I have been contemplating the following mantra from Bhagat Ravidas, and wrote the following poem based on my thinking.
ਪੜੀਐ ਗੁਨੀਐ ਨਾਮੁ ਸਭੁ ਸੁਨੀਐ
ਅਨਭਉ ਭਾਉ ਨ ਦਰਸੈ ॥
ਅਨਭਉ ਭਾਉ ਨ ਦਰਸੈ ॥
You can read, reflect, hear all the names on and on.
but experience of love makes love dawn.
but experience of love makes love dawn.
Being the Seed
I do not wish to read oneness,
or even to understand it.
I want to be the curve of Om.
I do not want to read truth,
or memorize all its names.
I want to live its pulse.
I don't want to read about the doings,
or analyze their ways.
I want to create myself whole.
I do not want to act brave,
or write poems about courage.
I want to be the space that scares fear.
I have already seen forgiveness.
I no longer wish to forgive.
I want to dwell where there is no other.
I do not long to conquer time.
I want to be the still point inside it,
not a clock, but the silence between ticks.
I do not seek escape from birth and death.
I want to know the place
where neither arrives.
I do not need proof of self-existence.
I want to be the light
that doesn’t have a switch.
I do not ask for the Guru’s gift
as something outside me.
I want to dissolve into blessing.
Singing oneness!
