BHAKTA

Poetic RenderingWhat use is a tree thick with leavesyet bearing no fruit?What use is wealthwhen devotion is absent?What use is fruitguarded and poisoned by serpents?What use is lineagewhen virtue does…

Maheshwara - Aikya AIKYA

The One Self in All

Poetic RenderingWherever my wandering mind roams,whenever it sees someone as “other,”I bind it with this truth:The life within every beingis none but You.When my eyes fall upon another’s wife,I name…

Sharana - Maheshwara MAHESHWARA

The True Kinship

Poetic RenderingWhat worth are brothers, kin, or family ties?If they are not joined with the Linga,they are strangers to me.Clinging devotion to blood and lineageleads only to hell,O Koodalasangamadeva. The…

Bhakta - Maheswara MAHESHWARA

The Glance of Sincerity

Poetic RenderingWhy, O Lord, do the learned and the priestsspeak one thing yet live another?One garment for their conduct,another for the scriptures they preach!Climbing the ladder of divided desires,feeding on…

Maheshwara - Bhakta BHAKTA

Devotion Is Not on Sale

Poetic RenderingCan a pot once shatteredbe made whole for sacred use?Can a vow once brokenturn its keeper into a devotee?The banana plant yields fruit but once;the scorpion brings forth its…

Sharana - Maheshwara MAHESHWARA

The Master of the House

Poetic RenderingA house abandoned by its masteronly a stray dog slips in and out of such a place.I will not enter any dwellingwhere You, O Kudalasangama-deva, do not reside.This body…

Bhakta - Maheswara MAHESHWARA

The Ornament of Restraint

Poetic RenderingWhen the Divine calls you inwardinto the secret chamber of the heart,and you behold that radiant vision with lovedo not let lust sneak in and stain it.Do not, O…

MAHESHWARA Prasadi - Maheshwara

The Prayer for Sacred Sensory Gates

Poetic RenderingBlind me like one who cannot see beauty,deafen me like one who hears no gossip,mute me like one who utters no falsehood.Father, keep me untouched by worldly things,so that…