Order of Operations II

Women and children first, perhaps, but dessert not the least if the last.
Measure twice before your horse crosses the bridge too fast.
Be sure to count up all your chickens before you take that leap,
And look at the cart that’s here today when tomorrow it lands in a heap.
If you can save nine when a business bites once then you’ll find that a quick stitch in time
Will spill the milk over the hatching pleasures better late than never twice shy.
So you’d best be born yesterday like there’s nothing gone tomorrow,
And you’ll find you can fit a month of joy into a day of sorrow.
But just circle back at the end of the day, and you’ll find it’s that stage of the game
where whatever you do and whatever you say, it just turns out the same!

Bhagavad Gita Rubaiyat, Part XXXI

5:13
The soul that dwells within and can maintain
Control of senses, faculties and brain,
Over the body’s city of nine gates
Secure in bliss forevermore shall reign.

5:29
He will find peace who knows Me as the One
To Whom devotion’s many streamlets run.
All offerings and sacrifices I
Receive, the dearest Friend of everyone.

Bhagavad Gita Rubaiyat, Part XXX

15:1
The great Ashvatta tree, so say the wise,
Has limbs below and branches in the skies;
Its leaves are made of holy Vedic hymns;
From knowing it, true wisdom may arise.

15:2
Yet, guna-born, by senses fed and held,
This tree by worldly means cannot be felled.
Its roots extend into this world, and thus
To action, good or bad, we are compelled.

15:3-4
Only the sage, by non-attachment pure,
Can fell this tree whose roots will else endure,
And, finding refuge in its Source beyond,
May thus his true security ensure.

Order of Operations

Parentheses, exponents, multiplication,
     division, addition, subtraction;
Passivity, exclusion, mentation,
     discussion, accord, satisfaction;
Power, extremism, mastery,
     diplomacy, amity, safety;
Poetry, expression, mystery,
     discovery, ascension, samadhi.

April Fools

April fools
but May sees through it;
June has tools,
but July will do it;
August the crown
that September wears;
October frowns,
while November swears;
December ends,
so January may start;
and February tends
to March’s heart.

Bhagavad Gita Rubaiyat, Part XXIX

3:10
From the Divine seek all that you desire,
And offer up your energy entire
Into that Source from which all power comes,
To find there all your heart will e’er require.

3:14-15
All creatures live by food, by rain, by sun,
And so since the Beginning they have done.
Trace back this power of Life within yourself!
Complete the ring that makes Creation one!

3:36
Arjuna asked: What is that fearsome power
That plagues mankind from birth to final hour,
Impels us to do wrong against our will,
And all our good intentions does devour?

3:37
Desire it is, the Lord Krishna replied,
And anger at desire unsatisfied—
Desire and anger, those twin enemies,
Keep mankind’s will unto delusion tied.

Bhagavad Gita Rubaiyat, Part XXVIII

1:20
Arjuna, who has tamed the monkey mind,
Whose spine straight as an arrow is aligned,
Then called upon his Divine charioteer,
A call of love uplifted and refined.

1:21-23
O Changeless Krishna! come and ride with me
Between the armies, where we thus may see
What foes these are with whom I must contend,
Who take sides with delusion willingly.

1:26-27
And there upon the battlefield appeared
Before their eyes a host of soldiers tiered,
Of cousins, uncles, brothers, teachers, friends,
Who with familial love had been revered.

1:33-34
For even so are each of us at war
Within ourselves, with conflicts by the score,
The light and dark opposing qualities
Entangled in our egos heretofore.

1:47
At this Arjuna set aside his bow,
His head and heart awhirl with doubt and woe.
My Lord, You know I cannot fight my kin,
No matter if whole worlds they overthrow!

2:2-3
Krishna replied: Is this how courage dies?
What warrior’s words are these that agonize!
Cast off such weakness! Lift your heart in strength!
Arjuna, Scorcher of All Foes, arise!