A Look At Life-93 Poem by Smruti Ranjan Mohanty

A LOOK AT LIFE-93
BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY

THY WILL IS MY WILL

I believe in God
Neither am I afraid of life
Nor am I afraid of death
In both, I see the will of my Lord

Neither do I see the sun
Nor the shower
It is He who is born
It is He who dies
It is He who lives,
Enjoys and endures

He is Krishna,
He is Arjun, Ashwathama,
Sakuni and Duryodhan
He lives in a thousand bodies
He is everywhere
In whatever I see and perceive,
And what lies beyond
My vision and perception
It is His game
He knows how to play it—
Why should I worry?

Happiness is His,
So also the sorrow
Why so much fear?
So much anxiety?
So much possessiveness?
When I am not the doer,
The doer is someone else
The drama is His
He knows how to enact it—
Why should I bother?

When I come close to my real nature,
I feel—
I am He and He is me
The vast void, the cosmic consciousness
Neither is there life nor death,
Only consciousness unfolding
A silent procession from eternity to eternity
And I myself,
The actor, spectator and director
A witness within the play of the Infinite
Beyond me, nothing exists—
Absolutely nothing

And yet, in that nothingness, everything is He

Thy will is my will.

Smruti Ranjan Mohanty©
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