Divine Notes, God belongs to whom? The matter that must matter

DIVINE NOTES FROM THE DIVINE DREAM

Goddess Saraswathi is playing on Veena

Melodious and blissful Divine Notes;

Lord Brahma is creating from the Notes

Provided by Lord Vishnu and Lord Siva;

Musical notes and creative notes

Merged together and poets are created;

I am there along with Vaalmiki, Vyaasa, Bhaasa, Kalidaasa

Bhavabhooti, Maagha, Visaakhadatta, Sudraka,

The eminent Sanskrit poets and dramatists seated in one row;

In a row opposite, I saw Homer, Shakespeare, Bretolt Brecht, Gurajaada Appaarao,

And many Asian, European and American and other Continental poets and dramatists;

In another row are seated Tyaagaraja, Muthuswami Diskshitar, Syaama Sastri,

Beethoven, Morzart and many composers, and musicians like M.S. Subbulakshmi

From the east and the west together with Einstein, S.N. Bose, Yallapragada Subbarao;

Ravivarma, Picaso and other artists and sculptors too are seated

In another row with Bharatha Muni, Siddhendra Yogi and other dance theoreticians and dancers

I am there to learn the art of writing drama

From Goddess Saraswathi and creative techniques from Lord Brahma;

Saraswathi while playing veena looked gracefully at Bhaasa,

Who in turn looked at Kalidaasa, and the rest of Sanskrit dramatists;

They all benevolently looked at me enchantingly

I became blissful and one with My Self;

And Gurajada Apparao garu too glanced at me in a friendly way

Together with Shakespeare, Bretolt Brecht and the rest;

My heart started singing the glory of the Divine Congress

Of poets, dramatists, intellectuals, artists, technicians, composers and musicians I have witnessed;

In me has taken place such a transformation

I started writing a drama then and there itself;

It is like a dream; literally it is a Divine dream

And after waking up I felt I am blessed

And started composing a drama based on

The Divine Notes I shared just now

Collected from my Divine dream

GOD BELONGS TO WHOM?

God belongs to whom?

To the fundamentalist, devotee, or to whom He belongs?

And belongs He only to the religion?

Religions hijacked by barbarians are

Causing civilized people confusion about religion;

Rituals are dominating, spirituality is missing;

Compassion and accommodation of dissidence disappeared;

Culture is defined and dictated by half-informed individuals;

Are religion and culture one and the same?

Is there any subtle difference leaving room to the individual’s interpretation?

Is religion just one aspect of sociology and social living among many?

Or an all encompassing and dominating social fabric

With no room or space for fresh weaving with new threads;

Are religions stagnated waters or flowing rivers;

Are they at dead end or are evolving?

Does at all God belong to religion?

Does not He have His own Existence,

Transcending limitations fixed by ignorant religious preachers and followers;

So many questions but no answer;

The Omniscient, Omnipresent and Omnipotent

Is understood confined to rituals and their performance;

It is sad that God is imprisoned in names, forms, slogans alone

And His presence every where and every moment

In the hearts of his Creation is forgotten;

God belongs to whom?

Belongs only to the religion, fundamentalist and such maniacs?

God only knows.

THE MATTER THAT MUST MATTER

The sky and the ocean

In their pervading vastness in expansion

Elegantly represent, manifest and reflect Divine Formation;

Their blueness corresponds to Love and the depths of Divine Compassion

;

The nature around us in its bountiful possessions

 Nourishes us like loving mother

With rains, fruits, grains

Clean river waters and pure air;

Are we, and animate and inanimate beings

The result of creation or evolution

Are we children of God and are tiny gods and goddesses

Or mere matter and energy and their mutual actions

And interactions in time and space;

How does it matter?

Once that we are here what must matter is;

We must all shine as sparks of knowledge, wisdom and compassion

Benevolence, intelligence and love;

“Though belonging to different nations, cultures, civilizations, religions, ideologies

We are all manifestations of same Divine Energy and Matter

And are equally dear children of Divinity”;

This realization must dawn in every one of us

And be practiced,

Is all the matter that must matter