The Call

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 पुकार
-ओराया मौन्टन ड्रीमर
 
मैंने पूरी ज़िन्दगी ऐसा सुना है,
 
एक आवाज़ कोई नाम पुकार रही है जो मेरे ही नाम जैसा लगता है।
 
कभी वो आवाज़ धीमी सरसराहट-सी सुनाई देती है।
कभी ऐसा लगता है कि उसमें कोई बहुत ज़रूरी पैग़ाम छुपा है।
लेकिन वो हमेशा यही कहती है: जागो, प्रिय। तुम नींद में चल रहे हो।
इसमें तुम्हारी सलामती नहीं है।
 
पहचानो कि तुम क्या हो, और उस गूढ़ ज्ञान के रंग से
अपनी इंसानियत की तस्वीर को रंग दो। 
तुम्हें कहीं जाने की ज़रुरत नहीं। जो तुम खोज रहे हो वो यहीं है।
उस चाहतों से भरी कसी मुट्ठी को खोलो और देखो तुम्हारे हाथ में पहले से ही क्या रखा है।
कुछ होने का इंतजार करने की क्या ज़रुरत,
भविष्य में क्या होगा, सोचने का क्या फायदा।
 
तुमने जो भी अभी तक चाहा है, वो सब अभी इसी पल में मौजूद है।
इस निरर्थक खोज में तुम बस खुद को थका रहे हो,
वापिस लौट आओ और विश्राम करो।
और कितनी देर ऐसे जी पाओगे? 
 
तुम्हारी अतृप्त आत्मा एकदम सूख रही है, तुम्हारा मन ठोकरें खा रहा है। इतनी कोशिश!
अब छोड़ दो ये सब।
खुद को भगवान का दीवाना बना दो, 
सिर्फ अपनी आत्मा की सुन्दरता के भरोसे को रखो।
उस प्रेमी को मौका दो तुम्हें अपने पैरों पर खड़ा कर के गले लगाने का,
जब आशंका तुम्हें जकड़ने की कोशिश कर रही हो, तब भी प्रेममग्न नाचो।
 
याद रखो, केवल एक ऐसा शब्द है जिसे अपने सर्वस्व से कह पाने के लिए ही तुम्हारा जन्म हुआ है।
जब वह शब्द तुम्हारे सामने आ जाए तो उसे अपना जीवन सोंप देना। चुप मत रहना, कंजूसी न दिखाना।
खुद को उस शब्द पर न्योच्छावर कर दो।
ये प्रेमगीत जो हम मिलकर लिख रहे हैं, उसमें लीन हो जाओ।
 
-ओराया मौन्टन ड्रीमर
 
Seed Questions for Reflection

What is the one word you are here to say with all your being? How do we practice opening our "fist clenched in wanting?" What do you understand by "God-mad" or "faithful only to the Beauty" or letting the "Lover pull you to your feet and hold you close?" Can you share a personal experience that illustrates this feeling of surrender?

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22 Past Reflections
FA
May 4, 2021
The one word for me is Healer...we do practice opening our fist clenched...by surrendering to the divine...God made is Total acceptance of what is...
TS
Top School In Mahendragarh
Dec 31, 2020
To develop ALL ROUND PERSONALITY of students by making them not only excellent professionals but also good individuals with understanding and regard for human values, pride in their heritage and culture, a sense of right and wrong, a yearning for perfection, and a thirst for knowledge. We try to develop a rational and scientific outlook on life. We strive to absorb positive aspects of both tradition and modernism instead of seeing them as contradictions.
LJ
Len Johnson
Apr 1, 2020
I've always understood that the only way to be thankful for being alive is to love someone and know that you are also being loved in return.
Z
Apr 1, 2020
Wow..... wow...
PA
Apr 1, 2020
Lover of all souls.
JS
jyotish shastra
Mar 5, 2020
I will come with another review soon as I am taking the consultation for my Sister.
WO
wonderMan
Oct 19, 2015

