Vethathiri Maharishi Poems

BEYOND BIRTH AND REBIRTH
If one is to swim and cross the ocean of births and deaths. two are the fronts wherein victory has to be scored through the vigilant state of constant Awareness. The first is to abstain from sex-union altogether so that a new birth will not occur through embryo. The next is to free oneself from the causes of rebirth which are Ego and Sin-imprints and for this the method is to take to the practice of Meditation and Virtue enabling one to attain and stay settled in the perfection of Consciousness…

MEDITATION AT ANY STAGE
Practising Meditation even in early youth and remaining single rendering service is lofty indeed in terms of excellence. After learning Meditation in youth, and then entering the state of matrimony comes next in excellence but praiseworthy nevertheless. Becoming wedded without learning Meditation, begetting children and after the gamut, to take to Meditation that has been missed in youth ranks third in one’s process for spiritual development.

SKY – YOUR GUIDE
Birth as a human being is the noblest in evolution, for man alone can probe the secrets of creation.learnednse indeed are the potentialities of man and we who have learnt SKY* are equipped to bring them to fruition. It is the imprints of sins that have reduced man from godhead and he alone should work his way back to the origin by practising Virtue and Meditation steady. The goal is clear, friends and the pathway is charted. March onward in cheer for SKY is your unfailing guide.
* SKY: Simplified Kundalini Yoga

CALLING ALL SEEKERS
Not many of the aspirants have the spirit of inquiry: “What are we searching for and why this quest at all? Where to are we headed and who could guide us in this?” The bulk of the seekers, alas, are just running hither and thither in emotioned excitement spiralling into a maze. Instead of subtling within towards the in-dwelling Self, their mind projects outward experiencing pleasure and pain. Quietude you cannot get in the thick of the market-place and the only path to the goal is Meditation and Introspection.

CONSERVE LIFE-ENERGY
“Pleasure we experience
only by expending
our life-energy precious
through the sense five” -When this finding takes root
and raises high in our thoughts
we understand the need to conserve
our bio-magnetism.
Simplified Kundalini
strengthens us in this resolve
and by our own effort
we re-order our priorities,
so that Thought, Word and Deed
may be in concordance
and chart our path ahead
towards Realisation supreme…

VALUE OF KAYA KALPA YOGA
By sublimating and recycling
the sexual vital fluid,
Kaya Kalpa frees you from
a variety of earth-bound ills.
Your mind develops strength
and Contentment comes to stay;
Charity, Compassion,
and Chastity – consciousness,
Patience, Forgiveness,
and Acuity of intellect -All these become part
of your nature and being.
Your thought gets oriented
to the Absolute direct
and fear of death withers
in the effulgence of Wisdom.

RADIANT LIFE

Ignorance, Emotion, and Illusion limit your Consciousness and the result is that you reap misery through your deeds.

Cultivate Awareness as a matter of habit and evaluate your thoughts even as they arise.

SKY* helps you here to awaken your potential and when your Consciousness is elevated by Meditation, your life gets radiant and stays so thereafter…

LIBERATION

The first gain of Meditation is control of the sense and then the journey proceeds to ascertain the nature of life.

When the mind merges in life the Absolute is realised and that is Liberation -the perfection of Consciousness…

MEDITATION AND MARRIAGE

Those who practice Meditation even before their marriage would have in their seed-cells the ingredients of purification.

The offspring of such couples would develop God-Consciousness and lead a life of virtue benefiting the entire mankind.

INNER TRAVEL

Controlling the senses five, sit and concentrate on the space between the eyebrows in order to ascertain the origin of Consciousness.

Your mind would come to quietude and you would then experience that your life itself is the all-mighty Absolute…

WHAT IS MEDITATION?

The conjoined functioning of life-energy particles manifests as the world and all objects and appearances. Truth is that which is in-dwelling in all these and functioning as Consciousness, is called the Absolute also. The projecting mind is the world and when it retracts and merges in the life-force which is its source -that process in Meditation.

