Memories Are Comforting

 

Memories of past year-

Still fresh in my heart.

Hours of sweetness, sounds of tingling laughter 

Moments of anguish and touch of warm tears.

all is intact under the wrinkled sheets of time.

I greet the New year, yet

Bidding goodbye to old is hard.

The year 2023 will never be forgotten!

It’s life changing occurrence,

Lasting impressions,

Countless vague and foggy moments,

Restless and soothing flashbacks!

All is over whelming!

Yet holding on to all of it is comforting.

Each day though trying to live a normal routine

I want to keep the memories of past year alive. 

An old note, a conversation, a smell, a taste, 

A reminding note of a bill to be paid,

Cancelling a doctor’s appointment( no longer needed)!

All of it fills my day.

To know and feel time’s unbroken flow

A closeness to past is needed to grow.

When by the river we never touch the same water again,

But just to go by the river

And touch the new flow in old surroundings is comforting.

Even when greeting the New year

It is assuring to be surrounded with old memories. 

Savita Tyagi

12. 31. 2023

  

  

Not Every Question Has An Answer

December is ending

Ground is frozen.

Cold, brown and wrinkled leaves,

Reminiscence of fall-

Still scattered around.

Secrets of spring buried deep in earth’s heart.

Trees are empty of bird’s songs. 

A red bird still comes to sit on fence.

The geese still fly in the morning and evening

Their noise still wakes up the sleepy sky. 

In silence I digest the landscape.

Away from self conversing mind

The view offers an escape. 

So many question the mind can put

But no entitled to have all the answers……

Better to put these questions to sleep 

Like one puts a dear one to rest,

For eternal sleep…..

So much left unsaid, plenty is left undone

Many thoughts collide …..

What exists and what not…..

Dream, illusion, reality!

When the Light from eyes leaves,

Nothing of matter is left to hold on to…..

The bird free from cage

In open vast, for short visible like a fading dot!

Its existence recedes in the memory.

Savita Tyagi

12.28. 2023

Seasons's greetings

 “I am the living body of his light,

I am the thinking instrument of his power,

I incarnate Wisdom in an earthly breast,

I am his conquering and unslayable will.

The formless Spirit drew in me its shape;

In me are the Nameless and the secret name.’’

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My heart is wiser than the Reason’s thoughts,

My heart is stronger than thy bonds, O Death.

It sees and feels the one Heart beat in all,

It feels the high Transcendent’s sunlike hands,

It sees the cosmic Spirit at its work;

In the dim Night it lies alone with God.

My heart’s strength can carry the grief of the universe

And never falter from its luminous track,

Its white tremendous orbit through God’s peace.

It can drink up the sea of All-Delight

And never lose the white spiritual touch,

The calm that broods in the deep infinite.”

Sri Aurobindo- Savitri book X: Canto III

Wish you all peace, joy and strength for this Christmas and a happy New Year 2024.

Savita Tyagi

Dec, 24, 2023

Random Thoughts-Life

 

Random Thoughts- Life

Mother Nature is ruthless,

In destroying what She creates.

Humans are two steps ahead of her.

None seems to have any regrets. 

12.03. 2023- 11.30 am

Random Thoughts- Life

Life doesn’t give us monopoly on anything.

Yet time creates an illusion.

Ocean looks still on surface only.

12.6.2023 - 9.24 am

Random Thoughts - Life 

A well lived life 

Like setting sun 

Leaves a glow behind

Before it dips into Ocean.

12.15.2023. 4.25.am 

Life Is But A Dream

Some fifty years back winds of time blew;

From thousands of miles away

A small town young man landed at the feet of pacific Ocean. 

What an adventure his life has been!

Few month back sun has set upon his life.

It all seems like a dream.

Life is but a dream and he never stopped dreaming. 

His legacy shines in the colors of many beautiful sunsets of California that we shared together.

His bold spirit flies with those kites floating above the Ocean.

Free and content, beyond the tranquil horizon.

Here earth and sky meet to churn a new world of dreams.

A fascinating, ceaseless world of dreams for all of us.  

Savita Tyagi

November 20th 2023

Written in LA by the Pacific Ocean.  

