I have become intensely aware of a Reality, the One.
Compact totality where everything exists eternally, immortal.
Individual, identical, one with all in essence, part of the One.

There is no distance, there is no death, loss or separation.
Each one is That who is the eternal Actor, the conscious being in all.
Unaffected by the play, undiminished, ever pure, always whole and integral, in movement ,
An unending Lila of self discovery , of self manifestation in infinite roles.

This is the Permanent, the adobe of truth, the divine Reality.
Beyond the clasp of time, division and suffering

Even time and space have a completely different significance.
Through any point in space, one emerges into infinity,
The point itself being infinite,
The whole of Infinity too is a point.

The past extends in a huge retrograde movement and emerges in the future,
The future curves into the past through a vast movement in time.
The present is an eternel unfading immobile scene of action
Of a vast infinite eternal Consciousness of being.

It is a seed, yet the tree,
The ocean yet the stray droplet of water,
The ray yet the whole sun
One single million hued Felicity inaccessible to the words
Yet a luminously vibrant Existence of unfathomable mystery.

That, That alone is the Reality

To Thee , O mysterious Presence, our heart’s gratitude.

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Niranjan Guha Roy 1967