2021

games we play
as children
reveal God’s play
with us

God cloaked us
so
we can play

hide and seek

God hides we
seek

but in
our ignorance

we hide and
God waits

open our eyes

we win by

seeking and
finding

God hides in
plain sight

in our blindness we
pass Him by
again and again

God laughs we hope
as we entertain
Him in silly games
we play by ourselves

Weaponize self-absorption…

December 19, 2021

Hide and Seek…

December 18, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “hide and seek” and leads a few minutes of silent reflection and meditation.

contempt …

December 12, 2021

you think
you are

so con tent

that you have

nocontent
know

you have no content
because
you are not con tent

Love man u factures content and con tent

content u o us is tempting
how most re late too late

know that is a

con tent covers and

con verges on

the real

Designated damaged person…

December 12, 2021

Contempt…

December 12, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “contempt” and leads a short period of silent meditation and reflection.

image…

December 5, 2021

de lusion

allows for
evil

to be seen

as God

equating falsely

fools facts

forced fearfully from

open air

imagining likeness

missing reality easily

imposing imposter

getting past our

vague vision we reel

no chance for
Real

Only the damaged deserve your care…

December 5, 2021

Image…

December 5, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “image” and then leads a short period of silent reflection and meditation.

November

taking the fortress….

November 28, 2021

God’s Grace
intrudes
Truth
on us
our world

insidious Reality
rejects
our truth
ruins our life
and
replaces it with God’s Love

slowly always infiltrating

seeping into the cracks we missed

so sure our structure is impervious

Grace destroys delusion

using integratinginfiltratingintruding

informing us God always wins

Practice nonviolence…

November 28, 2021

Taking the fortress…

November 27, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “taking the fortress” and leads a few minutes of silent meditation and reflection.

reception…

November 21, 2021

use your

memory

to acknowledge

n

d

remember

gifts of all kinds

t e

o n

p y

i

n

g

you are given

i

f

t t

always

k

them

h

a

n

know

h

o

t

h

gave

m

l

receive

f

e l

o

receive

e

receive

God

remember o

d

t

remember remember

u x

t p

h e

r

i

e

n

c

remember

e

a

live

with God

Everyone has goodness in them…

November 21, 2021

Reception…

November 20, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “reception” and leads a brief period of meditation and silent reflection.

migration…

November 14, 2021

swimming up stream

back to source

requires strength

u r

r a

r to c

to e e

n

d

e

r

without grace the

u

t

w

a

r

d pull is

too much for

just self – effort

e f

right l f

f o

r

t

is required

for grace to

e

c

be e

i

v

e to

guide

s

against the

world

a

y

current sea is not

course we want

current

a

v

is i

g d

a i

with grace’s

e e

d c

t

i

o

n

Everyone has badness in them…

November 14, 2021

Migration…

November 13, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “migration” and leads a few minutes of meditation and reflection.

swearword…

November 7, 2021

soury

sorey

sorry

soary

seem same sense

soas sentiment

seeps soul slipping

slowly

away

weapon eyes

p

o

l

o

g

i

z

easy

agent allows

no remorse

e

p

e

n

t

a

n

c o

reflectance

l

yield to

e

f

e

n

act

e

to justify

o

r

you lose

u

to win

o

t

Love

Commiserate and seek allies…

November 7, 2021

Swearword…

November 6, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “swearword” and leads a short period of meditation.

October

Breaking threw…

October 31, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “breaking threw” and leads several minutes of silent meditation and reflection.

breaking threw…

October 31, 2021

resist ant

sosmall

demand

care

demand

nourishment

endless ate tension

devour

feedme

negativity

feedme

life

feedme

nofeed yourself turnin

bring nofood to party

bring no thing to table

starve negative turnin

let them be

addicted to break through angry

when refused fix relish fix to

relish break fast to break threw up back

and forth through gate

desire through not change

can’t get through

i walkaway justly love

God

Emotional abuser / besieger / surround and wear down others with your position…

October 31, 2021

Intimate World…

October 24, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “intimate world” and leads a short period of silent reflection and meditation.

intimate world…

October 24, 2021

human care is

not personal

it is

universal

so when one

defiles all

are hurt

nothing too small

an act

truth care says

some thing for

all no

matter where they

are

Depleted / deny your own needs…

October 24, 2021

Encompassed…

October 17, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “encompassed” and leads several minutes of silent meditation and reflection.

