GRACE

               “Guru’s grace is always there. You imagine it is something, somewhere high up in the sky, far away and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its source, the grace rushes forth, spouting as from a spring, from within you.” Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi, Day by Day with Bhagavan

Only turn within,

Open the eye of the heart and behold!

This shining grace that is the gift of gifts, treasure of treasures,

Flowing so freely to king and beggar alike,

Blessing every creature great and small with its perfect light,

Letting the blind see and the deaf hear again, healing all pain,

Embracing the lost and the damned and the wretched in its compassion,

Turning all it touches into sacred harmony.

O dive in and drink deep from

This blessed fount

That fills the heart with such ecstatic love,

Washing away all the sorrows and torments of illusion,

dissolving all before it like the last flood

And filling all space and time with infinite, divine bliss!

Be still.

Be this.