VISHNU

Tuesday, September 1st, 2026

Caledon, Ontario

VISHNU

I was walking Highway 2 in 2012


A motorist pulled over his engine with valves


“A ride? I was just checking”


I said, “Thanks, but I am trekking”


“Are you a follower of Buddha?”


I said, “Krishna and not Judah”


“Oh! Vishnu? In that vein?”


I indicated it was that chain


He was kind to offer me a ride


But I was committed to my stride

He got me thinking though


About God who always gives a glow


Of Vishnu, the massive man of blue


An attractive deva that blesses you


He appeared at Krishna’s divine birth


Deciding to come to Earth


Vishnu has these extra limbs


Often lies on water choosing not to swim


Is he polymelia with defects?


Is it painful, the extra arms from his chest?

No, not a chance, those additions


Indicate opulences of plural magicians


He is a mystic with special powers


That are very far beyond ours


With each arm there is a symbol


Talismans mightier than any wimble


The club for chastisement, a wheel to cut


A lotus for beauty, a conch for what?


To produce a sound of support


For Vishnu offers real comfort

A cosmic male who happens to be pregnant


Defying nature, a pastime rather pleasant


Holding in his belly the seed of existence


A functioning of awesome transcendence


The Alpha and Omega, both male and female


Whose every endeavour does not fail


He is big but fits into your heart


The origins of the elements – the start


The companion of Lakshmi, the goddess


And the one who makes us lucid and modest

– By Bhaktimarga Swami

MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU

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