The Breath of the Eternal

An Awakening Wind blows From the East to the West, From the Himalayas to the Tropics, From Monasteries to Main Street. It is the Breath of the Eternal. The Timeless Wisdom of Ancient Rishis, Heard in Primordial Mountain Fastnesses, Remembered, recited, sung and written In Upanishads, Gitas and Sutras, Is now bourn in the hearts and minds Of travelers and seekers, Of saints and sages, Across oceans and continents First heard and remembered On the banks of sacred rivers, In caves and jungle huts, Now translated into All the languages of the world, Now taught here, there and everywhere. Once the secret sacred property of the few, Now illumining the hearts and minds Of men and women everywhere, Newly available in bookstores, ashrams and The internet, in satsangs and lecture halls, Available to an enquiring world, That spins towards a New Age of Awareness. The Sacred Breath of Wisdom, Of Stillness and Silence and Wonder, Pointing to the Central Truths of the Heart, Proclaiming to one and all Know Thyself! Thou art That! Discover your Oneness with the Eternal. Wave and ocean are only water. The finite is one with the Infinite. Every particle is part of the Whole. This world is one Beingness, One Awareness, one Life, one Love. How could you ever think yourself To be separate from the Infinite? Could your breath possibly be separate From the Breath of the Eternal? All this is God! See the Divine everywhere, In everyone and everything. Let your eye be single And your whole life will be filled with Light. Let your vision be of Oneness And your whole world will be filled with Love. All things and beings are just Temporary appearances within Awareness And are nothing but Awareness! God is Pure Awareness! The One Self in all is Pure Awareness! All the stories of Spirit, All the histories, myths and legends, All the Sacred Teachings, Are pointers to the Awareness that you are, The Awareness that all are, The Pure Awareness that the Divine Is Invisible, Inscrutable, Ungraspable, Unchanging, Indivisible, Whole, Complete, Perfect, Unborn, Self-Existent, Self-Luminous, Needing Nothing, Depending upon Nothing. The Infinite, Eternal and Divine One shines As the Awareness that you are! This Very Self is One with the Infinite. Be still and know that I AM GOD, In Stillness and Silence, discover The One Being, One Light, One Love The Divine Presence That is Within You As your Only True Identity. The little egoic self is a mirage, An unexamined and empty presumption. To Discover Who You Truly Are, Is the only purpose, end or goal of life. The only place where restlessness ends, Is in the Perfect Peace of Eternal Light. The quest for fulfillment will continue Until one finds rest in the Unmoving Essence. The Love of Truth and the Truth of Love Are the Wisdom of the Eternal. This world is the garment of the Everlasting A robe to cloak the Invisible, A world made of temporary forms Of the Timeless and Formless. You and I are images of the Invisible, Voices of the Silence, Movements in the Unmoving, Imaginary Fragments of the Indivisible, The Arms and Legs of the Unmanifest. We ourselves are the Living Breath

Of the Eternal, now awakening In the discovery of Who We Truly Are! The courage to confront illusions, To remove your masks, And be who you truly are, Is the Grace of the Eternal. The motions of the Sun, Moon and stars, The rise and fall of the tides, The turnings of the seasons, The beat of your very own heart, All are manifestations of the Eternals Love, All are the Light of the Immortal Oneness, Shining brightly, here, now and everywhere. The bubbles of illusion drift away In an Awakening Wind. The veils of night dissolve in The Light of a New Dawn. Wisdom arrives in The Breath of the Eternal.

By Ananda Bodhi Ted Thompson, 2012 All rights reserved tedananda@yahoo.com