oh souls

when I the (pure soul) made you dear
I made you like me
I made you like mountains majestic
and running clear waters
and deep oceans of life so rich
and doves lit on the branches cooing
as night falls black and mysterious
I made you still
yes my dear
and how did you come out of this
beauty of all?
did you go to the mind to find the answers?
did you go to thoughts to find the source?
did you go to the body to find peace everlasting?
did you go to the objects to seek love that is pure?
did you go to the heavens to find your God?
did you go to the mountains to find divine knowledge?
and dear,
did you find yourself settled and still there?
no my friend
freedom is not to be found in these things
or in these energies that move
I made you still like me
my soul is your soul
my heart is your heart
my life is your life
and this is the truth
because life is not divided in anything or anywhere
so here my love
I want you to be free
go inside yourself and live in the heart like me
there Truth ignites
and the shadows rise no more
oh souls
be still and know

unshaken

the nuns were so beautiful
when in deep contemplation or lost to the fires of love
or drowned in the light of God
or present in the purity of realization
they were strong to go through such austerities
of meager quarters and having little to no fruits of the world to enjoy
and many underwent severe illnesses,
and pain and let God purify the mind through these experiences
not shaken inside by what was happening to the form
how this is so beautiful

the sage

the sage 

is free of unrest 

he is unburdened like shiva

he is identical to the absolute

he is free of pride and lust 

he bears no mark of ignorance 

such as attachment to form and

intellect

he is rinsed clean of sin

he is a light unto himself

he is a prince of peace 

he is a bright glow
for humanity

he may sit on a tiger skin

or a throne 

or live in the streets 

as a homeless one

and remains unblemished

as his consciousness 

is changeless

and not affected by externals

he sees the world of many

but still his consciousness

is single 

always within shiva 

he has no relationship 

to any 

as he is completely alone

within himself

he is in stillness always

without ups 

and downs of the world

steady as the mountain range

fresh as the rains that come 

to a parched land 

swept clean of stories

of me and mine

shorn of coverings of identifications

he may seat himself in the lotus 

position on the earth 

or walk in the crowded cities

he may wear ordinary clothes 

or nothing at all

he may speak eloquent words 

or be in silence

he may sit by the waters 

and sleep in the deep forests 

with the creatures 

or live in an ordinary home 

he may be outgoing 

or quiet in nature

he may be uncomely

or wear a beautiful face 

he may embody a fine form

or be bent with age
and decrepitude

he remains unattached

and eternally free

of these appearances

he will not be comprehended

by those in mundane mind 

his divine state will be 

recognized only by those that 

are liberated 

as this is the same 

consciousness always 

o ne 

not high

not low 

not anything 

in between

zero

without qualities

what remains when 

the mind falls away

this is the sage  

lose today

tell me friend
have you loved well?
you know I (the pure soul)
loves you well
and when I love you
I say to you be still
I say to you be quiet
I say to you make your
life wondrous
I say to you make your life
pristine inside
you settle for things seen by
the eyes and heard by the ears
and felt by the hands
but souls, this is only the
surface reality
not the truth
for under this show lies
something more precious
then all the things taken
in and collected
by the senses
under this show lies
that which does not die away
this substance
is the real-ity
it makes the *other* which
is thought, attachment and conditionings
paltry at best
which does not mean what is loved
in duality is to be thrown away
not by any means
but that which is attached to
is where the problem lies
because this is what makes
mind into a personal reality
in the scriptures it says
mind is never yours
yes it states this
mind is just an empty playing
out energy/shakti
movement, not reality
so why put your attention
so strongly there
why?
when you place your attention
in the heart
then you lose the grasp
on mind
eventually the world dies away
and quietude is uncovered
then life is One
One
One
so my friends
lose today
lose  the *me and mine* mentality
lose the, our, this, that, he, she, they,
here, there, yesterday, tomorrow, what I did,
what I didn't do, what I should do,
what I,  I,  I
then you lose to gain
then you lose
that which makes your life limited
my friends
forget your little world
be this love that isOne
single
0
lose today
be still

