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Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist
20th Century

About Arthur Osborne

Timeline (1909 - 1970)

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Original Language
English

Death

Themes
  Death
  Sound
  Spring Blossom
  Water
 

 

Recommended Books

The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi, Edited by Arthur Osborne
My Life and Quest, by Arthur Osborne
Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs
Ramana Maharshi and the Path of Self-Knowledge, Edited by Arthur Osborne
The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi in His Own Words, Edited by Arthur Osborne

'He had revenge on Death, for he died well,'
A poet wrote in life's far distant spring,
Stumbling on truth. Death's fabled heaven and hell
And drearier prospect yet the new times bring
Of a blank nothingness hedge like a ring
The seeming self whose lifelong passing bell
Tolls in his ears, although the mind may cing
To fragile hopes the gathering years dispel.

But 'Die before you die' the Prophet said:
Give up the seeming self that from the world
Falls into death; remains that Self instead
Wherein earth, heaven and hell like dreams are furled.

The world in you, not you in it, has died,
For That you are and nothing else beside.

 

 

-- from Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

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