“Universal Consciousness is one’s own nature…

Knowing the individual consciousness as one’s

own nature and not knowing the Universal Consciousness

as one’s own nature is bondage.” Siva Sutras, vss 1&2

 

 

Kiss the sensations of the day

Worship the pink of an elderly man’s cheeks

Invite the vibrant white of a young woman’s

blouse to pulse thru your bones

 

Be very still and feel

the friction of blue jeaned

thighs swish-swishing

against your breast,

penetrating your skin

and vibrating along

your spine

 

Some say we are surrounded by impermanence

they say–‘contemplate the impermanence

that everywhere deceives

and hides the real behind the unreal,

the true beneath the untrue’,

‘Seek that,’ they say,

that is not this,

or this,

or this…

 

I say,

Not a moment passes

that is not full of ME,

 

I am your baby’s

soft skin-

Observe me

and you will

know yourself

 

I am the melody

of your thoughts,

listen to me

and all songs

become One.

 

I am the gravity

in your footsteps-

feel me and

walk the length

and breadth of

the cosmos

 

To live with

abiding joy,

one need only

surrender the illusion

that each is not One,

that always is

not Now,

that the infinite

is not Present.