The Gunas three twirl us around
Hemmed in, all we may do is to respond
In waking, dream and deep sleep states
Mindful not to trauma bond
Tamas or sloth, a measure of our instinct
Stupor and inertia bogs us down
Yet if our heart be love inked
Transformed as light, we can never drown
Bemused by illusions, Rajas, fire of desire
Propels identity into action
But dwelling in stillness, eye of each storm
Feral urges gain no traction
Purity of Satva is the love and light of Self
A singularity wherefrom we chose to descend
Thus vaporising lower mind in surrender
We behold our inner being ascend
The see-saw battle of mind-body and senses
Manifests through the Gunas, that we may learn
That if God be the sconce within our heart
His flame of love and light in us will forever burn
Categories:
rajas, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
The Gunas three, both boon and bane
For without rest, we'll go insane
Rajas, the cauldron of desire
Whilst Sattva, sunshine in the rain
Propelled through life until we tire
Seems without cause, we did perspire
Whence heart is still, voids within fill
Save God, nothing that we aspire
Once we surrender to God's will
Gently shaped upon life's anvil
All's enabled in timeless time
Smooth is our soul's ascent uphill
Head-heart aligned, hark the love chime
Grace in-pours from divine sublime
Bliss magnetism pervades our form
Life becomes an unending rhyme
Singular focus through each storm
Guna's hold no longer the norm
See oh hermit, there's no one here
That that is, is bliss current warm
Ego disappears, God draws near
Our life course, He Himself does steer
All we do, is frolic and play
God's light within, we hold so dear
Knowing now that love paves the way
We make throb of joy our mainstay
Being to become, a bliss mist
Luminous, beauteous sun ray
18-February-2022
Categories:
rajas, god, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
The Gunas three, twirl us around
Sattva, Rajas, Tamas
Rapturous bliss, in each state found
Love and light, our compass
Slow down the pendulum
Of this here body prism
Tranquil continuum
Duality
The Gunas three
~~~
The Gunas three - all become one
When fears and desires rest
Thus when our ego comes undone
Bliss throbs within our chest
In the current flowing
No coming or going
Save joy scintillating
Serenity
The Gunas three
05-October-2021
Quietus
Categories:
rajas, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Tamas
I began in my mother's womb where darkness clothed me
still carrying taste of death upon my tongue I suckled and kicked free
there were dancing lights and tears in the Universe gathering me to life
it didn't take long I did forget, I pierced the veil and wailed like a knife
Rajas:
I drank the nectar of the wild flower consumed the salinity of my goods
entered into karma like a Gita in a wave of passion, no longer was I wood
pulsing into life I sipped the juices of my passion and enjoyed the rays
with third eye open I was guided through my living numbered days
Sattva:
Like a pear tree laden with heavy fruit, life began to take its toll
like Saraswati I let go, then held on to a mala and a palm leaf scroll
swept away by a joy so pure, I found the core of love's own goal
there was nothing else I needed so I climbed the lotus of extol
All lies melted away in the face of truth and revelation ,
I lost myself in worship, became a sweet oblation.
Date: April 17, 2021
Sponsor: Unseeking Seeker
Contest Name: Where are we headed
Categories:
rajas, faith,
Form: Rhyme
The
Gunas
out of which,
Tamas stupor
requires to awake,
in shift of awareness
pausing at Rajas aspect,
whereupon we address our fears,
mirroring desires and attachments,
until Satvik stance becomes permanent.
This vibrational ascent is our choice,
attained by looking softly inwards,
melding ego with glowing heart,
as our total surrender,
ever aglow, vibrant,
centred in the void,
devoid of fears
and desires;
our soul,
free.
09-March-2021
Categories:
rajas, spiritual,
Form: Etheree
viewing an object of desire
immersion in materiality
losing ourself therein
slave to the senses
lustful passions rising
our thirst keeps deepening
correspondent to indulgence
poised yet as an animated thought
heart awaiting actual fulfilment
wherefrom we gradually shift
our attention into the void
smiling at the descent
of consciousness
self serving
looking within
through foggy vision
mind offers specious logic
to placate our feel good factor
in alignment with our belief system
that we may carelessly dismiss
the root cause of ego craving
as deep dark delusion
owing to our stupor
stagnating in mind body
at Guna Tamas and Rajas
self blocking the Satva impulse
call of love divine in our heart
beckoning us in earnest
to meld head therein
in tranquil bliss
no judgment
rather recognition
of what is as is within
rising and ebbing emotions
having roots in our lower mind
which we then simply transmute
by allowing divine magnetism
to gently steer energies
into pathways of love
ever present within
our glowing heart
03-February-2021
Categories:
rajas, love, lust, muse,
Form: Free verse
God or Sat being the only true substance
Choicelessly chooses to manifest existence
Dividing Himself into two by His creativity
Creating thus a pulse manifested as polarity
The pulse the word the outpouring being Ohm
Wherefrom arose the Universe we call our home
In the void of stillness He remains neutral
Attraction & repulsion orbiting the Sun central
Thus is set up the triad or trinity of energies
Satva & Rajas & Tamas in a play for eternity
That that He may behold Himself in surprise
He slips into stupor to gradually awake & rise
This play then enacted in the field of maya
Where space-time-matter become an enigma
Veil of illusion creating in life feeling of identity
Appearing to be limited though in truth infinity
Delusion of each lifetron rooted in stagnation
Freedom instant centred in source of causation
Maya manifestation being but division illusionary
Reflection of vibrations in a dream world imaginary
Eternal truth Sat found in stillness of meditation
Evident in the void of each pulse polarity rotation
Stretching the void by stilling flickering attention
We are one with the absolute in blissful elation
Categories:
rajas, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
This practice asks us to get to the root
Of everything ... forsooth!
We meditate
Contemplate
Shifting from gross to subtle
Layer by layer cognition spherical
Until we get to the subtlest
Rarified ... finest
For instance if we take matter
We shift from earth to water, fire, air and ether
Likewise the Gunas that orientation define
We move from Tamas to Rajas to Satva to align
In prayerful stillness nearer to God connectivity
Love hues too joy, empathy, compassion & purity
Five sheaths of the body
Thoughts refined as well as shoddy
The practice asks us to contemplate in a continuum
Shifting to the source eradicating the gross residuum
In all aspects of consciousness divine love our fulcrum
18-August-2020
Categories:
rajas, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
fools
misguided, gullible
blundering, stultifying, erring
dunderheads, imbeciles, rajas, emperors
reigning, succeeding, conquering
powerful, mighty
kings
Date written: 08/06/2020
Categories:
rajas, art, creation, truth,
Form: Diamante