SEEING IS BELIEVING

[Pravin Kumar]

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Seeing is Believing

Many people rate spiritual experience,
To be of more value than direct seeing,
But investigation can reveal the essence,
Pure Awareness, at the core of each being.

Regarding this, Jnana Yoga, Sankara said:
‘The true form of Reality should be known,
By one’s own clear understanding’ (not read),
Then what’s discovered one can truly own.

For if this moment we directly investigate,
Fleeting thoughts, images and sensations,
Occurring in Awareness a presence, not a state,
By which we perceive these manifestations.

This has been present since our birth,
Witnessing the experiential flow,
Of our whole lives upon this earth;
And only This does not come and go.

So within this what is our true identity?
Not body or mind which continually change,
Awareness is the only constant Reality,
Unaffected as circumstances rearrange.

So This is what we truly ‘are’,
Once by the mind this is clearly seen,
Misidentification can no longer mar
Our lives, now somewhat like a dream.

Then the mind becomes our friend,
For this ‘seeing’ leads to truly believing,
That upon which we can depend,
Pure Awareness needing no retrieving.

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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