Let go and breathe easy,

Otherwise because of your baggage you will be in a tizzy!

It will weigh you down,

And on your brow there will always be a frown!

Don’t hold old grudges and animosities tight,

Let go so as to travel light!

Learn from the past and take its leave

So that in the present you can beautiful patterns weave!

Haven’t you often heard and read

That life is about forging ahead!

Move on without any dead weight,

Do not pander to any old prejudice or simmering hate!

With a clean slate approach every day,

That is surely an enlightened person’s way!

Arun Bhagat

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Do not stand by my framed half portrait and shed a tear,

Somehow somewhere my mortal coils still I wear.

I am the sparkle in your eyes

Which start shining in a trice.

I am the smile hovering over your lips,

I am there to give you on life some absorbing tips.

I am the love that inside you wells up,

I am there at the table with you to sup.

I am there as your conscience-keeper,

Of the crop of your good deeds I am the reaper.

I am the bounty that inside you feel,

I am there to steer you towards your welfare and weal.

I am the twinkling star in the sky

That reaches out to you without any what and why.

I am the book you continue to read,

I am there to stand by you in your every hour of need.

I am of your garden the fragrant flower,

I am the shady tree in your bower.

I am the one who still with you walks,

I am the one who still you out of your troubles talks.

So do not stand by my picture and grieve,

I am always by your side even if you me disbelieve!

Arun Bhagat

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Every day is a a second chance to make things right,

To pick up the gauntlet and get ready for truth to fight!

Every morning is a clarion call to mend your ways,

It beckons you to brighten with righteousness your days!

Every dawn exhorts you to set your house in order

And not to mindless negativity become fodder!

Every day gives you an opportunity your hidden talents to tap,

And the contours of an amazing future life to map!

Each new turn of the day calls upon you to keep defeatism at bay

And to a better existence through the thickets of life find your way!

Every day adds to the palette of your experience a new colour,

Than not using those colours to paint the canvas of your life there can not be anything duller!

Every new person you meet is an amazing book

That can transform the way at life you look!

Every creature entering your life is the Living God,

Loving it unconditionally will from the heavens surely win you an approving nod!

Embrace each day as the harbinger of good things,

That is the blessed way to give you life wings!

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Realise your potential

And establish your credential!

Measure up to what you can be,

That is the only way to live a life full and free!

Stand tall towering like a mountain,

Of immense possibilities you are a fountain!

Break free of your self-imposed limitations,

And you will be blessed with divine visitations!

Tell yourself that you will be what you think you are,

And, God willing, you will go far!

God has put you to this test,

On your oars He does not want you to rest!

He wants you to forge ahead,

He wants you your dreams to wed!

Of your amazing possibilities He wants you to reach the summit,

Any lethargy on your part He does not want to permit!

Wake up and rise to your innate nature’s clarion call,

Lest into the trap of mere ordinariness you fall!

Take a giant leap to transform into a luminous star,

Don’t let dull mediocrity your glorious destiny mar!

Arun Bhagat

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Do not stress over what you can not change,

Get over things which are out of your range!

Move on, do not linger over what went wrong,

Every dawn brings in its wake a new song!

Every day is pregnant with new meanings,

Snap out of your old outworn beliefs and leanings!

Every moment life is new and newly aglow,

So learn to go unhesitatingly with its flow!

What you were even a moment ago is dead and gone,

Every moment you a new mantle don!

Every day you are a person new

To whom a fresh perspective is due!

Today of yesterday sounds the death knell,

So do not on old wounds and grudges dwell!

Without any baggage every moment embrace,

And find your life suffused with grace!

Arun Bhagat

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Open you heart to those around,

And with happiness your life surround!

Open your door to the world big and wide,

And in no time you will find turning in your favour the tide!

Open your eyes to the ever unfolding wonders,

And see how lightning thrills you to the bone while the sky thunders!

Open your mind to possibilities vast,

And see your life transform radically and fast!

Open your arms to embrace all that is good and great,

And for liberation you will not for long have to wait!

Open your soul like a flower opens to the sun,

And by a mile the race of life you will have won!

Arun Bhagat

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If you decide to sulk in a corner and languish,

You are in for a lot of needless anguish!

If you easily give way to despondency and despair,

For a lot of trouble you should yourself prepare!

If you are crazily self-obsessed,

Consider yourself by the devil possessed!

If you are given to wanton lying,

That is before death dying!

If you are just greedy for more and more,

Rest assured that you have let your good sense go out of the door!

Since life gives you choices, do wisely choose

So that life doesn’t become around your neck a noose!

Why not choose to flourish

And your soul nourish?

Why not be loving and grateful

Instead of being bitter and hateful?

Why not the advice of the sane and the noble heed

And do every day some selfless good deed?

Why not infuse new blood into your life– a game of dice–

By every welcoming morn trying something new and nice?

Why not the small things of life savour and relish

And let the very thought of hopelessness and angst perish?

Why not?

Arun Bhagat

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Never thought life would come to this,

The days of yore will be so sorely missed!

Never thought that human contact would become so rare,

And by stewing in our own juice, we would so miserably fare!

Never thought that we would become prisoners in our own homes,

And on our misery write countless tomes!

 Never thought that fear would so stalk the land

That, even in the deepest crisis, none would offer you his hand!

Never thought that, even in today’s time, illness would take such a heavy toll,

And death will be on such a roll!

Never thought that nature would thus mock our much vaunted mind,

And like this put us through the grind!

Never knew that it would thus put us through the wringers,

And many of our own would just slip through our fingers!

Never realised that had we not taken nature for granted,

Perhaps so many of our ongoing nightmares won’t have us haunted!

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This is a nightmare without any end!

Why should we otherwise pretend?

The way lives are being snuffed out,

About nature’s unprecedented ferocity there isn’t any doubt!

The way the Covid juggernaut does roll,

It is taking such a heavy toll!

The way we are losing people all around us,

To our morale and sanity no good it does!

While unspeakable pain sears the land,

Many a time we can’t even stand with the sufferers and lend a helping hand!

The way we havoc with nature and humanity played,

We should see it as tragedy tailor made!

Nature has its own way to get even with us,

We all should have known thus!

Our self-made destiny we can not escape,

The shackles of our karmas we just can not shake off or break!

This is divine retribution playing out,

Howsoever much we may rave, rant and shout!

Let us snap out of our delusional hubris and for our collective sins forgiveness seek,

Because God sides with the truly contrite and the meek!

As they say, the gentle and the meek shall inherit the earth,

Let us of the above words realise the true worth!

Arun Bhagat

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I saw a man on a roll

Because he had no goal!

He had no baggage to carry,

For nothing was he going to tarry!

He was without any encumbrances,

In his way there were hardly any hinderances!

He was a man on the go,

Ready with life to flow!

He was a bird in swift flight

Because of everything he made light!

He had no possessions,

He was devoid of any obsessions!

He had no pretence

Because he only cared for life’s essence!

He had nothing to hide,

There was no reason for him his time to bide!

He had no feet of clay,

No base passions could him sway!

He lived every day as if there would be no other,

Oh! How he loved life, brother!

He would be one with the elements,

In the clear waters of his life, there were no life-choking sediments!

Then something jolted me out of my sleep,

And the loss of that creature of my dream made me almost weep!

Arun Bhagat

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