My first Sunrise in Mexico City, October 31st, 2024
Oh manifest and unmanifest,
wave and ray of breath,
red lotus of insight,
transfix us from eye to navel to throat,
under canopy of stars
spring from soil in an unbroken
arc of light that we might
immerse ourselves until lit
from within like the sun itself.
translated from the Sanskrit
by
Ravi Shankar, Pushcart Prize-winning poet
Householders omit:
praṇava | प्रणव
&
[ bhūr bhuvaḥ suvaḥ ]
tat savitur vareṇyaṃ bhargo devasya dhīmahi |
dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāt ||
तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि ।
धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