Coming Home: Poetry of the Spirit serves as the introduction to a trilogy of poetry on love and the journey. It is the realisation of poet Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur's deepest dream to make his poetry available to the world at large. This vol

Coming Home

Poetry for the SpiritBy Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur

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Copyright © 2012 Ajit Sripad Rao Nalkur
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ISBN: 978-1-4759-3513-4

Contents

The Song of the Poet...........................1A Moment of Eternity...........................2The Master.....................................3The Hour of the Unexpected.....................4A Vision of the Heart..........................5Because they Care..............................6The End........................................8Utopean Dream..................................10The Call.......................................11The Inner Sense................................12Be Yourself!...................................14To live Again..................................16The Final Outcome..............................17Soul Morning...................................19True Love over All.............................21India Calling..................................22Sacred Ancestors...............................23Beyond Tomorrow................................25Mirra Alfassa..................................26Moment of Silence..............................28Our Home.......................................30You............................................32All for You....................................34Coming to Earth................................35New World......................................36Home-View......................................38Glimpse........................................40Love and Freedom...............................41The Way of the Unafraid........................42To the Beloved.................................44

Chapter One

    The Song of the Poet

    A poet I live,
    A poet I'll die,
    If life's an illusion
    Death is a lie!

    A life of the spirit
    And only of the spirit
    Will I lead,
    What else is there to live for
    If spirit be the seed?


    A Moment of Eternity

    Let poetry not die in me,
    Let moments of eternity
    Awaken thoughts of beauty deep
    Within me, let me never sleep
    Buried in earth's stupor strong
    And weary as its days are long,
    For in the crowdedness of man's
    Actions blind there is a hand
    In secret guides the windblown soul
    To islands where life shows the whole
    Scope of what awaits the one
    Whose gaze is fixed upon the sun -
    In one foul swoop tomorrow glows,
    Where shadows were God's garden grows ...


    The Master

    Since I was just a child
    I saw Him in my dreams,
    I saw Him all around me,
    In everyone He seemed

    To be the soft and gentle light
    That hides within our tears
    And like the sun ashining
    Suddenly appears

    From behind a veil of clouds
    And nothing seems as bright -
    God upon the mountain
    Has looked down on the night

    To bring to us a moment
    Of truth and beauty deep,
    His presence in us felt as One
    Rising from His sleep,

    Shedding on us hues of peace
    And ease and harmony,
    Love's sweetness spreading joy to all
    And setting us free!


    The Hour of the Unexpected

    Where desire dies is the door to paradise,
    The entry to the country of the soul,
    Threshold to the fire far deeper and much higher
    And a bliss that is the kiss that makes us whole

    In a way we can't imagine until we cross the margin
    Dividing us from who we really are
    To find the silent mind where man no longer blind
    Can be himself and fly beyond the stars

    Where he may one day be what now he cannot see,
    A superman whose life is free from sorrow,
    In control of fate, immortality his state,
    Eternity the key to his tomorrow,

    A future full of light that plays beyond the heights
    Where angels sing the song that never dies,
    For man is after all God's answer to the fall,
    The phoenix from the ashes of the lies

    Served to all mankind from the beginning of time,
    The great deceit defeating our kind,
    But truth is now prevailing, the hour is unveiling
    The unexpected miracle divine!


    A Vision of the Heart

    Every moment that I live is a moment of the past,
    Life is flying by, time is moving fast,
    No time is there to wander, no time is there to waste,
    The promise over yonder in the future is the taste

    Of bliss beyond belief, a higher nature calls,
    A pressure from above was the reason for the Fall,
    I couldn't understand why lower things attract,
    The wiser and the stronger from greater things detract

    To walk the darkened alleys of the chaos of the Earth
    But their walk it is to nobler things gives birth,
    For they are the Kings and Queens whose pact unfolds
    The mysteries of life with bodies made of gold!

    The wondrous day approaches of darkness at its end,
    The magic of the Light unshadowed now intends
    To throw the cloak of darkness back into its source
    Whence the New arises, the miracle of Force

    And Beauty in combining become the arms of Love
    Embracing all below and raising all above
    Till everyone on Earth is lifted from the Old
    And welcomed to the paradisial gardens made of gold ...


