Two Poems by His Holiness Guruji Swami Vishnudevanand Saraswati of Prayagraj~Allahabad (1904-1997), read by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati. Guruji wrote these poems in 1978 sitting on a bench in Central Park in response to a devotee's question: "What is vairagya?"
 
ADMONITION I
Oh Son of Immortality!
You are the Divine Dweller
You have come here as a stranger and a traveler
 
It is a domain of diversity and endless dilemma
Life is perpetually puzzling in its phenomena and panorama
 
Here there is always attractive and repulsive illusion
You may play or struggle but be detached from delusion
 
The life of sensuality is confused, deviated, and fallacious slavery
The habit of mundane greediness is temptation and bad beggary
 
Be free from this changing farce and absurdity of duality
Don't be blindly absorbed in this transitory sensuality
 
This mysterious dramatic stage is not your final goal
Play dispassionately and finish your ordained role
 
Go to the background of plurality, quality, and quantity
Know that Unity, Self-identity, and Inconceivable Divinity
 
There is neither darkness or light or nothingness
But Plenum, Superconsciousness, and Full Awareness
 
It is not a mental conception, imagination or hallucination
But Supersensuous Perception and Self-Realization
 
It is the culmination of culture and the consummation of wisdom
It is the life of emancipation and the Divine Freedom
 
ADMONITION II
Oh Dearest Soul,
Rise from animality; cross the realm of humanity
Taste the Immortality and realize the Eternal Divinity
 
Refrain from ignorant sensuality; know your Self-Identity
Dance in ecstasy in the the innermost field of felicity
 
Go beyond the changing pleasure and pain, timidity, and knavery
Control the stubborn mind and be free from empirical slavery
 
Through the inner senses enjoy the innermost Light and Sound
Transcend this profane world; recognize the Provident Profound
 
Internal Existence is the embodiment of Peach, Bliss, and Wisdom
External perception is hallucination, delusion, and bad boredom
 
The external force is the field of mysterious phantasmagoria
It is a tantalizing puzzle spreading like infectious bacteria
 
How wonderful is the Perennial Peace of Celestial Scenery
Is the fruit of Yogic Meditation and Spiritual Discovery
 
Be heedful and free from the live of corruption and pollution
Realize the Self and attain Everlasting Joy of Blissful Liberation
 
Go beyond good and evil, mind and speech, and the sensual bound
Dive deep into the River of Rapture; reach the Divine Ground
 
If you be desireless, in the nothingness you may find
The Ubiquitous, All-knowing, the Superconscious mind
 
The Self knows no anger, hate, nor enmity
Self remains unchanged from infancy to maturity
 
He is beyond space and time; He has no form or hue
He is you whom you seek; He seeks all of you
 
He is the Creator, Destroyer, and Inner Ruler
He is the All-sustainer and Cosmic Controller