WITNESSING, EXPERIENCE AND 'THE SPIRITUAL'.

[Pravin Kumar]

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Witnessing, Experience and ‘The Spiritual’

The witnessing aspect of the mind,
Seeing, but not following, thoughts that appear,
Is still by dualism defined,
A temporary panacea to existential fear.

For this could yet be an egoic practice,
Carried out by an apparently separate being,
But when identified with Awareness the fact is,
This is untroubled by what It’s ‘seeing’.

Not clinging to activities of the mind and states,
Realizing they just come and go in That,
This is one of the ‘gateless gates ’
To fearlessness, for truly ‘Om Tat Sat* ’.

Thus for living as a spiritual being in the world,
And functioning in our day-to-day lives,
There is no ‘state’, or ‘banner to be unfurled’,
Just don’t identify with what departs and arrives.

Rather be (the) Awareness of ‘what is’,
Consciousness at rest, in which all comes and goes,
Cosmic energy, vibrations that fizz,
Movements in the Absolute Reality which ‘knows’.

So between the worldly and the spiritual,
There truly is no separation,
All of the same essence , thus nondual,
Between them there is no deviation.

Of That we are but manifestations,
Through which It can the world experience,
And Itself ‘know’ by our meditations,
Through Its Omnipresence and Omniscience.

*Sanskrit - 'That is the only Reality'
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A poem based on a chapter of 'The Happiness That Needs Nothing'.

I write (and read) these posts, based on my meditations and contemplations, as much for my own benefit as for that of 'others'. For this helps to keep me 'awake' in this illusory, and impermanent, world ... our perception of which is based purely on our physical, and mental, configuration.

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COLIN DRAKE