Best Bhagavad Gita Poems

“The Dissolving Heart” 

How many keys
played for seeds 
bleeding a life

read, received 
cast out 
in the left field 

planted in the heart
of karma to become
new life reflecting

inwards out to another 
holding the echoing
music kept safe 

still heard 
and felt 
for what it is

keys 
and notes
found...

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Let me set something straight -
Right here, right now!
Let me put India in the right perspective,
Let me banish some myths,
Some gross misconceptions,
And take you beyond elephants,
Sacred cows, snake charmers and yoga,
Beyond Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Taj Mahal,
To a civilization rooted for
over 5,000 years in the past
To...

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                             Brahman Nemesis

          22 But to those who...

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 A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
                                  
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14: If the soul meets death when Sattva prevails, then it goes to the pure regions of those who are seeking truth.
15: If a man meets death in a state of Rajas, he is reborn amongst those who are bound by their restless activity;and if...

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( A Translation of Kazi Nazrul Islam's famous Bengali poem "Samyabadi")

I sing the song of equality,
in which all obstacles and distance are dissolved,
in which the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Muslims 
and the Christians have got united.
I sing the song of equality!

Who are you?  A...

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At a mosque at Fatahpur, India, --- what was the capital city of the
Mughal Empire, --- Akbar (r. 1556 - 1505), the third emperor of the Empire, had constructed the largest gateway in India.  This imperial construct, Akbar's
Triumphal Arch, was meant to symbolize the...

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(Response to Mr. Lamoureux "Tell Me")

You say "Tell Me" "I really want to know"
Tell you what Richard? Really?
About a God sitting on a throne in high heaven
And you down below whining and fretting?

So...I thought, well...why not?
Let's go find you "a God!"

Sought I Him in places...

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English version of the Radha’s Love Song   1/2  Prelude on page 2



Those swinging trees and birds flying in the sky,
Those green creepers and the lovely Gokul*  hills,
Amid which, we used to play and get lost,  
In listening and feeling your...

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"For certain is death for the born
and certain is birth for the dead;
therefore over the inevitable
thou shouldst not grieve."

Bhagavad Gita, (Gita, Chap 2, Sec. 27)


So
why
do I
come to you
with these roses
to lay on your stone cold tomb?
And oh, why do I weep when I am thinking...

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Villanelle: The dilemma of the non-violent – 2

Villanelle: The dilemma of the non-violent – 2

The formal war according to ancient rules
The pitted hosts convened on common ground
Till the last man drops or takes to his heels

Pandavas* Kauravas* on Kurukshetra fields
Victim serfs spiral eddy underground
The formal...

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TRINITY TEST

“If a thousand suns were to rise in the heavens at the same time, the blaze of their light would resemble a little the supreme splendor of the Lord”(Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 11, Verse 12)

“ When the soul looks upon the Divine Sun the brightness dazzles...

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Villanelle: The dilemma of the non-violent – Part One

The dilemma of the non-violent
How best to withstand the misuse of force
The nonchalant imbued with mal-intent

Be it your neighbour or your own parent
The country cult sect religion or race
The dilemma of the non-violent

The more you bear in...

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When in twenties
I felt life was shallow
A meaningless existence
Was earning, eating and sleeping life?
Is there a bigger purpose for existing?
Someone suggested read Bhagavad Gita
First time I read it
I had a Deja Vu
It seemed I had read it before!
I read it in detail and found answer...

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Villanelle: After-life's the centrillion*-dollar question

After-life's the centrillion-dollar question
Where do we go to make amends pay for sins
KARMA* panacea for stupefaction

Who else escalates karmic evolution
Animals insects do they dog-eat-dog sins
After-life's the centrillion-dollar question

Heaven Hell be they but religious fiction
Lame constraints games to make us fight shy...

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