Attention : Intended use of Double negatives.
I heard an old man in the park say, "Heavens are where we don't work for pay.
They are a place to sit back and chill, you don't get tired, do what you will.
Nothing to do in an endless time, no need to dance to a ticking chime."
I went back and forth on this thought, and thus is this nothing wrought.
Did your God want you to sit on a stone, and chant his name forever alone?
Did God not want you to farm and hunt, did he give you a mind to be blunt?
Did he want you to sit under one roof, and discuss his tales without moral and proof?
If leaving the worldly activity is his will, who would build the temple who would till?
Very rarely had it been so preached, that God is just a destination to be reached.
The journey is this worldly existence, not mere austerity and penance.
To this rhythm you tap your feet, and like puppets dance to the beat.
In your own way to be a muse, one should eat, grow and reproduce.
Such committed deeds be not just unique, may they be neither bad nor bleak.
Actions good and kind should they blend, and a better tomorrow should you mend.
If your priest did not preach or attest, to do good doing what you do best,
he had failed more than a test, for taking you in circles and calling it West.
To attain God is not to do nothing, neither something that betters nothing.
You have a mind to hear, see and dance, through the noise and mist of universal trance.
I do not know if Lord Krishna has indeed been on Earth to have said it, but the concept is of utmost importance.
I heard an old man in the park say, "Heavens are where we don't work for pay.
They are a place to sit back and chill, you don't get tired, do what you will.
Nothing to do in an endless time, no need to dance to a ticking chime."
I went back and forth on this thought, and thus is this nothing wrought.
Did your God want you to sit on a stone, and chant his name forever alone?
Did God not want you to farm and hunt, did he give you a mind to be blunt?
Did he want you to sit under one roof, and discuss his tales without moral and proof?
If leaving the worldly activity is his will, who would build the temple who would till?
Very rarely had it been so preached, that God is just a destination to be reached.
The journey is this worldly existence, not mere austerity and penance.
To this rhythm you tap your feet, and like puppets dance to the beat.
In your own way to be a muse, one should eat, grow and reproduce.
Such committed deeds be not just unique, may they be neither bad nor bleak.
Actions good and kind should they blend, and a better tomorrow should you mend.
If your priest did not preach or attest, to do good doing what you do best,
he had failed more than a test, for taking you in circles and calling it West.
To attain God is not to do nothing, neither something that betters nothing.
You have a mind to hear, see and dance, through the noise and mist of universal trance.
I do not know if Lord Krishna has indeed been on Earth to have said it, but the concept is of utmost importance.
"Not by merely abstaining from work can one achieve freedom from reaction, nor by renunciation alone can one attain perfection."
Verse 4, Chapter 3, Bhagavad Gita
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