When the day seeks to rest,

It pleads the Sun to set,

When the workers wipe the sweaty forehead,

The cool air breezes from the distant ahead,

When the crops sink to soak the soil,

The farmers lay their tools to rest,

When the babies sing the evening chirps,

The mother birds return to their nests,

When the lovers long for the solitude,

The dusk invites with its twilight fade,

When my heart…

MEDITATION

During the last twenty years a steadily rising number of people have experimented with meditation as a way to either relieve the stresses and strains of modern life or to enhance their natural wisdom. However, it seems very few persevere and build the practice of meditation into their…

Happy New Year



Like the dew drops in the early morning grass,

Fresh and clear as pearls in the rays of sunshine,

Like the blossoming of magnolia in the early spring,

Gracefully clad in white as a beautiful bride,

Like the eastern sky in the early dawn,

Magnificently bright with the glow of the rising Sun,

Like the spark on her face…

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim,…

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow…

Butterfly

Like the metamorphosis of the caterpillar,

Into a beautiful butterfly,

Let our past desire, karmas and sanskaras,

Be transormed into an ever new light,

Let bygones be bygones,

For the rebirth of spring,

Has flourished into a new joy.

-Bijay Raut…