Today’s full moon is celebrated by bhakti-yogis all over the world, as a holy day... Each year hundreds of thousands of pilgrims travel to this the holy land of Mayapura--a little village in West Bengal, to submerge their hearts in the sea of divine love as expressed and illuminated by Sri Gauranga. Gauranga appeared in Mayapura in the sixteenth century and began what is now a worldwide movement of chanting the Holy Names of Goddess and God, (Radha and Krishna), in musical gatherings called kirtans. As a practitioner of bhakti yoga, I constantly ask myself: How to find sufficient ways to paint my increasing astonishment about the immensity of the golden Lord's love? How to pour the sky of His unlimitedness into an instant? How to encompass the ocean of His personality in a drop of meager words? But how can I give up trying, upon realizing my fortune of being in the moonlight of His love? Especially, when His embrace is there, available, tangible,...
Women's Spiritual Poetry