RUDRA - RUDRA (1998 Candlelight Productions)
OBEISANCE

I prostrate myself before the Parabrahman, the Supreme One, and to all its manifestations I bow with reverence to the Shrutis and to the Maharishis I bow to the Satgurus and to the avatars I bow to the gurus who have captured my soul I bow to the many in the One Om Bhur Bhuvah Suvah Tat Savitur Varenyam Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi Dhiyo Yonah Pracodayat Destroy the Ahamkara in me Remove the avidya in me Stimulate my buddhi and let lofty thoughts arise Dissolve my individuality in the sea of Brahmavidya Atmajnana is what I seek Unveil my pristine self Bestow your grace upon me And guide me to your royal chamber Let me see you in both darkness and light Let the sword of bliss pierce through this Kosha Let this flesh turn to dust and let my mind still reverberate your nama I prostrate myself before the Parabrahman, the Supreme One, and to all its manifestations I bow with reverence to the Shrutis and to the Maharishis I bow to the Satgurus and to the avatars I bow to the gurus who have captured my soul I bow to the many in the One

BLISS DIVINE

The Soul of the Universe, I bow to thee The one Existence, I bow to thee It is never born It never dies One without a second It is Bliss Divine Permeating the whole Universe but whom nothing can permeate Supreme and self-existent The changeless behind the changing Beyond, there is nothing Yet it is everything That is the Absolute, That thou art It is Indivisible, Eternal, Immutable, Sat-chit-ananda
Nameless, Formless, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, This Almighty Brahman Om Tat Sat Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti The Pure Consciousness I bow to thee The ever-blissful Let me merge with you! It is never born It never dies One without a second It is Bliss Divine

BLACK

You are ignorant of the truth and you have come to preach? Insisting that your way is the way it should be seen It is an exposition of opinions and it's the blind leading the blind Faith and not blind faith Realize and don't speculate Save yourself before you save the rest Cause your dogmas are going to drown you Read between the lines to see the real doctrines Save yourself from the clutches of blind teachers, the charismatic Spiritual Architects Be a slave to the truth and not the man No one has power till you empower him (or her) You instill fear into the hearts of the meek to induce faith You choose what you want to hear and see to save your beliefs You want your way, but I want both In the absence of freedom, where is choice? Without choice, your mind is enslaved Don't you realize, the existence of one depends on another And parts make the whole You promise peace and harmony But your dogmas make it an impossibility If you can't see the unity in existence, that doesn't mean it cannot be seen Truth refracted by unqualified minds Arousing emotions to enthral And to entice into mental slavery; Immaculate deception! True wisdom is to directly perceive

MAHAMAYA

Avyakta-namni paramesa-saktih anady avidya tri-gunatmika para kary'anumeya sudhiy'aiva maya yaya jagat sarvam idam prasuyate The Power of the Absolute contained It is not real and not unreal The material cause of the universe of names and forms I perceive A profound mystery beyond intellectual comprehension And it will always be This finite mind cannot comprehend your true nature. Its maker! World of contradictions That's the way it is You are Time You are Space You are Causality Srishti stiti binashanam shakti bhute sanatani Gunashraye Gunamaye Narayani Namo-stu-te You are Time You are Space You are Causality This inscrutable power hides the real nature of the Absolute It has the power of concealment and the power of projection Beyond this phenomenal world there is eternity Transcending the phenomenal world I'll realise Infinity Acknowledging only that which is real achieve immortality Searching for it here and there only to find it within Transcending Time Transcending Space Transcending Causality It is the cause of bondage Sorrow and pain are its effects It is a Statement of Fact You are enslaved by nature You try to free yourself But you are trapped This bondage strangles you and you scream "Freedom!" You want to be free! Not till you're on your knees and you plead You yearn. Time to discern Not to be bound, to be free On your knees you must plead The hands of grace will now embrace you Now, be free!

