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

by Eknath Easwaran

All is change in the world of the senses, But changeless is the supreme Lord of Love. Meditate on him, be absorbed in him, Wake up from this dream of separateness. Know God and all fetters will fall away. No longer identifying yourself With the body, go beyond birth and death. All your desires will be fulfilled in him Who is One without a second. Know him to be enshrined within your heart Always. Truly there is nothing more To know in life. Meditate and realize The world is filled with the presence of God. Fire is not seen until one firestick rubs Against another, though the fire remains Hidden in the firestick. So does the Lord Remain hidden in the body until He is revealed through the mystic mantram. Let your body be the lower firestick; Let the mantram be the upper. Rub them Against each other in meditation And realize the Lord. Like oil in sesame seeds, like butter In cream, like water in springs, like fire