encompassed…

October 17, 2021

tantra embraces

all

exclusion

is included

personal universal

all so

cannot escape

from life

can fool yourself

for just

so

long

Beleaguered / surrounded and worn down / besieged…

October 17, 2021

Chasing the dream…

October 12, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “chasing the dream” and leads a few minutes of quiet reflection and meditation.

chasing the dream…

October 10, 2021

narrative

narrowly

passes through

eye of needle

missing mark

sadly staring

watching train

wrecks life

choices for ill

God sets straight

only to be

overturned in

name of freedom

Pre-emptive self-defensive strike…

October 10, 2021

Karma Part 3

October 4, 2021

This is the third video in a three-part series on karma.

Karma Part 2

October 4, 2021

This is the second video in a three-part series.

Karma Part 1

October 4, 2021

This is the first in a three-part series on Karma.

transmission…

October 3, 2021

resting surrendered

in and to

y

o

u

Guru

Muktananda lived as

we are to

also

our will turned to

Guru and

o

d

No supports of material

i

t

y

a

n

a

n

d

always there for

Muktananda

l

w

a

y

s

there for disciples

lineage is

n

t

e

u r

n n

b a

eternal

o

k

e

n

leaving bodies behind
cannot cut the

r

u

nature

e

v

recognizing

l

i

n

merging

intheoceanof

Bliss

you always live and

h

o

w us

the way home

to

Sat Chit Ananda

Used on account of your own competence…

October 3, 2021

In Honor of Baba . . .

October 2, 2021

On the 39th solar punyatithi of her Guru, Swami Muktananda, Rohini reads a poem in his honor and leads several minutes of silent meditation and reflection.

September

curative…

September 26, 2021

cancel includes

everyone

cancel solution

by canceling

what is

eradicate no

answer

utilize poison

for good

be comes

medicine

truth abuses or

solves

look out and

within

A device to use for ill…

September 26, 2021

Curative…

September 25, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “curative” and shares a few minutes of silent meditation.

lies on the path…

September 19, 2021

love lies

languishing

longing for

freedom

from what lies

within the Heart

twisted truths told

to tell tall tale

short on reality

satya sinks

at seeing

lies strewn

for us to trip

on

light sattva

shines the path

we navigate

the lies lying

for us fools

freeing love

to action

Envious…

September 19, 2021

Lies on the Path…

September 18, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “lies on the path” and leads a short period of quiet reflection.

ode to the creepy ass guru…

September 12, 2021

creepy ass guru

o

e

s

to town

loving life

o

v

i

n

God

o you

are you free to

be a creepy

s

or up tight with

no love

proud to be

the cult of

creepy ass

guru

impure impish

non dual duel

Engaged with life…

September 12, 2021

Ode and Reflection

September 11, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “ode to the creepy ass guru” and then leads a short period of meditation and reflection.

lineage…

September 5, 2021

cherish arises

Guru cherishes

his Guru

his Self

cherishes

so that we

in ourshrunkenness

learn to cherish as

he does

cherish Nityananda

Muktananda cherished

by all to all

pranam surrender into

the fire of Love

Commiserate and seek allies…

September 5, 2021

Lineage

September 4, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “lineage” and then leads a short period of meditation and reflection.

August

where is who…

August 29, 2021

in or thinking

in

difference

universe a part

with or with

out

at one to gether

or

all lone and lonely

thinking inks

community into only

me and me

dialogue of allegedly

two apparently

actually one

separate me

walled from

all one

Selfish and cruel…

August 29, 2021

Where is who

August 28, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “where is who” and shares a brief period of silent reflection.

appetite…

August 22, 2021

re son ate

is

com miser ate

not

empa thee

de vour smother

re move the plate

to with in

let other be

in order

to free two

Love

Recognize the predicament in which you have placed yourself…

August 22, 2021

Appetite

August 21, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “appetite….” before leading a few minutes of silent meditation and reflection.

prefixation…

August 15, 2021

con volute flict

science scious

tract tact

com munity

com miserate

i

s

e

r

leaving com munity behind

con sole reality

for soul

the soul pair

to Love

sole pairing

two com municate

fine ally in

Love

con science

scious

con struct

con script

us to write

a life

soully on

Love

Curious…

August 15, 2021

Prefixation

August 14, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “prefixation” and then leads a brief period of meditation.

