Happy Birthday 34 Dearest Gurudeva

H A P P Y   B I R T H D A Y   D E A R E S T   G U R U D E V A

13 June 2012

This poem I wrote for our dearest Gurudeva on his 29th Birthday when He was with us in the United States of America. He said to me: " I like your poem. Write your poems of the Guru and we will make a book."

Today is his 34th birthday. He has everything and the blessings and Love of the Supreme Being for His mission to Earth. What can we, His Disciples and Devotees, give Him? In his own words, when people ask: "Swami, what can we do for You?" "When you meet me, you feel so much Love. The only thing you can do for me is to spread this Love!" 

Swamini Vishwalakshmianandama

GURU’S  MANIFESTED  HOLY  ASH

An urn carries sacred ash of the Guru

Spun by his human hand,

Brought forth from the depths of his soul,

The essence of his Self,

No beginning–No Birthday–No end.

His devotees gather to partake

Of the Ash—the bounty of his wisdom.

The Guru’s Ash conveys the meaning

Of life, the everlasting Truth,

Which is this. . . . . . .

Love is All There Is—the Divine.

Fish do not know the wisdom

Of the Guru’s Ash—

That they are One with the All.

In total unawareness,

They don’t know that they are fish

Swimming through God.

Humans strive lifetime after lifetime,

Even a million or more,

To reach the truth that lies within

The wisdom of the Ash.

All material things, be it Guru’s body

Or the Ash of wisdom he conveys,

Eventually return to the eternal —

“Dust thou art, and to dust

Thou shalt return."

But the Truth of the Guru’s Ash

Stands as a sentinel of the Divine —

Like an urn full of water poured from the

Guru’s hand into the tranquil, celestial

Himalayan Lake Manasarovar,

Sending ripples of Love

To the shores of the Divine.

Swamini Vishwalakshmianandama 
Note: In the Hindu Tradition, Lake Manasarovar represents the human mind.

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Bhakti Marga Celebrating Guruji's Birthday 34
June 13 and Gurupurnima 2012