All fulfilments of his nature attained, man is not merely a reflector of divine light but becomes actively united with Spirit. This state is Kaivalya, Oneness.
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
Jesus said, ‘My Father and I are one’,
signalling that with ego vaporised,
aligned with God’s will, He shines like the sun,
substratum of existence realised.
Awareness held like a flicker-free flame,
heart tranquil, nonjudgmental eye single,
with enactment of God’s will, our sole aim,
we delight as bliss pheromones mingle.
Tweaking this lucid dream, as of God’s will,
there being no sense of separation,
love’s peace dove perches on heart’s window sill,
enlivening God’s cosmic vibration.
God’s energy is love and is expressed,
by childlike souls who are by His grace blessed.
Categories:
sutra, god, love,
Form: Sonnet
“Emancipation (Kaivalya) is obtained when one realises the oneness of this Self with the universal Self, the Supreme Reality.”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
from jiva, Atma to Paramatma
our ego, the Self and God absolute
this is the pathless path we need to cross
attained in stillness, if heart’s resolute
thought cessation exhumes fear and desire
starved of attention, our ego then dies
we then behold our Self as living light
where seeking ends, each heartbeat a sunrise
yet beyond Self is Brahman absolute
luminous darkness containing the all
God is the substratum of existence
the consciousness within which we stand tall
body-mind alone is caged in space-time
whilst transcendent Self mirrors God’s heartbeat
we all dwell in God and He dwells in us
recognising the truth, we feel complete
Categories:
sutra, god, self, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
“What is needed is a Guru, a Savior, who will awaken us to Bhakti (devotion) and to perceptions of Truth.”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
when we are ready, the teacher appears ~
he gives us a push and then disappears
Categories:
sutra, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
“Just as the objects seen in our dreams are found, when we awake, to be insubstantial, so our waking perceptions are likewise unreal—a matter of inference only.”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
Being the dreamer and the dreamed,
how may we in the dream awake
as long as thought spirals are streamed?
Let’s make our mind calm like a lake!
With thoughts rested, poised in the void,
we as awareness self-aware,
reclaim light of Self unalloyed,
whence ego cravings we outstare.
Thought cessation is then the way,
for us to see and recognise
our true essence as clear as day,
beheld only when ego dies.
Let’s be with love and light aligned ~
We’re living light, not body-mind
Categories:
sutra, dream, life, light, self,
Form: Hybronnet
“Purusha is covered by five koshas or sheaths.”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
Forged from the elements, our form is dust,
enlivened by spirit, the breath of God,
layered by our lower and higher mind,
with bliss manifesting when heart has thawed.
Safely encased in these sheaths, is the Self,
which is who we are, a divine God-spark
and when the five sheaths dissolve one by one,
shining as Self, we then banish the dark.
Categories:
sutra, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
“This universe is differentiated into spheres, seven Swargas and seven Patalas.”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
Brahman the absolute alone exists,
who by His will all the worlds manifests,
realms of contrast where delusion persists
until exhausted, soul’s ego lust rests,
renouncing forever earth bound conquests.
We need not analyse realms and domains.
Let’s focus instead on cleansing soul’s stains.
Categories:
sutra, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme Royal
“The aforesaid five objects, which are the negative attributes of the five electricities, being combined produce the idea of gross matter in its five forms: Ki, solids; Ap, liquids; Tejas, fire; Marut, gaseous substances; and Akasa, ether.
These five forms of gross matter and aforesaid fifteen attributes, together with Manas, Mind, sense consciousness; Buddhi, discriminative Intelligence; Chitta, the Heart or power of feeling; and Ahamkara, the Ego, constitute the twenty-four basic principles of creation.”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
In the realm of heaven, our eye is single
but with no adversities to overcome,
so the one becomes two and then they jingle
propelled by the power of the cosmic hum
and in the five elements they commingle,
ego distanced from heart, though soul is welcome.
Poised thus in subject-object relationship,
we discover God when love is our flagship.
Categories:
sutra, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
“The Atom under the influence of Chit (universal knowledge) forms the Chitta or the calm state of mind, which when spiritualized is called Buddhi, Intelligence. Its opposite is Manas, Mind, in which lives the Jiva: the self with Ahamkara, Ego, the idea of separate existence.”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
Mistaken that we are this body-mind,
we then seek to enhance its well-being,
caring not to become divine aligned,
delusion that prevents us from seeing.
Dwelling in darkness we remain as such,
accepting our assumed limitation
till ceasing thinking, we live life by touch,
rapturous in all time meditation.
