Thursday 16 December 2021

Monday, December 13, 2021

Kitsilano, British Columbia

Gita Wisdom 


Once you were in the body of a very small child

Then you grew up to become a little wild

Your body as a youth showed all this passion

When people carry on in a certain kind of fashion

And then you took the body of a man

Energy went to responsibility as you plan

Then before long your body gets old

You then exit to enter another life of gold

The body will perish but you will not

What I tell you is very good food for thought

The soul is immortal, it will persist

It cannot be injured by sword or by fist

By fluid or water, it cannot be drowned

By fire, not burned, like ashes to the ground

By wind and air, it cannot be dried

No method of destruction will work if you tried

So Arjuna, you really should not lament

For the body that lived in time well spent

You start to focus as a warrior will do

Or else there’ll be ridicule towards your clan and you

The Kauravas are watching every move you make

It’s a matter of duty you’re obliged to take

If you hesitate when something needs to be done

You receive a reaction and that is no fun

Action, and subsequent reaction, is called karma

When we act as expected it’s called dharma

Do your dharma, avoid the karma

Do your dharma, avoid the karma

The world with all its changes will never come to an end

I’m telling you all this because you are my friend

-Composed by Bhaktimarga Swami, The Walking Monk©

 

May the Source be with you!


 

 

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