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AM
Nov 21, 2012
 Today, I listened to a Christian speaker addressing the topic "The Perfect Relationship".  In this, he spoke "ideals" like: passionate commitment . . . like soul . . . common purpose . . . depth . . . beauty . . . harmony . . . authenticity . . . like minded . . . intimate.  For this reason (relationship), I am "mad" for God.  I cannot ask, expect or think it even possible another human could meet these needs . . . "perfectly".   My one word?  Jesus "Fist clenched in wanting"?   Relax that clench.  (What we "think" we have (earthly finds and less than perfect relationships) we do not (passing).  What we hope to find (JC/something beyond what we presently have) better found with open hand. "Faithful only to the beauty":  We can believe the lie of ourselves (what i see) OR we can believe the truth of God (what He sees)  There is beauty in suffering.  There is... View full comment
MA
Nov 20, 2012
 My one word has been allow.  Tonight I received a reminder as my seven year old daughter came to me after I had tucked her into bed: Sabina "I feel angry and sad and I don't know why. Why?" Mama "Your feelings don't need a why. They are just there. Often the why comes after the feeling anyway." Sabina "I feel like I need to cry. Why?" Mama "Perhaps you are tired or got into a ray through the universe or have something deep inside that says 'This is a quiet moment and it is a good time to speak and be heard.' It doesn't really matter why, just let the crying come. Remember when I told you that often people believe it is not ok to feel so they squash their feelings inside? Sometimes they are difficult like pain and sadness and anger and sometimes they are the opposite like a lake of joy. For some reason it was said or at least believed that it isn't ok to feel so then the sadness came that it can't be fel... View full comment
OM
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Nov 20, 2012
Thank you so much for sharing my poem "The Call." Many blessings, Oriah Mountain Dreamer (www.oriah.org)
D
Nov 20, 2012
I like this piece.  It's a meditation in itself.  I found myself calming as I read it.  The first 'one word' that came to me is 'now.'  We practice opening our "fist clenched in wanting" by being now, appreciating the now, and letting go of striving for something there and then.  I still have goals, and I do best when I maintain an abiding awareness in the now while I have and am in control of my goals rather than my goals having and being in control of me.  I am more aware of my inner voice than years ago, which I also call my inner experience and truth, and consult it and make use of it more than before, and that certainly helps me in my living -- it results in me being more present, more personal, and more grounded.  I don't get the term "God-mad."  If "God-mad" means faithful to my inner voice/truth/experience, then I value and want to grow in "God-mad."  The personal experi... View full comment
RO
Nov 20, 2012
Joy! Eternal Bliss that spontaneously arises. With eyes opened or closed, behind the dark of the eye lids or the brightness of vision, it knocks at the door of your heart :I am here. I am you. Ever present. I AM LOVE.  
LA
Nov 20, 2012
 My word is "stay".  Just "stay".   That's all we have to do to be happy.  I surrender every day when I feel my thoughts, my irritation, my blame coming forth....I notice the pain of it and in this...I begin my surrender.  It's a circle we repeat over and over....lost in thoughts, pain, realization, surrender, happiness. 
BL
BLUESTOCKING
Nov 20, 2012
To be present and centered in loving kindness...centered in light...universal energy of love 
RI
Nov 20, 2012
Timing is everything.  Although I have read this over and over, it seems nothing in my current hectic and disappointing life could resonate with the topic, the seed questions for reflection, and the reading itself seemed as far off as the stars present in the dawn sky.  And then after reading the passage one more time, sitting quietly and in stillness this morning, a wave of contentment and a sense of gratitude enveloped my being from the inside out.  I just want express thanks to all of you who have allowed the focus of this passage to be revealed in your efforts through servicespace and to then offer each of us such a rich bombardment of coconuts for wakefulness. 
KP
Nov 20, 2012
