Lord Within In winter's stillness I sought for Thee Across the frozen wastes of time Thy citadel my destiny Thy dwelling-place my upward climb. I've journeyed to thee in summer's heat When earth was green and redolent Resting from her laborious feat, Creation through divine intent. All the springtime's of my years I realize now I've searched for Thee Through lifetime's at the feet of seers I knew my mediocrity. Now in the autumn of my days I've found within Thy secret smile, Companion through the aeon-ways Who carried my soul all this while.

Difficulties on the Way June 21, 2000 Now the day is done, we've turned once more Towards night's caress and sin's hegemony To fill the hungry vital's ego-store, A fall from Grace and inner sanctity. Shall all our eves then yield to darkness' dreams Where sirens of sadness whisper tenderly To enter the valley of tears and bathe in streams Of pity forgetting the call of higher spheres? Whether to sink in sorrow and remorse Acknowledging defeat to nether gods Or set once more the being's upward course Aware

The Fashioning Grace Brighter than burning acetylene That blinds the sight if looked at long A dazzling light fell on my days And the rudiments of angel-song. Far now those bright epiphanies That burst upon my youthful eyes, Yet from Thy trailing hem I seize The thread of distant galaxies. The darker side would flee from Thee Retreating  to a beleaguered past Than face the transforming energy And darkness that must be recast. Yet slowly and with infinite care You turn my consciousness towards light Ignite the spark, imbed the flame Unveil the soul, the inner sight.

Worlds Strange-eyed moths, the flowers of night Aloft on their vivid wings of dream On boughs of a spectral world alight Above the darkly flowing stream. Awake we can but hardly know Those vast untapped peripheries Yet dive in sleep to realms below, Beyond our mental boundaries. Worlds on worlds above us rise Inviting us to higher planes To exceed the beauty of our skies And build our lives where the truth-light reigns. Though still we seem drawn to the deep abyss Our souls remember the Beloved's kiss.

In The Attic of the Mind Sorting through the attic of the mind Inspecting chests of moulding memories And thoughts once prized possessions now I find Clog the room with cerebral vortices. The pampered and presumptive ego-shell Accumulated useless outer wear That soon grew old and wanting quickly fell Into disuse though still I could not bear To clear out racks of thought in my control. But now among the gathering dust of dreams I open wide the window of my soul And toss away a world of worthless schemes, Ascending the stair of consciousness to greet The object of my inner being's call Who enters in on white and soundless

From Night Transfigured In the mysterious hour of rose and purple sky Faint as a sigh when borne upon the breeze, Dusk arrived, the calm to amplify And settled, drifting down through silent trees. All the green and vivid growth in light Slowly sinking into eve's embrace Vanished from the realm of mortal sight And left a lovely fragrance in its trace. Darkness took its hold in strange delight And from its bed of soft creative ease Like spangles on the velvet cloak of night Issued forth its star-struck melodies. Choruses of cries disrupting peace Their raucous calls resound from limb to limb A symphony atonal without cease

In His Presence I simply stood arrested By the beauty of his eyes And a silence that attested To a god from greater skies Descended to uplift us Out of mind's infirmity, Around his head the nimbus Of heaven's theocracy. With the homage of my heart I offered the secret place Asking never to depart From His majesty of Grace. I prayed for a vast surrender As earth's to its brilliant sun And saw in his gaze the tender Sweetness of the One. Now all my days descry The working of his will, Our nature to sanctify Our lives with God fulfil.

To Mother, the Unveiled Divinity The Man of Sorrows befriended me Companion of my lonely days When darkness seemed eternity And I a waif among God's strays. He bade me join the poignant hush Where every joy with grief is tinged And painted with emotion's brush Each earthly act desire-hinged. He dwelt with me through countless years And the slow awakening from birth, Designed a chalice for my tears In the sojourn of my lives on earth. But now I've taken his gracious leave To tread a path towards sanctity

Force of Light Descending We dwell in a time of gross uncertainties In an edifice built on the shifting sands of thought Lost is the inner roadmap, misplaced the keys Forgotten the battles heroic souls have fought. Drifting through the daylight and the dark Numbed by the mindless cycles of our days Deaf to the sparrow's song, the meadow lark We wander lost in a pleasure-seeking haze. Immersed in a surface consciousness that dares To disregard the aegis of the soul, Minds benumbed by desire's dazzling snares Bodies lurching forward without

Auroville, Beloved ''Remembrance''.htm Auroville, Beloved "Remembrance" Those who departed the fields of Auroville And scattered on the winds of a turning earth, Who came at the call of a higher Force and Will Attending the dream of a sacred city's birth Are strangers now, their citizenship denied, The internal passport with its Divine impress Marked cancelled by the governing elite, Expired and revoked, the past descried As momentary phenomena, a stress Of ephemeral value lost in forgotten years. Those who knowing knelt before Her feet, Souls who answered the Divine behest, Bodies forged in a bl