Ego is but an earth life interface,
helping soul to navigate this terrain.
Believing we are it, is our disgrace,
yet with false sense of pride we wear this chain.
Shifting into silence, coming undone,
we then realise God and we are one.
Categories:
sutra, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
“The Omniscient Love aspect of Parambrahma is Kutastha Chaitanya. The individual Self, being Its manifestation, is one with It.”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
Immersed in this density, soul’s light veiled,
to be love enabled is our life’s goal,
so once elixir of bliss is inhaled,
we reclaim brilliance wayward ego stole,
fulfilling here in earth, our ordained role.
Back in our true home, beyond space and time,
light of Self glistens betwixt bliss beat’s chime.
Categories:
sutra, joy, love, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme Royal
“The cause of creation is Anu or the Atoms. Enmasse they are called Maya or the Lord's illusory power; each individual Anu is called Avidya, Ignorance.”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
We know not who we are and yet we strive,
pursuing agendas of body-mind
and with ego cravings on overdrive,
no wonder then we wander like the blind.
Dream indulgence is living in the dark,
whilst silence sets us free from our mind tree,
letting soul ascend on an upward arc,
dwelling then in peace, vibrant and carefree.
Oh hermit, let’s look for soul’s light within,
found in silence in the cave of our heart,
where God Himself dwells, beckoning us in,
that whence entwined bliss ignition may start.
Melding head with heart, presence with God yoke ~
Know this world to be but a wisp of smoke
Categories:
sutra, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
“Parambrahma causes creation, inert Nature (Prakriti), to emerge. From Aum (Pranava, the Word, the manifestation of the Omnipotent Force), come Kala, Time; Desa, Space; and Anu, the Atom (the vibratory structure of creation).”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
The word Om being the cosmic vibration,
witnessed by time, sends ripples all across space,
as the will of God, cause of all creation,
orbiting heart in mode release and embrace,
which we so feel breath by breath as sensation,
recognising this gift of life as God’s grace.
Be this as it may, we must choose to transcend,
that to the unmanifest realm we ascend.
Categories:
sutra, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
“In It (Parambrahma) is the origin of all knowledge and love, the root of all power and joy.”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
Wisdom, love, joy and power,
are boons God does empower,
that we may then feel complete,
from head to toe, bliss replete.
Who’s He who sees through our eyes
and weeps tears when our heart sighs?
Know oh hermit, That is God.
We sense Him when heart has thawed.
If we’d rise, ego must fall,
when our presence standing tall,
beholds Self as living light,
in God’s image, shining bright.
We’re the all, we’re all of this.
We’re as God, love, light and bliss.
All that is, is God alone.
When we see, this truth is known.
Categories:
sutra, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
Is there a 'you'
in the middle --- the center?
Reality is always shuffling the center.
in order to seem
it is consistently hard-wired.
Short answer – nothing is happening.
When we look at the convex back
of a silver teaspoon,
the image seems to be more than we can see
through a flat reflection.
When you consider
what the mind is showing you,
you have already lost your place
in the so-called center.
This is yet one more thing
not to think about.
Categories:
sutra, poetry,
Form: Free verse
she had only asked him to come in for a cup of hot strong coffee
an innocent gesture in her mind maybe an interesting exchange
of thoughts on philosophical matters like love death and existence
yet once they had smoked a first cigarette the smoke clouds parted
like sea waters of Yam Suph in the form of spiritual enlightenment
candles flickered and incense filled the room with sandalwood and musk
serenity and pheromones diffused hardship fear loneliness and inhibition
passionate silence of words merged with quivering lips in fervorous action
and the pulse of their hearts raced in crescendo surely missing a few beats
velvet skin like cinnamon bark feverishly exposed unlimited desire
an immaculate conception of wisdom arose from instantaneous Karma
and twenty years later they still need no picture guide on how to make love
"the clouds parted like the pursed lips of desire" and that meant the world
Categories:
sutra, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Sails an evening when breaths lay quietly
On obscure places fluid as winds,
Where afterglow of joy becomes a
hammock
lulling frayed veins with lemongrass tea.
Sails an evening allowing surrender
its hypnotic intoxication
The exchange of matter and being--
A silent play of sutra glances
heaving along red moonlit air,
as two palms ignite a charmed lure,
kama passion pure:
For across the distance sails a glow of evening.
Categories:
sutra, celebration, devotion, love,
Form: Light Verse
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