The Alchemy of Unshakeable Love

Poetic RenderingWhen I proclaim admiration for the divine,You test my devotion by shaking my spine.If I claim union with the divine's grace divine,You test my resolve, subjecting me to life's…

Maheshwara - Bhakta BHAKTA

The Resonance of the Authentic Heart

Poetic RenderingThey call with garlands,they sing with lips,they flatter with tongue and gesture but the heart stands empty, untouched.Can Shiva come to such a call,where faith is hollow and love…

MAHESHWARA Prasadi - Maheshwara

The Cry of the Ego and the Silence of Grace

Poetic RenderingYou blessed the hunter who bound the bird,You listened to Arjuna’s word.You turned to ash the god of desire’s flame,Yet crowned Kannappa’s savage love with Your name. Their worship was…

Bhakta - Maheswara MAHESHWARA

The Sacred Alchemy of the Inner Wilderness

Poetic RenderingIn the tangled Vindhya-forest of my heart,where the tiger of fierce wanting prowls,teach that tiger to soften into a parrot of praiselet its savage breath turn to the chant…

Maheshwara - Bhakta BHAKTA

The Call Before the Last Breath: Awaken Now

Poetic RenderingBefore hair turns white and mocks your vanity,before the mirror laughsat your forgotten youth,before your teeth fall like dry leaves from a dying tree,before your knees tremble and your…

Maheshwara - Aikya AIKYA

Beyond Sound & Scripture: The Silence of Devotion

Poetic RenderingThey say He loves music yet He is beyond the reach of sound.They say He loves the Vedas yet no scripture binds His heart.Those who sang in vanity lost…

Maheshwara - Sharana SHARANA

Ritual Cannot Purify the Heart

Poetic RenderingBecause they do not know You,their hands gather only grass for offering.Because they have not realized,they wear the sacred threada noose mistaken for holiness.They scrub their clothes,plunge into water…

Maheshwara - Sharana SHARANA

The Sandal-Dust of the Sharana Weighs More Than the World

Poetic RenderingIf the mountains were crushed to dustand every grain placed upon the scale,stillthe sandals of a true sharanawould send that weightless dustrising like smoke.For in those sandals walksKoodalasangamadeva’s own…

Maheshwara - Aikya AIKYA

The Sharana: The Living Jewel of Creation

Poetic RenderingHe who worships the Linga with a heart unmoved,who walks no path but Yours, O Lord,shines like the radiant gemresting on the hood of the cosmic serpentsteady, luminous, serene.Unwavering…

Maheshwara - Sharana SHARANA

When the Word and the Walk Divide

Poetic RenderingWords may pour like honeysweet on the tongue, pleasing to the earbut if the walk falters, beware!For the very Linga you wear with pridebecomes a serpent coiled in the…