Everyday...

A Jesus is innocently crucified on the cross
A Buddha enlightens in the dark ignorance
A Krishna is a lone seer in the Mahabharata
How do we fail to notice the ultimate truth?
When silent eyes speak for a heart so pure
When words flow from the soul of Allah
Like drops lost in the sky within all of us
We are all clouds, don't wait for the rain
For just once taste the water of Heaven
Then rivers will flow from the ocean itself.



The Story Behind

In this poem, I attempt to explain the true identity of people like Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha and Krishna. Who were these people? Believers will say they were Divine or messengers of the Divine. Non believers or atheists will say they were nothing more than good people. What is the truth?

Look at it this way. If Jesus was the Son of God, so are all of us. If Muhammad was revealed the word of Allah, are we not blessed enough to get the revelation too? If Gautam can become Buddha the enlightened one, we all can. Is it really all that difficult to merge with Krishna consciousness?

We are no different from any of these really. The only difference is that these people have walked a path for us to become a connecting link between the man and the Divine.

But I ask again, don't we have legs or the strength to walk by ourselves? If life indeed is a journey and we are travelers, why don't we complete the journey on our own?

The God within Jesus had awakened so he was the only person worthy of being called his son. But this expression is symbolic, not literal. That's why Jesus never prayed, "To my Father". He always said, "To our Father". Don't we get this direct indication?
God is within all and the one who realizes this is no different from these Holy men or even the Gods. This is the simple truth.

And that's why rivers greet the ocean and then emerge from the same ocean with the taste of the Divine water. So if Allah is the ocean, Muhammad is his river. Many rivers like these flow backwards from the ocean itself. They are the divine rivers of the Universal cosmic ocean.