Bhakti - Vanita Shukla Hork

I wrote Bhakti in 1985, 17 years old. Bhakti is devotion to God, and the willingness of the devotee to surrender to the Divine One, the way Meera Bai did to Lord Krishna. Compare this poem to the desperate soul search evidenced in Contemplation (1984) and She Awaits the Sunrise (1985).

O Lord!

How can I leave You now?

Can a blind man

Who has been blessed with vision

Content himself with darkness again?

Can the lame

Who has learnt to walk

Return to his crutches?

O Lord!

Though they try

To turn my face away

I shall stay by my Faith!

O Lord!

They have no ears

No ears yet

To hear the Good News –

The Divine Voice!

Oh, call me, Lord!

I am ready to follow –

Help me in my Work

Help me perform my Duty

Keep me on the path of Action

Save me from the dissolution

Of Inaction!

Lord, show me the way –

Having given the eyes to see

Make Thy will my own.

I am ready, O Lord!

Vanita Shukla Hork, 1985

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6 thoughts on “Bhakti”

Birte Lundgreen
November 25, 2021 at 7:15 pm
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a strong and spiritual poem!
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- Vanita HorkPost author
  November 25, 2021 at 9:03 pm
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  Thank you, Birte! This was indeed a very spiritual time in my life, I was reading the Bhagavad Gita and was also inspired by Mirabai, the 16th century Hindu mystic poet and devotee of Krishna.
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Pernilla Sandström
November 25, 2021 at 11:08 pm
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Beautiful!
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- Vanita HorkPost author
  November 25, 2021 at 11:57 pm
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  Thank you so much, Pernilla!
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John Kitchener
November 27, 2021 at 4:01 am
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Like a Psalm
Only
Narrower.

I like it
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- Vanita HorkPost author
  November 27, 2021 at 11:34 am
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  Thank
  You
  So much,
  John!
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