In the Sound of a Breath

KS Anu 157 :  "The Supreme Lord beyond the gunas, without fault, the original creator, having many forms, becomes one again and rests."  Sri Madhavacharya

Stavavali pg 223 - Txt 91 : "I pray that Lord Krishna, who also places His lotus feet on the hoods of Ananta Sesa, will permit me to reside in His land of Vraja."




I have come to see You Lord,

where You lie and dream     

exhaling this breath,

primal beat of time

out of eternity.

From an infinite glance of Your eyes,

and by just a shadow of Your desire,

unlimited clusters of universes

come into being;

In this obscurity where You are not seen,

countless entities manifest,

suspended in the sound

of the soft whiff in Your sleep;

that exhaled whisper

              perceptible in everyone’s heart,          ⁽¹⁾

echoed in mantras and hymns,

and awakening the souls

to devotedly sing ~

all seem to cradle Your sleep;

in them, in forms of Yourself,

in the objects of Your creation,

You, aloof from transformation,

repeatedly, successively, perpetually

expand within and without

in the bewildering reality

of Your existence.

I came to sit, oh my Lord,

in this mandapa at Your feet,

in the beams of Your toenails

radiating bliss

untouched by this ocean

 of miseries and fatigue,

since whatever they touch,

like hearts and the Dhams,

then shine with the beauty

of innumerable resplendent suns.

O Lord, here you are ~

the Absolute in your Godhood,

in greatness and minuteness,

infinite and complete,

but an ecstatic incompleteness

betrayed by Your flute,

unveils the ocean of sweetness

  of white nights 
            and the lotus-deep-blue hue       ⁽²⁾

and celestial fragrances

of Your soft petal-like feet,

where Your perfection

in giving and accepting love

          secretly completes the Absolute.     (3)   

I came to pray, My Lord,

now that I am aware of

my inability to love.

1) SB 12.6.41 “The entire expanse of Vedic sound is elaborated from omkara, which appears from the soul, within the sky of the heart.”

2) "The Lord’s lotus feet have the tenderness of the petals, the hue of a night lotus, the fragrance of a celestial lotus and the effulgence of the white night lotuses. The bee-like mind of the devotee can taste the sweetness of this lotus." 

3)  Gopala Campu pg 366  "The highest enjoyment for Krishna is feeling incomplete and by enjoying with the Gopis he feels complete."