Return of Paradise

Return Oh Lord, the drapes of greenery
The shadow of the woods, Nature's beauty
Take away this world of concrete and cruelty
The satire of modernism & urban vanity

Return Oh lord, the loving heart
Faith in empathy & compassion
Take away this meaningless, maddening life
The fire of wealth & self-destroying emotion

Oh Lord, the Universe is your eternal playground
Where goes on the cycle of creation & destruction
No flaw, no pause to be ever found
Have You lost Yourself in Your own passion?

Often I ask myself this question in moments silent
Oh Lord Almighty the Omnipotent
the Omnipresent
the Omniscient

Madhurashtakam - Composed by Vallabhaacharya

Adharam madhuram vadanam madhuram

nayanam madhuram hasitam madhuram

hridayam madhuram gamanam madhuram

Mathura dhipate rakhilam madhuram

Vachanam madhuram charitam madhuram

vasanam madhuram valitam madhuram

chalitam madhuram bhramitam madhuram

Mathura dhipate rakhilam madhuram

Venur madhuro renur madhurah

paanir madhurah padau madhurah

nrityam madhuram sakhyam madhuram

Mathura dhipate rakhilam madhuram

Gitam madhuram pitam madhuram

bhuktam madhuram suptam madhuram

rupam madhuram tilakam madhuram

Mathura dhipate rakhilam madhuram

Karanam madhuram taranam madhuram

haranam madhuram smaranam madhuram

vamitam madhuram samitam madhuram

Mathura dhipate rakhilam madhuram

Gumja madhurah maya madhurah

yamuna madhurah vici madhurah

salilam madhuram kamalam madhuram

Mathura dhipate rakhilam madhuram

Gopi madhurah lila madhurah

yuktam madhuram bhuktam madhuram

drishtam madhuram sishtam madhuram

Mathura dhipate rakhilam madhuram

Gopa madhurah gavo madhurah

yashtir madhurah srishtir madhurah

dalitam madhuram phalitam madhuram

Mathura dhipate rakhilam madhuram

Translation

Sweet are Your lips, sweet is Your face, sweet are Your eyes, sweet is Your smile, sweet is Your heart, sweet is Your gait, O Lord of Mathura, everything about You is sweet

Sweet are Your words, sweet is Your story, sweet are Your garments, sweet is Your presence, sweet are Your movements, sweet are Your roamings, O Lord of Mathura, everything about You is sweet

Sweet is Your flute, sweet is the dust of Your feet, sweet are Your hands, sweet are Your feet, sweet is Your dance, sweet is Your friendship, O Lord of Mathura, everything about You is sweet.

Sweet is Your song, what is drunk by You is sweet, what is eaten by You is sweet, and sweet is Your sleep. Sweet is Your form, sweet is the mark on Your forehead, O Lord of Mathura, everything about You is sweet

Sweet are Your works, sweet is Your conquest, sweet is Your theft, sweet is Your remembrance, sweet are Your offerings, sweet is Your cure, O Lord of Mathura, everything about You is sweet.

Sweet is Your murmuring, sweet is Your garland, sweet is the Yamuna River, sweet are the waves, sweet is the water, sweet is the lotus flower, O Lord of Mathura, everything about You is sweet

Sweet are the Gopis, sweet is Your divine sporting, sweet is Your union, sweet are Your experiences, what You behold is sweet, sweet are Your left overs, O Lord of Mathura, everything about You is sweet

Sweet are the Gopas, sweet are the cows, sweet are the pearls around Your neck, sweet is Your creation, sweet are Your victories, sweet are Your jokes, O Lord of Mathura, everything about You is sweet

A Prayer

All what is obsolete, corrupted, ploy

Let them be dwindled from my memory

Ushering in fresh breath

Making life new, magnificent and merry

Oh Almighty!

May new bliss enchanting peace and prayer

Purify lives with holy flare

If truth is eternal infinite

Ages old but ever-virgin

Undefeated it only knows to win

Oh Almighty!

From Atom to Matter

From Matter to Cosmic Mind

Cosmic Mind to Entity Greater

Final Refuge in the Divine

Oh Almighty!

My only prayer Oh Almighty

Lead me from impurity to purity

From ignorance to wisdom

From mortality to immortality