Once the tiger of power you moun

You find well nigh impossible it to dismount!

Power easily goes to your head,

It makes you toxicity wed!

Your perspective it can well distort,

When power-drunk, to every well-meaning suggestion you have an egotistic retort!

Your vision it can severely blinker,

It can turn your behaviour into a real stinker!

Power for the sake of power is a deadly curse,

It will take your life from bad to worse,

So never such an accursed ambition nurse!

Naked pursuit of power turns you morally blind,

It is a sin of the deadliest kind!

Of your humanity it can you well rob,

It can turn you into the amoral swayer of mob after frenzied mob!

It can tempt you to barter your very soul,

It can ensnare you to slip into some diabolical role!

So mount this tiger with utmost

care,

Do it only if to use it as an instrument of good you can yourself dare!

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Let love be your creed,

And like anything you will succeed!

Love begets love manifold,

Has anyone you this thing told?

Love makes your whole being glow,

So let the river of love unimpeded flow!

When love courses through your veins,

You gain and the whole world gains!

There is no bigger gift you can someone give,

So let this bounty inside you always live!

Don’t let your inner fount of love ever run dry,

Shorn of that, you will never be happy,howsoever hard you may try!

In love lives God’s infinite grace

Which in material things you can hardly trace!

If the torch of love you carry,

Bliss and contentment you marry!

So never be, even if unwitting, a peddler of mindless hate,

That is the surest way to court an accursed fate!

Be a purveyor of selfless abundant love and grace,

And for ever find yourself in a happy and blissful place!

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Success is a heady feeling,

It can leave you reeling!

But when it really starts going to your head,

That is the time to see red!

That is the time to restore your sanity

Lest you fall a prey to

insidious vanity

And start seeing yourself of all that you survey the master

Than which to the road to perdition there can be no movement faster!

So view success with caution,

Lest a moral crisis for you it set into motion!

The more you succeed, the humbler you should be,

To a happy and balanced life that is certainly the key!

Offer your each success at the lotus feet of the Lord

So that the ocean of life with equanimity you can ford!

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The pandemic so much havoc has wrought,

So many invaluable lessons it has us taught,

But have we learnt any is a question that is fraught!

Are we as a species ready to turn over a new leaf?

Have we been sufficiently chastened by our collective suffering and grief?

Has our insufferable ego really been cut down to size?

Have we secured from the scourge caring and sensitivity as a coveted prize?

Do we now realise that there is something much bigger that exists outside of us?

Have we learnt to accept in the larger scheme of things our humble place without any fuss?

Has all our much touted material progress really been worth it?

Are we, even if late in the day, ready to reconsider our stance a bit?

Have we now developed for nature a new found respect

Or our behaviour is still going to be egregious and suspect?

In short, are we even now going to mend our sordid ways?

If not, we would better count as numbered on this planet our days!

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We Are All One

We are all entagled, we are all one,

Take it as a truth dusted and done!

I and you only different appear,

It seems that each of us belongs to a different sphere!

But what seems is not true,

We are all made of the same brew!

All talk of differences and cleavages is just sham,

No need to withhold our feelings from each other and our love dam!

Rivers naturally flow out to the ocean,

They become an indistinguishable part of its motion!

So let us flow out to others with love and without rancour,

Let us not after the false otherness of others hanker!

Of the all-pervasive cosmic energy we are all a part,

Let this message go from heart to pulsating heart!

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See things as they are,not as you are,

Otherwise in the discovery of truth you will not go far!

Why should you try to cast everything into your own mould?

Why should you everything a prisoner to your prejudices hold?

Let go of your egoistic mind to see a thing for what it is,

Lest its truth you for ever miss!

Shift focus from yourself to the one in front of you,

And a great service to truth you will do!

Do not let the shadow of your mind your judgement cloud,

Don’t let it the true colours of life shroud!

If you wish the thingness of a thing to itself manifest,

You will have to give your judgements and interpretations rest!

Stop playing God that you deem yourself to be,

If you want the truth in all its unmanifest glory to see!

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And So This Perennial Battle Rages

When loneliness cuts into your soul,
It no longer lets you remain whole!
When what you love you kill,
Nothing that you ever
do in life will fit the bill!
When indifference sears you to the bone,
You feel as if meaning out of your life has gone!
When contempt your skin does cut,
You feel you have taken a hit on your gut!
When love out of the window flies,
The innermost cell of your being cries!
When deceipt and duplicity hold sway,
You constantly find yourself in an existential fray!
When wisdom from the shore of life recedes,
Human folly all around apace proceeds!
When conflict and discord rule the roost,
They no way your will to live boost!
When you you see a callous rat race unfold before your eyes,
You sadly realise that there could be no bigger vice!
When for naked power we see the lust,
When we see our collective conscience rust,
And see goodness being ground to dust,
At times our faith in humanity goes bust!
But then we summon our courage to live to fight another day,
And do all we can to keep defeatism at bay!
And so this perennial battle rages,
For trying to live well you have to pay these wages!

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Be To Yourself True

Live life at your own pace,

No need to get bogged down by the rat race!

The rat race will make out of you a rat,

It is insidious enough to put you on the mat!

Stay away from its deceptive charm,

It is the gateway to incalculable harm!

Be your own person and walk at your own pace,

In it lies  real charm and  real grace!

You have nothing to lose and nothing to win,

So stay away from all needless clamour and din!

Be your own person and don’t go by the diktats of the times,

Do whatever with your our heart rhymes!

No need to needlessly name, fame, power, pelf and Mammon woo,

It is more important to listen to what your heartbeats tell you!

Your truth that within you pulsates and throbs,

Not heeding it you of your authenticity robs!

So be to yourself true,

By deceiving oneself no person in life ever grew!

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The Ghosts of the Past

The ghosts of the past do us often haunt,

Wonder what they from us want?

They heap upon us shame,

We hardly know how them to tame!

Our conscience they prick,

Inside us they build a hall of shame brick by brick!

Often they confront us to hold us to account,

And we are left wondering how this growling tiger to mount!

They won’t let us live in peace,

Out of our pleasant delusional reveries do they us so cruelly tease!

They are our karma come to meet us,

They will not brook any evasion or fuss!

We are left wondering how to lay them to rest,

Here repentance true and atonement alone will serve us best!

That is the only way to come to terms with this pandemic of shame,

That is the only way this runaway tiger to tame!

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Ever New Vistas They Explore

Wise people go where fools fear to tread

Because exploring uncharted territory they do not dread!

Ever new vistas they explore,

Living in the rut they deplore!

Ever new peaks they scale,

They boldly man their boats even in the face of a gale!

All-round brilliance they seek,

Not for them the life of the weak and the meek!

They are the ones who show the way

Because they are like the sunlit day!

They are above all atrocious divisions,

Of the lessons on humanity they need no revisions!

New glorious dimensions of life before us they unfold,

They are more precious than pure unalloyed gold!

Into complacent folly they can not be lulled,

They are the redeeming feature and the grace of the world!

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