Guest guest Posted February 19, 2010 Report Share Posted February 19, 2010 Sri Ramana's mother liked to sing many advaitic songs - among this was this poem: ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******* How did the Self that ever is Awareness - bliss, How did It till now behave As if It had forgotten this? Wonder of wonders, beyond understanding Is your strange fear, My Swan, my dear, Your fear of me! Mind learning, knowing and forgetting, Body begotten, begetting and then dying, Whence these impurities in Purity? Bigness, smallness, class, rank, sight and seer - Why these darkling waves in the full deep sea of bliss? No need for speech or vow of silence; No coming or going; no beginning, end or middle. Nor light nor sound; no quality. No separateness and hence no fear. Oh wonder of wonders, The things that seem In a dream! In and out, high and low, and all the ten directions Lost in light illimitably vast, Unbroken, unsupported, full and calm, Pure Awareness, Bliss immutable, The once-remote, long - longed - for goal Now here, joy, joy! ************ ********* ********* ********* ********* ******* Mudaliar: Day by Day, 5.1.46 Afternoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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