i in team…

August 8, 2021

scious

with out

con

means

no

to

o

playing

e

t

h

e

r

we require

the con here

only later

no need when

we become

all the characters

No tolerance for mystery…

August 8, 2021

i in team

August 7, 2021

After reading her poem “i in team”, Rohini leads a brief period of meditation and reflection.

thrill ride…

August 1, 2021

meme me meme my mymy e motion allllll

i

f

e

iS aaaaaaa rrrrrrIdE

weeeeeeeee whoaisme weeeeeeeeeee

meeeeeeee who i am is my

ride coming impulse to

emotionwords to

never be mitigated

Goo with letters express me

i

v

e permission to GO

whether i weather the ride with

body or not

thoughts will be bounced along

with the trill

of emotion

and o restraint

free me NO straps

coddled by friends and

i

e

n

d

s

man i fest feast or not matter

ride is h

r

i

l

i

n

g

all always ends ride crash burn hurt all

Think you see it all…

August 1, 2021

July

Thrill Ride

July 31, 2021

After reading her poem “thrill ride…”, Rohini leads a few minutes of reflection and meditation.

the Guru’s Grace…

July 25, 2021

from darkness

to light

illumined

luminous

light

loves consciously

as Guru

waking shaking

us out of our

sleep

no

more dreams

Reality rings richly

regal and

we are aware

because the Guru graced

our soul

gratitude for

ego returns to

truth and

we know our

tears are

ones of joy

Muktananda saved

me from drowning

in delusion

Driven to intellectually domesticate the depths…

July 25, 2021

Gurupurnima 2021

July 24, 2021

Drawing on her own poem “the Guru’s Grace…” and the story of Nizamuddin and Amir Khusrau, Rohini leads two periods of silent reflection and meditation on the importance of devotion to the Guru, as person and as principle.

co-immunity…

July 18, 2021

con

flate con

l

i

c

with co

munity

con

d

e

s

c

e

n

ds

us

all ignorance

is con

we buy and sell

as

who

e

are

Not understand the deeper levels of existence…

July 18, 2021

Reading and Reflection

July 17, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “co-immunity,” and leads a few moments of silent reflection and meditation before reading the poem once more.

insight out….

July 11, 2021

the only way to see

anyone is to look

within one’s own depths

of

heart

to think that the

Guru has to

see you

is missing

thewholepoint

your point is to see

the Guru then

the Guru easily sees

you

the Guru does not need your gaze

you need your gaze

on him

he does not need to gaze on you

unless he is interested

in mosquitoes that day

the Guru

is always looking within

even when you think he

is looking at you

he knows you from the

inside not the

surface indicators that you

call you

turn in if you want to meet the Guru

Create cliffhangers…

July 11, 2021

Insight Out

July 10, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “insight out”, and then shares a few minutes of silent meditation and reflection.

Poem and Silent Reflection

July 4, 2021

After reading her poem “romance”, Rohini leads a few moments of silent meditation and reflection.

romance….

July 4, 2021

eyes where

live
no thing within

turned

out ward a flashlight

that appears not to need

even a source

self

illuminated lights boring

into others to seduce

thinking adoration to be

love mixed up by

those ever shining eyes that

cajole and interrogate simultaneously

leaving the infatuated at the

mercy light that twists

into slaves

Speaking from my show place…

July 4, 2021

June

wave machine…

June 27, 2021

oblivious to

real threat

indicates our ignorance

p
God is awe some
l w
l e
r
f
u
l

yet

we revere not

lauding our first

principles very foundation

of wrong understanding

clinging emotionally detached

intellectually perfect

technique for maintaining

drowning in
r
o
knowledge
g

Buying my show / believing my words…

June 27, 2021

Two Poems and Meditation

June 26, 2021

Rohini reads her poems “wave machine” and “breaking threw”, leading a period of meditation and inward reflection after each reading.

turn and look…

June 20, 2021

love looks lonely

o

s l

in the corner

f

to wither

i

t

h out

h

r

i

v

i

n

g

attention arouses love

o w

call to

k

l e

attention

g

shines on love

t

we recognize our

u

e

nature

Be free of shrunken self and parental ideas…

June 20, 2021

Turn and Look

June 19, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “turn and look” and then invites students to turn inward for a short period of meditation.

our choice…

June 13, 2021

lockdown is no thing

compared

with

s

h

shrunken space of

u e

n l

k f

e

n

so tight so small so sure

can’t move and

u

t

reflected in s

i

lockdown

e

openness

o p

a

c

e

to wander together

w

have no one to

n

d

e

r

with

n

the lockdown

c

our mind

e

a

t

e

so sad

Self-respect…

June 13, 2021

Our Choice

June 12, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “our choice”.

dislocated….

