ALL-IN-ONE ( Part--- I )

 

           

                                    

1.         Like a Mother

   You nourish and care one and all

   Forgiving and showering love divine

   Unseen, yet gleaming through stars and sunshine;

   You listen to every creature’s earnest call

   Your glance purifies our lives like Ganges great

   Inestimable Patience and Mercy incarnate!

 

2.        Like a father

  You sustain and guide this universe vast

  You curb our desires with your discipline stern

  Through your mysterious plans you make us learn;

  In life’s seeming struggles so many lessons you taught.

  Rigidly denying our crazy dreams with madness fraught.

  You punish us to curb our crooked ways and thoughts.  

 

3.        Like a child

    You make and unmake worlds with sportive delight

    Smiling like spring and roaring like lightning bright;

    You shake the worlds with winds and volcanic fire

    With flooding oceans touching cloudy spires;

    When we are down with disease and gasping breath

    We feel your gentle touch of restful death.

 

4.        Like a teacher

        You train our latent skills you gave

  You boldly refuse to grant of what we crave

  Though you appear to be callous and cold

  Our wandering passions you keep on hold.

  We never acknowledge Thy love sublime

  Beyond worldly barriers and changing times

 

5.        Like a friend

  You ever watch and stand by our side

  Timely warning you give to check our pride

  So patient, liberal and generous Thou art

  You never leave us though others depart.

  Your friendly advice in turbulent days

  Saves us from degradation and disgrace.

 

6.        Like a lover

  Ever enshrined within our hearts

  Enchanting us with sweet feelings and thoughts;

  Like playful cowherd of Brindavan

  You make us happy filled with mirth and fun

   Our fickle minds forget Thee and rush towards hell

   Yet You try to draw us with Thy divine spell.  

 

7.        Like a wise seer

  Your brilliant wisdom divine

  Beyond our sense-bound learning shines

  Our perverted brains misuse Thy gifts indeed

  We dig our graves with false egoistic greed.

  Open our eyes ere we slip into gloom

  Our crazy ways pollute and lead us to doom.

 

8.       Like a wise judge

 You ordain laws, beyond our thought

 Your judgement spanning eons with justice fraught;

 Though they appear strange beyond our brains

 An unseen force leads this world and sustains;

 Though you seem so rigid, detached, and cold

 Thy mercy, sages perceive million-fold.

 

9.        Like a farmer

    You work to show the worth of hard toil

    Protecting crops, cattle, and nourishing soil;

    You shed your sweat and blood millions to feed

    And quench their thirst with no sense of greed;

    Sow seeds of hope and faith in every life

    Make us face boldly challenges and strife.

 

10.          Like a warrior

    You show supreme courage and power

     Ever vigilant and watching every hour

     Punishing evil and monstrous devils;

     Assuming many forms with Thy almighty will;

     Protector of all worlds! We bow before Thy feet

     Shower Thy grace and precious blessings sweet!

 

11.           Like a washerman

     You purify our sinful sullied souls

   Leading us to our destined goals

   With buffeting blows and challenges to cure

   Our vicious impulses and passions impure.

   You straighten our crooked folds within

   A spotless fabric pressed sans stain or sin.

 

12.         Like a barber

    You cut the unruly growth of desires wild

    That grow like tangled weeds aggravating our pride

  Despite our growing age, we can’t restrain

  The endless web of passions, despair, and strain.

  Though we collapse with age, disease, and pain

  Still, we struggle with unfulfilled craze in vain.

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 13th April, 2023                        Somaseshu Gutala