929. Wings To Paradise - Mother’s Bhajans! 090508 Poem by Raman Savithiri

(Swami Amritaswarupanandapuri visited Kuwait as a representative of Amma. I attended his bhajans on 7th and 8th May. There was Tamil song too. The bhajans ended with a song ‘Amma bharamma’ a kannada song which I like the most. This was the first time I attended Swami’s bhajan though I had attended Amma’s bhajans many times.
Swami’s bhajans are no less to Amma’s. In fact, I was greatly moved by his divine voice filling the hall and overflowing into the vast desert and into the ever-expanding sky around.)
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Amma,

You know very well I was hungry for years,
Waiting to be served, with eyes shedding tears.
Though it was late, what a splendid devotional feast!
Bhajans! Ye arranged with spiritual aroma of east! !

You know very well I was thirsty in scorching sand,
As a desert plant waiting, a touch by Your cool hand.
Though it was late, what a lavish outpour of holy-rain!
Bhajans! Drenching soul-roots removing all life-pain! !

You know very well the past pangs of my sorrow,
Shutting my heart’s doors, made my mind narrow.
Though it was late, what a grand miracle of divine task!
Bhajans! Filling each body-cell, shattering ego mask! !

Oh Mother Ananadamayi, being bliss-river ever flowing,
Capable of filling beakers or barrels, with divinity glowing.
Though it was late, Ye filled me too with overflowing joy!
Bhajans! Sea of glee in which my mind floats as a tiny toy! !

Divine names or devotional songs: the sweetest things,
Lifting any soul above muddy earth by invisible wings,
Though it was late, Thou bestowed me too an instant flight,
Bhajans! Taking me to paradise from temporal-life fright! 090508