The Known and Unknown

The Known and Unknown

The Known and the Unknown

Senses sensed the Known,
Mind conveyed the Known,
Neither the senses nor the mind,
could sense or convey the Unknown.

From where the Known has originated?
How the Known is made knowable?
Is there something Knowable and Unknowable?
Does the Unknowable knows all the Knowable?
Can the Unknowable be known by the Knowable?
Or is the Unknowable origin of Known, and Knowable?
How to reach the Unknowable through the Knowable?
While everything is unknown by the Known,
how can it be called as Knowable?

While the Known is sensed by the senses and conveyed by the mind,
The Unknown is neither sensed by the senses nor conveyed by the mind.
If Unknown is the origin of the Known,
then the Unknown cannot be known by staying in the Known.
The Unknown can be known only by going beyond the Known.

Breath is bridge between the Known and the Unknown.
Going beyond breath through breath the Unknown is reached.
Reaching the Unknown, the Unknowable is known.
Knowing the Unknowable,
the Known, Knower and the Knowable became Unknowable.

Transient World

Transient World

Everything in this world is transient.
Anything that comes will go one day.
Birth happens to change into death one day,
Pain comes to change into pleasure one day,
Pleasure comes to change into pain one day,
Health comes to change into sickness one day,
Sickness comes to change into health one day,
Death comes to change into birth one day.
Every state, phase and stage is transient,
Everything in this world is transient.

Become Motionless, Become Thoughtless

 Become Motionless, Become Thoughtless

Breathing naturally in-and-out,
In the moments of breath ceasing its flow in-and-out,
In the moments of thoughts reducing their flow in-and-out,
Body tending to become motionless,
Mind tending to become thoughtless.

As the seeker dies,
The Awareness rises,
Laughing at the delusion of the seeker,
Only to show its constant presence,
And the seeker, seeking and sought,
Becoming One,
Delusion ceases.

Thoughts, motion no longer bothering,
Becoming motionless and thoughtless effortlessly,
Enjoying the bliss ever after.

I am not the role

I am not the role

Playing myriad roles over and over,
got identified and entangled again and again.
Couldn't even realize that it is just a role,
Couldn't even think for a little while that it is just a role.
Over and over suffered again and again,
By getting entangled with the role.

Entangling with myriad roles, I created own rules,
Forgetting and foregoing Creator's Rules.
Suffered through incessantly,
Unerringly stepping into biases,
endless futile discussions, gossips,
prejudices, judgments, arguments, altercations,
Losing peace, health, happiness and joy.

Every entanglement separated Being from Meing,
To throw into the tantrums of the worldly life,
To tease, tickle and beaten till the Me kneeled,
Either in despair or in devotion,
To surrender willingly to that eternal Director,
Creator, Organizer, Coordinator, and Dissolver,
Only to show that every act is just a role,
To be played and not to get entangled;
To entertain and not to get entertained;
Until the player realized and
Entangled with the Director rather than the role.

Player playing the role to the Director's satisfaction,
To realize not the role-player, but a part of Creator,
Is Blessed and freed from all the roles,
Not to play again on Life's stage,
to merge into Eternal Nothingness.

Meing to Being

Meing to Being

The Me while playing
myriad roles in this life,
got identified and entangled.
The Be played
myriad roles in myriad lives
without identification and entanglement.

Pain and pleasure, Blame and praise,
All dualities existed in the Meing.

By letting go the dualities of relativistic world,
Entered the realm of non-dualistic world,
To live and exist in the Being state.

The state of Being sans Me,
The state of Meing sans Be.

The Me and the Be,
Moving from Meing to Being,
Life's journey continuing,
To live, enter into and
Finally to become Nothing.

Inner Silence

 Inner Silence

Not believing in the mind,
Stepped into a realm beyond mind.

Not believing in fear of losing identity,
Stepped into a realm beyond identities.

Not believing in the noise and chaos of world,
Stepped into a realm of silence and simplicity.

Letting go the external noise,
Stepped into a realm of inner silence.

Letting go the dualities of world,
Stepped into a realm of Oneness.

Stepping into Oneness,
Doubt, belief, question,
questioner, answer
Disappeared into oblivion, and
Entered the realm of Nothingness.

Letting Him In

 Letting Him In

Meditating alone,
Wanted Him to come in.
He answered,
I will come in when you go out.

Stepped out... to see in awe,
The Beloved, Lover, Love,
all became One.
He was always in,
Deluded was I as "I" existed.

