Heart Failure Of The Spiritual Guru Poem by DrTP Sasikumar

In the centre of the heart only Brahman exists

No shape, no pace, no sound and space

All empty with fullness in emptiness

God wrote the laws of the spirit in the heart

Look, listen and trust your heart


Meditate for a strong heart

It is not the body's posture

But the attitude of the heart

That counts for the health of the heart

There is only feeling within the heart


Relations or conflicts are at the mind level

Break your relation-ship to flow free

Don't break your heart for relations

Be with one that makes your heart smile

A simple smile gladdens everyone's heart


Open your heart for experiences

Don't create wounds in your hearts

Or in the hearts of others too

Move through life with lightness

Touching the hearts of others


All are happy when the Guru is around

With all their troubles they go to him

Life is smooth for all and Guru is free

In faithful love he loses the self

Gives his heart to be left heartless


In the dreary hospital room

Someone held the Guru's hand

To check his pulse beat

Every disaster gives heartache

Rapid uneven and pounding


Disasters are natural in life

Opens his eyes to discern a nurse

'Your heart beat is normal

Nothing to fear,

I was your student too.


I remember your words'

"Take time to find the beauty

In the things that you see

Take life's simple pleasures

Let them set your heart free"


Only the ceiling and the light above

Murmur of the nurses around

Groaning of death- in beds nearby

The ICU smells of death and looks scary

The Guru now longs to be with some one


His heart starts to pound and race in panic

Eyes close to slide into unconsciousness

If not in life, at least at the time of death

He wishes for the hand of a loved one.

His heart is broken in panic and fear.


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