June 6, 2021

determined to distract

demand distrust

dislike dissolve

prefer repeat

dismember not

remember

treat all as

threat to

tamper love to

destroy

miss most more

than others

out of wed to

intellect that

was indulged determined

undisciplined directing

down to hell

Love yourself…

June 6, 2021

Sadhana Provides the Choice

June 5, 2021

Drawing on tantric scriptures and the teachings of her Guru, Swami Muktananda, Rohini lays out a clear exposition of what it means to be with your experience, let whatever comes up from that experience come up without judgment, and function appropriately.

Dislocated

June 5, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “dislocated” before leading a few minutes of meditation.

May

Poem and Reflection

May 31, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “threat recognition,” and then leads a few minutes of silent reflection.

threat recognition….

May 30, 2021

salient to threat

real not

imagined

physical mettle

emotional

clues can guide

false facts fool

none in truth

relative reality reminds

real relativity

absolute absolutely real

safe seer never

touched

relative reality really

impacts and reminds

us points us

reflects us to

the real

threat

I won’t be dominated (-)…

May 30, 2021

Poem and Meditation

May 24, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “road block” and then leads a few minutes of meditation and silent reflection.

road block….

May 23, 2021

boulders boldly

bog by

blindly blocking

way

banging binds

bothers more

light dissolves

disrupts and

opens passage

home

I won’t be dominated (+)…

May 23, 2021

Stilling Meditation

May 18, 2021

Rohini leads a short meditation for all participants to work toward inner stillness.

A Poem for Baba

May 16, 2021

On the solar birthday of her Guru, Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa, Rohini reads a poem she wrote for him. She follows the poem with a short time for meditation.

celebrating the vessel…

May 16, 2021

birthday of a

body

the soul inhabiting

the body

timeless no birth

o

death

free to emanate

v

e

r

y

where

for all of us

Muktananda you were

bliss of freedom

body

gone and

you save us

all at

all times

places

wherever my head

lands

your feet

knowing that everything

passes through

you

always showing me

Truth Love

Glib humor / shameless…

May 16, 2021

consequences….

May 9, 2021

back to

normal

please never

that is

what got us here

learn let us

leave normal behind

look to love

to live

to gether

Neurotic freak…

May 9, 2021

For Those Struggling to Breathe

May 9, 2021

Rohini reads her poem “consequences,” and then shares a few minutes of silent meditation and reflection, so we can inwardly be with and support those around the world struggling to breathe, whatever the reason.

study hall….

May 2, 2021

intellect does not

stand alone

although it thinks

it profoundly does

sweep away wrong

thought

by good

study true

academy reveals

the sattvic mind

who knows who

it really is

truth reflects

onto the mirror

as insight

scholarship the broom for

mind

Invasive…

May 2, 2021

April

not played…

April 25, 2021

do not

play with

me

we can play together

for joy but

your one sided

play does not

fool me it

only makes a

fool of you

Instigate…

April 25, 2021

The Silence

April 25, 2021

After reading her poem “re-cognize,” Rohini shares a story about a powerful experience of re-cognition shared by two Jewish mystics.

absolution….

April 18, 2021

blue

washes o
v
e
r me

cleans my

soul

clearly we

knew

this was

coming

to dissolve me

into you

Bluster…

April 18, 2021

dissolve….

April 11, 2021

dive

down

de con struct

delve

vibrations dissolve into

stillness listen

do not miss Love arising now

no longer in the way having

dissolved me

(+)Arbiter of everything….

April 11, 2021

re cognize….

April 4, 2021

reveal

reflect

recognize

resolve

hit return again reexamine recommit

regret remorse retreat reduce reorder

reconcile redeem
resolve

respond

review

recollect

recognize remittance
remember

recover

resilience
renew

reward

(-)Arbiter of everything….

April 4, 2021

The Love of Conflict

April 4, 2021

Rohini explains how all human conflict and hate are rooted in the dichotomizing activity of the intellect.

March

Killjoy….

March 28, 2021

Zen Stories

March 27, 2021

After a reading, Rohini works with three students on burning up and resolving a vibration connected with the fourchotomy of “bitter.” She then shares two instructive Zen stories.

interrogation….

