gulab khandelwal selected poems

No doubt, you are a force.
The question, however, is.
Whether you have a personality like myself
And if you have a personality,
Whether you remember me sometimes. –

Sometimes laughing and sometimes weeping,
Sometimes gaining and sometimes losing,

Seeing, hearing, understanding, experiencing,
Sometimes awake and sometimes sleeping,
Do you feel this joy of independence?
Or eternally unchangeable, eternally irresistible,
Eternally passionless,
You are only a great stream of force
Pervading every atom.

If you have no personality.
With whom are we to link our ego?
Whom should we love and whom should we fear?
What should we take and what should we leave?

Let it be as it is,
Whoever and whatever you may be,
If you have to come to me,
Come in the form of devotion.
Be Krishna or be his beloved Radha,
Full or half, as you please,
But be some expression of life.
Tomorrow I may become formless like you
Come to me, to-day, with a personality like myself.