Kālidāsa’s Concord
for
Dharam Pal Dhall
&
Tehseen Zehra Muzaffar
Salaam This Dawn, This Morn. Salaam Our Say This Livelong Day
This Day Another Like No Other; Like All Other Too Soon Over.
Stay Yesterday’s Rest; Hold Tomorrow’s Quest— Embrace This New Day Unto Your Breast . Where Dharma Spins Karma As Kṣaṇa Knits Krama; Where Beauty Unfolds As New Braids Old.
Salaam Our Say This Livelong Day Salaam This Dawn, This Morn.
Poem based on ‘Salutation to the Dawn’, attributed to Kālidāsa (~ 500 CE) salaam: salutation signifying peace dharma: cosmic law; vocation karma: cause-and-effect; action kṣaṇa: moment(s) krama: sequence, order
Elementary Yoga
for Amar
__| Tadāsana | Swastikāsana | Savāsana __ | | | | | | Space Develops | Space Opens | Space Unbinds | | Air Adjusts | Air Balances | Air Equilibrates | | Fire Refines | Fire Tempers | Fire Moderates | | Water Smooths | Water Clears | Water Levels | | Earth Stabilizes | Earth Holds | Earth Settles | | | | |
__‘…learn to feel the rhythmic balance of the five elements…’
BKS Iyengar Light on Yoga__
Identikrt
kriyā yogaḥ ≡ karma kauśalam
To
Dõː
__Tapas__
Learn & Earn Regain & Reclaim
Function & Form
+
__Svā__
Discover & Uncover Maintain & Sustain
Prajñā & Prāṇa
__Dhyāya__
+
Refine & Streamline Consecrate & Dedicate
Effort & Endeavour
__Īśvarapraṇidhānāni__
kr (Sanskrit): to do; to make -> krt: doer, author, composer; kriyā: method; karma: action
prajñā: awareness; prāṇa: energy
tapaḥ svādhyāya Īśvarapraṇidhānāni kriyāyogaḥ: yoga method integrates application, investigation and surrender Yoga-Sūtra (2.1)
yogaḥ karma kauśalam: yoga is skilfulness in action Bhagavad Gīta (2.50)
12-Step
__Pro PD__
Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.
Arise, take up thy bod, and walk.
Arise, take up thy bad, and walk.
Arise, take up thy sad, and walk.
Arise, take up thy mad, and walk.
Arise, take up thy med, and walk.
Arise, take up thy mid, and walk.
Arise, take up thy mud, and walk.
Arise, take up thy mug, and walk.
Arise, take up thy fug, and walk.
Arise, take up thy lug, and walk.
Arise, take up thy leg, and walk.
Matsyendranath’s Bath
for S. Flotsam & Jetsam, Medium & Message
The Total-Surround
Of White Noise Sound
All Scales & Modes
(Ionian, Aeolian…)
In the Key of Sea
Crashing & Thrashing
On & Off
Through Crest & Trough
Buffeted by Elements
Composing Me versus Sea
Treading or Paddling
Flailing or Floating
Where Weighty Resolve
Might Fully Dissolve:
Lost Droplet of Me
Within The Ocean of Be.
.Matsyendranath/Matsyendra: ‘In the Haṭha Yoga Pradīpikā, Matsyendra is mentioned as one of the founders of Haṭha Vidyā. It is related that once Lord Śiva went to a lonely island and explained to his consort Pārvati the mysteries of Yoga. A fish near the shore heard everything with concentration and remained motionless while listening. Śiva, realising that the fish had learnt Yoga, sprinkled water upon it, and immediately the fish gained divine form and became Matsyendra (Lord of the Fishes) and thereafter spread the knowledge of Yoga’. BKS Iyengar Light on Yoga
Geeta’s Gita
‘iti’
For Geeta S. Iyengar
As Today’s Foray
In Wayward Way §
Stays its Stay
Her Grateful Say
(A Closing Bid
Of Backward Pray)
Completes our Lay:
* And That’s Enough
For the Day!*
~
§ Work Art Play iti (Patañjali Yoga-Sūtra 4.34) ~ That is all; Finis.