Nila, aruna and syama LIVE in the arena of pure consciousness today
Offered for Guru Maharaja’s vyasa puja day
Woke up early to blow out the candles
Sneak through to the kitchen to steal the milk sweets
Somehow they taste better that way
Devotees pure love is all that conquers him
Supremely attractive even to cupid
Once you’ve seen him other attractions can’t remain
Got pushed around by all the other little guys
Forgot the exchange of leis making days
Thought only had to make them Friday and Saturday
These pink jasmine and Cecil burner will have to due
Pedaled about the researcher’s park
Over the first highway and past the dvitiya campa hatti
Around the hospital curve to the avenue of the oldest profession
the tennis park is on the left. Between the lakes seeing the windmill is open following the beach where the sufferers go. The navapatra and the pitch are on the right where a big game is going on.
Friends are talking, laughing and dancing.
At the shop I take my leave while Murkha goes straight through
the treacherous triangle where the beasts back off to let him pass
it’s the call of the ratha-bhojana-vrksa that brings him in and folds his palms taking the kalarupa to the sandhya where he is greeted
by one glass blower and they exchange
pedaling adventure stories that amaze
talking like a pirate, Bhakta Blade helps them into their emerald and hot pink night dress whose name is the same. He finishes quickly singing praise
to the leis
simple as they are
he knows they’re fit for a superstar
fog hangs over the asrama tree line
rolling in from the bay
there are notes on the dry erase board
multicolored roses for the leis
thakuras in Sukala sakti showing how beauty is power
pink and white mukuts and cloth dazzling everyone’s eyes
prostrate before Them
pink and white, Sukala Sakti
isn’t Their mercy unreal
Murkha and I catch a ride for a mystical jaunt
as if strung on the thread of their mercy
float down the main street as if hammering
chanting their names soft and low
there’s a coupon from the shop of a physicist
saying two for one
all the while seeing them in their pink and white Sukala Sakti
seems so real
now fly away Murkha
fly away Gecko
from the Wednesday market
while the drum circle is throbing
I take my leave past the corner
while Murkha relishes sprinting back to the sandhya in his brain
the main street that was the way out has now become the way in
bowing to the ratha-bhojana-vrksa as it calls him back
he follows the kalarupa to the asrama
greeted by the kukura
now change them into their nightdress
green and orange two way thread
remembering the Lord’s lotus nails aren’t a weapon at all
and at twilight they were first offered this “lotus nails” dress
for evening rest and enjoying like anything
these are the longest days of the year
thakuras dress in summer gear
four outfits with vests and capes look prime
Gandharivka always arrives for service at the chime
ring out these bells, ring solstice bells
join in the kirtan of Mahaprabhu
before the altar and in the streets too
pandas dance along karatals and ankle bells ring for the occasion
rose and baby’s breath are the leis persuasion
mix and raise up to the spiritual sky
joyful perfomance she’ll be there with bells on
pedaling in double time Murkha and I “race” a fawn
soon the parents will come along
sending off a quick message but pushed by the beasts
the pedalers follow to keep the peace
taking the frontage road over the first highway
feeling good with this chance play
the ratha-bhojana-vrksa sees their folded palms
chase the kalarupa to the vaikalika without qualms
back again to the stars
over the beach hill it isn’t far
I take my leave at the usual place
leaving Murkha to return at a sprinter’s pace
bowing again to the ratha-bhojana-vrska call
thoughts of making the sandhya keeps him on the ball
the kernel of divine love greets him with his arms held high
calling out “sandhya ki jaya”
Dressing in “the lotus nails”
lets everyone know this is where material desire fails
Sri Guru-Gauranga Gandharvika-Giridhari’s smiling faces
calms us all saying “remember Us and you’ll be safe”