Thursday, August 31, 2023

Searching for God


 

“ Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
You will not find me in places of worship , not in legs winding around your neck, nor in eating nothing but vegetables. 
When you really look for me, you will see me instantly – you will find me in the tiniest house of time. Kabir says: O student, tell me, what is God?
He is the breath inside your breath.”

“Inside this clay jug, there are canyons and pine mountains and the Maker of canyons and pine mountains!  All seven oceans are inside and hundreds of millions of stars.

The acid that  tests gold is there, and the one who judges jewels.
And the music from strings that no one touches and the source of all water.
If you want the truth I will tell you the truth:
Friend, listen : the God whom I love is inside me.”
Kabir ( Robert Bly translation.)


I fell into this deep chasm in my chest and drowned in the ocean of God.

Now there is only silence.

Breathing in, who am I? Breathing out, I am.

Contentment is peace.

Bliss is no-mind.

Acceptance is freedom.

Wrapped up in the soft petals of the heart-lotus, I rest like a baby on its mother’s lap.

The sunlight of divine grace blesses me forever.

I bow again and again in deep gratitude and joy: the Light of the Universe shines in me!

In you, in everyone and everything!

Nothing else exists.



“ The emperor himself is not as happy as the man who has no wants.
When the sun of Self shines bright and real in the vast Heart-expanse, darkness dies, all afflictions end and infinite bliss wells up.” Bhagavan Ramana Maharishi