ALL-IN-ONE (PART--II )

                                     

  

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