Questions? Poem by Anita Sehgal

Witnessed

Birth and Death,

Plenty and penury,

Joy and sorrow,

Love and hatred,

Bountiness and pettiness,

Clarity and confusion.


Can you choose one without the other?

Are they but two sides of the same coin?


Perplexed by the duality of life.

I questioned..

What is life?

Why Me?

I wondered.

Why was I born?

What exists before and after?

Confused and depressed

I searched but found no answers..

Till I met my Guru..

'No answers lie on the outside
Go within', I was told.
'Knock persistently..
the underlying essence behind the duality shall reveal itself
as THAT in which all variety dissolves beyond the pale of the mind and the senses.'

Triggered by the Guru's cosmic energy

forms and figures melted..

into a mass of pulsating energy.

Separate yet connected

alone yet together.

Many yet One..

An integral part of the whole

Part of the universal pain

Part of the universal joy..

.. Universal Consciousness - the collective reflection of individual consciousness.

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