 one word for today: Kindness. in all we do, say and how we ARE in the World. Opening our clenched fist is the realization that the more me GIVE, the more we Receive, though the receiving is NOT the reason to open our clenched fist in wanting... however it is the Release to know that in Giving we are not depleting ourselves, but Adding to our hearts and to others. HUG. When I sold my house and gave away or sold most possessions to become a full time storyteller and founder of volunteer project Literacy Outreach Belize, I felt more liberated than Ever in my life. That Letting Go was and still is a very powerful lesson for me. One I need to remember in all relationships in my life whether with people or possessions. When we Let Go we allow for the Other to BE. Thank you for this reflection.
MA
Maria
Nov 20, 2012
 Beautiful & very meaningful.  So true.
TA
Nov 19, 2012
<3 PEACE <3  i am thankful for being aware that i am in the right place at the right time ..my fear of saying or doing the wrong thing quelled ... i have had i one word mantra since i remember learning about the magic of wishes .peace. on a broad scale ,a small scale ,peace of mind, world peace ...to be at peace.. healing peace ...peace to bring me calm in trying times....i wished for many kinds of peace ... i have lived loved learned lots in my relatively short span here so far and i have often wondered if my quest for knowledge ideas and the greater good was out of ego somehow and i believe yes it is on some level as it FEELS good to learn grow evolve ..and the cautious side of me wanted to akin that to feeling... "powerful".....  which is not on my agenda . I realize still it is this constant thirst that has opened every door and opportunity in my world to better a better me..i  believe i have finally ... View full comment
GA
Nov 19, 2012
 God-mad...... Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa is evoked in my thoughts as i try to understand the depth of God-mad.  being god-mad is actually a source of sanity and sanctity.  without the appreciation for all of this creation, without the gratefulness for the beauty of each one of our stories that is woven timelessly, tirelessly...soo creatively through times immemorial....life is actually insane and ugly. 
maybe the play of imagery or matrix tricks...the word 'surrender'...seems to me somewhat authoritative and commanding....however i do often find myself contemplating that...i don't want to be forgiven for my bad karmas....that i be given the strength to shoulder it, understand it  and learn from it and grow spiritually....
NA
Nov 19, 2012
 What is the one word you are here to say with all your being? Love (absolute love or Being Universal consciousness). How do we practice opening our "fist clenched in wanting?" We open our clenched ego with unselfish love, by expanding our ego-centered, relative love to include all of nature. With this, we transit from ‘wanting to giving’. What do you understand by "God-mad" or "faithful only to the Beauty" or letting the "Lover pull you to your feet and hold you close”?  When we let love pull us out of ego in to Self, we enter a ‘state of trance’ or ‘God-madness’, beyond our physical-time dimension and awareness. We experience ‘intuitively’, that we are the timeless consciousness and all of its creation, and not just this physical body. We will be immersed in universal love or ‘Eternal Bliss of Consciousness’, (Sat-chit- Ananda). Can you share a personal experience that illus... View full comment
CP
Nov 16, 2012
 The one word I'm here to say with all my being is notice.   That implies being in the present and noticing your noticing while you are noticing. We practice opening are " fist clenched in wanting" by noticing  an open unclenched fist is best (more peaceful) for you  and everyone and then open it.   Being open and aware is a way that is easier to say than to do. thank you for the opportunity to respond.  I believe I am still too much in my head to experience surrender .  The thought of being no one going nowhere I cherish but I do not deeply experience it. Warm and kind regards to everyone.
A
Nov 15, 2012
 Today, I surrendered.   I surrendered a special friend to the exclusive care and love of God (because I could not hold him, today, the way I know he needs to held)!  I am promised, in marriage, to my husband and need to remain pure in it. My husband and I are "bound" by God (and  in our case, God used "Heaven's Super Glue")!   I had to surrender my friend, today, because even though he is a man . . . even though he has needs, like every other  . . . even though,"set apart", he desires to "come near '' . . . to be coveted . . . to consumed by another's love, attention and physical closeness . . . he cannot. I, and he, belong to a church that asks "our shepherds" to be "Supermen".  Our leaders can't simply "be men" they are asked to live "above" men"?  I have never understood this!  Given the question:  What would Jesus do/ what ... View full comment