GRATITUDE IS HEAVEN ITSELF

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Pravin Kumar
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GRATITUDE IS HEAVEN ITSELF

Post by Pravin Kumar » Sun Nov 18, 2018 5:40 am

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"Gratitude is heaven itself",
Said awakened poet William Blake.
Its arising when there’s no small self,
Needs explaining for it sense to make.

For how can it be when there is no ‘other’,
To thank or to be grateful to?
All is Consciousness, no sister or brother,
No separation, I, we or you.

However, awakening produces such relief,
Seeing that the personal self no longer exists.
For, the weight of useless suffering and grief,
Accrued over the years automatically lifts.

All of the rubbish we thought about our self,
And the angst caused by misidentification,
Vanishes, consigned to the ‘illusory’ shelf,
When the True Self is found by investigation.

So physicality, of Consciousness an instrument,
Is grateful to That, its essential source,
From Which all fleeting manifestation is lent,
And where all returns as a matter of course.

Pure Awareness uses the body/mind,
To appreciate and enjoy Its manifestation,
So in this scenario we find,
Gratefulness for the beauty of this creation.

Thus gratitude occurs in the following ways:
When we recognise our essential identity,
As Pure Awareness, and when That homage pays,
To Its moving expressions of The 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.

For more poems, articles, photos etc. see the comment on the photos.

COLIN DRAKE
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