Five Poems

Dialogue of One
All things witness
            to my subjectivity
All things have eyes
            for me to see.

When a true Vision comes
            it is as a gift
When “I think” of Reality
             my thoughts are heard
by me alone.

When I talk,
             I talk to the Whole,
The whole talks to me.

— Yogi Ananda Viraj

Inside/Outside
On the inside is where
no mind resides,
On the inside is where
the heart takes its strides,
On the inside is where
I am not me,
On the inside is where
action is free.

On the outside is where
life takes its toll,
One the outside is where
I search for my soul,
On the outside is where
I get my reward,
On the outside is where
I am thoroughly bored.

— Yogi Ananda Viraj

Isvara’s Prayer
Our Father, the One
who art the highest vision
incarnate be thy name.
Thy vision come, thy will
be done incarnately here, as it is
in heaven.
Give us this day our daily
realization and forgive us
our ignorance as we forgive
those who hurt us.
Lead us not into sense objects
but deliver us from illusion.
For you are the power, the vision
and eternal bliss.
Om

— Yogi Ananda Viraj

You
Solitude is being with
The empty core
Of our illumination

Silence is the lifeless call
Granting ears
Life’s music.

The light of lights
Burns in the darkness
Granting vision to form.

The breathless breathes
That touch may reach
Contact as You.

— Yogi Ananda Viraj

Spanda
Beneath the scan of mind
lies the pulse of manifestation
opening before us a world
to be in.

Time is carrying the whole
as its own.
The pulse is ever active
but still to mind.

— Yogi Ananda Viraj