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Pilgrimage
to Self |
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Springboard to Unknown
Life is the springboard to Unknown
In life's arena the contenders are only two
Myself and death
Death is to know, I was not born
'Moksha' or 'Nirvana' or 'Mukti'
is also to know, I was not born
When I see others die
I infer my own death too
Isn't that how I have formed a conviction
that I live temporarily too?
Can anyone choose his body's death?
Outwardly you perceive
The time and cause of body's death
to be in many varied forms
Look, Ramana Maharshi, Ramakrishna Paramahansa
Vivekanand and so many other enlightened ones
Had a diseased body when they left this world
Jesus, Buddha, Mahavira also died differently
Then why worry
When and how my own death comes ?
Realize this fact
It matters not who I am now
I cannot choose
The time and form of my body's death
Birth and death are two end-points
Can 'one unborn' now know what's life after birth?
How can 'one born' now know what's life after death?
Between birth and death
I am sure of one thing 'I exist'
and this I is same from birth to now
That 'I am', I know
But what or who I am? -- I don't know
Why not find out?
Sleep and death both have a similarity
Both in sleep and death
One experiences no body and no world
Awakening from sleep, I take on the same body
Awakening from death, do I take on 'New' body?
Birth guarantees death
So why worry about the inevitable death
Do you know anything about 'Life'?
Is my 'existence' just this life?
First focus on 'Life'
And when 'Life' is Known
Death will also be Known
Life is the springboard to Unknown
But can knowledge of atoms and genes
Of cosmos and our own universe
Enable me to commune with the 'Source'?
It's as foolish to think, that by reading of water
I can quench my thirst
When I am conscious and aware
-- The same I is a self-experience undeniable
-- The same I is there within me, at any time and place
Isn't Peeping into myself the only way
to find Truth of I that is within ?
Find I
-- I that's free from all internal and external influences
-- I that exists by itself, ever present, and changeless
When the I is known, the secret of 'Life' is unfolded
And one realizes 'That' which brings Liberation
With Awareness
As I unravel my own 'pre-conscious'
I come closer and closer to my-Self
Then unexpectedly there is Awareness alone
In a flash -- The Self is Known
Now there is Only One Consciousness
One Consciousness is a Fact
Now there is no higher, no lower
No me, nor them, not this, nor that
No birth, no death
So why talk about death
when you know nothing of Life?
Life is the only path to Unknown
Life is the springboard to Unknown
Be aware and perceive rightly
Then the words come alive and become meaningful
If not, they are like writings on water
Soon to disappear into meaninglessness!!
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