PSYCHIC

Please note; I have many poems published on the web pretty much on the same site. To access these poems simply activate this hyperlink. Some readers give critiques. These critiques can be reviewed by activating the hyperlink buttons below. You too can comment if you like. For poetry lovers this is a great site.

BOOKS

MYSTERIES: Ancient & Modern

This book written in 1997 is a primer in understanding the synthesis of world religions and esoteric philosophy. You can purchase an autographed copy by emailing me astromanticarts@yahoo.com For purchase go to Amazon.com.

Mysteries: Ancient & Modern, Grafio, Sai, Sterling Publishers, Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1999, 2^nd Ed., ISBN : 8120720040.

A COLLECTION OF VERSE AND VILLANELLES   Amazon.com.

Poetry and metaphysics are parallel in as much as both derive from the soul plane where the muse resides. A villanelle can be recognized in Dylan Thomas's poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"   In A Collection of Verse and Villanelles there are one hundred villanelles and one hundred free verse. Purchase this book at Amazon.com or Publish America.

A Collection of Verse and Villanelles: Grafio, Sai. Publish America LLLP, Baltimore,2005, ISBN: 1-4137-6388-



SONNETS FOR SONNETS' SAKE Amazon.com.

A compilation of one hundred sonnets written to elicit the feeling each sonnet suggests. Some contain three quatrains and a couplet while others consist of fourteen lines ending in a couplet. Poetry is an artifice of soul expression and though sonnets are usually romantic in tone such poetry lends a voice to the deeper part of ourselves which pertains to the love of divine things.

Sonnets For Sonnets' Sake: Grafio, Sai. Publish America LLLP, Baltimore, 2004, ISBN: 1-4137-2025-0.

SOON TO BE PUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

The following manuscripts will be published soon: The Sea of Love and THE ZEROSTATE UNIVERSE.

SEA OF LOVE

This short poetry book is strictly of the romantic in search for the beloved. It may seem dripping with love because I used elements of the ghazal form of poetry like Robert Bly. I believe you will enjoy the rich imagery.

THE ZEROSTATE UNIVERSE

This book unites religion, philosophy, science and consciousness in the paradigm of zero or ex nihlo. The physical universe is motion only and the magnetic universe is one of rest. From a point of rest the universe sprouts. ^{[SEE EXCERPT]}

2012 The GALACTIC BEAM

A novel of awakening from the dreamspell and the coming light and unification on earth due to the Galactic Beam.

LECTURES

I lectured around the country in various formats: Cable TV, local colleges and metaphysical chapels. Although I lectured on radio and TV, I prefer small assemblies of about twenty or thirty people. After a lecture I entertain questions about the subject matter. If parties are interested in group activities or lectures, please contact by email and we will discuss the matter. The problem with these kind of situations is that if travel is involved, other extraneous expenses or consumptive time involvements have a cost. There is no way to provide a schedule or estimate as to how much this might cost.

EXCERPTS

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22...	And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that hears the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches chokes the word, and he becomes fruitless.
	MATTHEW: C13v13
22.	And when the young man had heard this word, he went away sad: for he had great possessions.
23.	Then Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
	MATTHEW: C19v22-23

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RENUNCIATION

[FROM THE ZEROSTATE UNIVERSE]

The New Testament accurately describes the act of renunciation in the dialogue with the young ‘rich man’ and the master Jesus. This was a good man in whom Jesus was well pleased, as he had obeyed all the commandments, yet he would not renounce his wealth. The ‘wealth’ of the world is not just material gain but more of what worldliness represents.

The mind may be wealthy with information and the personality may be wealthy with personal power or other kinds of worldly wealth. Jesus response to his lack of renunciation was, ‘It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter heaven’.¹ Whether we hear the truth from Lao Tzu,² Nityananda or Jesus, the truth remains the same. Truth precedes religion and if the religion is sincere it both binds a seeker to the truth and provides a rich environment, the company of saints, in which it can grow.

