Sunday, March 11, 2012

The Fire of Nachiketa

May we light the fire of Nachiketa
That burns out the ego and enables us
To pass from fearful fragmentation
To fearless fullness in the changeless whole
                                Katha Upanishad 3, 1-2

Her obeisance is to a woundedness and its despair
she knows how to make it grow
and how to grip it with her fist

Let me embrace this imperfectable life
forgetful of her
free of vindication

May I seek what is sovereign instead
Keeper of my destiny


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