Letting me go out, and
Letting Him in.
Journey of Life,
Life's learning,
All completed.

Acquired everything in delusion
To learn that only Nothing exists.
Had to unlearn all learning,
To become aware of Nothingness.

Letting me go out, and Letting Him in.
Awareness became aware of Nothingness.

Listening

Listening

Made an attempt to listen to self,
Kept away all prejudices, biases and judgments,
Entered the silence and stillness to see,
The reflection of Self.
Couldn't see clearly and listen,
As the clinging's persisted,
Biases, opinions, judgments existed. 

Made an attempt again to listen to self,
This time started with listening to nature,
The gentle swish of leaves, soft squeaks of branches,
Coos of dove, chirps of birds, buzz of bees,
hum of the breeze, song of the tweets, 
my inclinations, impulses, ideas,
opinions, prejudices, biases,
All taking a backstage,
Could listen to creation.

Made an attempt again to listen to self,
This time started with my own breath,
The gentle "hum-sa" sound of breath,
The gentle chirp of cricket, all within,
Entered into a realm of stillness and silence,
All clinging's being gone into oblivion,
Saw the True Self in the self,
Awed by the splendour and amazement,
Became speechless, wordless, emotionless,
And finally merged into Nothingness.

Two sides of same coin

Two sides of same coin

Birth and death,
Day and night,
Health and sickness,
Praise and blame,
Pride and modesty,
Affluence and poverty,
Gain and loss,
Pleasure and pain,
Are two sides of the same coin.
While the ignorant indulges in either one,
creating myriad identities,
The wise indulges in none,
letting go all identities.

Walking on any one side,
Ends the journey one day,
And make us to walk on the other side,
Without any choice.
Better to walk on the rim of the coin,
And be not attached to any side.

The duality exists in the relativistic world,
To teach us that everything is transient.
The Creator coded this way the creation,
So that the creation can merge back into Creator. 
Escaping the duality, we escape the relativity,
And escape the transience,
To become the eternal One.
 

Silent brook

 Silent brook

Walking along a silent lane,
Walking along a silent brook,
Walking amidst fully blossomed spring trees,
Step-by-step feeling the silence and stillness,
Amidst the rustle of leaves and bustle of flowers,
Even though mind feeling the narrowness of the lane space,
Heart feeling the beauty and vastness of Cosmos,
Romancing with the unruffled, non-chaotic beauty of the silence,
Entering and enjoying the blissful state of stillness.

Identity stepping aside, narrowness disappearing,
prejudices, biases, judgments into oblivion,
Heart feeling the presence of vastness;
As revealed and projected onto
the empty screen of thoughtless state;
The silence and stillness,
Merging with I, You, That, This,
Everything and Everywhere,
To reveal the eternal presence of Nothingness.

Breathing Consciously

 Breathing Consciously

I was breathing unconsciously,
I halted and turned my attention to my breath,
In a little while, I am breathing consciously.

The breath entered in through the nostrils,
down the trachea, lungs, stomach, abdomen,
body gently moving along with the flow of breath,
I becoming conscious of the breath and the body,
able to witness the breath and body as something separate.

Breath again moved and I witnessed consciously,
Suddenly breath halted - stilled into the stillness consciously,
Suddenly there was silence - merged into the silence consciously,
Breath flow halted, body movement halted - witnessed everything consciously.

Suddenly everything turned into Nothing,
Consciousness turned into Nothingness.

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Sod of Silence

 Sod of Silence

Thou hast shown me Thy path of interiorization,
And, I lost the path of outwardness, to travel inward.

Thou hast made me to touch Thy sod of silence,
And I lost all vocabulary to describe Thee.

Thou hast made me to touch Thy sod of stillness,
And I lost all identities, to identify with Nothingness.

Thou hast covered my face with Thy sacred garment of Omnipresence,
And I lost all my veils of illusion, to be in Thy presence.

Thou hast allowed me to enter Thy Sanctum Sanctorum,
And I lost the path to wilderness, to trod on Thy path of Eternity.

Thou hast allowed me to enter Thine Eternal realm of Superconsciousness,
And I lost all my consciousness, to be in Thine Eternal realm of Nothingness.

Thou hast blessed Thy child,
to stay in Thine Eternity,
And this child of Thine lost everything,
to gain Thine Eternal Nothingness,
And to stay eternally blessed.