Baba is the Breath of My Life

The world is a big theatre where the sky is the roof of lights
Big and small. The Earth is carpeted green dotted with colors
And all the lives in the sea, in the air, and on the earth
Are actors, playing various roles, at His command
Some enjoying, some suffering, some jumping, some fallen
This variety show has marvelous interest, with two screens
Called Day and Night, brilliant, on the stage, for one and all.
Into this world, I am ushered in, by Baba
To play my role of a fool, now smiling, now weeping
Never steady in devotion to one great and grand idea.
But, Baba likes me, as He has made me by His own hand
And plays with me, as a child will play with a pup!
And so every breath of mine is from Baba
Who sits in my heart, blowing life through me
His breath ambrosial, for my joy.

O my ecstasy is beyond compare!
O……Baba, Thou art Sai (the Mother), Baba ( the Father)
Thou art the Bandhu (the Relative) Sakha (the Friend)
How can I forget Thee and live here?
If thou wert not with me, nay life would collapse
And nothing would be left of me.
Now, I am able to breathe, sing, and speak
Because Thou art the Life of my life, the Breath of my breath
Thou art the root and the fruit of my life
Thou art my God in all His Glory;
Yea…Thou art Lord Sri Krishna, come down to earth
To lift all souls submerged in world’s restless Ocean of Samsara
I saw Thee and I See Thee, and my glory is in clinging
To Thy sacred Feet and washing them with my tears
Before offering the flowers growing in any heart
For Thy Worship and Thy Love,
Down the valley, up the mountain,
All over the dwelling places of men
Baba’s footprints blaze with love
To enrich the soil and the soul of man.

I am a poor and humble devotee
Who has drunk deep Baba’s manna
My joy has risen full to its brim,
My Peace is dancing before my eyes;
I love nothing but Baba’s beaming eyes
I love nothing but Baba’s beaming smiles
I owe nothing to anyone but to Baba
Whose Grace abundant has fertilized my heart
Whereon resplendent harvest has been garnered
To fill the Earth with my joy and peace.
Let me fulfill Baba’ s Commandment
That nothing but Peace and Joy we shall have.

~Dr. K. Vaidyanathan, M. A., Ph. D.

(Dr. Vaidyanathan full of “ecstasy beyond compare” shed his physical body last month. His was a dedicated life saturated with Divine grace, as these and other poems and writings of his that we have offered to readers have revealed.) Ed.

Source: Sanathana Sarathi, May 1966