THREE SHACKLES

Through imprints inherited and acquired by you, Three are the stigmata that you bear today. The first is Ego, Sins, come next and Forgetfulness is the third of the scars. If you seek to shed these shackles three and take to the path of Liberation you should curtail the little self and home in on the source of Life by learning the practice of Meditation and the ever-virtuous code of conduct. Day by day You would then taste the sweetness of Freedom real…

TWO BATTLE-FRONTS

If you seek to cross the ocean of Births and Deaths, what you should develop is constant Awareness so that you may win on two battlefronts. The first is not to sow the seed for lineage and then you should erase Ego and Sin-imprints, along with attachment to objects ephemeral. The positive method to score these victories is Meditation combined with conduct virtuous.

Thus you should expand the frontiers of your mind and get established in knowledge Supreme.

AFLOAT IN GRACE

Wearying of the sensations which the flesh is heir to, I thought of the in-dwelling Self, the merciful Lord enshrined. Through some instinct, I renounced Ego, for my part, and surrendered my soul to you in obeisance. From that moment onwards you filled my entire self and I became a speck afloat on you, the ocean of Bliss. May your Grace vouchsafe this state to endure.

Would air be able to enter a vessel filled with water? Likewise is the mind filled to the brim with the Truth; Material attractions and emotions associate would not gain, ingress, And this state can be attained only By Meditation, for it cannot be gifted or received as quid-pro-quo. Elevating your Consciousness and realizing you are the Truth, develop Awareness that would help you chisel away attachment to the transient.

Yoking my Consciousness to Faith in the first instance, I practiced Virtue in unswerving dedication. The yearning then arose to perceive what perceives -to ascertain the substratum through the Consciousness. Studying the Consciousness by means of Meditation, I identified the origin of all in the Universe as the Absolute, the Truth.

Having attained to this the state of Bliss, I call upon you all, O, people of the world, to come my way and have the experience ecstatic!

POT IN WATER

Take an empty pot and immerse it in water; Would it not take in the liquid and disappear from our view? Likewise, your Consciousness operating through the senses gets laden with worldly imprints and loses its identity. The self-same empty pot pressed upside down in water would rise back to the surface and float about in freedom. Similarly, Consciousness, having realized its origin, would not stay tied down to desires through the senses. Being in a state of constant Awareness it would hasten back to reach its nature, Infinity.

SWEETNESS AND LIGHT

The two objectives of Religion everywhere are Awareness of God and the path of Virtue. The wise living consists in adopting these two as articles of practice in unswerving dedication.

You would then be cleansed of adverse imprints and your clan would prosper elevating the human race. What more do you need, O, my dear friends, than Sweetness and Light here and hereafter?

FULFILMENT ULTIMATE

Merging your thought with the Divine yields peace so refreshing, and if you remain therein steadily in Awareness, you would realize you are in the natural state of fulfillment ultimate. Practise this daily throughout your life-span and the result here would be “Limiting” and “Method” in your worldly enjoyments. Stigmas would drop off and Consciousness shines forth as the self-effulgent Truth. Ego would be dissolved and you would have the vision of God the Almighty …

FROM TOTAL TO FRACTION

Truth is all-complete and self-contained silence and it is at that stage Total Consciousness. When Consciousness emerged forth in transformation it became “Akash” constituting life.

Akash is too subtle to be grasped and identified and it could be espied only through its functioning order of self-rotation making for volume, speed, time, and distance which four are the characteristics here of objects and appearances.

WHAT IS WISDOM?

Understanding the manner in which the mind functions, you proceed to trace the source of the “I” thought within you. That would bring to you the philosophy of Nature which is unbounded, all silence, as the substratum of the Universe.

Objects and appearances are an evolution of its fragment and in living beings, it spans out as the temperamental moods -Greed, Anger, Miserliness, Immoral passion, Complexes, and Vengeance, which are but conditioned states of the self-same Consciousness.

The light of this inner vision informing your way of life, you would learn to preserve the health of body and mind, and harmony and dignity by practicing virtue.

It is in this Enlightenment that man becomes a man and that alone, my friends, is wisdom genuine.