Rendom Thoughts- 64- Fall Evening

Fall evening turns in to night. 

As the darkness descends 

It stares at me through blinds.

I leave the blinds open to touch it back.

Voices of solitude-Crickets!

The silence communicates, 

Some vague thoughts- worthless

In their birth and demise! 

A little later I close the blinds

Their soft cream color is soothing.

If here, you would be watching MSNBC!

The house would feel alive!

Miss you every day!

But my heart tells me you are happy up there.

In the long cycle of time 

We were destined to have few moments together! 

Your presence is still all around the house,

Touching me on countless moments.

Fall evening turns into night.

Savita Tyagi

Oct. 2023

Discipline The Heart

Discipline the heart to fill itself with love, care and best wishes for all.

Even though part of it is filled with pain, anger, grief, hatred and

The burning desire to cause, pain and destruction.

It thrives only under the shade of love. 

Dipawalli is a reminder for that.

Dry leaves falling in silence are reminder of that.

Even amid chaos seasons change,

Nature prepares us for change.

Peace and calm returns only when turmoil of heart subsides! 

“Love must not cease to live upon the earth;

For Love is the bright link twixt earth and heaven,

Love is the far Transcendent’s angel here;

Love is man’s lien on the Absolute.”

Savitri- Sri Aurobindo

Debate of Love and Death

“Arise, awake, find out the great ones and learn of them,

Sharp as a razor’s edge, hard to traverse, difficult of going is that path, say the sages.”

Katha Upanishad- Verse 14, first cycle, second chapter.

Wish you all a happy Dipawalli with peace and love.

Savita Tyagi

11.12.2023

Invest In Love

 The greatest investment of all is Love.

It is better to invest in Love than into Hate.

More you invest more it enriches you.

Its mysterious way of increasing its commodity

Has an special effect on draining the coffer-

The coffer of hate held so tight by you.

So difficult to be neutral.

But be on side of love 

If must you chose.

Savita Tyagi

!0. 16. 2023

Nav-Durga Part III Nava-Durga names in Sanskrit with word meaning in English (From Devi Kavacham)

Nava-Durga

प्रथमं शैलपुत्रीति द्वितीयं ब्रह्मचारिणी ।

तृतीयं चन्द्रघण्टेति कूष्माण्डेति चतुर्थकम् ॥

पञ्चमं स्कन्दमातेति षष्ठं कात्यायनी तथा ।

सप्तमं कालरात्रिश्च महागौरीति चाष्टमम् ॥

नवमं सिद्धिदात्री च नवदुर्गाः प्रकीर्तिताः ।

उक्तान्येतानि नामानि ब्रह्मणैव महात्मना ॥

English Transliteration

Prathamam Shailaputrii-[I]ti Dvitiiyam Brahmacaarinnii |

Trtiiyam Candraghanntte[aa-I]ti Kuussmaanndde[aa-I]ti Caturthakam ||

Pan.camam Skandamaate[aa-I]ti Ssassttham Kaatyaayanii Tathaa |

Saptamam Kaalaraatrish-Ca Mahaagaurii-[I]ti Ca-Assttamam ||

Navamam Siddhidaatrii Ca Navadurgaah Prakiirtitaah ||

Uktaany[i]-Etaani Naamaani Brahmannai[a-E]va Mahaatmanaa ||

Meaning:

(These are the names of Nava Durgas)

First is Shailaputri (Daughter of the Mountain).

Second is Brahmacarini (Who wanders in Brahman, or a Tapaswani (performer of Penance).

Third is Chandraghanta (Bell of Moon), Crescent moon.

Kushmanda (Glowing substratum of Universal Egg) is Fourth.

Fifth is Skandamata (Mother of Skanda).

 

Sixth is Katyayani (Daughter of Katyayana Rishi).

Seventh is Kalaratri (Dark Night of Destruction).

Mahagauri (Great Shining White Form) is Eighth.

And Nighth is Siddhidatri (Bestower of Siddhis or Accomplishments).

 

These are eulogized as Nava Durga (Names of Nine Durgas),

These Names were indeed uttered by (none other than) the great-souled Brahma.

Savita Tyagi

11.10.2022