Reverberation PM After The Party

LOVE SHARING: Swamini Vishwalakshmianandama

REVERBERATION

PM After The Party

Shree Peetha Nilaya rests in silence

The moonless night quaintly

Speaking no voice of the Great One

No devotee singing his praises

Or bowing to revere and kiss his Guru feet.

No confetti of stars and kisses and hearts afire

Flies through the air this night.

For, lo and behold, this night is quite as new
Fallen snow waiting for St. Nick to land his sleigh

On the rooftop of sleeping, wishing, anticipating children.

Long gone are the thousand and eight, and more,

Who rang the bells like Christmas Eve

Like Krishna's gopies following the

Sound of Murali, his sacred flute

Which lulled them to the Sacred Heart

And God Within. No devotees in sight, this night,

Following like the ones of the Christ

To the Holy Land and the "Many Mansions" he

Promised of His Father In Heaven.

The Guru is in his bungalow
His beautiful face and lovely smile

Not in view of the devotee eye . . .

Doing what Guru's do at night

Perhaps . . . just perhaps . . .

He is in sleepless, deep Samadhi 

Taking care of endless devotees

From many lifetimes on Earth and those souls

In many dimensions beyond space and time.

For he had done his duty for one and all

In his 10th Anniversary Celebrations

And loved them like they have never

Been loved before as he guided them

To the Sacred Heart and the Divine Love

Which resides in Earth people

In every heart, equal each in the 

Eyes and Heart of The Divine Giridhari.

What does one do on this sleepless night

In Shree Peetha Nilaya when the celebration 

Is over and the Guru withdraws quietly with 

A few attending, some perhaps unaware of the

Fire and pain of purification being close to the Guru 

Inevitably brings, innocent, still to the ways of the
True Guru teacher? It's no bowl of cherries

Or all hearts and roses, is it? Even roses have thorns.

Some of us, and residents alike,

Still are here in Shree Peetha Nilaya,
The abode of Divine Mother Sri Maha Lakshmi,

Radha and the all the Divine rest?

What to do this night?  .  .  .
Well . . . friends of Bhakti Marga and devotees one and all . . .

One of us writes this poem . . . and

The best is to do what the Guru Master teaches:

"Chant the Divine Name continuously

And it will guide you home to the Sacred Heart,

Which in essence, simply and beautifully is

. . .  "Just Love."