Ishwaro Pranidhana Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

We don't respond to a person.
We respond to the reaction
That we feel within us for him/her.
It can be ardent love or bitter hate.
Thus we respond to our emotions
And suffer when emotion is bad.
Jealousy, hatred and anger
Are the traits that imprison us.
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Ishwaro pranidhana.the tenth niyama:
Let thy will be done - divine will.
To make yourself the recipient
Of the divine will is the highest
Orderin the spiritual path.
Let go of the identification
With jealousy, hatred and anger.
No soul will seem bitter to you.

Listen to your inner voice.
Take a resolution to be good.
St. Francis has got his sainthood
For the vow he took of poverty-
From his luxury to poverty
And it was that which disciplined him
Be a service to human beings,
For which take a vow to receive God will.
12.07.2018