The intellectual is rich man in ideas or concepts. The wealthy man is rich in the material goods. The burden may be the same. The renunciate appears like a beggar but is richer than the Jade Emperor because he is not attached to finiteness. Like all renunciates, they teach a lesson to teach through their beingness — to succeed you cannot serve two masters. If you choose finiteness then you must chip away, sacrifice, the infinite. There is an interesting play on words here. For materialism one must sacrifice the infinite. This sacrifice is to an entity regardless how abstract. One is sacrificing the divine to the god of the material. This is the classical God and Mammon question. If one seeks the divine, the materiality of the consciousness must be burned as an offering to the divine.   The process is a tenuous balance of vigil, vigilance, and victory over small things. The imperfection of self is known by every individual, but striving is a testimonial to desire in the right direction despite adverse situation and apparent misery. Many sages have taught that you can retain the infinite if you renounce the world by not being of the world. Even a little renunciation, sacrifice, can go a long way.

Sri Yukteswar ^{[go
to]}once said that true renunciates renounce the world before the world renounces them. He was speaking of Mahatma Gandhi who was a brilliant lawyer in S. Africa and could have made a substantial living but chose to become a renunciate so as to help India achieve independence. Such souls focus on the divine to their last breath. Gandhi's last word even as the assassin’s bullet finished him was ‘Ram’. Lesser souls tend to renounce the world when their joy turns to sorrow, Gandhi made sorrow joyful in service and life. This is why he was called the "Mahatma", great one.

The rite and ceremony of renunciation is a lifelong reliance and abandonment to the divine within. Every great soul when faced with overwhelming adversity had to rely on the infinite guidance within. Gandhi relied only on the force of truth or satyagraha and Jesus had only his Father to turn to. Likewise, Arjuna in the epic Mahabharata, gave Krishna, (the chief hero of Bhagavadgītā, literally, The Song Celestia), a choice of cohorts of soldiers to do battle or divine guidance; he chose the latter. The trials of Job also relates dependence on divine guidance after all worldly things are removed. Job was faithful but not righteous by interior standards as he felt pious as do all men of wealth who measure things by outward appearance. Even piousness can be a fatal flaw in the unburdening of the psyche. This, again, relates to Matthew C19v16-26.

Real renunciation is non attachment. An enlightened being holds an object in his hand but not in his mind. Attraction and aversion are the two chains that bind us to duality by the sensate mind.   If the object is something to eat, a Zen master might say that the universal is hungry through me and proceeds to eat. He does not say ‘I am hungry’ for this food. A person once asked Sai Baba, ‘When will I attain liberation’, he immediately said, ‘When the ‘I’ goes’.

The idea of surrender or renunciation may appear to someone as weak willed. If you reduce yourself to zero; that is, renounce your desires, you really exchange your finiteness for your unlimited higher Self. The pitiful little ego is really the beggar. If you look at yourself from satellite pictures taken today, you can see how small you appear in relationship to the globe. Your Atman is not like this; it is all pervasive.

Ram Das said that someone gave his guru, Neem Karoli, a water pitcher. He kept it for awhile but eventually smashed it to pieces. Ostensibly, the guru felt like he was getting too attached to the object.   The Tibetan saint Milerepa renounced worldly life to the extent that he did not except the inheritance of a house that his mother left him. The yogic path can seem difficult and arduous. Gautama Buddha eventually stopped torturing himself through the rigors of self denial and gave that up; he taught The Middle Way. Whatever drives us inward is efficacious toward achieving a higher ascendant .

The ego usually fears going beyond boundaries and also the diminution of its cravings. The rich man could not give up all of his wealth in order to follow Jesus. It is difficult for the average person to understand the reason for renunciation.

It is often said that philosophy is born from estrangement. Yoginanda's mother died when he was very young, as did Pascal, Rosseau, Spinoza, and Bertrand Russell’s mothers. My own father died in my arms when I was ten years old. Travail fertilizes perspective. The world can be a kaleidoscope of ever shifting energy edged by sorrow. To liberate the eternal is the goal of every seeker. The eternal now is the repository of the infinite. This requires being cognizant in the now by renouncing the past and the future.

"It is eternity now, I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come, it is now. Now is eternity; now is the Immortal life."

