Tina Shettigara's Joy Page

27/03/2026

"Longing put into action is what matters."
- Hareesh, Christopher D. Wallis

27/03/2026

Surrender into the Belovéd

The invitation comes: lean into the Belovéd.
Trust, surrender to the embrace of none other
than God. You must let yourself dissolve,

so risk it; just lean into the Belovéd.
Easy said. I resist. Don’t smother
me, I cannot give in, however much I crave

release. How long before my fear dissolves?
Leaning instead into the scent of mother
as she passes. She disappears, elusive.

Risk it. Just lean into the Belovéd.
Then, when the soft wings of Infinity covered
my naked vulnerability with love,

surrender undid me and I dissolved.
A bird sang; it’s me singing. There’s no “other”;
the Belovéd resolves into the loved,

moment to moment, there is none other,
no sister, wife, daughter, mother.
Guard dropped, leaning into the Belovéd,
surrender undid me and I dissolved.

© Tina Shettigara 2022

26/03/2026

"Gentleness. Be gentle in how you react to your spouse. Be gentle in how you speak to them; never using harsh or hurtful words intentionally. Finally, be gentle in how you assume their perspective."
- Jeff Foster

25/03/2026

"Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery."
- Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

24/03/2026

"Run my dear.
From anything
That may not
strengthen
Your precious wings."
- Hafiz

23/03/2026

Adam and Eve calling out to God from the Garden of Eden:

"But without actually having eaten the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, we could not have known it was "wrong" to disobey you."
THE FIRST LAWYER

22/03/2026

20/03/2026

Prayer

Deepest reverence to the One
Ardhanariśvara, who is everything.
Deepest reverence to the One
Ardhanariśvarī, who is everything.
The nameless who is named.
Nourish all beings with your stillness,
Knowing the no-word-knowing.
Nourish all beings with the great vibration
Stillness spiralling to sensuality and form.
Show to all beings their Sacred Truth.
For you are the One, who is everything.
May all beings gaze knowingly through
Your eyes, in the glory of no-separation.
May there be peace, peace, peace.

©Tina Shettigara 12 March 2022 after attending Silence with Adelaide at WOMADelaide.

20/03/2026

"Each moment of meditation whether dramatic or seemingly boring can be full of fascination. You are with yourself. You are with God. Your meditation is an entry into the cave of the heart, the cave of the spirit."
- Sally Kempton

19/03/2026

"Love is the experince that others are not others.
Beauty is the expereince that objects are not objects."
- Rupert Spira

18/03/2026

"Patience is the key to Joy"
- Rumi

17/03/2026

"The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them."
- Ramana Maharshi