BLIND TURTLE

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It took eons for mini-me to put her baggage down


On this speeding Moksha Train Bound for Bliss;


Impossible to express this tidal wave of gratitude


Surging up from my Spiritual Heart now that I AM


In your fiery embrace, O Arunachala!


 


Namaste for teaching me how to burn this false notion of separation!


Oh yes, I am aware of how tenderly and carefully


You sent situations and humans to me


With orders to shoot a special message into my heart;


Only because I was porous with the pain,


Your celestial arrows lodged firmly in that sacred space.


 


You taught me gratitude for every little thing, “good” and “bad;”


As if I were your own precious child,


Most of all for the astonishing gift of life.


As shining beings freely shared with me their timeless wisdom,


I learned about a Blind Turtle who rests on


The bed of an ocean the size of this cosmos,


The poor creature being allowed to rise to the surface


Only once in a hundred years.


 


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What chance of her wattled neck sliding up through


A wooden ring bobbing on the vast expanse of those choppy waters?


Slim, perhaps impossible; and yet, this great miracle has happened to all those committed


To freeing ourselves from Maya’s web of illusion.


 


You keep us moving bravely through


The often dense and terrifying darkness of samsara


By your divine assurance that once the fetters of the unreal fall off,


All that is left is the incandescent Self:


Blissful, immortal, loving, wise, fearless, connected to all beings.


 


[image error]How can I thank you for loving me so intensely, O Holy Hill,


That you feel no compunction in shattering my final defenses,


Just so I can finally come to rest in the pure sunlight of Spirit?


 


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