Hare Krishna
A DEVOTIONAL POEM
BY POETESS MAAYA DEV
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How do I depict You with my little ability?
How do I comprehend my huge love?
I hold for You, beneath?
Words are unlimited, albeit,
it gets wedged in the maze.
(Poetess Maaya Dev is expressing her own dilemma on how to express
her full pledged love and devotion to Lord Krishna, beautiful depiction,
especially the usage of “ little ability” and “ hugs love “ Please note
that Poetess says Lord Krishna is full of love like an ocean, whereas
She in turn express her little ability to depict His (God’s) Love.
Excellent expressions, Congratulations to honorable Poetess Maaya Dev)
In this vestige, transience
What makes life beauteous?
Worship for you is my robe
I love to wear with humility.
Krishna, You are my oxygen
I breathe all the while.
The moment I feel lifeless
I have only You as refuge.
Your name is my hymn
that restores life to normalcy
(Each of us is not the material physical body, but an eternal spirit soul, part and parcel of God Krishan as a whole)
Every time I meditate upon you
I feel a divine magical wand
resurface from nowhere.
There, I see a lucid reflection
Smiling at me from inner mirror.
There I see You! I see me!
Ah! I see me in you!
Hare Krishna !!
COPYRIGHT TO POETESS MAAYA DEV
(This is our natural position but due to intensive long term
association and identification with matter and materialism we have lost
touch with our natural blissful position and eternal nature)
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Honorable Poetess Maaya Dev gratefully and more
gracefully acknowledge her anthology of poem titled “ Shimmering Chimes”
to God Krishna, she is well immersed in the love and affection of Lord
Krishna as she is a true devotee of Krishna, the God.
It is true that the more we hear on God Krishna, the more we
become glorified and purified. Purification means freedom from the
attacks of greed and passion, then we become peaceful and happy. The
sacred book Gita and the Vedic interpretations enlighten us that we are
not these momentary bits and pieces of human body parts, but spirit
souls, or conscious entities, and that we can find genuine peace and
happiness only in spiritual devotion to God Krishna. The Gita and other
well-known world scriptures recommend that people joyfully chant God’s
holy names, such as Krishna, Allah, and Jehovah. Krishna or God is known
by many names, according to His diverse qualities, loving nature and
tricks and the extent of the relationship, or realization of the
devotee. In the Bible he is known as Jehovah (“the almighty one”), in
the Koran as Allah (“the great one”), in the Bhagavad-gita as Krishna, a
Sanskrit name meaning “the all-attractive one.”
The ancient
hymn as mentioned in the Vedic literature Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna,
Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare or Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare
Hare is a transcendental sound pulsation. It purifies the mind and
awakens the dormant love of God that resides in the hearts of all living
beings.
Anyone can take part in the chanting of Hare Krishna and learn
the science of spiritual love of Krishna and all living entities by
studying the Bhagavad-gita As It Is. This easy and practical process of
self-realization will awaken our natural state of peace and happiness.
By sincerely cultivating the authentic spiritual science of
sanantana-dharma presented in the Bhagavad-gita and other Vedic
scriptures, we can become free from anxiety and revive our natural state
of pure, unending, blissful consciousness.
Each of us is not the material body, but an eternal spirit soul,
part and parcel of God (Krishna). As such, we are all the eternal
servants of Krishna and are interrelated through Him, our common father.
This is our natural position but due to intensive long term association
and identification with matter and materialism we have lost touch with
our natural blissful position and eternal nature. We have simply become
materialistic and as a result of this materialism and bodily
identification we are frustrated in so many ways.
The Veda’s explain that Krishna is the eternal, all-knowing,
omnipresent, all-powerful, and all-attractive Personality of Godhead. He
is the seed-giving father of all living beings and the sustaining
energy of the universe. He is the source of all incarnations of God,
including Lord Buddha and Lord Jesus Christ. We can perfectly understand
the knowledge of self-realization through the instructions of a genuine
spirituality which I consider the ideal philosophy is from Bhagavath
Gita, Once you read and get familiar with the spiritual interpretations
on God’s own love, then you will be free from selfish motives in this
insane world.
Dear Poetess Maaya Dev, please accept my sincere
congratulations for depicting the image of God in the form of Krishna as
I truly understand your philosophical approach through the above
poetry, keep on pouring more devotional verses from your golden pen, may
God bless you in your future writings.
Regards
WILLIAMSJI MAVELI
