Karma Yoga For Peace Poem by Kiran Pillai

Stay detached. Yet keep working.
This seems to be the challenge today.
Glad Gita talked about scenarios
Thousands of years ago for guidance.

Slightest involvement raises ego
Slightest ego raises tension.
Yet, keep working and smiling open
No other options available today.

Daily practice of Vedanta is must now.
Or the whole life can crumble down.
Karma Yoga for victory today.
Some Jnana in support always.

I been involved mentally before.
Only to see life crumble down
Like a pack of cards under the fan
Stability; only option today.

Stability necessary for unstable work.
Unstability guides the chaos today.
Staying stable in the unstable world
Pulls nimble strength from within us.

I like to be nimble and strong.
Play with emotions like children do.
Emotions can be dust or better clay
That can be broken and rebuilt again.

Temptations and others crowd before me.
Even devil needs to be flirted with now.
All you need is detachment and work
In a true Karma Yogi momentum today.

Like a rain cloud this one may pass
For a bright sunny time afterwards
Get too involved in rain and disaster
Stay dry indoors and rain would pass too.

Karma Yoga the only way today
With the right insight for detachment
Yet stamina for work is paramount
This helps life go by like a breeze