Tirumal Mundargi

Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads! Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a
temple with doors all shut? Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!

He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones. He is with them in sun and in shower, and his garment is covered with dust. Put off thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!

Deliverance? Where is this deliverance to be found? Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation; he is bound with us all for ever.

Come out of thy meditations and leave aside thy flowers and incense! What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained? Meet him and stand by him in toil and in sweat of thy brow.
-Gurudev


I live in Bangalore and work around here.
Links to my work available online:

01.Boston Literary Magazine
02.Gowanus
03.Thieves Jargon
04.Diddledog
05.Shine 10/2008
06.elimae 2009:02
07.50 to 1
08.elimae 2009:03
09.Shine 04/2009
10.elimae 2009:04
11.Monkeybicycle
12.elimae 2009:05
13. elimae 2009:06/07
14. Six Sentences
15. elimae 2009:08
16. elimae 2009:09
17. Wigleaf1
18. Word Riot
19. elimae 2009:11
20.Writers Bloc5
21.Economic and Political Weekly
22. elimae 2009:12
23. Grey Sparrow Journal 1
24.Wigleaf2
25. Grey Sparrow Journal 2