Before all experience,
Before all thought of identity,
Before all mirrors and photographs,
Before all vanity, gratification, and delusion,
Before all vexations of desire and fear,
Before all suffering of existence,
Who-what-when-where-why,
How are You, really?
* * * *
Move prior to concept, prior to known.
Return to the untainted awareness of the child,
The uncarved freedom of the empty tablet,
Prior to all said, all done, all imagined.
* * * *
You are the source,
The quantum ocean,
The absolute supreme,
The eternal unicity of isness.
* * * *
Discovering your true birthright,
Requires the persistence
Of an aloof scientist,
Gradually scraping away
At the layers of conditioning,
Until at some point, there is nothing left,
And what You truly are, and are not, is quite apparent.
* * * *
There is really no death,
Only the departure of the senses,
And the dissolution of imagined identity.
* * * *
When in every moment,
You see without a trace of doubt,
That there is no witness other than You;
That those many pedestaled images of great souls,
Were projections of the inherent longing,
To awaken to the birthright,
That is prior to consciousness;
You will be free of artificial limits.
You will have triumphed over illusion.
You will have discovered the indelible truth:
That you are, indeed, sovereign, indivisibly absolute.