{"id":10541,"date":"2012-05-18T11:33:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T10:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=10541"},"modified":"2012-05-18T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T10:34:22","slug":"a-souls-journey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=10541","title":{"rendered":"A Soul’s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nim\u0101i Pa\u1e47\u1e0dita D\u0101sa:
\n“Are you he or are you she?”, oh c’mon, let it be,
\ndon’t you surmise, don’t you guess, ’cause I’m not what you see. (1)
\nNow ‘n’ then I change my clothes, so you can’t recognize,
\nwe could’ve been friends or foes, but now I’m in disguise. (2)
\nOnce, I lived for very long in eternal knowledge ‘n’ bliss,
\nuntil decided to leave, and explore this wretched abyss. (3)
\nI wished to be like Him or above, and imitate His nature,
\nnot realizing that His love’s far greater than His stature. (4)
\nSince the time I came here, ‘ve been wandering about the universe,
\ncaptured by the beauty ‘n’ glare, forgetting my real purpose. (5)
\nWhen I looked around, was shocked that this isn’t my home,
\nbut gave me solace, gave me ground to know I’m not alone. (6)
\nDidn’t waste time and took the helm of strife for subsistence,
\ncomprehending not this realm is one of non-existence. (7)
\nMustered all the gut in my struggle to win the rat race,
\ninstead got kicked in the butt and fell flat on my face. (8)
\nAmbitious to go too fast was blinded like a bat,
\nnot realizing first or last, will simply remain a rat. (9)
\nGot some success and was lost in now this is my haven,
\nall the time, at the cost of exploiting my brethren. (10)
\nIn my quest for deeper ‘n’ higher and build the power to stay,
\nshackled myself faster ‘n’ tighter and threw the key away. (11)
\nSometimes pigly, sometimes heavenly, sometimes in the stool,
\npaying for my anomaly, repeatedly made a fool. (12)
\nAlas, now I could see all contentions were in vain,
\nall they could reward me was excruciating pain. (13)
\nShe who you love most becomes someone else’s mistress,
\nhappiness we welcome’s just an absence of distress. (14)
\nAll the time was anxious for that which wasn’t mine,
\nhankering ‘n’ lamenting for what wasn’t worth a dime. (15)
\nLife begins with questioning this misery and this sorrow,
\n“You’re too dreary”, my mind told me, “there’s yet to come tomorrow.” (16)
\nMy mind got me enchanted, but tomorrow never came,
\ntaking me for granted, by playing a crooked game. (17)
\nThe whole macrocosm is an illusory deception,
\nbut in my microcosm, wished I could be an exception. (18)
\nI sincerely prayed for the day when I’d solve life’s conundrum,
\nuntil a brother crossed my way to remind me where I came from. (19)
\nSurely when we move, does providence move too,
\nHe took hundred steps toward me, though I took merely two. (20)
\nI must prepare for death, so learned should serve, love, and give,
\nbut what to speak of death to he who knows not how to live? (21)
\nThen I met a sage who said, “Son, take a deep breath,
\nyouth is prep for old age, just as life is for death.” (22)
\n“Give up this world like a dream, seek not this mirage,
\nall that delights here extreme, has but a false visage.” (23)
\nKnowledge came, wisdom came, soon we got along,
\nlater realization came, to me they always belong. (24)
\nThen I declared war against all of illusion,
\nderanged that I was, for I had nil ammunition. (25)
\nBeaten ‘n’ bruised, blue ‘n’ black, stood before my enemy,
\nformidable as a sand-sack, though wished I could flee. (26)
\nNow that I have His holy name, and austerity in arsenal,
\nI’d better put away my shame, and interest in the carnal. (27)
\nAlright, alright, I’m austere as far as I can be,
\nbut why so austere as calling a damsel ‘Mataji’? (28)
\nThus I whine peevishly, unaware of the reason,
\nfalling down shamefully, learning a bitter lesson. (29)
\nTo your beads dimwit, why haven’t you yet clung?
\nThrust your fingers into it and roll them with your tongue. (30)
\nAs our lives linger on, each awaits his knell,
\nbehold His lotus face anon, it’s tough to go to hell. (31)
\nIs it to steal, is it to rend, what’s sin, can you fathom?
\nIt’s merely forgetting Him, my friend, all else is just the symptom. (32)
\nHow steep the climb, how cold the clime, where’s the difficulty?
\nIt’s just a matter of time, we’ll spend with Him eternity. (33)
\nBeen thinking what I’d say to Him about my parody,
\nat least I entertained Him wholly with my comedy. (34)
\nI ain’t a poet, neither arty, nor a devotee,
\nin His majestic humility, He serves Himself thru me. (35)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nim\u0101i Pa\u1e47\u1e0dita D\u0101sa: “Are you he or are you she?”, oh c’mon, let it be,
\ndon’t you surmise, don’t you guess, ’cause I’m not what you see. (1)
\nNow ‘n’ then I change my clothes, so you can’t recognize,
\nwe could’ve been friends or foes, but now I’m in disguise. (2)
\nOnce, I lived for very long in eternal knowledge ‘n’ bliss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}