I floated through life unmoored, my soul,
Fragmented, broken, in a quest to be whole,
Restless and weary, tried to traverse
The length and breadth of the universe
Looking for succor through experiences
Variegated, trying to appease my senses
My perturbed soul made me explore
Unfamiliar music, food, languages and more
Trying to find solace in exploits new
Thinking that knowledge would come to my rescue
While novel experiences my intellectual appetite satiated
The disquietude of my soul never abated
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The eureka moments in life happen
I believe, in serendipitous fashion
As happened on a perfectly ordinary day
When I chanced upon a temple on my way
Where I heard Vedic chants, I was mesmerized
I walked inside the prayer hall, my mind hypnotized
From my roots somehow far I had strayed
In ritualistic ways, for years I had not prayed
But a deep-seated memory came to the surface
And I chanted along, syllables and words falling into place
A sense of calm descended over me as we progressed
My soul no longer appeared as distressed..
In the midst of rapturous chanting I had an epiphany
“You’ve returned home,” my soul whispered to me
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The answer for which I had searched low and high
Was in the spiritual tradition of my past, before my eye
Passion...unbridled 