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JULY, 1979
And lo! Observe ašarana,
The state of no-protection, For what is made can be unmade, Affording thee no shelter.
For what-this body, mind, all forms? Extract from them their best !
Thy goal they're not; thy tools, let's say, To realize the Self.
Grieve not for things which come and go, Observe instead the flow,
The ever-present stream of truth
Vibrating in transcendence ;
Open to the Arihante, Conquerers of Self,
Receive within the Siddhanum, The purest, the supreme;
Be with Sahu, saints sublime
Who tread the path of peace; Open to the Utterances,
The Teachings of Omniscients.
Thy soul awaits thine offering, Drop ego and be free, To open full thy door unto
Truth's great immortal stream.
Relinquish mind to bowing down And reap the infinite! Attune thyself to wholeness, this, By life be touched and healed;
And this shall be thy sarana,
Thine own abode, thy home, Whence emanates eternally
The flow of blessed life.
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