Friday, August 23rd, 2024
Mississauga, Ontario
My presentation today is an offering to my guru, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Praphupada for his birth anniversary coming up on August 27/24
Prabhupada, you have come to make a change
And as we marvel at your awesome range
You intrigue us with your ability to blend
Having formulated a neat east/west blend
We love you for this fair, inclusive approach
Letting us know that ALL can climb the coach
And engage in the incremental ladder of bhakti
When we make inner peace and sign a treaty
The treaty is between soul, brain, mind, sense
An alignment set in a row like a fence
Directed to your divine feet and words
Feet-to become humble, words-to reach worlds
You left India for the shores of America
Where all is efficient even when one orders liquor
Now the west is becoming a state of chaos
Walls are defaced with something stronger than crayons
But Bharat isn’t much prettier or better
The entire globe is a hole where lives the Mad Hatter
All nations chase the rabbit to lower depths
Existing like grim prisons of foul thoughts and breaths
Holy sites are nasty, needing renovation
Sewage and plastic create a bad situation
Vices deposit in every remote obscure corner
Regardless of where you go, you are a foreigner
It is hard to relate to our disjointed world
Will sanity ever settle when all has been hurled?
You taught us the answer is in individual purging
And not through gratification or a useless merging
Your intervention has done it for those you drafted
With your sweet logical persuasion you have crafted
It encourages us further cleaning up our act
To clean our heart and a world that's locked
MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU!
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