Friday, July 13, 2012

Lemmings

How to Take a Running Jump


Lemmings Blues

Did you ever have friends who were lemmings?
Tell you to follow them down to the sea?
They don't want your friendship;
they just want you to let them lead.

Then they drown in the ocean of disaster.
You can hear them sink and scream,
cryin' about how they should be the master.
They drown, and so does their dream.

tarunkrsnadas
Servant to ALL the devotees

Friday, July 6, 2012

Re-psych-killing

A Divergent Sub-Reality Game that Ruthlessly Destroys All Competitors, Especially the Winners


Nature's forests dropping leaves;
tomorrow seeks and finds her way
to nourish tender, growing seedlings
in the dead decay of yesterday.

Murdering crows, like vultures, feasting on the refuse
that's been consigned to lifeless, rotting maybes,
in excavated cemeteries, the eternal crematorium,
we perpetuate our useless futures and the futures of our babies.

As a cloud of formless forms, we reshape, regroup, regather, as we, collectively
digging in the so called artistry, in the chemistry, in poetry, in war or commerce, digging in manure,
we dream we're enjoying the taste sensation of a utopian free luncheon; we indulge our ghastly play,
die our lonely death and then return, hard-hearted refugees seeking selfish goals, we flee from all that's pure.

Here, more is less, a waste, a mess, the form of desperate cravings.
We must confess the sad distress we've created here and now, today,
as we profess to impress nobody in particular; the strangest stranger,
some shape-shifting no-one who neither cared nor mattered anyway.

We regard ourselves as noble, useful, celebrated, righteous and informed,
alas, we're merely criminals on a chain-gang, fettered to a useless, rigid karma.
Our duty is to listen, to humbly hear of truth; we absorb and understand,
so that when mercy floods our open souls, we recognise our dharma.

As profound as the glow of our little epiphanies seems to our moron minds,
it's all recycled garbage, reflections of the dead; it's all been done before.
Truth manifests as truth, never needing to reform.
Our lives are made of love, but in fear we cry for more.

tarunkrsnadas
Servant to ALL the devotees

Free From Fear

All Prisons are Prisons Regardless of what We Call Them


Once you take shelter of a pure devotee you'll never need to maintain nor protect yourself again since Krsna is our only maintainer and protector. Until you do take shelter, you'll continue to attempt to maintain and protect yourself.

We are not free to choose to follow in the dharma of our society thereby imagining that we are surrendering and becoming devotees of the Lord, looking for excuses in what others imagine the Truth to be; we are free to be ourselves as we really are: fully dependant upon the Lord.


That is the only freedom!

Why give up one attachment only to replace it with another? All prisons are prisons regardless of what we call them.

tarunkrsnadas
Servant to ALL the devotees

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Reminiscing

The Good Old Days


Remember what it was like, not so long ago, when Bhakti-Devi was here?

We could chant with a carefree joy in our hearts.

We swam in a lake of friendship and laughter.

The sweetness of the mood was beautiful ... so attractive.

That mood should have been protected at all costs.

These other things: buildings, power, political and social followers, members of your party who agreed with your ideas, alliances, self-respect and delusions of grandeur, even all of your overcollected, useless knowledge, and your dry kirtana. These things are just external and have no place in the realm of Bhakti-Devi.

Now She's gone away!

:(

tarunkrsnadas
Servant of ALL the devotees

Shine a Light

Blind in the Dark


It comes as no surprise
that I received spiritual eyes
by the sweet, loving mercy of my Gurudevas,
but still ...
"It's too dark here,
I can't see."

tarunkrsnadas
Servant to ALL the devotees

Perhaps

Perhaps


Perhaps none of us are right. Did you ever think of that?

tarunkrsnadas
Servant of ALL the devotees

PS. There used to be a funny show on TV that used some song as its theme, the chorus of which resounded to "Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps." Sorry, I couldn't resist stringing three perhaps together like that, but perhaps it's all just as well, perhaps, perhaps, maybe.

Knowing

Jnana is not necessarily Knowledge


Knowledge that does not support bhakti is just jnana, useless, even offensive.

tarunkrsnadas
Servant to ALL the devotees