Jack Kerouac & 'Maya'

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HARI AUM

 

Jack Kerouac an icon of the Beat generation has penned

this poem. Surpringly it has shades of the mystic

Indian.

The last line-'the world you see is just a movie in

your mind'-sounds familiar? Doesn't it evoke the

concept of 'Maya'?

 

Figure it out from the poem.

 

Regards

 

Balagopal

 

NARAYANA NARAYANA NARAYANA

 

 

 

I have lots of things to teach you now,

in case we ever meet,

concerning the message that was transmitted to me

under a pine tree in North Carolina

on a cold winter moonlit night.

 

It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry.

It's all like a dream.

Everything is ecstasy, inside.

We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds.

But in our true blissful essence of mind is known

that everything is alright forever and forever and

forever.

Close your eyes,

let your hands and nerve-ends drop,

stop breathing for 3 seconds,

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the

world,

and you will remember the lesson you forgot,

which was taught in immense milky ways

of cloudy innumerable worlds

long ago and not even at all.

It is all one vast awakened thing.

I call it the golden eternity.

It is perfect.

We were never really born,

we will never really die.

It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea

of a personal self,

other selves,

many selves everywhere,

or one universal self.

Self is only an idea, a mortal idea.

That which passes through everything, is one thing.

It's a dream already ended.

There's nothing from staring at mountains months on

end.

They never show any expression,

they are like empty space.

Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble

away.

Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space,

which is the one universal essence of mind,

the one vast awakenerhood,

empty and awake,

will never crumble away because it was never born.

 

The world you see is just a movie in your mind.

 

letter to ex-wife - jack kerouac

 

 

 

Jack Kerouac (pronounced [d & #658;æk

& #712;k & #603; & #633; & #601;wæk]) (March 12, 1922 –

October 21, 1969) was an American novelist, writer,

poet, artist, and part of the Beat Generation. While

enjoying popular but little critical success during

his own lifetime, Kerouac is now considered one of

America's most important authors. The spontaneous,

confessional prose style inspired other writers,

including Tom Robbins, Lester Bangs, Richard

Brautigan, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Tom Waits

and Bob Dylan. Kerouac's best known works are On the

Road, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur and Visions of Cody.

 

 

 

 

 

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