    Because they Care

    In moments quiet and alone
    When one sits weary of the world,
    Life's burden put aside and thoughts
    Are left to wander where they will,
    It's time to close your eyes and weep
    The tears away that don't belong
    To one's own heart but come from pain
    Released in love - compassion's rain
    It is that floods
    The deep and endless space within
    One's soul where all things come to rest
    In calm so vast ... within, without
    The universe speaks its secrets to
    Those who know ... because they care.


    The End

    My soul journeys back to its birth,
    Body and soul I was born of that earth
    Whose forefathers ancient guided my way
    From the old to the new, their wisdom today
    Beckons me back where the spirit has sway
    Over all other things and common things lay
    Silent before the power of soul
    Without whose governance nothing is whole -
    Soul is everything, Spirit is king
    In the land of the Ancients whose devotees sing
    Of the miracle of life eternal and things
    Immortal are commonplace, everyday brings
    A sense of the old and the new and beyond
    Something yet other pressing the ground
    To change and become a basis for peace,
    Joy universal, everlasting ease,
    True love to rule everyone's life,
    A new way to live - the end of all strife!


    Utopean Dream

    A chance to live the life I want,
    A hope to make a dream come true,
    The promise of a greater dawn,
    A pressure from beyond the blue

    To change all things of mortal mould,
    To let the golden light unfold
    The mystery and the beauty hid
    Within the earth, our bodies old

    Transformed, outpouring endless bliss
    Received from being's source above,
    All around is felt the kiss
    Of heaven and immortal love

    Becomes the order of the day
    In gardens that prepared the way
    Where Angels sing, as children play,
    Of a new world here to stay!


    The Call

    Only the heart knows the way,
    Only true love sheds light
    When all is said and done - today
    Is the moment to cast out the night
    Blinds us and with it surrender
    The ego that thinks it knows all,
    Nothing is known till we render
    The blow to the self and we fall
    From the heights of our rotting vanities
    Piled up in front of the door
    Opens onto infinity,
    The timeless, the bliss evermore,
    The peace everlasting, the life
    Calling to us from beyond
    The grave of our past and the strife
    With which we no longer bond!


    The Inner Sense

    There are worlds that move among us
    And through which we move,
    Those that mean to harm us
    And others improve
    Our way of life, the way we love,
    The things we do,
    Subtle are the ways of things above
    The daily gruel,
    For these worlds can change intent
    When recognized,
    It pays to know that such deceit
    Can't fool the wise
    Become from years of pain
    And innocence,
    Simple is the truth, the golden rain,
    The inner sense
    With which we all are blessed
    To choices make
    Leading us to where all rests,
    Is yet awake
    So that love and joy and peace
    Are felt as true
    And life's a breeze of spontaneous ease
    For me and you....


    Be Yourself !

    The two ends of bliss,
    The earthly and the spiritual kind,
    In another place kiss
    Beyond the realm of mind,

    Not to be discovered here
    Within the old and weary grown
    But somewhere in a distant sphere
    Where the future lives, is yet unknown,

    Yet take a leap, with vision brave
    Look into what has not been,
    Perhaps once freed as nature's slave
    We will see the once unseen

    And know the difference `twixt false and true
    When faced with the present's confusing hues,
    Life is simple when love is true,
    The heart is strong, and you are You!


    To live Again

    Gently washing over me
    Silent waves of memory,
    Thoughts of days and nights of bliss
    As if born of love's first kiss,
    Truly are we blessed on earth
    One above endowing mirth
    In our very limbs - thoughts
    Come from nowhere, heaven-wrought,
    Giving greater flight to life,
    Easing tensions and the strife
    Which we're all so burdened by
    Because we haven't learnt to fly,
    Spirits trapped in ego-mould
    Must remember days of gold!

