Daily Meditation: Show Us The Way

We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations , prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life.

Today's meditation features a poem by 12th century female Hindu poet Mahadeviyakka, included in The Little Book of Prayers . Her piece is a reminder that we all lose our way at times, but we may still recover the path.

Cut through, O lord,

my heart's greed,

and show me

your way out.

O lord white as jasmine.

After this body has known my lord

who cares if it feeds

a dog

or soaks up water?

Like an elephant

lost from his herd

suddenly captured,

remembering his mountains,

his Vindhyas,

I remember.

O lord white as jasmine

show me

your ways.

Call me: Child, come here,

come this way.