Loss of Face at the Casino 
1.  There is no eye There is no mind There’s only peel Some kind of rind 2. Eternal time now On my hands I cartwheel  On the shifting sands 3. I dealt my smile Face up then down Beneath my joker Was a clown  4. My Guru passed the Light  And drew A flame for

The Scattering

1. I walked in the night Under cover of Light And the journey seemed long Yet Your Presence was strong  And I felt You pervade everywhere  2. There was joy in my heart And right from the start I knew it was You And I knew what to do  I knew what it was I

The Horse Is Out Of The Barn

  Artwork : Realms Of Bliss Realms Of Light Some Are Born To Sweet Delight. Artist: Simon Pritchard   The self contraction throttles itself The closed fist of no love punches the air and dies Pretending a victory It’s game of protecting the no self within is lost The wounded men and women rise up

My Guru Took My Mind

  Artwork: The Beach Party. Artist: Simon Pritchard.   My Guru took my mind He turned me on my head He woke me in His Heart And made His Heart my bed He took all my futures And mixed them with my past And sailed me on His Ocean And now I’m sinking fast The

Rapture

Rapture Of The Night Bhagavan’s Delight The Thumbs Are Pressing Down A King Regains His Crown

You Met Me At The End

You met me at the end You meet me at the start You met me in my mind You met me in the heart The journey was all over When it had just begun You were always Many While I was always One You tricked me into Happiness You birthed me into death You breathed

Bhava of the Real

I walked in the world where there was no door And I bit in the apple but there was no core And I flew in the plane without any sky And I wept through the night but couldnt make a cry And I sang a melody but there was no sound And I rolled with

Turning

You turned to me In the day and the night When the daffodils died When the moon wasn’t white When the sun didnt shine When the bird left the nest When nothing could strive And nothing could rest You turned to me slow You turned to me fast When the years took a spade And

Only Your Bliss

I fell deep asleep A cry in my snore On pillows of pain Sunk wound in the floor I dreamed of a time A world made anew Where trees still can stand When the winds blew You entered my dream And ruffled my hair Opened my heart And laid my mind bare You wake me

You Hid Me In Your Sleeve

You took me to your heart You burn my feet of clay You came here for a time That time will always stay You hid me in your sleeve You trick my mind away Turn loneliness to ash And change the night today Tomorrow was a dream The past will never come You dissolve the

Your Love

Artwork: The Invisible Man By Simon Pritchard One day I looked to see above And felt descending sweetest Love And then I noticed from below Your Love was rising in a flow And then Your Love moved deep inside There was nowhere for me to hide You moved upon me like a boat Moves circling

Diamond Of Bright

Painting: Starry Night Over The Rhone by Vincent Van Gogh I looked in the sky in the deep of the night Where a star shone so loud a diamond of Bright And I reached for it then with the heart of my eye As I gazed at this star in the deep of the sky

Mirror Man

I lived in a land Where there was no sun And the days were void And the nights stretched long Blind darkness was all we ever knew And the people wept But could not see And they toiled and labored mercilessly And we fed the plants but nothing ever grew But a man once from

Mind Wrap

  Artist: Simon Pritchard   Mind you are strong but Lord Da is stronger Your bite is severe but His tooth is longer Fear is the fuel that makes you so cruel But He is the Master and you are the mule You tried to control me But His Love’s too strong Go back in

You Are The Real

Artist: Simon Pritchard. Painting: Jugglers Time is a conjuring trick of the mind She sawed me in half and what did she find Nothing but dust and mirrors and rope A mind made of tears and a heart bled of hope But You Are The Real, the Truth and the Way Satsang with You consumes

The Dawn Horse

Painting: The Dawn Horse by Simon Pritchard   Verily You are the Horse of The Dawn Not One who dies, not One to be born Your Head is all worlds that spin in Your Light Your Legs are the galloping prayer through the night Your Back is the power supporting all Being Your Eyes are

Monkey Mind

Artist: Simon Pritchard. Painting: Guru Da I watch the monkey mind Clambering in the trees He tosses down bananas To hurt or as a tease He is a bloody nuisance Never satisfied And if I start to chase He has somewhere to hide But lately I did recognize This chimp is really You And now

I Hid Behind The World

Artist: Simon Pritchard I hid behind the world Fastened to a star Paralyzed by pain I couldn’t move too far The Sun He moved towards me Driven soft to find Eyes that could be opened Where once they had been blind You Shone from highest worlds Made manifest as man My mind scorched by Your

Ruchira Da – Divine World Teacher

You enter the world You penetrate the world You understand the world You recognize the world You become the world You love the world You absorb the world You bless the world You dissolve the world You awaken the world You are the world And when the world knows You As You Know the world

Bird Without A Song

Painting: ‘Sahasrar’ by Simon Pritchard     There was a bird without a song His night too short His day too long The branch he fell on was too thin And when he flew it was within His feathers weaved together wrong A lonely bird without a song   He struggled hard to do his

My Guru’s Love

My Guru’s Love is ripest blossoms No love is there to compare A kiss that melts the hearts of mountains Touching, reaching everywhere My Guru’s Beauty’s trembling rainbows Dancing in the silver air A Heart that’s breaking for all beings A wound no one else can bear My Guru’s Joy’s a stream of rivers Longing

The Escape (Adi Da Samrajashram, Fiji – 1995)

Artist: Simon Pritchard. Painting: Lord Of All The Worlds Trapped inside a dream Where there was no sun No way to escape Nowhere left to run You reached behind my mind for me And held me in Your Heart You Opened up Your Form to me The prison fell apart You Said ‘Simon cling to