THE ANCIENT ONE

Om Triyambakam Yajamahe Sugandhim Pushtivardhanam Urvarukamiva Bandhanat Mrtyormuksheeya Mamrtat Terrifying and yet benevolent Where the opposites dwell in harmony O Mahadeva, Praise to thee He is the eye of the storm And the calm after the same storm The Primal Cause, the Effulgent One Om Namah Shivaya Shivaya Namah I bow to the Ancient One,O Rudra Bow to the Ancient One, O Consort of Durga The King of the Holy Mountains Who dwells beyond the three gunas He is the three-eyed one With the ash-besmeared body The one with the matted locks Who slays the demons I bow before this wielder of the trident Who bears the Holy River in his matted locks Can't you see the serpent slithering around his neck O Mahayogi O Conqueror of Death The one who walks the cremation grounds garlanded with human skulls O Hara, My obeisance to you Om Namah Shivaya Shivaya Namah I bow to the Ancient One O Lord of the three worlds Bow to the Ancient One O Consort of Shakti The King of the Holy Mountains Who dwells beyond the three gunas Who is the Maha-Guru Ruler of the Universe Most ancient of the ancients Bow to that primeval one

ATMAN

The sole reason for your existence, It is Your Supreme Guide in both darkness and light, The eternal witness, The one that is, and the one that will forever be It knows no death or birth and exists through eternity Thus it says, "I am in you, you are in me I am you, you are me I'm hidden behind your individuality Step aside, I will reveal myself" The source of all knowledge is within the Self That Immortal One, so far yet so close It is free, So you'll be If you merge with That By knowing That everything else is known The self is ever free It holds the key to the transcendental world The source of infinity That is all that exists The essence of the whole existence That Thou Art! It is bliss, pure consciousness Aham Brahmasmi Tat tvam asi Ayam Atma Brahma Prajnanam Brahma The search for immortality ends in the Atman By knowing That everything else is known Know yourself to be that One and not the transient ego Discard the fetters of ignorance and for once be yourSelf The search for immortality ends in the Atman By knowing That everything else is known Om Mani Padmeham Om Mani Padmeham

WARELIGION

Pathetic display of unjustified aggression Killing of mortals in the name of religion You kill your other self and you think it's God's will Not knowing that you've been victimized by your false ego Instead of fighting on the battlefields Wage the war on the mental plane Your mind is now misleading you Enslaved in a cell of dogmatism (Solo: Alvin) You call him Father, but are you a worthy child? If He is so merciful, why are you so merciless? All apparent dissension and conflicts will fade into obscurity when you see the Unity behind this Diversity With whom can you fight, if there's only One Contemplate! Wage the war on the mental plane Kill the ego, which breeds ignorance Seek Shanti, Abide in Shanti Om Shanti Shanti Shanti

FOR THE DYING

This fear of death grips you as you approach your last hour Can't take your possessions with you beyond The anxiety kills you beforehand The mystery of your destiny, the unseen land Forget not, you mould your destiny And that you are a child of Divinity There's no Eternal Damnation No flames can consume you You are an immortal Are you tired of this Samsara The release is ever in front of you So forget it not Another birth, another life, another Death On and on it goes till you're back home Where you merge with that One You won't burn in hell Cease this fear No flames can consume you You are the eternal (Solo: Alvin) Past memories you will not remember Could have died a thousand times before Karma is taking you round and round Destroy this impelling force This life is full of pain And you'll be back again Attain freedom through faith You know it's never too late Faith defeats fear Death is just the body's dissolution Hell is just an illusion Just seek your liberation

SIN

Mind your conditioned mind, which you use to judge one. Conditioned by your own ideals, you denounce the ones who differ A sinner or a saint, to be judged not by you but by a perfect one You commit the great sin by calling one a sinner Heartless and mindless, you judge, disparage and ridicule The duplicity of your unbounded love is now revealed A mindless heart and a heartless mind are of no use Let me ask you now, who is the sinner? (Solo: Burhan) Are you talking about God's plan or is it your plan for God Like you know it all, you say what's right and what's wrong Your arrogance and ignorance prove that you are an empty shell I can hear the echoes of the mutilated truths from within your mind Quick to judge, slow to think, absence of the intellect You denigrate, patronise, desecrate and chastise Your own ideals should be your judge and you the judged Have you heard this line before: "Judge not, that ye be not judged" Heartless and mindless! you judge, disparage and ridicule The duplicity of your unbounded love is now revealed A mindless heart and a heartless mind are of no use Let me ask you now, who is to repent

