“Awakening To Who I Really Am”
Is The Ultimate Freedom and Bliss…a poem about the power of realizing I am not this body or this ego, but the eternal higher Self.
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This is THE DAWNING LIGHT # 996 —Daily Journal Of Inspiring Writing Journey Of The Heart Section # 590…Poetry and love songs by Chinmayan
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AWAKENING TO WHO I REALLY AM
Is The Ultimate Freedom and Bliss
“I am not the perishable body,
But the eternal Self.
That which comes and goes,
Rises and sets, is born
And dies is the ego.
That which always abides,
Never changes and is devoid
Of qualities is the Self.
One must realize his Self
In order to open the inner
Store of unalloyed happiness.”
--Ramana Maharshi
I am more than human,
More than a man,
More than a father,
More than a lover,
More than a friend,
More than a poet,
More than my names,
More than my creations.
I am more than my age,
I am more than all I do,
I am more than whatever I have,
I am more than my beloveds
Or the one they Love.
I am more than being a child
In this aging body and
More than the one who has
Children now grown
Who know themselves.
I am more than this land we call Home,
I am more that my occupation,
I am more than any monetary situation,
I am more than my painful past,
I am more than whatever the future may bring.
I am more than my sadhanas, these practices
That are helping me to awaken.
I am more than all my good and great accomplishments,
I am more than my failures and defeats
And all my heartbreaks and losses.
I am more than anything or
Anyone I can possibly be or become.
I AM beginning to see
The Self who lives inside this body--
Who is far greater than any ego identity,
And all its sources of suffering,
Whose nature is stainless and
And suffused in ineffable bliss.
Whatever the definition,
I am beyond it--
Whatever the appearance,
I am more than that...
I am the Self,
I have always been
And will always be the Self--
This ever free, ever conscious,
Ever loving true higher Self
Lives forever as who and
What I really am.
April 3, 1993
Still Mountain Retreat ....First Gate Road
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“Your greatest service to humanity is to attain your own Self Realization!” Ramana Maharshi
“When God is the center and focus of my life, everything else falls into it’s rightful place.”
—Chinmayan
Timing is everything. This piece came to me at exactly the time I needed it most.