13.
Like
a potter
You mold our destiny with mysterious skill.
With so many designs and patterns you fill
Though frail and weak we live in conceited ways.
Till we crumble to dust unaware of our
numbered days.
Ignorant of Thee, Master of our life-breath!
Ignorant of Thy gifts and impending death!
14. Like
a weaver
You show your creative powers
Intermixing various shades and colors
A mixed fabric of sufferings and pleasures
Our lives with a purpose which we can’t
measure;
To make us know life’s valuable virtues
To teach us problem-solving means and clues.
15.
Like
a tailor
You measure our worth and give our due
Of what we deserve in proportions true;
To grab with greed, in vain we struggle
hard
You give our due, Our well-wisher and
Lord!
We waste our precious days in worldly
pleasures.
Ignoring true values and innate treasures.
16.
Like
an artist
Endless works of wonder you create.
Inestimable miracles splendid and great
Nature, a fathomless, endless mystery
Beyond our limited fallible boundaries
Yet thy precious skills a little, in
artists we find.
A speck of Thy supreme magnificent mind
17.
Like
a scientist
This universe with many secrets you
designed.
Our bragging wits too shallow to unwind
The infinite intricacies profound
Beyond our subtle supercomputing bounds
Innumerable gifts gave Thy generous grace.
Which we misuse in self-destructive race.
18.
Like
a doctor
You cure our maladies and disease.
Nature, your precious gift for health and
ease.
Our selfish polluting living style
Create new germs deadly and vile.
Addicted to drinks, lust, and perilous
drinks.
Into abysmal depths of doom people sink.
19.
Like a poet
You make this universe with magical skill.
Splendid wonders in every vale and hill
In every bird, beast, flower, and fruit
In every being a rhythmic harmony cute.
Your thought took shape in every atom in
fact.
A master craftsman superb thou art.
20.
Like a painter
On the canvass of this universe, you
made.
Millions of worlds with various shapes
and shades
In multiple colors with soul-animating art
you devise.
A mystic supernatural creation, a
wondrous surprise.
Our efforts to imitate Thee we feel too hard.
A tiny shell, a flower shows Thy skill, Oh, Lord!
21.
Like a maestro
You created this world from sacred sound.
Numberless melodies in your domain
abound.
Thy musical skills, far above our earthly sounds.
Thy rhythm conceals so many meanings profound.
Masters of heavenly music touch our bosom’s
core.
With Immense devotion they praise and adore.
22.
Like a C.E.O.
The whole creation with ease you
control.
You decide and guide all towards their
goal.
Though we brag and dare to go out of
our ways
You lead us back to move on at our own
pace.
We miss you, Lord! the universal
source of all.
With rushing tide of time, we rise and
fall.
23.
Like an actor
So many parts you sportively play.
Embodying your infinite Self, I say
Beyond our worldly estimate and guess
Thy ordained laws none can transgress.
A trivial dot this entire creation
Immeasurable Thy Form, Thou,
All-in-one.
24.
Master of all!
Unknown to our souls confined in
sense-bound cage.
Thy precious blessings we misuse with bestial rage.
Our petty parts we think as ours and
miscomprehend
Thy Divine plan and our days idly spend.
Make us realize our roles and lead us
to our goal.
Make us realize and feel Thee, within our
soul.
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Note: In all religions great seers and prophets expressed their inability combined with wonder at the incomprehensible
creative powers of God and voiced their gratitude and devotion in many
religious scriptures. They concluded that all this creation comes from one
source and goes back to merge with that cosmic power. In Hinduism and other
religions where polytheism is followed, the multitudinous number of gods and
goddesses represent the mystic symbolic manifestation of God’s various
qualities and powers. In “Bhakti Yoga” (A chapter from Gita on “Devotion”),
Lord Krishna states that He exists behind everything in creation just like a
thread binding many multi-colored beads in a necklace. The cosmic manifestation
of God in various forms and objects in this universe and His magnanimous gifts
to all creation is elaborately dealt with in "Vibhuti Yoga" and in “Rudra Suktam”.
The least we
can do is to feel humble and acknowledge our earnest gratitude to God for his
various gifts and make use of them for the well-being of all living and
non-living creatures, and try to protect this universe, an indirect manifestation
of God Himself, without feeling any false sense of pride. Without His Will nothing
exists and survives. Let us keep this world safe, happy and peaceful.
Destruction and pollution lead to our own ultimate annihilation and
degradation.
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29th April, 2023 Somaseshu Gutala