NO WAR

An eye for an eye Till you lose your eyes Violence begets violence You start and it never ends The weak can't resist the urge to retaliate The strong shall endure the pain with repose Peace! No War You want to conquer the world But not yourself What have you gained when the one Closest to you is far away Coward! Accept the fact Weakness is your god The reins are cut asunder And watch your senses flee Your mind has no control Over your worst enemy End up being a slave To your own inadequacy Immense power without aggression Slowly consuming without engagement Conquering without bloodshed With the right mindset

ANANDA

As you seek the pleasures in life It slowly turns into pain The titillating moments of joy Torment you till the end Can't stand the test of time? The ways of the world are so sublime The cycle of rise and falls Makes you go out of line Trying to satisfy this insatiable hunger But all your attempts turn futile The desire to know the beyond That makes your life so profound The apparent needs lose its nobility The ecstasy you seek is your innate seed If you want full control Dive deep into your soul Drown in the ocean of Ananda No sense of time and space Knowledge is now bestowed Taste this divine nectar, Ananda Feel the Bliss Brahmananda,Vidyananda Omkarananda, Paramananda Feel the vibrations of the sacred syllable Feel the transcendence of your inner nature Beyond both pleasure and pain Beyond Time and space It is within and without Lust after That Brahmananda Feel the Bliss! Vidyananda Feel the Bliss! Omkarananda Feel the Bliss! Paramananda Feel the Bliss!

RUDRA - The Aryan Crusade (2001 Trishul Records)
ARYAPUTRA

The war has begun to destroy avidya Annihilation of what is not, watch us slaughter mercilessly The Aryans are back, with knowledge supreme The intellect is our weapon! We're the warriors from the lap of eternity chorus Watch us invade, invading your minds Gouging out the eyes of the blind Revealing the way of the noble ones Treading the path as the Aryaputras Not the nomadic invaders from the North But the noble warriors conquering the South Not from the fictitious tale taught as history But from the lineage of the noble Rishis Neither colour nor race beholds nobility But it is the Way, which makes us what we are Watch us invade, invading your minds Destroying the weak by the sword of wisdom Removing the darkness from your minds The intellect will shine in its own glory This is the fire that burns darkness to ashes This fire of Aryadharma chorus

HYMNS TO THEE

The youthful lord imparts the ageless truth Under the Banyan tree, facing the south Uprooting primordial nescience With his burning eyes of wisdom For the benefit of the four Rishis He teaches the inconceivable truth In silence he teaches In silence the knowledge revealed chorus The guru of gurus Teacher of Atmavidya Lord of all learning Whose nature is Ananda With the chinmudra unfolding Brahmavidya Duality vanishes without a trace om namah pranavaarthaaya shuddha jnaanaika moortaye nirmalaaya prashaantaaya dakshinaamoortaye namah Beyond death he takes you By staring into the eyes of death Where there is no place to reach By just listening you gain all there is The youthful lord imparts the ageless truth Under the Banyan tree, facing the south Uprooting primordial nescience With his burning eyes of wisdom For the benefit of the four Rishis He teaches the inconceivable truth In silence he teaches In silence the knowledge revealed chorus

ANANTARUPA

Advaita, Nirguna, Nitya, Ananta Without beginning and without an end A reality I cannot comprehend The wise declare it to be only One Beyond the reach of speech and mind chorus "That is Infinite, This is Infinite From that infinite this infinite came. From that infinite this Infinite removed, What remains is the Infinite That which doesn't change That which has no age No abode to attain, No throne to worship Wherever I see, It sees!!! chorus That which pervades all, the undifferentiated cause The effect not different, from the cause!!! Advaita, Nirguna, Nitya, Ananta

