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…

Sharana - Bhakta BHAKTA

The Laughter that Awakens

Poetic RenderingWhat use, O man,in reading a hundred scriptures,if a single grain of greed still roots in your heart?What use in hearing a thousand discourses,if one spark of anger can…

Prasadi - Aikya Bhakta - Aikya Maheshwara - Aikya

The Song of the One Without a Second

Poetic RenderingOne earth the altar for all temples,for no place stands holier than the ground beneath your feet.One water that cleanses all,for purity flows not from the river, but from…

Sharana - Bhakta BHAKTA

The Fire of Desire and the Discipline of the Soul

Poetic RenderingDo not cast your gazeupon what belongs to anotheryou have no need for that.Do not let greed cling to youlike a dog on the haunch of a wandering mountain…

Aikya - Sharana SHARANA

The Radiance of Compassion

Poetic RenderingHe who speaks harshly, even if wise, knows not the warmth of compassion.He who quarrels with the world, no matter his piety, has not tasted the sweetness of surrender.The…

Aikya - Sharana SHARANA

The Mark Beyond All Marks

Poetic RenderingWhen the Linga is tied upon one’s body does anyone still ask of birth or clan?When the flame of worship is lit within who speaks of high or low,…

Sharana - Bhakta BHAKTA

Poetic RenderingWhy shoulder another’s burden?Is your own not weighty enough?Why peer into another’s pathwhile your own soul waitsat the threshold of awakening?Turn away from the world’s noise.Let the needless questions…

Sharana - Bhakta BHAKTA

Purity in Earning, Purity in Giving

Poetic RenderingWealth stained by wrongdoingcan never serve the holyjust as the milk of a dognourishes only its own kind.How can devotion’s nectar arisefrom the poison of greed?Gold washed in another’s…

Pranalingi - Sharana SHARANA

The Crown of Inner Governance

Poetic RenderingDiscipline is this:to accept what comes your waywith open palms neither grasping in greednor murmuring in complaint.Discipline is this:to guard what is yours with honesty,to take no crooked gain,to…

Aikya - Sharana SHARANA

The True Kailasa is Within

Poetic RenderingWhy question the worth of onewho has turned from worldly tiesand offered his heart to Koodalasangama?Even if he was born in a house the world calls “low,”what weight does…