The Eternal Truth

The boy asked the man, most wise,

What is that which is the Divine above?

What pervades both humans and mice?

What is beyond hate and love?

What is beyond the senses five,

Which is beyond the beings, dead and alive?

What is that, which is Eternal and Great?

Who did this Universe create?

 

Fascinated by the question Divine,

The wise man spoke the following words:

“The Truth is beyond me and Mine,

The Truth cannot be expressed with words.

Neither can the Truth be perceived with our extremely limited mind,

The Truth indeed is difficult to find.

But O my boy most loved; remember always these Divine words,

For the nectar of The Divine Truth is indeed infused in these words:

I am That Eternal Being,

Who is The Creator of all,

I am that Witness present in all,

I am present in Thee and all else,

The All-Pervading Bliss I am, Eternal and Limitless.

 

You yourself are the Truth which you seek,

Search ruthlessly for this Truth, don’t be weak.”

Influenced was the boy by these words divine,

The meditation he began and soon he found the Truth beyond me and mine.

 

Sitting in the darkest of caves,

Meditating on the words most divine,

Silencing all unwanted thought waves,

He attained the Truth, with the radiance of which his body began to shine.

 

The wise man he met again,

The wise man himself came into the boy’s little den.

Grown-up was he,

A man of twenty. 

With beard all around his face,

He was the wisest man in his own race.

Who are you?” the wise man asked,

To which he replied.

 

“I am without an end or start,

Neither do I need to sustain me.

I am neither bound nor am I free,

Unaffected am I, from the mind and the heart.

 

 I move faster than light,

Yet, like a tree, I move not.

I grow not and nor do I rot,

Neither am I peaceful nor do I fight.

 

I sleep not but I am never awake,

Neither do I reside in between,

For I am that timeless being,

Who, in sleep or in awareness, can’t be seen.

 

From me arose the elements five,

Which combined to form the Universe.

I reside in all beings, dead or alive,

Fate is the poem, which by me was put to verse.

 

No disease can affect me,

Neither can words of love and hate,

Neither destiny nor fate.

I am the Eternal: Infinite and Free.

 

I am the Nothing,

The Void, the Empty!

Yet I am Everything

The All-Pervading Bliss!”

  

Hearing these words of this newly grown man,

Overjoyed was he, showing this man a smile of love,

Said he, “Now thou are equal to me, for we both have experienced the Divine above.

Now in the ocean of life, keep your mind unaffected like the feather of the ever-elegant swan.”

Saying this, the wise man and the newly enlightened man, parted their ever blissful ways.