Hare Krishna Amazing Grace
A beautiful Krishna Das version of Hare Krishna, with this added verse from
Amazing Grace:
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me. (edit: that saved a 'soul' a soul like me) :) :)
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
Choir Journeying
Choirs come in all shapes and sizes, this is a picture of some of ours!
I started up a choir several months ago, in the attempt to get people to open up to the possibilities that come from opening the heart through voice. I've been running mantra workshops for quite a while, so this is a natural progression, and the reason I am writing this - is simple: To inspire others to do similar stuff where they live.
It has proved to be a joy, and bottomline is; if your place de residence leaves you bereft in the 'quality interactions' department, then take the steps to create what it is that your looking for, and in doing so, you will be of service to many many others.
Get busy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lisa
Hafiz xviii
xviii
Slaves of thy shining eyes are even those
That diadems of might and empire bear;
Drunk with the wine that from thy red lip flows,
Are they that e'en the grape's delight forswear.
Drift, like the wind across a violet bed,
Before thy many lovers, weeping low,
And clad like violets in blue robes of woe,
Who feel thy wind-blown hair and bow the head.
Thy messenger the breath of dawn, and mine
A stream of tears, since lover and beloved
Keep not their secret; through my verses shine,
Though other lays my flowers's grace have proved
And countless nightingales have sung thy praise.
When veiled beneath thy curls thou passest, see,
To right and leftward those that welcome thee
Have bartered peace and rest on thee to gaze !
But thou that knowest God by heart, away !
Wine-drunk, love-drunk, we inherit Paradise,
His mercy is for sinners; hence and pray
Where wine thy cheek red as red erghwan dyes,
And leave the cell to faces sinister.
Oh Khizr, whose happy feet bathed in life's fount,
Help one who toils afoot ---the horsemen mount
And hasten on their way; I scarce can stir.
Ah, loose me not ! ah, set not Hafiz free
From out the bondage of thy gleaming hair !
Safe only those, safe, and at liberty,
That fast enchained in thy linked ringlets are.
But from the image of his dusty cheek
Learn this from Hafiz : proudest heads shall bend,
And dwellers on the threshold of a friend
Be crowned with the dust that crowns the meek.
Book two, canto five
Unseen here act dim huge world-energies
And only trickles and currents are our share
Our mind lives far off from the authentic Light
Catching at little fragments of the Truth.
In a small corner of infinity,
Our lives are inlets of an ocean's force.
Sri Aurobindo
Savitri, Book Two, Canto Five
Sacred Starving Cow
There you are
with your magestic coat
rubbish on your feet
roaming the street
Ribs sticking out like hangers on a rack
in the name of god
theres no turning back
Diesel fumes by day
fast head lamps by night
trying to give birth on the edge of a knife
peasant vegetarians dressing you like krishna
a 3 D cow, a breathing moving picture
dancing radha's and kolamed floors
spinning prayer wheels and consumer wars
dinner bells ringing through the ashram walls
white faced inmates with their international calls
dodgy knees and a ribcage that rattles
a life of hell and of threeworld battles
paradise a memory trapped under a toe nail
a bit of chewed fur representing your tail
For all the Sacred Starving Cows out there, this is for you!!!!!!!
Sri Aurobindo
Her power is packed with the stuff of greater worlds
And steeped in their colour-lustres dimmed by her drowse;
An atavism of higher births is hers,
Her sleep is stirred by their buried memories
Recalling the lost spheres from which they fell.
Unsatisfied forces in her bosom move;
They are partners of her greater growing fate
And her return to immortality;
SRI AUROBINDO
Savitri, Book Two, Canto One
A difficult evolution from below
Called a masked intervention from above;
Else this great, blind inconscient universe
Could never have disclosed its hidden mind,
Or even in blinkers worked in beast and man
The Intelligence that devised the cosmic scheme.
SRI AUROBINDO
Savitri, Book Two, Canto Four
Supermind - Force of the New World
characteristic law of being and self-knowledge, but without it
nothing could reach its aim. A world governed by an ignorant mind
would soon drift into a chaos; it could not in fact come into existence
or remain in existence unless supported by the secret Omniscience
of which it is the cover; a world governed by a blind inconscient force
might repeat constantly the same mechanical workings but it would
mean nothing and arrive nowhere.This could not be the cause of an
evolution that creates life out of matter, out of life mind, and a gradation
of planes of Matter, Life and Mind culminating in the emergence of
Supermind. The secret truth that emerges in Supermind has been
there all the time, but now it manifests itself and the truth in things
and the meaning of our existence.
Jai Ambe Jagadambe
Dukha Vinashini Durga Jaya Jaya Kala Vinashini Kali Jaya Jaya
Uma Rama Brahmani Jaya Radha Rukamini Sita Jaya Jaya
We Honor and Adore our Beloved Divine Mother of the Universe. We worship all the forms of our Divine Mother as the Power in everything.
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Boom!
Lisa
Cartography of the unknown
Pain
Your sword, ancient and rusty
is withdrawn from my body
to reveal a river of blood & chaos
amid a world
of torture of my own making
Last breath
the finale
no inward breath
- the beginning of lifes eternal promise
The minds black box
images interfused
faces of aeons gaze
back at each other in reconsiliation
And my love has gone
for he is running towards illusions
that laugh
into the
liquid night sky
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The Disenchanted
She drank perfume on the river bank
and floated on lillie pads
like a frog sitting in a noon sun
Nectar dripped from the tongues of Nymphs
as they sat watching, delighting in her pleasure
For what more can she want
but memory & repose
& lifes magestic escape
the road for the weak and weary
With greyness descending
& Autumns wilting change
running amock with lifes descises
she runs in shock at what she has become
a corpse
laughing at her shadow
as it's reborn unto the never ending rain
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Pearl
A shell has fallen
and encased my heart
like a pearl
trapped
at high tide
bashing against a salty wall
Singing
I've been getting into singing lately. Singing everything and anything - making stuff up
off the top of my head and singing as I drive along at the top of my voice - without due care to onlookers who might think I am nuts, they are welcome!
Today I sang choral versions of pop songs whilst walking the dog with my friend in the park, it was the funniest thing to do ever. Singing loud in the open air..
Completely free, very amusing and uplifting and totally shockingly surprising when you
hear what your own voice IS actually capable of, given half a chance.
Throw the song sheets into the trash can, and ad lib your way to health, inner wealth and
lashings of happiness!!!!!!!!!!
Love
Lisa