    A day will come when we will be
    Spirits freed from memories
    Of wordly pain and suffering
    On purity and unknowing -
    We will go to greater heights
    Of happiness, the golden light
    Of living in another way,
    A truly neverending day
    Where past, present, future merge,
    Eternal peace replace the urge
    To fall, repeat the old and worn,
    The bliss of old regain the dawn
    Of paradise, here on earth,
    Forever new what must take birth!


    The Final Outcome

    If all else fails
    The spirit will survive
    Against the odds, against the tide
    Of death and destruction;
    Truth will live to see
    Another day, the dawn
    Of a great new age
    Far greater than witnessed
    In the history of the earth.

    Many have seen, as many see now,
    The coming of such a time
    Imminent upon us -
    Love will break all barriers
    And spread across the globe
    With a force surpassing that
    Of a nuclear holocaust, destroying
    All and everything it cannot embrace
    While absorbing all that it can.

    Earth and mankind will be transformed
    By the miracle of an immense and sudden change
    Into a new way of thinking and being ,
    The nightmare of the earth will be over,
    The dream of the spirit realised,
    Time, standing still, will explode
    Into the timeless - This is our tomorrow!


    Soul Morning

    I'm crying, I'm crying
    Like a spirit dying,
    I'm sighing, I'm sighing
    Like a man trying
    To do the right thing
    But failing to bring
    Peace to the soul,
    I'm trapped in a hole
    Resembling, you know,
    The place you don't go....

    Still there is hope
    On the slippery slopes
    Of life in the deeps,
    Like waking from sleep
    A voice never dies,
    The flame of the wise
    Is a power beyond all,
    Real is the call
    Of the chosen at birth
    To be free from the earth,
    Her nature transform
    From the old and the norm
    That a new world be born,
    Their birth is the dawn!


    True Love over All

    Even the deepest tears
    Are tears for the things we're meant to lose.

    The ego attempts to outsize the infinite universe,
    This is the saddest phenomenon in creation.

    Simplicity, humility, detachment,
    Whatever happened to these attributes of greatness?

    Pride is a disposable commodity, the ultimate
    Defence mechanism against the Truth,

    The Beauty of a future
    Unknown but guaranteed, unseen yet felt

    To be the way, the one and only way
    To the everlasting victory of mind over matter,

    Soul over body, heart over vanity,
    Union over loneliness, true love over all.


    India Calling

    India, O India!
    Land of my birth and my spiritual home
    Where I tasted freedom, was never alone.

    India,
    Where so many lifetimes recall
    Memories eternal, soul-barriers fall.

    India,
    Friend and lover and mate,
    Woman and mother and guide of my fate!

    To you
    I return, the dream to fulfill
    Of the silent explosion, the immortal Will

    Of a world
    To receive the Light that will bring
    A New Life, a new way, a new song to sing!


    Sacred Ancestors

    One can only pray that time
    Will heal the festered wounds of crimes
    Committed by the Ego's ways,
    There seems no end to lesser days
    In which to wallow in the past,
    The hope is there for Love to last
    Beyond the Ignorance of men,
    One sees the flicker now and then
    Of the flame of faith; Can we
    Survive the present to be free
    Enough to do the Work at hand,
    Can we go on to understand
    Life is simple when the true
    Union of the me and you
    Is practised, innocence the key
    To the great Humility
    Receiving Here the higher light
    Golden, liberating sight
    Forever from the veil of Death,
    Within us breathes another breath
    Immortal, from the Heights come down
    The ones who have prepared the ground
    That we may share with them the Bliss
    On the Earth that they have kissed!


    Beyond Tomorrow

    I desire
    To be free
    Of desire,
    I aspire
    To a life
    That is higher!

    I desire
    To be free
    Of the ego,
    I aspire
    To a life
    Of the soul!

    I desire
    To be free
    Of pain and sorrow,
    I aspire
    To a life
    Beyond tomorrow!


    Mirra Alfassa

    You became
    What you had seen,
    What you became
    No more a dream.

    How beautiful you were
    For those who saw,
    So soft and beautiful
    Your eyes, the doors

    Of heaven, opened
    Were all hearts
    That looked upon you,
    Minds a part

    Of one great ocean
    That was You,
    How beautiful you were,
    God was You!

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