Ego
For God do we all search
In temple, mosque, and church
Little do we know that the ego does hide
That very God that lives inside
We must let go of the ego
If God we must find
And for this, we must realize
The biggest enemy is the mind
But first, it is the ego
That keeps saying 'I' and 'me'
It dominates our life so much
That God we cannot see
God is not on a faraway planet
Nor an old man with a long white beard
God lives in the temple of our heart
Alas, his voice is not heard
The ego makes us deaf and blind
It stops us from the truth
And makes us pray to a statue and a saint
And a God with a snake and a flute
What does the ego do in fact?
It creates duality
It makes God different from us
And the truth we cannot see
The world has hundreds of religions
And thousands of Gods to whom we pray
The fact is we don't know who God is
And we don't even know what we say
As long as the ego dominates our life
Between God and us, it creates a veil
And though God is right here and now
To realize God, we fail
Because the ego causes ignorance
The truth we cannot see
We believe in the myth and superstition
And just be who we are told to be
The ego is my identity
The ego says, ‘This is me’
Because I keep saying 'My' and 'Mine'
The God within, I don't see
The ego makes me suffer
Triple suffering with body and mind
It is the ego that makes me cry
With miseries of a different kind
‘How dare you did not do it!'
This anger, revenge, and hate
It's the ego that makes us go around
And stops us from heaven's gate
Who is, where is, what is God?
The ego makes us juggle so much
It makes us search here and there
As our God, it tries to touch
But God, in reality, is within
God has no bone, nor skin
God is a Power that gives us life
In the trillions of cells within
What is birth, what is death?
Why did we come to earth?
God is the one that makes us live
God gives us the human birth
Without God, what are we?
Without the Soul, we are nothing
The body, in the end, returns to dust
It is God that is everything
Unless we go in search for the truth
Unless we start our quest
We will just believe the myth
And fail if we don't question and test
Life is like a spiritual puzzle
The pieces we must find
We must put together who we are
And not live like we are blind
The truth is simple, but we don't see it
After death, there is rebirth
It is our own actions, our Karma
That brings us back to earth
Copyright © Airatmaninravi Air | Year Posted 2020
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