Long Ananda Poems

I Am, I be and I so become, one with all of the universe
softened attention osmotically percolating boundless space 
blurring boundaries between form and formlessness
that that is, is the singular I Am presence, vibration of...

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The Four Obstacles
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The first obstacle is Sleep
Or the lack of control over it
To be overcome by discipline 
The Body Mind neither deprived - nor overindulgent
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The second obstacle is distraction 
of senses towards exterior objects
The world...

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Ramana’s inquiry: Who am I? 
Where ‘I’ eternal, not merely mind-body
Nor fleeting, fickle emotions that make us sigh
Where then lies fulcrum of consciousness immediacy

Beginning with the here and now this-ness of our identity
We recognise between...

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.....................can I 
..................In words
.................Draw her
........….....Graceful Ma
...............AnandaMoyi
..............an attempt  to
.......draw her. Flowing grace
......Saint. Beautiful. In words..
....Flowing Soothing Feminine..
..That’s Ma - Anandamoyi
..Embodiment.  Living Divinity
..Graceful Divine  Feminine.......M
.There is nothing   much here.….A
..In this picture ,........flame
.Just...

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Joy of pleasure, a child of poor parents,
Bliss alone founts from a perpetual spring,
Joy fancies scores of fond uncles and aunts, 
Never lasts long the song they choose to sing.
Being a moth made of mere...

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It's dark in here and we're caged in, please set us free, 
that innate childlike innocence flows like the breeze,
is our appeal to whatever forces that be,
infusing in heart, bliss rapture in a slow tease.

One...

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Who doesn't want to be Happy?
We all seek Happiness
We search for it from birth to death 
But the true treasure of Bliss we miss 
Success is Happiness, we were taught 
And in this myth, we...

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Now that you’re with me, be my guest—
Like me a life-long traveller,
Enjoy night-long welcome and rest,
Tomorrow, let’s leave together.

You may go to your way, I mine
To be a bird rare that may call
And never heard...

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Just as fire is a good slave but a bad master, our power to reason, analyse and discern is both liberating as well as confining. Relying upon experience, memory and vicarious knowing, thoughts as deductive...

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Inner luminescence 
Bliss in permanence 
That that does not come and go
Assimilated in staid stillness slow
Liken it to a magnetic tickle
Caress divine that’s not fickle
Irrespective of the external
Just like our breath, eternal

Sorrow that arises from...

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20.8
“Where is the knower?
Where is knowing?
Where is the known, 
or knowledge itself? 
Where is anything?
Where is nothing?
I am pure Awareness”

Verse revisited on 27-November-2022

Standing in, within yet apart from the template of space-time
Beyond all phenomenal worlds,...

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He lay in silent contemplation
His breath leaving the stead
The smile without the why
Ananda..stood by in dire
Oh Lord our guide
Where art thou ?
Apo Deepo Bhava
These words rang out stellar
The shell was cast away
This message for mankind...

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From 
darkness, 
we wish to 
shift into light, 
as innate instinct,
as we are pure spirit,
divine and self-luminous,
pulsating with rapturous bliss,
in resonation with throb of love,
fullness, scriptures call Sat-chit-ananda.

Our true presence has no limitation,
yet now wishes...

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