Philosophical Poems

Verse 16 is a special verse as it is here that we hear the word Atma for the first and only time within the poem. I also enjoyed the reference to the yogi as the miracle and this is explained through the reference to the book called Jonathan Livingston Seagull - a real treat.

This verse is beautiful and the key message here is that it is the ananda- beingness of the absolute Self that manifests and appears as the existence of each individual. Enjoy this wonderful verse.

The lamp of oneness being lit within will allow duality of all to vanish - a very clear and wonderful verse

This verse further clarifies  that the one indivisible Reality is consciousness, and only consciousness. To perceive this needs an intuitive and penetrative eye. Enjoy this verse.

An amazing verse, and I would summarize it as a master class for understanding acceptance. Everything is within Sat, Cit and Ananda - the one reality, pure consciousness, and happiness. 

Verses 9 and 10 are treated as couplets in the book, as they cover similar ideas. It reinforces that we know there is only one reality. Still the senses will lead us astray from this truth. So how to hold onto this awareness is the question.

Verse 8 is a wonderful verse, and really looks at the question of why we search for greater knowledge. Why not just accept this life, and this world as the totality of everything.

This is another wonderful verse; exploring what is real if everything is ever changing.

Verse 6 is profoundly beautiful. The ultimate reality is pure consciousness – the real and the unreal, the visible and the invisible, the finite and the infinite are all within the Absolute.