Sunday, November 2, 2014

beyond body and mind….



seeker, lay your burden down 
and let the grace of all move the being 
to stillness
for grace is the only thing that makes it right 
this is the reality 
the body is simply a vehicle of experience and 
is inert, insentient and cannot be the doer or the 
one that gives life force …
the mind, it cannot be the doer either for it is 
like a moving current that changes all the while 
and has within it nothing lasting that can be 
put in front of one and say "here it is!"….
this is what is to be seen sturdy souls 
see the movement with detachment and 
wisdom instead of getting lost there …
for in this movement, thoughts jostle and play about 
and are empty always, always …
grace though, it is the freedom that gives of itself 
it has within it love undivided and wisdom that 
is pure and holy and without the least stain of 
of the personal way...

the sadhu he is a one that walks the path
with his staff and gourd and robes of ochre 
he lives and breathes reality 
in his mind there is the driving desire to be free
from the transient way
and in his heart too, there lives this fire that burns 
he lives in the caves and lights the dhuni fire that 
is always burning bright 
this fire is the atman to him and it is what is to 
be entered into with love and courage 
he sits by it and chants or sleeps or eats or 
performs austerities 
he is not to be taken in by the ones that are masquerading 
as sadhus for this would be such a disgrace 
he wears his hair in dreadlocks of shaves it or 
keeps it long, it makes no difference 
his body is sometimes very lean and unkempt 
but it matters not, for he is not this mass of bones and flesh
and impurities ever and he is to know this well
when he sit on the ghats in the evening light or in 
the early morning he is well aware of death and how it 
comes to all without discrimination
the burial grounds are showing of this way that life has
how it gives and takes all at the same time …
in relation to the body, it comes into the world 
out of the womb of the mother…
and begins it's journey with eyes that are 
most often pure in the beginning, but tarnished by desire 
in time due to identification with the body...  
in time though, (sooner or later), the body begins it's descent 
downward and eventually it is taken away and buried or burned
or left out for the creatures to eat or what have you…
the sadhu he watches this type of thing and when this burning 
desire ignites with the feeling of death and seizes him
greatly -- then the mind is shocked into 
thinking that there is an end to it …
like Ramana who laid down at his uncles house as he was overcome 
by the feeling that he was to die and he went thru the death process --
the spontaneous inquiry came; "who dies?", "what dies?"..
with a flash he felt the "I" to be separate from the body and he 
knew without a doubt that he was not this body that walked around 
and talked and ate and all of this …
he was the absolute reality … this came to him not with a thought process,
but with an understanding that was not of mind …
like Guru too… she was sitting on the banks of the
ganges and understood her efforts were done on this journey and there was nothing
more that could be done … then she said, "on the altar of truth, i lay myself"…
and there was a great fear that arose, then the death experience came to her
and she was pulled into the absolute reality…. 
(which she has spoken so many times about)….
and after realization, went on to be a mentor to many going thru
kundalini, always making the pointing to stay in the heart and within
quietude…

Ramana also spoke about letting go of the world 
and being in the heart …
this is what is to be seen and lived 
the heart is the soul fire of all
it is on the right side of the chest, but not really a local point that 
can be identified with -- it is truly not physical -- it is the absolute 
which is bodiless…
the right side is simply a way to say that one is truly the heart …
not the head, not the thoughts, not the playing out of the world …
but the heart, hridayam  = "heart am I" as Ramana says so perfectly….

-maha shanti om-

4 comments:

  1. Namaste, thank you for this writing. Ommmm.

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  2. Namaste I appreciate your writing about encountering death from Silence
    Om shanti

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  3. Namaste, thank you for reading and your comments… shanti om

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  4. Namaste. Thank you for keeping on writing. Always seams to cut to the point. Omm liza

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