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Sarvamahat

Chris McCombs, Chris McCombs poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Advaita / Non-Dualist poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Secular or Eclectic poetry by Chris McCombs
(1947 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English

Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist
Secular or Eclectic
Contemporary

No reference
No subject/object
Nothing for the mind
To recognize

Conscious mind looses interest
And falls asleep
If you are identified within the mind
Then when it goes to sleep . . . “you” go to sleep

But, for those of you continuing on
You will notice your Natural State
The boundless, objectless presence
That you are

Self-recognition is important
Because until the Self. . . recognizes Itself
How will you pass beyond
The mind?

What reference would you use?
What will you be aware of?
How will you stay conscious
When everything you recognize fades into silence?

The identity you are accustomed to
Fades from view
Can you stay awake
When there is no “you” there?

There is another Self, which is always present
It is what is aware of your mind, your thoughts
Even when you are not
It is what's aware of the “you” . . . that you imagine yourself to be

This is the You that is calling you
Can you hear yourSelf calling you?
It is calling you Home . . . to Itself
To yourSelf

But self-recognition does not
Happen to you
It does not happen to the you
That you think you are

It is the larger You
Becoming aware of Itself

 

2008

 

 

Themes

  Silence
  Sound
 
 
 


Recommended Books


Beloved: Love Poems to the Holy One, by Chris McCombs
Delicious Silence: Poems from the Tiger's Mouth, by Chris McCombs
The Lover's Road: Love Poems, by Chris McCombs

 

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