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Who is the Seer
And the Poet of Knowledge,
Helpful and Auspicious
Yet Unseizeable –
Your cheering minstrelsies
Are sung and danced with
Great dignity
And your sun-filled stole,
Your pearly braid, your scepter,
Your noose and golden goad,
All your tools and instruments
Are poised
Within an ambit
Of deepest peace –
And thus is your appearance,
Sri Ganesh,
Always an event,
A feast
And
A teaching…
(21-06-11)
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Sri Ganesh,
Glowing at the Inner Source,
Calmly poised in the Dusk
Of the Cave,
You await,
With the gifts of nectar
Strewn about you,
Ever ready with your mount,
And the rope of white light
To hold the soul secure
For the transition –
It is all so finely wrought
And offered
About and around
Your figure,
That one grasps
The meaning of truer seeing,
Beyond the illusion