pradoSham hymn: Moments of bliss in mundane life
[iambic tetrameter quartrain + iambic pentameter couplet]

01. In the vAnaprastha stage in life
my days go by in temporal lures;
with trivial thoughts my mind is rife,
my living style my soul obscures.
When would Shiva the Lord of blissful being
give me the sense to quit this vain sightseeing?

[vAnaprastha = the third stage or ashramam in one's life where in one is
supposed to reduce worldly activities and contemplate on Self. The other
three stages are: brahmachArya = bachelorhood/spinstership,
gRuhastha = householder, and saMnyAsa = renunciation.]

02. Melodic hymns give bits of bliss,
and eyes that view your divine form
impose the feel of what it is;
in the evening hues I could see your charm;
and yet in all these godly bits of time,
thoughts of two-ness arise against the prime!

03. Although my eyes and mind resort
to the worldliness of love and hate;
my act of worship is a sort
of shallow faith, at any rate,
in all my mundane acts I pray for your grace
that the karma heaped you smash without a trace!

--ramaNi, 02/03/2015

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