To Watch

by Ma Muktananda | Mar 13, 2021 | Poems

To watch… without saying anything

Without blaming…

Without judging…

Only to watch…

To be, to love

To observe yourself, and then…

To watch…

Within my weary soul

I utter two silences…

As before…

As always…

As then…

Only to watch…

To dream realities…

Caress fantasies

Touch dreams

Or perhaps

Only to watch…

To be before

To be always

To be a child…

Simply to be

and only to watch…

To watch, but a lot … perhaps too much

That one…

This one…

The other…

To watch everything and everyone

myself

or, perhaps nothing

We see neither God nor the Truth

But only Divinity, watching you in your watchfulness…

Because when you watch something, you die… time passes, night comes…

But when you watch, you are eternity…

Discovering myself in my naked absence

Knowing that I have never been, nor will I ever be

But only

A pure and simple watchfulness

To watch myself and to discover

That I am only watchfulness

Before the Silence

by Ma Muktananda | Mar 13, 2021 | Poems

(Translated from the original in Spanish)

I bow and pray before the silence
Which takes mastery over our hearts
Soothing fire that burns differences
Hushed flame that turns our diversity to ashes
A fragment of the sky reflected in the lake of our soul
Blessed silence, abode to the ineffable
Of what has no name or form, of what has yet to be, and what perhaps will never be
I bow and pray before the silence
That of the lovers
That I saw in your eyes as I took your hand and told you for the very first time… I love you
Voice of the spirit, melody of the soul
Inaudible ocean from which we came and towards which we all go

Seek me

by Ma Muktananda | Mar 13, 2021 | Poems

(Translated from the original in Spanish)

Seek me in the flowers’ scent, in the breeze’ whisper
Seek me in the mountain’s serenity at twilight
Seek me in a child’s smile, in a mother’s embrace
Seek me in the sound of thunder, in the power of lightning
Seek me in the ocean immensity, in the silence of stars
Seek me in consciousness and bliss
Seek me in that and in this
Seek me in your ignorance and you shall find the truth
Seek me in the nothing and you shall find everything
Seek me in love and you will find God
Seek me in what you are and you will see what I am…

Your presence

by Ma Muktananda | Mar 12, 2021 | Poems

Every time that murky clouds darken my sky
My hopes lay in Your Presence
When I latched on to the distractions stone I have descended to the transient and temporal
I have felt your Hand caress in my heart
Then I knew solitude
Your smile was my sun and your embrace my dawn