March 21, 2021

who are you
i am
who i am
how
i am
what
i am
where
the Heart
all i am

why

be cause
am i
i am

Kowtow….

March 21, 2021

pass on life….

March 14, 2021

actively not doing

busy doing no thing

for no good

actively cre ate

chaos anger rage

and play in

innocent

coyness

just no just

no justice choice

l
pass ive
v
e

Do to….

March 14, 2021

crusader….

March 7, 2021

Some fight

they love their parents
they surrender their life to them

following true sadhana appears
that they reject ones
that cause us
tohaveto do sadhana

conflict too much can’t forsake
shrunken selves that supports shrunken self

that they so lovingly created costume
perfect for them to pretend
that they are real

Accepting what is….

March 7, 2021

February

number four….

February 28, 2021

honor thy mother and
father

know who they
truly are

by being who you
truly are

relate
be

with who they truly
are
love them as
relative
living in
Absolute
stop pretending
which only insults and
hurts promoting ill
Love Unity

Burdened….

February 28, 2021

prescription….

February 21, 2021

be with your experience
whatever it is
dissolves the vibrations
that create our
shrunken self

of course don’t do it
if you want to maintain
the prison created by
those vibrations
the bars are the words
so strong and
so real in
delusion
reality has nothing to
do with prison

still vibrations discounted
too easy simple
can’t be all
designed to keep
shrunken self
identity

let whatever comes up
from vibrations come
up
illumines the truth for
us
we are forced to see
what we actually
think
function appropriately
forces us off
the grid of
shrunken self
grinds the ego
breaks the spell

and though angry if
we continue
we will
Love

Stingy / closed fisted / never share….

February 21, 2021

The Prescription

February 21, 2021

After reading her poem “The Prescription,” Rohini leads a short meditation in which we can be with our experience, whatever it is, and still our underlying vibrations.

unweaned….

February 14, 2021

fight
God and Guru
to maintain your
shrunken self

created by vibrations
and fed
by your parents
to you with
words on top

enmeshed in emotional
envy to be
just like them
offering everything
empty of

your true being longs
for God and Guru
who created your parents
cherish choose

Love

God gave me no purpose….

February 14, 2021

monopoly….

February 7, 2021

God created you
your parents recreated
them
fed you with
their words
to cultivate
their image

God created this game
to see if we can
figure out the
key
unlock the puzzle
and return
to God

your turn

It’s my life / my own person / self-ownership / renegade / rugged individualist / maverick / lone ranger / independent / I own this….

February 7, 2021

January

independence day….

January 31, 2021

betray your parents
treason
against
rebel
let go
of them
in your mind
running everything
you have no chance
to live
unless
the bonds of
words
are
broken
by dissolving the
vibrations power
in the letters
you are there
but hiding
behind your
parents
they created your shrunken
self
God created you

Cringe / embarrassed….

January 31, 2021

breaking the seal….

January 24, 2021

my own person
ha
not at all
yes
no
thoughts creating by
world we live in
mommydaddyme same

free thinking happens
once we
stop wailing while
working with words
and
still the very vibrations
that formed the
prison
use the wedge to
defeat the wedge

our one own us
applauds

Erratic (+)….

January 24, 2021

feed me….

January 17, 2021

first care givers
are
soul givers
then
sole givers
in dividuating us
to be
not oursouls
but
soulless systems
solely operating
and
doing their business
until we break
the spell
and cease to
slave unknowingly
still the prison
walk out
into the sun
and serve
God

Erratic (-)….

January 17, 2021

Rubber Duckie 2021

January 17, 2021

Rohini uses rubber duckies to explain the abiding substrate of consciousness that undergirds all the modifications of the mind. If we identify with the modifications of the mind, we are lost. If we still all modifications, our minds can serve as clear mirrors reflecting the light of the Self, which then can be revealed as our true nature. Rohini’s talk elucidates Vyasa’s commentary on Yoga Sutras 1.32.

asmita….

January 10, 2021

vibrations
pitter patter
across

our
minds
h
creating
v
o
circling back and

forward no thing

changes

instead
fall into abyss
of Love

extraordinary….

January 10, 2021

attendance….

January 3, 2021

i am not
surprised
my e
f
l
e
c
t
i
o
n is

w
of course the answer
s
true

my reflection is
slow
on the up take

whom do i listen
o
me not
my reflection

Ramming your agenda….

January 3, 2021