Pursuing Oneness Poem by Mohammad Younus

Life is not just meeting the elementary needs;
Move ahead rather to the point of existence;
Pass beyond this world of limitations;
Such that you become all that you can be;
Your life goal must be to achieve self-realisation;
So pass through the process of self discovery...
...in the journey of existence;
For spiritual awareness, all the sages of old have said:
'One who realises his self has realised God';
If you want to be a better and more beautiful person...
If you want to be a person of knowledge and wisdom...
If you want to attain enlightenment and awareness...
...then, look through your own eyes of perception;
If you see through the eyes of others to decide...
...what is good and what is evil...
...what is beautiful and what is ugly...
...or what is valuable and what is worthless...
You will fail to see your real big picture;
On entering the Valley of knowledge...
...you will achieve self actualisation,
Here, the wayfarer becomes a gnostic;
He drinks from the cup of the Absolute...
...and gazes on the Manifestations of Oneness;
Here he pierces the veils of plurality...
...and flees from the worlds comprised of the elements four...
...and ascends into the heaven of unity;
With the ear of God he hears, and with His eyes...
...he beholds the mysteries of divine truth;
He enters the sanctuary of the Eternal truth...
...and sheds off the robes of otherness;
Here he stretches out the head of absolute...
...from the neck-hole of his shirt;
He sees in himself neither name nor fame nor rank,
Rather he finds his own praise in praising God;
He beholds in his own name the name of God;
To him, 'all songs are from the One'...
...and every melody originates from the One!
Having realised the existence of unity...
...he comes out of duality;
He needs not now pursue his quest for eternal truth...
...as he recognises what the secret hidden really is;
There's an irony in the pursuit of Oneness:
Pursuing it denies it.

MyKoul