In you

in you
my friend
is Life
In you is love undivided
love that is like God
love not of some-Thing
love not small and divisionary
love not set high one day
and low another
love not attached to a sense object
love not attached
to certain qualities or experiences
love not made of thought waves
love not laced with pleasure
and pain
love not laced with mind play
love not laced with sensual experience
love not laced with fear of something leaving
love not laced with fear of something coming
love not laced with the sting of change
love not laced with projections
love not laced with me and mine mentality
love not laced with ownership
love not laced with i am here
and you are there
and I am having this experience
and you that
love not laced with expectation
love not laced with a story line
love not laced with knowledge
that is relative
love not laced with knowledge
that is heavy with thought
love not laced with knowledge
that comes from me experiences
love not laced with knowledge
that comes from body form confinement
love not laced with knowledge
that comes from body form desires
love not laced with knowledge
that comes from body form feelings of lack
love not laced with knowledge
that comes from body form graspings
love that is singular and pure
is what is in you
love that sheds only
peace, joy, happiness
knowledge that is not made of
anything that mind knows
or anything that mind feels
or anything that mind desires
or hopes or prays for
knowledge that comes when all
that is made of "other" melts away
knowledge that remains
when the arduousness of sadhana
completes itself
then, then
what is uncovered is True knowledge
the perfect heart
the single glow of Atman
the single essence
that is the background for this
mayaic play that consumes so much
now beautiful ones,
can you really put your efforts
into this search?
oh souls,
you must if you are sincere
you must if you are desirous of completion
you must if you are desirous of peace
and then you will know yourself
oh souls,
how can one live without knowing yourself?
come now
you are true inside
come and let God be the one to lead you to yourself
not ego
never, never
only God which is pure awareness
pure intelligence
pure beauty
Shiva
Shiva
and nothing more or less
0

shakti, goddess of Life

She rinses mind
with energies of love
she is herself always
you do not know her now dear
but she is your soul
free of shadow
she is so glorious and
full
as the goddess of Life
she tries to let you know
about yourself through
suffering
as she scorches your mind with
all that comes from
being attached to a persona
she scorches your body with
all that comes from being
attached to a form
that is only a vehicle
when you finally say,
oh my God
i am not going this route
any longer
i want to know my true
heart
then she ignites in you
like a flame
and begins her work of
burning the mind to ash
this my dears
is a course for those in love
with the truth
and not for those that want to
play in the world
as this will bring a division
of desires
and be a burden to the soul
but for those that are
wanting to be in truth
these ones will burn
like the saints burn
like the Buddha burned
like Christ burned
like Guru burned
and find the source of all
in the end
and this is the beginning of Life
and this is the end of the story of "me"
for this ill-usion is the cause of mistaken knowledge
and is the cause of pain
but it is like a shadow
that is to be dissolved eventually
if one is true and walks upright on the path
sturdy and makes efforts there
she works her energies
and for the souls that come in her
what remains is Life
nothing separate any longer
she remains
in stillness and beauty
always
shakti, goddess of Life

such sweet tunes

She moves as an angel
like God in its purity
in her, mind is quietened
and free of doubts, fear and
all that has come from thinking
she sings of life as it is
mind will not know her
mind will not see her
mind will not find her
mind can only seek her
and then she takes her
voice of silence and
says, nay thoughts
you are not to be the center
nay thoughts
and breathes her air of fire
so sharp and burning
and so like fire
she does not play around
when she is in you as
the goddess of light
as kundalini
she works her magic continuously
continuously she works her energies
to rinse the mind clear of dross
and mud and the soil of mind
she works her energies like
the goddess of love
she sings sweet tunes of joy
in the heart
when she is through with the work
she sings sweet tunes of stillness
like a one at rest
and completely content with
what is here now
and like a one that is
drowned in the waters of love
she's sings such sweet
tunes then