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Monday, November 11, 2019
Nijer Thekeo Boro Ek Obhiggota নিজের থেকেও বড় এক অভিজ্ঞতা
Thursday, October 24, 2019
An overwhelming experience
In that big bunch of time,
seeming arduous, unending
at times, where I
prepared myself for this day,
never did cross my mind,
this thought of - if and how -
when I would finally stand!
By short-sightedness, was limited,
my perception, by closed-ness my feel,
that when ventured for the
first time, out of the cocoon
into the world, dumbstruck was I,
by a process so immense,
an experience so enormous!
As time unfolded itself,
by seconds, minutes and hours,
I saw in awe, pondering
over the whole process,
unfathomable it seemed.
Trembled I in fear, if I'm worthy,
if I could do justice, and as
my mind tried its own tricks,
before my eyes I saw magic!
Fumbled at the first instance,
fearing falling from grace,
unable to contain the compulsive
fluctuations of my mind,
worried I looked out,
then within, and
then to Sadhguru!
However harder I tried,
it didn't work, but the moment
I took a breath, and relaxed,
it happened!
The meaning of the words,
having listened so many times,
taken to have grasped,
came to me so deeply!
As long as I was, it didn't.
The moment I wasn't, it did!
The incredible magic I saw
happening all by itself,
as I stood knowing my foolishness,
the enormity of the process, and
the omnipresence of the sacred
touched me, left me wet with overwhelming-ness!
From the unsurety of "I can't do it",
to being soaked in his presence,
taken over by something else altogether,
realised I that it's not my doing,
nothing can I do, but just be,
simply relaxing into the lap of grace!
As the time of culmination came,
as I stepped out enthralled, dazed,
immensely drenched with experience,
the body started to shiver,
and tears clogged my eyes,
what more could I ever ask?
I cried out! And it came so strongly -
the wish to dissolve into!
--Nayan
Thu, 24th October 2019
On bus, way from Bangalore to Isha Yoga Centre Coimbatore
(A version of this poem in Bangla can be read at http://musical-poet.blogspot.com/2019/11/nijer-thekeo-boro-ek-obhiggota.html )