All Was Asleep

Artist: Simon Pritchard. Painting: Once In A Blue Moon All was asleep Except a bird Began to sing But no one heard The bird its heart Did pine Did long For everyone To hear it’s song But all the people were immune To loves melody and tune The bird sang only to himself They caged

I Walked In The Dark

Artist: Simon Pritchard. Painting: Garbage And The Goddess I walked in the dark Where black filled the air My heart in the shadows The night didn’t care The moon wore a hood Ashamed of it’s face And the stars were all hid Where the sun had no place The sky burned to ash And fell

You Undream The World

I was held by the world In a jail by the sea But my chains you untie When you capture me And you undream the walls Where you ask me to wait You distract the guards As we walk through the gate And you blow me away With the Truth of Your Heart Where Love

I Couldn’t Hear The Wind

Artist: Simon Pritchard   I couldn’t hear the wind And I couldn’t hear the bird I couldn’t hear the truth And I couldn’t hear the word I couldn’t see the world And I couldn’t see me I couldn’t see the forest And I couldn’t see the tree I couldn’t feel the sun And I couldn’t

Song Of The Happy Man (Dead Fish Blues)

Painting:  ‘Some Tasty Dish That Butterfly Fish. Her All Seeing Eye Can Make A Man Shy’  –  by Simon Pritchard     I was born in a river Which had no soul A water hole and I had no role I was born in a river And I had no soul Man I was good

The Apple Of My Eye

                        Painting: Apple Trees by Gustav Klimt   I walked in the orchard Down by the sea Where time hid the fruits high in the tree And an apple was there that soon Caught my eye All made of light but still I walked

He Is The Spire

Artist: Simon Pritchard His fist was closed. Curled in tight. No room to breathe or fly a kite. He held illusions. Recoiled grip. Robbed of life. A pirate ship. Shutting out all the love. Desensitised like hand in glove. The squeezed fist hurt. White nuckled clench. Tightening like a monkey wrench. Suffocated no more breath.

Swimming Free

Artist: Simon Pritchard The world is sleeping like a child Like blankets dreams on dreams are piled Illusions flowing through like streams And nothing is just as it seems The minds are caught up in a maze Of many paths entangled ways With no way through and no way out Circling round and roundabout The

The Song You Sing To Me

Painting: ‘My Guru Killing Me Softly With His Song’  – by Simon Pritchard     You Sang my heart Your Song The Song You Sing To me A Song of how to Love And live a life that’s Free Where suffering’s displaced By understanding self Where Happiness is Here Not high upon a shelf You

Sunflower

                                            Painting: Sunflowers, 1911 by Egon Schiele There was a wilted sunflower Its petal broke and torn Its stem a knot of fractures Since ever it was born You touched with hands of gentleness

Just The Brightness

Artist: Simon Pritchard. Painting: Sahaj The eyes were closed. The heart was blind. The world was dark and left behind. He was divided into two. An airplane that no one flew. The sun was hid behind a cloud. The face was lost behind a shroud. And darkness crawled all around. Deaf to every hopeless sound.

You Lifted Me Up Gently

I was the broken man I’d split myself in two One half wasn’t right The other wasn’t true I came to You in need I saw You had no fear I felt a Love so powerful I ventured to come near You lifted me up gently You placed me in Your Heart You told me

All Worlds Disappeared

Artist: Simon Pritchard. I raged in the storm Of a world I could not see I cut it with a sword And watched it injure me I tossed it in the air It fell me to the ground I buried it in bones Of old, dead worlds I found I sang the world my sweetest,

Verily It Is The Horse Of The Dawn

Painting by Simon Pritchard: ‘A Horse In The Wild Is Always Already The Case’   (title-Adi Da)   I was walking in the world And I drank the Sun And the world unfurled And the rays were gone And the mind dissolved And the cage was freed And the lion escaped And the people fleed To

Shine A Light

                                Artist: Simon Pritchard. Painting: The Light Owl   Lost at sea Sinking fast Holes on board Broken mast Mind fragments World a mess My heart flares Keen distress Sends a signal Through the sky Scream for help Helpless cry

My Heart Uncaged

Artist: Simon Pritchard. Painting: The Sayer Of Truth The door was locked. The world was shut. The fist was tight. The finger cut The sun was hid. The flood was high. The wing was broken couldn’t fly Then Guru comes He has the key He shows me what I couldn’t see He took my hand

Lord I Was Lost

Lord I was lost and lost in the sea and i saw that the waves will not wait for me so i looked at the Sun and I saw your Bright Form The One Who Is Love Eternal Unborn And you reached for me there as I flailed in the sea with arms flailing wildly

I Die For Love

I die for love Love dies for me ‘I’ falls apart Not easily The suffering is raw and wild And loneliness My only child Until You break through the shield And plant me in Your Brightest Field Of tender roses Piercing thorns Where we bleed Through many dawns And waver in the windy night Still

Falling

Artist: Simon Pritchard I fall from the world I fall to Your Heart I fall like a wind And drop like a dart You throw me off centre And steady my aim I throw high and wild ‘Til you make my heart tame You draw me in close To Your Love To Your Light And

Everywhere Is You

Artist: Simon Pritchard. Painting: Shaman I’m dying every day and every day is wide I’m dying in my mind I’m nowhere more inside You throw me in the hedge where brambles scratch the pain and plough my heart a field where seeds call out Your Name I’m living every day and every day is thin

So I Came To Your Door

Artist: Simon Pritchard. Painting: The Divine Emergence Watch Video