I Know the Hold

Posted September 1, 2003

You know the hand—
I know the hold.
Until you get the gift,
don’t leave the grasp.

You prayed for something good
I overheard it.
Be praying, don’t stop
until you get the boon.

You asked for something
in your heart, I know it.
Don’t leave me until
I answer your need.

Whatever you like
I know them all.
But do not desert
before I plan.

At your persistence
I may yield at last:
In your despair
You may gain in the end.

Ask either this, or that,
but, never give me up!
To give up half-way
is no devotion at all.

(English version of a poem often sung by Bhagavan since 1948)

~N. Kasturi
Source: Sanathana Sarathi, May 1987