MALEVOLENT CREED

Sacrifice in the name of God Damnation of the lofty thoughts Watching them die with innocent eyes This is the sign of the malevolent creed Is the belief in God necessary? Is there a need for a creed? Foolish beliefs in foolish minds Idiots believe in those words divine Intellectual circumcision Bludgeoned by the blinding faith Fools kill in His name! People die for His abode! Minds clouded by dogmatic fools Decorating lies with senseless truth The beggar you are is the King in disguise How long will this delusion last What is there to gain when the Self is lost Unthinking minds never realize this truth Can't you see you are blind Now it's time to crush these lies Distinguish the fools from the wise Cast off your faith, it's time to rise Against all that makes you weak From the clutches of this enslaving creed

RUDRAPATNI

The wielder of time in human form (Jai Kali, Maha Kali) In waves of time destroying the mortals born Devourer of all that is ephemeral She reveals the truth, non-dual chorus Cherish the seen by knowing the unseen Enjoy the play from her lap of time Mahaakaali, Bhadrakaali Sanaatani, Rudrapatni, Garland of skulls, the doership in time Destroying the notion of 'me' and 'mine' Standing upon Consciousness The mother of this universe chorus The blackness, the all pervasive space I see the terror when I look at her face Worship the terrible, worship Death No more fear of my last breath om kriim kaalyai namah

AMEN

I see the devil in your preaching creed Your talk is cheap but many deceived None needs your holy bread of life What I need is to see through your lies! Amen………. Fools of God Blinded Dogs Passion defeats compassion You feed God to the starving mouths Ulterior motive in every action Calculated moves to ensure conversion Fools of God Blinded Dogs Pride of the insane Vulgar display of divinity Manifesto of the Demented Thus speak the zealots of mankind Fools without a questioning mind Dogmas breed in their hypnotic words Insecurity revealed in their preaching glory Spreading Hate and disunity Killing peace and harmony Causing guilt and fear in men Persecuting the innocent This is the evil that holy men do In the name of their religion Opinions and lies taught as truth Blinded in the name of good Creating confusion and a despondent humanity They cheat, they lie, they make you weak, They can't practice what they preach They cheat, they lie, they make you weak, They don't practice what they preach This is the evil that holy men do In the name of their religion

ATMAVICHARA

"I am" therefore let the enquiry begin! The Self is the object to be known The knower too is non-separate from the self So who am I? What am I? All my knowledge fails to reveal what I am My ignorance causes fear of the world and my mortality I doubt my self-existence. Is it or is it not? The enquiry is in knowing what I am not Am I the body or am I the mind? Pain, pleasure, sorrow, tranquillity All of which arises in me I witness them all standing apart from them! Not the body nor the breath Not the ego nor the mind In the waking I perceive the world In the dream I create my world In deep sleep, being blissfully ignorant I destroy them all 'Sthoola sookshma kaarana shariraad vyatiriktah Panchakoshaatiitah san avasthaa trayasaakshi Saccidaananda svaroopah san yastishthati sa aatmaa' * Not part of the universe but it in me In me it is yet I am not in it Creation, sustenance and dissolution I cause them all!!!!! The one supreme is the I, like the eye of the eye Existent in every thought, in every word and in every deed Not an isolated experience but the only experience I exist, I am aware, I am, I am…. Neither the body nor the breath! Neither the ego nor the mind All of which arises in me I witness them all standing apart from them!
* a verse from Tattva Bodha

SAD BUT TRUE

You have to die to see the light? s the weight of the world on you? Constantly seeking to change the world But never to change yourself You are a pain here but expecting pleasure hereafter? You may be blessed but are you a blessing? The desperate need for a savior Is for the fool and the weak In the dungeon you have fallen Now you are blind to reason Heaven is a promise, so is Hell An experience is always welcome Verses distorted, your faith transported To a realm where perception fails chorus Can't you see the state you're in? Desires replaced by the desire for Kingdom come A comforting transient holy slavery This is your fate, it is sad but true! You are the human sheep sent to the slaughterhouse "Forfeit your sanity to gain the Kingdom" The clergy is waiting with a book in hand Speaking in tongues to drown your screams You're in pain but you are paralyzed by the dogmas of 2 thousand years Your right to question raped and gagged To doubt is to sin and a place in Hades! chorus Freedom forgotten Lost in the Herd Your silent tears are seen Your soul yearns for relief Throw away those notions, which were taught By the heaven mongers and the blind fools Be like the wise and not otherwise Let the mission be wisdom! chorus

