Long Bhagavad gita Poems

 A French ‘Indianist’ Doctor: A Tribute to a Die-hard Humanist
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Placed First in:
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                             Brahman Nemesis

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9.7 Bhagavad Gita As It Is "The whole cosmic order is under Me."
10.8 Bhagavad Gita As It Is "I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me ."
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“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...

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Only so pleased by sacrifice
Proffered through sacred flame,
Graceful gods do give gifts of choice
So deserved by unselfish aim;
He that eats fruits by them bestowed,
And gives not so in turn,
Who gets, not so does earn,
A thief...

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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. ...

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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...

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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...

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When in twenties, I was distressed,
There was so much suffering around, I just couldn't bear it
If God existed, why was he not doing anything
So many unanswered questions

A friend suggested I should read scriptures
In them I...

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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...

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A serpentine row of pillars of stone  
Winding through farms, woods and much weeded track
Like suture marks upon earth's bordered skin,  
And white-washed, each proclaiming its number in black.  

Stones planted to...

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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...

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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...

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A Pinch of Pride

                            A pinch of pride...

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We are a part of God, within him
God is a part of us, within us

We are a part of world, within it
Although we seem to be working for us,
we are actually working for the world

There’s...

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We serve people in surroundings seeking service, satisfaction and simple pleasures in return
When someone dies, same is snatched away and we shed tears thinking how we will survive alone

Grief gives a glimpse of innate selfishness...

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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...

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Too bad, for long has man shun a dark night.
But darkness ‘tis that lets deeper insight,
What opens up a rich treasure
That light blindfolds beyond measure,
It’s dark that unravels man’s inner blight
That no mundane light ever...

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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...

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Absolute Faith

“Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.” (Bhagavad Gita 18:66)

Note: Bhagavad Gita is an ancient Indian spiritual treatise.
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We seek salvation
From drudgery of life, cessation
Salvation not easy, all say
Scriptures provide simple way

Our last thoughts before our end
On this our salvation depends
Those who think of God and die
Those who utter his name before they...

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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...

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A restless yearning to make all brokenness whole,
An unquenchable thirst of finding the life's soul;
An endless desire to explore this universe,
A child-like fancy with moon and stars to converse…

To gather pearls of poesy scattered around,
And...

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