-Richard Jefferies, ^{[go to]}The Story of My Heart --[1883] ^[go
to]

Renunciation seems to prevail even in the realm of science. Whatever constructs are in place, whatever boundaries are explored, there is always the renunciation of previous theories. Before quantum mechanics, scientist could delineate, measure and come up with tools to define and accurately measure the material world. The fact that the quantum reality could never be measured under any circumstance came to be known as Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. What they have constructed exists in the realm of probabilities with make believe boundaries. Reductionism, seemly, has come to an end.

There is a seamless reality interwoven in all that is and that is the zerostate. By renouncing completely the world of separation and all of the ‘things’ that exists in the realm of illusion, one is left with an emptiness that is inclusive of all that proceeds from it. In the zerostate there is nothing that is exclusive of anything else; it is the warp and woof of reality. True renunciation is the giving up of separation.

"In the infinite Dharmadatu, each and every thing simultaneously, includes all (other things) in perfect completion, without the slightest deficiency or omission, at all times. To see one object is, therefore, to see all objects, and vice versa. This is to say a tiny individual particle within the minute cosmos of an atom actually contains the infinite objects and principles in the infinite universes of future and of the remote past in the perfect completeness without omission.

-Garma Chang

[FROM ZEROSTATE, AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT BY AUTHOR]

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And he that received the seed among thorns, is he that hears the word, and the care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches chokes the word, and he becomes fruitless. Matthew

MATTHEW: CHAPTER 13 VERSES 13

16.

And behold one came and said to him: Good master, what good shall I do that I may have life everlasting?

17.

Who said to him: Why asks thou me concerning good? One is good, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

18.

He said to him: Which? And Jesus said: Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness.

19.

Honor thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

20.

The young man saith to him: All these have I kept from my youth, what is yet wanting to me?

21.

Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

22.

And when the young man had heard this word, he went away sad: for he had great possessions.

23.

Then Jesus said to his disciples: Amen, I say to you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

24.

And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

25.

And when they had heard this, the disciples wondered much, saying: Who then can be saved?

26.

And Jesus beholding, said to them: With men this is impossible: but with God all things are possible.

MATTHEW: CHAPTER 19 VERSES 16-26

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PRINCIPLES OF TRANSFORMATION

The Great Integrity expresses one.

One manifests as two.

Two is transformed into three.

And three generates all the myriad entities

of the universe.

Every entity always returns to yin after engaging yang.

The fusion of these two opposites

births the Vital Energy

that sustains the harmony of life.

But for most people, this harmony is decimated

by inheriting a condition

of relative misery, scarcity and victimization.

Politicians cleverly pretend that they too originate

from the toxic soil of this misery,

even while designing the very laws

that legitimate victimization.

But watch out — those who hoard over sufficiency

will be diminished!

And those who are diminished

will become bountiful!

These commonly known truths

that common people teach each other,

are also my truths.

As you sow,

so shall you reap.

Such is the heart of my teaching

in a world forced to live heartlessly.

Tao Te Ching,

Lao Tzu

Translation & Commentary

"The Great Integrity"

by Ralph Allen Dale

pp. 84-5, 226-7

POETRY

What is a Villanelle?

From: A Collection of Verse and Villanelles
by Sai Grafio

LXXIII

VILLANELLES

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A villanelle Contains five tercets and a quatrain
It has a song like quality with alternating rhyme;
It has a seeming expository and cognitive terrain.

Unlike a madrigal it is more like prose in the main,
The first and third lines can be repetitious in time;
A villanelle contains five tercets and a quatrain;

Its origin was rustic, kind of bucolically plain;
It may tell a story with every succeeding line;
It has a seeming expository and cognitive terrain.

It was heard from villas of Nice to Alsace Lorraine;
They could have been rehearsed with pantomime;
A villanelle contains five tercets and a quatrain.

A troilet is a shorter version with much less strain,
Its alternating rhyme scheme turns on a dime;
It has a seeming expository and cognitive terrain.

The villanelle is similar to a long rhyming train;
It may be heard in a cold or more temperate clime.
A villanelle contains five tercets and a quatrain;
It has a seeming expository and cognitive terrain.

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