SELF ENQUIRY

[Guest guest]

MASTER, you've shown me how to turn away

From wallowing in life's glittering glow.

Rather, help me now to focus attention, so

I can dive within, to find my source, and may

Cognise the root of 'I', and learn the way

To live from inmost Self. Then I'll know

That Sun which lights up maya's magic show,

And watch myself sport in life's shadow play.

 

With fullest strength drawn from egotistic me,

I turn  attention round, asking 'Who Am I?'

As each mischievous parrot thought flies by,

I ask 'to whom do flights of fancy come' then see

It is to me, then I ask again 'Who Am I?'

Until petty me deigns to topple down and die.