``Nature is my religion``
An offering to Swanlike Srila Bhakti Aloka Paramadvaiti Maharaj
Gurudeva
O
Gurudeva!
From
you we learn how to love all devotees
and
those that will come to be
You
love those great givers of love
that where here on earth previously
You
know them through their eternal presence
in divine sound,
and carry on their gift sharing with all around
Srila
Prabhupada, is most dear to your heart
your beloved master and friend.
In
seperation you serve his lotus feet
by caring for those souls Ishtadeva sends
Thakur
Bhaktivinode, your great great grandfather
whose only
wealth is natures opulent décor,
seen
through the lence of Bhagavatams sacred lore.
Oh
Gurudeva, with tears of love his feet you adore
Your
heart is always rich with Vrindavanas greenery
sheltered
in grooves of trees and creepers with infinite variety.
Yet
you are seen to roam around in deserts, at sea and hellish cities
to engage conditioned souls in divine ecology
With
your love for all you light up this mundane world
So
we may see the teachings all around,
here
in this foreign land rules a dynamic similar to
yet
juxtapositionaly opposed to, our home
Oh
Gurudeva! you are an ocean of mercy!
What
has been turned upside down, you adjust properly,
giving
to all divine knowledge
condensed
in devoted action you set us all free
Due
to narrow dogmatism, engeneered by pride and fear
Unfortunate
souls with contracted vision,
mistakingly
conconct your ecological efforts
to be mundane worship or yet another
philanthropic mission.
But
great devotees like Srila Tirtha Maharaj all confirm.
All
those with deeper perception.
That
you act as a servant of love personifyed,
Sri
Radharani
The
goddess of the higher nature, and not her reflection,
Mayadevi
Yet
you appreciate with love
the
goddess of this vast creation
the
mundane nature where we all dwell
accepting
her to be real aswell
Knowing
for sure, with grace of sublime faith
That
all her decoration resemble
The
scenography of the abode where the Lord revel
Through
wisdom, vice versa you perceive all mundane to be
through
the ears you comprehend everything appropriatly
thus
you credit Sri, for all the beauty here, internally
Not
her reflection that with our eyes we see externally
Uninformed
yogis, fearing beauty,
runs
away hiding in caves and closes their eyes tightly.
Yet
you Gurudeva and the previous masters in our Privara tree,
have no such fear to any degree.
And
thus with heart satured with pure devotion
you act
in defence of earthly aesthetic nature,
even
though her art is rooted in soil destined for erosion.
The
sun and moon, the scriptures say,
to
be the two eyes of the Lords form with majesty
and
his sight their rays
Oh
Gurudeva! your eyes are tinted with the salve of divine love
and
thus you see the cosmic manifestation with intimacy
Her
art is for the Lords pleasure, as his eyes rests on her
she
designs colours in combination with form
that loving hearts emotion stir.
The
Lord, our father sees and thus we all see,
Mysterious
mother natures infinite variety
Her love has no end proven by her skilled artistry,
that has no floor or roof, micro and
macroscopically.
Sri Guru always say that Love is in the
detail,
and She never fail to be a step ahead before
the ray
The
Lord has no desire for royal opulence,
even
though he is the King of kings.
The
Queen of Vrindavan, natures source,
Knows just what the Lord adores
So
obviously, if garbage pollution,
the
external form of peoples misconception
cover
up with a thick layer the sacred land of prayer.
It
becomes naturaly a part of all devotees care
to
clean it up and helping fellow brothers to be ecologicaly aware
Oh
Gurudeva, revolutionary amongst saints,
you
cannot tolerate any mistreatment of sacred river Ganga mayi
the very shushumni of the golden lord of love,
Gaura Hari
With
pure prayer you enshrine in your heart our common father and mother
The Lord and Sri, She, the greatest of all
devotees. their names vibrate there constantly.
Oh
Gurudeva,
Master
and friend of us younger family members.
You
bring to memory what we know with intuition
with
the service you render
In
Family there is no space for greed, lust and anger
When
will i stop to be and offender
and
thus truly join your mission
In
our inmaturity we try to measure natures ways.
passing
in this way many unfortunate days
When
oh Gurudeva will I heed your advice!
such
attitude is the lock on the door to the Divine couples grace
Yet
with time, Studying attentively, without hesitation,
together
with devotees in Gurudevas saintly association
even
what seems to be a hopeless case
can
mature one day, they say
and
with faith we can come accept it all
to
be an ungraspable mystery.
The
Lord, in search for love and beauty
casts a sidelong glance on Her and the dawn we
all can see
Nature
hides away, dressed in morning mist, as if shy,
Covers
her smile with a white saree
Oh
Gurudeva
In
those early morning rays
you
see brother dolphins dance in Gaura Nitais morning ceremony
The
feelings you have in heart no grammar of this world can say
Yet
your divine song,
carry
what we need
to
correct all we do wrong
and
the direction home you indicate
This
loose dog of a person falls at your feet and pray
give
streangth to always remember your sublime way
and
your company so that I may never again go astray
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