Where Fire and Water meet

Fire burns while water cools,

Fire and water annihilate each other.

Yet when they meet at your feet Sweet Mother,

They harmonise into special nuptials.

Birthing a fire of aspiration,

Moist with waters of surrender.

And self-giving becomes waters that flame.

This newborn fire soars high,

Calling down the Golden downpour,

And everywhere earth begins to blossom towards its long-awaited ‘Gold.’

- Anahita Sanjana (India)

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  1. Dr. Sudevi Basu29 August 2024 at 11:32

    Just awesome Sanjana ji..... each poem you write brings us closer to The Mother. It shows the burning aspiration and selfless love you have for The Mother. The emotions in your writing is awesome.... please pen down more to enlighten all of us.
    Thanks for the beautiful, sweet poem with such deep meaning captured in simple language!!!!

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  2. Anonymous29 August 2024 at 19:55

    Thank you so much Dr.Basu for receiving the poem so beautifully.
    Warmly,
    Anahita

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  3. AnooradhaUnni25 September 2024 at 11:08

    When I try to journal or may be talk to myself to express the most subtle experiences after meditation or a fulfilled feeling of surrender, I run short of words to express perfectly what I went through. But this poem is so simple, yet beautifully expressed, as though sharing it with The divine Mother herself. Pranams SanjanaJi.

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