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Poetry
Chaikhana
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About Arthur OsborneTimeline (1909 - 1970) |
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Be Still
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Thou art? -- I am? -- Why argue? -- Being is.
Keep still and be. Death will not still the mind. Nor argument, nor hopes of after-death. This world the battle-ground, yourself the foe Yourself must master. Eager the mind to seek. Yet oft astray, causing its own distress Then crying for relief, as though some God Barred from it jealously the Bliss it sought But would not face. Till in the end, All battles fought, all earthly loves abjured, Dawn in the East, there is no other way But to be still. In stillness then to find The giants all were windmills, all the strife Self-made, unreal; even he that strove A fancied being, as when that good knight Woke from delirium and with a loud cry Rendered his soul to God. Mind, then, or soul? Break free from subtle words. Only be still, Lay down the mind, submit, and Being then Is Bliss, Bliss Consciousness: and That you are.
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