“MAKING FRIENDS WITH DEATH” a poem about taking nothing for granted and using life for its highest purpose
TRANSFORMATIONAL POETRY For The SPIRITUAL SOUL by Chinmayan
THE DAWNING LIGHT, Volume 7, # 599 Sunday, November 19, 2023
Journey of the Heart Section # 400
Lovingly written by Chinmayan…to remind myself and you to wake up to the amazingly beautiful opportunity that being alive in these human bodies really is and to use your time, energy and attention to become a powerful source of Love and Light in this world while you still can!
Published today in reflection and celebration of my 73rd birthday!
Images courtesy of Pixabay
MAKING FRIENDS WITH DEATH—
Dying Is The Doorway Back To Our True Home
A poem to remind myself not to take anything in this life
For granted as I reflect on the precious opportunities
Still in my hands to use to fulfill the highest purposes of
My birth on earth as we celebrate my 73rd birthday…
“We are all on the same train on a
Journey to the station where we must
Get down and leave this world behind.”
—Yeshe Gyamtso
We all live knowing that some day
Will be our last one on earth,
Whether we are ready or not,
Want to or not, whether we are well
Prepared or not prepared at all.
Thankfully, we do not know
When, where or how…
But in the turbulent ever changing
River of our lives, we all live with the
One inescapable certainty that somewhere,
Sometime we have an appointment to
Keep when we will be summoned
To leave our bodies, our beloveds and
All we hold dear in love behind.
I am truly grateful for both the
Knowing and the not knowing…
During all of the years I have spent
Traveling and training with my teachers—
Who were high spiritual masters who taught
And demonstrated by their daily life
The ways of living in utterly
Free and fully enlightened states—
I have always worked to make friends
With my own uncertain date with death
And welcome it as a worthy companion.
I take it as incessant inspiration
And boundless motivation to
Not to waste any part of
This precious life I am still living—
For I know my truest purpose
Simply is and will always be to be
Love in this world while I am still here.
It has gradually become clear
To me that who I really am
Is this shining eternal spirit who lives
In this body for a time until
I am called to leave it in a heap,
Like a pile of worn out clothes
To return to dirt and dust—
While the greater part of me,
This higher, brighter, ever conscious
And divinely connected true Self,
Will journey on to wherever the
Divine chooses to send me—
In deep prayer and meditation,
I have seen that the spirit realm
We all return to between lives
Is our true home, not this tangled
Web of the material plane of earth
Where we play out our lives like
Actors in a complicated movie show—
And that dying is but the doorway
Back to our true abode with the Divine,
From which we came for a season
To learn the lessons we can only learn
Through being in these dense bodies—
As we strive to rise up and evolve
As high and as far as we can before
It is time to leave all behind and
Return to our heavenly home,
Again and again and again.
September 28, 2023 Still Mountain Retreat
Images courtesy of Pixabay
A BEAUTIFUL and HEAVENLY SONG FOR YOU from my curated playlists.
Lie back and listen to these sweet loving voices and music of Prem Mukta and the Awaken Love Band lift your spirit, open your heaven and give you a very real taste of the bliss of the heavenly spheres!
This song is absolutely mind blowing on excellent headphones…and with the link you can check out the rest of this powerful album…
“Mahalakshmi” by Prem Mukta and The awaken Love Band
Calligraphy by Chinmayan
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Dear Friend…
Always remember to love and appreciate the precious and beautiful spiritual being you are…that One who never dies and flows from life to life…that One who is ever one with the Divine in pure unconditional LOVE!