AWAKENING IS NOT AN EXPERIENCE

[Pravin Kumar]

Awakening is not an Experience

Experiences come and go,
In That by which our minds can know,
Thoughts and images when they show,
And sensations as they to and fro.

The Knower which is ever behind
The ephemeral body/mind.
A constant conscious subjective presence,
Our fundamental innermost essence.

For each of us the world is made,
Of experiences which appear and fade,
In Awareness which is ever here,
Closer than close, nearer than near.

If to yourself you wish to be kind,
Avoid identifying with the mind.
Just a flow of images and thought,
In That which need never be sought.

To awaken identify with the latter,
The source, ground and end of all matter.
See that you are the permanent
Awareness, and thus ever content.

This awakening is not an experience,
Nor with thoughts and images a dalliance.
A realization of That which never changes,
In which cosmic energy just re-arranges.

Many experiences may it evoke,
They varied greatly in those who awoke.
But freedom is seeing ‘I am That’,
And the cultivation of this fact!

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A poem from 'Poetry From Being A Light Unto Your Self' based on a chapter of 'A Light Unto Your Self'.'.

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