Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Swami Suryadevananda

Can the Heart Expand to This?

Can this be considered with an 
open heart and mind?...

It takes a big heart and mind
To let each and all have their room
And not get worked up about it.
Just let people and things be as they are
As each must bring about self-change
From within themselves and by themselves—
And till then, each is each other's training aid
Acceptance enlarges heart and mind
Expand the heart so there's room for all—
Including all these things we are appalled by
It is very difficult but real spiritual practice
The heart must have room for the whole world!
When you include all within your heart
They do not bother you anymore
Abandon outsideness and otherness
And see—you stand together with everything
He who made kittens and rabbits
Also put snakes in the same grasses
In nature each understand compatibility
Without contempt—just living carefully
To respond naturally amidst everything
We first have to return to naturalness
Naturalness knows how to move about
Amidst the multitude of its own variety
We try to compensate by shrewdness
It does not work, we hurt and hurt others
Naturalness does not fumble here at all
It does what is right every moment naturally
Some may still get hurt in nature's play
But this is seeing things from outside
Nothing stands outside nature, it includes all
Waves rise and fall in the same ocean
Differences are nature's call to you
To return to inward no-difference
Rooted in the unchanging there's no problem
The ocean never worries about her waves
( Extract from a poem by Swami Suryadevnanda)





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