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Alchemy of Offering

Poetic RenderingAmong men, the learned and the valiantlock horns in endless quarrelwords leaping like sparks,scorching pride into ash.One wins and boasts,another loses and broods;yet both remain caughtin the same dusty…
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Miner of the Heart

Poetic RenderingHidden deep in the earth lie treasures untold;only a practiced eye knows where the richness sleeps.So fear not, childlet no doubt divide your mind.For within the Jangama toothe Linga…
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Point of No Return

Poetic RenderingClay once shaped into a potcan never again become mere clay.Butter churned into gheecannot return to its milky form.Gold cannot turn into ore,and the pearl never dissolves back into…
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True Currency

Poetic RenderingTheir bodies may wear the clothing of poverty,their homes seem bare,their outward lives simple as dust.But look into their mindsvast, luminous, immeasurable.In the purity of their courage,in the clarity…
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Shade is not mine

Poetic RenderingWho sits beneath a treeand dares to say,“This shade belongs to me”?Before Your Sharanas,what sort of bhakta am I?Before their vast knowing,what claim can my little wisdom make?Standing in…
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Seedless Heart

Poetic RenderingThe body of a true devotee, O Lord,must be like the stem of the plantaintender, open, without hardness inside.Those ripened in Your graceare wholly consumed  fruit, seed, and skin…