Song of Saraha

Saraha's Song
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Non-memory is convention's truth
and mind which has become
no-mind is ultimate truth.
This is fulfillment,this is the
highest good. Friends,
of this highest good become aware.

In non-memory is mind absorbed;
just this is emotionally perfect
and pure. It is unpolluted by
the good or bad of worldliness
like a lotus unaffected by
the mud from which it grows.

- Saraha

Saraha one of the greatest yogis of India in the late 8th century. Saraha Composed a main mediatation text, it is one of the fundamental treatises of the Mahamudra Meditation tradition. Saraha's composition are not of a poet, but a realization of a mystic. It is simple with beauty and grandeur.

(Pic : From my cousin's terrace garden in Bangalore)

Secret

Last night

I begged the Wise one to tell me

the secret of the world.

Gently,gently he whispered,

"Be quiet,

the secret cannot be spoken,

it is wrapped in silence."

- Rumi

Rumi's way of expression is simple and profound, A still mind or no mind is the state of silence where we are in tune with our own self.