I

Knowledge frees you, Action binds you Self Ignorance is Death The need for a valid means of knowledge is fulfilled by the shruti In this razor sharp path of Jnana The words reveal what you are!!!! Atma Satyam, Jaganmithya Aham Satchitananda swarupa Names and forms depend on me. The universe shines after me I am That, That thou art!. All pervading and all knowing am I The self is all there is. Know this Truth! You are the Truth! I am Chit, Absolute consciousness. I need no light to illumine me That which cannot be negated in the three periods of time Know it to be Satyam Spaceless and needless. Reducing sorrow to naught I am Ananda swarupam 'You are the one seer of all and are surely ever free Indeed this alone is your bondage that you see yourself Not as the Seer but as something different' * 'You have no birth or death, no memory, no bondage or liberation. Nor have you good or evil. Why do you weep, oh dear? Name and form belong neither to you nor to me' ** 'I am Brahma, I am Vishnu, I am Indra,I am Shiva. All this I am. There is nothing except my Self' *** Know that you are the master and the ageless One Nothing can enslave you forever!!!! There is no moksha, neither is there samsara Know that you are the Ever-Free Brahma Satyam, Jaganmithya, Jeevo Brahmaiva naparah Atma Satyam, Jaganmithya, Aham Satchitananda swarupa
*Ashtavakra Gita 1:7
** Avadhuta Gita 1:17
***Vivekachoodamani 388

RUDRA - Kurukshetra (2003 Trishul Records)
JUSTIFIED AGRESSION

Retreat is disgrace, now raise your sword!! Army of Rajas invade! Destroy the tasmasic hordes Offense is the strategy, Attack insanity This war is inevitable for the noble ones Mind battling mind, sublating what is false! This path may be painful. Yet you must do what is right Slaughter Mercilessly! 'Cause this is Dharmayuddha This is agression of the worst kind Justified Self-infliction Slaughter, Kill, Rape, every thought of duality A rentless crusade to grasp the Endless This path may be painful. Yet you must do what is right Slaughter Mercilessly! 'Cause this is Dharmayuddha I am the battlefield. I am the slayer and the slain. And yet I am not any of it. This war is real yet unreal!

APOSTASY

What is there salvage!!! A myth invented for fools proclaim That I am a sinner who needs salavation And there comes a creed to save me When will be your judgement day? Shall I see the face of your God? A sadistic eunuch sitting in another dimension! He doesn't save! He enslaves! He sits on a throne and plays a game For he is but a mortal man!!! My contempt for salvation knows no bounds It is a golden lasso around my neck! No paradise can tempt me!!! I know them all to be Mithya!!! Apostasy is my creed I am an apostate of untruth!!! The masses may reject me for I don't belong to the majority For blinding darkness I have come To the dawn of new initation Misery, sorrow, Deceit, false glory Lies, Guilt, Pain have all I have seen Let the new Dawn illuminate my innate glory Ever pure and ever free I am

GOD OF DELUSION

The God of life has made you dead to wisdom Your God of truth is all but a lie The God of love has swon the seeds of Hate Deaf to the cries of millions What mercy does he know? Time to destroy the illusive vile God and purifiy this world It is our Armageddon now! God will be judged for his crimes against humanity I don't see god of peace, a god of War is all I see, A god of wrath in reality, A father of cruelty and destroyer of Peace. I have not killed you god but I have enslaved this Holy oxymoron Destroyer of ancient civilizations. Destroyer of Ancient faiths Destroyer of Pagan traditions What praise does he deserve!! I hear the cries of millions Wiped off the face of the earth They did no crime for being what they were Persecution is his game Deluded and insecure Narcissistic tribes under his wings of command, His nature unknown to many His existence defies logic and reason, Cohorts of God hear me now!!! Destroy your master Who has no existence except in your deluded minds

