Celebrating Light

"What a mystery is Light!

Awareness in form,

Burning fog and mist and darkness away,

Transforming all it touches

Into radiance.

Find the Light within.

Let it shine into all the dark, hidden corners

Of your being.

This is enough.

Observation,

 without judgment,

is transformation."

From Lightsongs: the book

At core, we are all immortal beings of Light,

sparks of the One true flame of blissful consciousness

that is the source and the substance of all that exists.

We are infinite, boundless, joyous and perfect by our very nature.

This Diwali, may everyone discover and celebrate Light!

Who will bear witness?

Who will bear witness to the truth of the Self

 when only the Self exists?

Who will speak of that ecstatic love where no trace of lover remains?

Can drop know  the feelings of ocean?

Where do we truly belong?

Light leaves no room for shadow

as the singer becomes the song.

The mystics reveal the secret:

at the edge of the horizon

between duality and unity,

There is a sunrise sliver of joy:

the incandescent delight in the instant before moth becomes flame;

Brief heartbeat: then only  perfect Silence

And the infinite bliss of the One.

The Way to Paradise

                                      ( Paradise, by Meenakshi..acrylic on canvas)   
               

           “Attention! Here and Now!Attention! Here and Now! “Mynah Birds in "Island " by Aldous Huxley

"I became aware of a silent, resistless change taking place within my mind. One by one, the questions which I had prepared in the train with such meticulous accuracy dropped away. For, it does not now seem to matter whether I solve the problems which have hitherto troubled me. I know only that a steady river of quietness seems to be flowing near me; that a great peace is penetrating the inner reaches of my being and that my thought tortured brain is beginning to arrive at some rest." Paul Brunton , describing his first meeting with Sri Ramana Maharishi

Did you remember to BE today?

Did you experience the NOW, true presence and being…or were you lost in past and future, in fantasies and dreams and fears and desires?

Did you LIVE today?

Or did the ticker-tape mind keep running non-stop so that you  just stumbled unconsciously through the day ,like a zombie?

Does the bird struggle with intellectual exercises to fly?

Does the fish need complex mental projections to plot its path in the ocean or does it just swim, without any doubts?

Why is it so difficult for human beings to just live naturally?

Because the human mind runs amok…out of control, twisting and churning in unnecessary agonies of thought, garbage spewing non-stop.

Can you turn it off? Can you use the mind wisely and only when required?

Can you stop the insanity ? Can you stay in the thought-free state of pure being?

The way to Paradise is within you…..in the stillness of your being, in the perfect grandeur of that Silence.

Years later, Paul Brunton writes: „I remain perfectly calm and fully aware of who I am and what is occurring. The Self still exists but it is a changed radiant Self. Something that is far superior to my unimportant personality rises into consciousness and becomes me. I am in the midst of an ocean of blazing light. I sit in the lap of holy bliss.

Divine grace descends and acts only when it is invoked by total surrender. It acts from within because God resides in the heart of all beings. Its whispers can be heard only in a mind purified by self surrender and prayer. Rationalists laugh at it and atheists scorn it but it exists. It is a descent of God into the soul‟s zone of awareness. It is visitation of a force unexpected and unpredictable. It is voice spoken out of cosmic silence. It is cosmic will which can perform authentic miracles under its own law.‟

Just Be!

                               

" Nothing to do: just be.Nothing to think: just be. Nothing to dream:just be.  Nothing to hope for:just be.Nothing to want or need or desire: just BE HERE NOW! "                                  from Lightsongs - the book.

O mind, turn inwards!

Dive deep into the Heart, into Self.

Be still…body, breath, mind…quiet, at rest in the lap of Being.

Experience the nameless, formless perfection at the now-here point beyond time and space.

Here your source fills you with the Divine, with grace and gladness and peace.

Here all fears, all thoughts, all doubts, all desires …everything disappears!

Here there is perfect rest, perfect equanimity…all is always magic, all is always well.

Here mind dissolves in pure being ; infinity tastes of nectar indescribable.

Delicious never-ending bliss….

Stay here forever.

What else is there to do?

Waking Sleep

Fast asleep: no dream , no thought, no world, no one;

Just the blissful peace of perfect emptiness.

Deep, deep ocean of calm.

A bubble rises:” I am” is born.it floats up to the surface, wakes up..and explodes into creation:

I am this, I am that, I am late, I am busy, I am hungry, I am this body-mind.
So he is and she is and it is and they are and the sounds, the smells , the sights of this world exploding all around…and this is me and that is mine and joy-sorrow pain-pleasure desire-fear worry-hope all them tangles and troubles and memories and fantasies….where did that blissful peace go???

It’s still right there: perfect, eternal, unchanged, shining like the sun of suns in the lotus of the Heart.

You just covered it up with your movie; you lost yourself in the world.

Now is it possible to wake up and NOT lose your connection to that perfect peace and bliss?

Sure it is: it just takes practice.

And intense concentration, unshakable faith, absolute devotion and total surrender.

Welcome to atma-vichara, self inquiry.

Where you trace the ’I’ thought back to its nest.

Away from all the other thoughts.

Back, back, back ..away from all the projections, back to the source.

No quitting..like a bloodhound on the scent, trace the path to the source.

Until once more there is just ‘I am’

Like a diver after the pearl, dive deep, deep.

Feel the pulse, the beat, the true I-I.

Something …. Light…rises from the depths, grabs you, swallows you up.

No more I : this is how you die before your body dies.

Once more there is only the blissful peace of perfect emptiness.

Only, this time, it's waking sleep: awareness shines silently and perfectly.

Nothing else exists.