The Train

As I stood waiting, it bustled in nosily, clattering, a seemingly unending line of blue carriages.
Then as it slowed down the 'seemingly unending stream’ had gaps in between, windows to the Space that contained the train.

Space untouched despite the noise and the chatter
That remained as it 'was’
Before and after the train left.....
That which Is

The mind too is a ‘seemingly unending’ stream of thoughts, yet there are gaps between thoughts, that become more apparent when the frequency of thoughts slow down. ‘Empty’ spaces untouched by thoughts, the space that contains the mind.

The space between the thoughts, is that which simply is…. The Eternal Consciousness.

Cooking, eating, feeding
And then cleaning
Empty counter first
And empty counter last
Every day….

Logically an exercise in futility
Yet eternity
is just this

Coming together
Of five elements
Of transformation
And dissolution
Yet again
Yet again
No logic
No reason
A dance called
Eternity
To simply witness its poetry
Is bliss

The light of Consciousness within
Illumines the home it resides in
And those around
To connect to the Consciousness within
Is to light a lamp of brilliance
That dispels the darkness of Ignorance

All that is left is the radiance of Truth

The more I know
I know this….
How little I know
Each glimpse of the Truth
Shows me just that
The expanse of the Truth that is
I know but this..
I shall never know in entirety
This expanse of eternity
I can experience a fraction
Me a fraction
In this expanse of Creation

As I serve… to remember that I serve the One, and I can serve the One through all around. To feed the ant, the dog, to water the plant is to serve Existence. No duty in this no charity either for its Myself, my very own self I serve.

To be given work in itself is a gift! An opportunity to help myself by serving others. That others benefit is incidental, what happens within me is only of consequence.

To know love as I serve, to experience Love is to move to Bhakti through Karma and Jnana, the knowledge that its just me in so many forms none else.

Thus does each path lead to the other, its of no consequence where one might start since we reach to the same summit, traversing all other paths! Every point in a circle is the beginning and the end of the circle

A certain quietitude of sorts
Contentment from simply being
Nothing to chase
Nothing to reach to
Nothing to run away from

Nothing to ‘do’
Or say
Nothing to take care of…except
This moment here and now
An acceptance of that all around is
Just ‘right’
The way it is

A sense of gratitude
A certain quietitude
See the Beatitude
Of Grace
In a land beyond words
Silence!!!

Its is a miracle to be here.. just here

Eshwaro sarva bhutanam hridayeshe arjuna tishtati
Bhramayan sarva bhutani yantraudhani mayaya…..ch 18 verse 61 62

The Divine rests in heart of all beings
The living and the not so living
The same in me as In that all around

The Force that is the fulcrum of existence
The immutable the unchanging force
that supports, sustains and transforms existence

The Divine is the only refuge

There is none other
To surrender this divine force
And set sail effortlessly
To eternity........