Vrindavan, 20.08.2012

Monsoon humidity.

Rehydrate and 

Ventilate. 

The fan, 

Always the fan 

Is going 

In the background. 

You don’t notice it 

Anymore, 

Until you switch it off. 

Amazing silence. 

For that Krishna conscious 

Perspective, 

Srila Prabhupada

Would sometimes use 

The fan analogy: 

(In my own words) 

“When you switch 

Off the fan, 

Still it will 

Rotate some time, 

Even when 

Unplugged 

From the electricity. 

Similarly, 

We may take up this 

Krishna consciousness 

Process, 

We may unplug the 

Fan. 

Still, material desires 

And conditionings 

Will linger for 

Some time, 

Due only to the 

Power of the rotation 

In the cycle of 

Birth and death.” 

The silence 

Of the fan 

Gives the realization 

Of the real 

Noise 

Of the fan in 

Motion, 

Which you never 

Seem to notice 

While under the 

So called 

Ventilated state 

Of being forced 

Between 

Perspiration and 

Rehydration 

In the humidity 

Of this monsoon like

Reality 

Of material relativity. 

NOTE:

After a time of absence, I desire now to again become active on this blog. Thank you for you patience.

Seated amongst the reeds of coastline Denmark, mid september, 2013

A last sip

of freedom,

in the eyes

of a friend.

Feint whisper

of past pledges,

by coastline view

is seated

windowed you.

Trembling reeds

bent as bows,

who's invisible arrows

make war on

the surging forces

of the almighty wind.

Resolve remains firm.

(“Not on all levels”,

whispers someone,

an observing spectator.)

Still,

resolve based on hope,

hope based on faith,

faith based

on taste.

Seemingly endless rows

of reeds,

flailing their bodies

against the surging forces

of almighty wind.

I have no such

courage.

Risking life and

limb is

not my level.

However,

I can serve

as a mere tool

at the practical end

of the specter

of life.

To loose hope

gives no

meaning,

in our philosophy.

Let the mind have

past and future

for selfish

indulgence.

In the now,

there is always

activity.