WISDOM PRAYER

Oh! Lord benevolent and merciful!

Praise and glory be to you!

As a lost soul in the darkness of the night

With no path is in sight

You were my only beacon

When sorrow was drowning me

You were my only hope

In this journey of life  

You have blessed me abundantly

You have brought me thus far!  

Oh saviour of the world! Oh compassionate one!

As I walk through these unchartered worlds  

I pray! Give me the wisdom to do your will 

EYES OF COMPASSION

Along the dingy crowded corridors

Filled with  fear, agony and frustration! 

A thousand pairs of eyes

Look around in desperation! 

A young man limps!

A mother weeps!

An old man in bed

Cringes and curls up in morbid pain! 

Shrouded in white

Someone’s!

Once a body full of life

Gets wheeled away!

As i walk this path everyday

Sipping my morning coffee

Oh! Lord! Benevolent and merciful

Bless me with loving eyes of compassion! 

CRACKLING PYRE

Shining through the  branches  

The rays of the setting sun!  

A dogs howls

The pandit chants

The evangelists pray

All in vain!

The funeral pyre crackles! 

DIVINE GRACE

Oh Lord! Oh my master!

I am so filled with your love

I am so intoxicated in your magnificence!

In this worldly existence of paradoxes

 Lost and caught up in self pursuit

What else did I gain, but hurt and anguish?

But, when I finally surrendered to your Will

When I finally gave myself up

 You blessed me with eternal salvation!

Benevolent and merciful

Omniscient and Omni-content

Showering upon a wretched like me

Your divine grace!

You have saved my fallen soul!

Oh Lord! Oh my master!

Let me now shine and glow with your Love

Let me lighten up some darkened lives and corners

Let me reach out a helping hand to helpless

Oh Lord! Oh my Master

Let your eternal Love forever fill me!  

ULTIMATE FRIEND

You are my ultimate friend

You are my only respite

You have thousand faces

You take a billion forms

You are the one of the few

Yet the middle of many

You lead me! You guard me!

You are my only way!

Oh! Lord of all creation!

Make me one with you!

ANOTHER PRAYER

To give like the sunshine

Equal to one and all

With love and Compassion

To flow steadily like the mighty river

Without cling to the banks

Letting go!

To accept like the endless ocean

Irrespective of the source or content

All that life offers

Oh!  Lord of the ever-changing universe

Bless me with your divine grace 

A WORKER'S PRAYER

Rushing towards another day

Oh Lord! Benevolent and merciful!

Make me realize this dream!

Scurrying through the busy corridors of life

 Let me not trample, on someone else’s!

While being caught up in tending to my own wounds of worry

Let me also feel, the pain of those in endless suffering

And let me act, with patience, love and compassion

Ascending up the ladder of your magnificent grace

Let me be free, of the tainted stains of self-conceit

Making decisions, opinions and conclusions, in daily life

Let me tolerate, differing points of views

Irrespective of the caste, creed or community; action or capability

Let me respect everyone equally

Acquiring, executing   and distributing; in the roles I play today

Let me be free, of greed, pride and prejudice

And in all actions I intend, choose or do

Let me uphold the hands of justice  

Walking this lonesome path of green pastures

Let me break free from the chains of passion and delusion!

Oh Lord! Benevolent and merciful!

As I rush through another day of my evanescent life

Make my dream; my ultimate reality!

OASIS OF LOVE

In this life of wilderness, lurking with concealed predators  

Oh! Beloved Lord! How wonderful is the comfort of your love!

Lost and wandering, in this desert of pointlessness

In your mighty presence; I have finally found the oasis of my life!

In this magnificent oasis; the spring of love is overflowing

The fruits of joy are all around; and happiness surrounds me

In this oasis, of your glorious presence

My thirst and hunger for life has been finally quenched

Oh! Beloved Lord! As I finally rest in this oasis; let me sleep tonight! 

IN THEE

Oh Lord! Benevolent and merciful!

Maker of the thinker and his thought!

In thy boundless mercy; I surrender myself!

As the world of thy making stands still

And the sunshine spreads between the trees

My sentience is filled with thy magnificence!

All my pointless worries and fears!

All my pride; and all my anger!

Vanish as evanescent mist in thy brilliance!

Oh Lord!  I humbly surrender to thee; all that I call myself!

For, in thee, I have lost my miseries!

In thee, I have become one!

In thee, I have tasted the sweetness of eternal bliss!

Oh lord! Savior of my unworthy soul!

I humbly surrender myself to thee!

IN THE NAME OF THE BELOVED

In the name of the beloved the crimson sun rises

In his name it sets today

In the name of the beloved, blessed life is given

In his name, life ebbs away

In the name of the beloved, is love everlasting! 

In his name let me be!