REPEATED INVESTIGATION - VITAL FOR REAWAKENING

[Pravin Kumar]

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Repeated Investigation - Vital For Reawakening
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That Awareness is ever present is clear,
But it is objects, thoughts and sensation,
That point directly to It being here,
So that these can be topics of mentation.

For without Awareness the mind couldn't possibly see,
This flow of ‘things’ that continually ebb and flow,
If That were not present they might just as well not ‘be’,
But this ‘perceiving presence’ doesn’t come and go.

Ramana said that after his awakening event,
The sense of presence, ‘I AM’, was always there;
But many, to whom awakening has been ‘sent’,
Soon ‘nod off’ returning to sorrow, full of care.

So I am always pointing to waking up again,
Luckily everything we encounter we can use,
For they appear in Awareness, beyond all pain,
And we can reawaken if on this we muse.

Ramana was a very advanced being,
To emulate him requires repeated investigation,
Realizing by our True Self seeing,
With Awareness achieving full identification.

Reading the words of such an enlightened one,
Can truly be a ‘two-edged sword’,
On the one hand inspiring and, as such, ‘fun’,
But also may touch a discouraging chord.

Luckily reawakening, of 'Awareness Aware',
Is simply noticing that It’s always present,
Then identifying with This, a constant affair,
Rather than mind/body, both impermanent.
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A new poem based on a chapter of 'Enlightenment is for all'.

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