Teach me to Pray Swami !

 

I was returning from my work in a bus when I asked the conductor why no bus came for the past 45 minutes and suddenly one  behind the other 8 buses came like a parade , much to the bewilderment of the frustrated passengers. The conductor told me that someone had stolen 1 sovereign gold ornaments , cash and some valuables from one unsuspecting customer and there was a severe investigation in all the buses that had the same number in the route and all of them were stalled at a station .

My heart ached on hearing the news . With what prayer and expectation the concerned person would have bought the articles . The creative turbine in me began to churn the thoughts which I am now transferring into this passage. 

Oh Dear Swami , Teach me to pray , 

For I see just what I see , 

But your vision extends above and around , 

And I don't know what to pray or how to pray , 

For I believe in my prayer , And you 

Always grant my prayer , So I am worried , 

How to pray for the correct blessing ?

Should I be sad that the person was a victim of robbery , 

Should I be apathetic to think that person was paying back their bad karma ,

Should I understand that you are teaching them the painful lesson of sacrifice , thereby bringing them closer to you , 

Should I be angry at you for allowing them to go through this incident, 

Should I be  angry at you for allowing them do a sin in the past there by making them face the consequence of this bad karma from the past ,

Should I be rational to think how desperate the Thief was to earn a livelihood by stealing ,

Should I simply be emotionally charged up to scorn the thief for the very act of stealing , no matter what his circumstances were , 

Should I be worried about the thief's future destiny when they themselves will have to payback for this bad deed of theirs ,

Should I be angry at you in the present , for allowing the thief to commit this sin , 

Should I be angry at you for not placing any good angels when the robbery was happening , thereby all their karmas are executed - the person becomes a victim of robbery,  the thief commits the robbery but by your grace some good person watches this and catches the act , thereby themselves earned Good karma

Oh Dear Lord , Teach me to pray , 

For I see just what I see , 

But your vision extends above and around , 

And I don't know what to pray or how to pray , 

For I believe in my prayer , And you 

Always grant my prayer , So I am worried , 

How to pray for the correct blessing ?

Oh Baba , Did you hear my Baba ?

Pranams to the lotus feet of the Lord , Bhagwan Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba. I began listening to these samarpan talks in youtube , given by different alumni's who made great inroads into different fields and are successful in their chosen vocations. It just got me thinking , what was my statusquo with bhagwan during my growing up years and it prompted me to write a poem expressing the same.

Oh Baba, did you hear my baba ,

I was bleating through Life , applying dirt all over me , 

But I was heating up my chant of your name , all around me ,

Was my dirt too bad enough for you to not even come near me and bathe me , 

For I see you have taken others out of their dirt and set them right ,

Was I not in touch with your name ,though not your form , but that off your previous body ?

Were you not happy to see me , walk on your path , 

Why did you let me go astray ,when you were there with me all along ?

I relished the choices I made, however wrong they were , 

But I still remembered your name , wherever I was ,

Was I not good enough for you to be your boy , 

What made you delay to take me out of my dirt and put me up in your hands , 

Or should I ask , was I not done with my Karma to meet you already ,

Here I am , finally in your orbit , only to see you have already built the constellation ,

And assumed your original place , before I got a chance to meet and bask in your glow, 

Oh Baba , did you not hear my baba ...