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

Diptych I Have Looked on Images 10/31/00 I have looked on images of Her That blind our human eyes With a brilliance from another World of crystal skies. The eternal godhead here descended From its gold infinity Signals us the night is ended Of our dark obscurity. She Who Dwells Within 9/7/00 Softly She walks on white-clad feet In the g

Darshan of the Lord I met Him across the borders of a world That mind knows not nor reason can explain; And came to Him while the body lay in sleep Entering as a guest in His domain. It was a place familiar yet unknown Simply built in shades of white on white Its substance formed of subtle matter's make Transparent, pure, an edifice of light. In a room that seemed like any earthly room On a couch that felt like any earthly seat He bade me come and sit by Him while men I knew in life walked by on silent feet. I sat beside the Lord of Dest

Fragrant Vision As the jasmine so the rose A scent from heaven faintly blows Across the still untroubled mind And all my being towards Her flows. In the calm reflective space Of the spirit's godward pace A fragrance of the soul I find In every form, in every face. I look anew with brighter eyes On the haunting beauty of the skies In every stranger that I meet I see a light no dark denies. All the beauty still to be The joy awaiting patiently A tread on earth of golden feet, The hour of divinity.

Meditation Eve Pale moon-fraught night on distant Bengal's shore A silver luminescence robes the sea, Opening wide the Sanctuary's door Admits the pilgrim and the devotee. Alone amid the multitudes we move Beneath the welcoming arms of the Service Tree, Trimming the lamp within the secret cove To free the soul and ever Thy captive be. But a thousand meditations such as these Yield hollow fruit unless upon the swell We leap beyond the self and swift release The growing godhead hid within the cell. The pulsing orange glow of an incense spire Evokes within the fierce and cleansing fire.

Auroville Beloved: Matrimandir Within O build in us a temple of the soul With gilded panes to catch the fires of dawn Where no duality longing could survive The swift embrace of night by ecstasied morn. In a secret room behind the body's walls Install a crystal sphere reflecting Thee For all within our yearning being calls Thy descent into the waiting sanctuary. In emerald canopies and scented groves Where the sun-bright Rishis meditate And change the course of destiny by prayer The acolytes of the future congregate.