ABSOLUTE ONE

One alone exists without a second All that's objectified is an appearance, This fire of knowledge still burns This fire of knowledge destroys the misapprenhension caused by superimposition Absolute One! Even the Fire shines after That. Tat Tvam Asi Self-shining and indescribable When words limit and traits negate Words yet employed to reveal the One, Sought by the initiated with minds that are uninhibited Dissolving all notions that are limited Revealed by the four, In their fourth quarters, Being the last instrument among the six, To the one endowed with the four. Non dually one, Limitless Eternal Consciousness, Not subject to time, space and causation Eternally free but seemingly bound Absolute One! Even the Sun shines after That Tat Tvam Asi

NEGATE

Enemies alone I see see in this battlefield Executing & eradicating souls of black Rightful confrontation to negate adhyasa Self induced psychosis, Negated ruthlessly Neither hatred nor disgust impels us To destroy these unworthy hopeless minds Destructions of Dogmas, End of neurosis Remove the veils of avidya Negate the darkness within Die!! Victims of ruthless negation Your ashes shall adorn our foreheads as a sign of Victory!!!!! You have the right to believe but I have the power to dismiss!! Satyameva Jayate!

MITHYA

All subtle, gross and casual realities have no independent existence Bound by Time, space and the laws of causation. No more eternal pleasures in heaven or eternal dammnation Even the God tha rests in Heaven has an end! Mithya!!! That which depends on another for its existence is an illusion Creation is like the mirage in the desert sky A God within space is subject to negation With a mere word I destroy your God! Mithya!!! "Of the unreal there is no being; the real has no nonexistence. But the nature of both these, indeed, has been realized by the seers of Truth" * Welcome to the funeral of duality Welcome to the funeral of the creator God All is Maya All is Mithya All has an end except the I
*Bhagavad Gita 2:17

IN THE VISION OF THE BLIND

You hope to see diamonds and roses in a paradise filled with pleasure You hope to meet God in the hereafter pouring wine into your goblet of greed Once virigns but now corrupted Whores you are now at the harem of untruth Without flesh and bones you seek to gratify your senses? Irrational and absurd!!!!! Slavery to the preying whore Your sanity scarificed at the scared altar Must they forefit their sanity for the promise of paradise? The blind fail to see it but the wise ones never miss it The impermanence of pleasure eludes their minds Fools they are, and they never learn! Slavery to the preying whore Your sanity scarificed at the scared altar Must they forefit their sanity for the promise of paradise?

TEMPLE OF NOTHINGNESS

Chaotic confusion in the house of emptiness Congregation of navie believers Believers remain as believers of time honoured dogmas Without knowing what lies beyond their convictions The curse of religion incapacitates their objectivity Hiding behind God's words to absolve their guilt and hide their naivete Indoctrinated right from birth to value one's inability to think From cradle to the grave they live in childish fantasies Arise & Awake! From this slumber of delusion In the Temple of Emptiness I hear a melody A wailing melody from despondent souls The silent melancholy seated in their hearts Ignoring their sufferrng for the fear of persecution

HIGHLANDS OF TRANQUILITY

In great heights my mind soars to the indescribable Vairagya in the form of Saffron robes all around mr Hara Hara Shankara, Jaya Jaya Shankara Chanting the Sruti on the banks of Ganja In the stillness of the Brahma Muhurta Drums, bells and conch wake the soul to rise Ambience filled with vibrations of mother Sruti With offering of flowers and incense to the Swayambhu Linga Amidst me saffron robes, saffron flags and saffron truth Fly Fly Saffron Fly Fly Saffron Fly Highter and higher Teaching begins as the sun rises, Mumukshus whereever I see Mahavakyas analyzed to see the truth within Hara Hara Shankara, Jaya Jaya Shankara An image of Shankara with his four hangs on the wall Ganga flows from one mind to another.....Jai Jnana Ganga

ASURA MARDHINI

Daughter of the Mountain, Rise again, destroy the asuras Daughter of the Ocean, Rise again, destroy our enemies Consort of blue necked One, Rise again, and split the heads of the ugly ones Mother of the world, Rise again, and dance gracefully on the battlefield of blood Shredding fantasies to pieces and killing demons of pride and arrogance Obliterating the charlatans who speak on behalf of the deluded one up in the skies One who is like the blazing Sun, do not rest till the drama of life ends O' Victorious one, do not end your dance you have begun!