God Makes the Rivers to Flow: An Anthology of the World's Sacred Poetry and Prose (Essential Easwaran Library Book 4)

by Eknath Easwaran

FAKHRUDDIN ARAQI The Shining Essence I look into the mirror and see my own beauty; I see the truth of the universe revealing itself as me. I rise in the sky as the morning Sun, do not be surprised, Every particle of creation is me alone. What are the holy spirits? my essence revealed. And the human body? the vessel of my own form. What is the ocean that encircles the world? A drop of my abundant Grace; And the purest light that fills every soul? A spark of my own illumination. I am Light itself, reflected in the heart of everyone; I am the treasure of the Divine Name, the shining Essence of all things. I am every light that shines, Every ray that illumines the world. From the highest heavens to the bedrock of the earth All is but a shadow of my splendor. If I dropped the veil covering my true essence The world would be gone – lost in a brilliant light. What is the water that gives eternal life? A drop of my divine nectar. And the breath that brings the dead back to life? A puff of my breath, the breath of all life.