soma nectar drips
our attention grips
bliss thunder rises
presence cognises
this dance of delight
makes our aura bright
that whilst in repose
our heart’s rapture grows
Om the chant that arises,
commingled with God’s surprises,
felt within as bliss magnetism,
which pristine presence cognises.
God has devised for us an ism,
illumining mind-body prism,
ushering deep peace and wisdom,
heart affirms as an aphorism.
we may pen a poem or we may not
being surprised if the urge arises
hinting we are in habit patterns caught
ego staking claim on dream-birthed prizes
a trap our Self instantly cognises
such are battles we fight daily within
with each breath intake we anew begin
we live within boundaries of our skin
even though mind cognises and heart feels
so with each life breath we anew begin
search for the source of bliss whose caress heals
mind has served its purpose and must now rest
that our heart radiating love and light
no longer by ego cravings impressed
invokes God’s grace ushering bliss delight
bliss thus enabled but wisdom denied
we wander with wonder looking at stars
for though divine light within has been spied
both free and yet bound we carry life’s scars
bliss energised silence ushers deep peace ~
doing nothing we await our release
At each instant in time, mind knows but one chime,
but our heart instantly cognises the whole
and thus divine entwined, conjures a love rhyme,
fulfilling without effort its ordained role.
Over dependence on thinking is a curse,
for we’re meant to dance with no need to rehearse,
so if we live out our life in surrender,
each life breath is imbibed in childlike wonder.
Beholding objects
And space that holds them
Polarities shift
Inner sentience
Cognises soul’s light
A strange fragrance
Of love pervades
Organic form
Which we ensoul
As we taste
Bliss nectar
Joy fills heart
God’s gong
Resounds
Grace
Waking from deep sleep every morn,
centred in the cave of our heart,
before the flow of thought forms start,
in time stretched calm, ego is shorn.
As of soul’s choice we remain still,
doing nothing, poised in the void,
our pristine presence unalloyed,
imbibes boons of grace to heart’s fill.
Attentive awareness alert,
cognises pulse of magnetism,
cascading within feeble form
and as bliss continues to spurt,
igniting thus mind-body prism,
we feel God’s touch, tender and warm.
A sudden flicker of space
Saw inpouring of grace
Activating both wrists
There is no mistake
Since we were awake
Endless are divine trysts
We catalogue this event
Of boons heaven sent
For record keeping
Mindful eye cognises
How magnetism rises
Within our form leaping
unfolding in the vast womb of space
life events precipitate in linear time
which our mindful eye cognises
as a lucid dream sequence
caused by soul’s desire
to feel and so learn
20.8
“Where is the knower?
Where is knowing?
Where is the known,
or knowledge itself?
Where is anything?
Where is nothing?
I am pure Awareness”
Verse revisited on 27-November-2022
Standing in, within yet apart from the template of space-time
Beyond all phenomenal worlds, resides consciousness sublime
Positioned at a centreless fulcrum, devoid of any ego residuum
I Am presence cognises the all-ness of the manifest continuum
Holding at the Bindu point of singularity Sat-Chit-Ananda bliss
Upon which the mystic affirms all that is, is God, here now this
Ego as in-form awareness
Enables us to feel alive
However faulty perception
Distances us from God’s bliss hive
Mindful eye cognises each pulse
Both sensory and egoic thought
Viewing them with staid nonchalance
For our blissful soul is self-taught
What the mind-body combine feels
We neither renounce nor embrace
Being but learning for our soul
Imbibed and released by God's grace
13-October-2022
Debates futile for each soul chooses it’s path
Doing what heart likes
Until making each breath, a Holy Sabbath
Thunderous bliss spikes
Fears and desires dykes
Wisdom of the scriptures, words etched in stone
Tested time and again
Yet each of us must tread the path alone
Feeling both joy and pain
Slowly cleansing soul stain
When free will chooses to become from fear immune
Abiding in silence
Distilled attention cognises God’s love tune
Rekindling heart’s innocence
Bubbling bliss effervescence
26-February-2022
Mindful eye
Cognises
Fickle mind
Porous
Misaligned
Stuporous
Blown away
By thought forms
Like a leaf
Having fallen
Now at the mercy
Of the fierce winds
That abound
We celebrate
This delusion
Offering to God
The experience
Of limitation
In this lucid dream
Of earth life
Seemingly real
Hijacked by ego
Bubble of illusion
Which lives on
As long as
We feed it
20-November-2021
mindful eye cognises
desire and aversion
bliss and vacuum
at play within
endless silence
aliveness rhythm
propelled by desire
to burn in separation
celebrate fusion of union
as one becomes two
two meld as one
gyrating thus
for eternity
04-September-2021
Buddhist view on aversion and desire,
cognises oscillations between them,
thereby sidestepping consequence dire,
nipping thorns and flowers, before they stem,
equal in dark and star of Bethlehem.
Cessation by negation, age old ways,
far cry from the tantric, who to joy sways,
dancing at all times in celebration,
imbibing within bliss, that always stays,
given to play, in vibrant elation.
One view accepts that what is, simply is,
thus centered in the void, without movement,
choice of non-action, exiting thought quiz,
heart equipoised in quiet contentment,
whilst the other infuses joy intent,
each breath inflow taken as divine grace,
burning yearning to see God face to face,
all acts performed, in aspect surrender,
seeking out the truth, at a burning pace,
whilst beholding Gods manifest wonder.
28-August-2021
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