ARISE, O LION !

ARISE, O LION !

Keep your spine erect and walk through life like a lion that has broken through the meshes of Maya and has emerged free in the open spaces of undying existence. You are immortal, blissfully free. Do not indulge in petty dreams that are smashed no sooner than they are conceived, stillborn offspring of the mind of indeterminate nature. Rise above these into the ionian sky of higher power which renounced leads to perfection in freedom that is never lost, repose that is never disturbed, security in the Self that is never snatched away by the mischievous manoeuvring of Maya. Live no more a slave to instincts and impulses, reason and its pitfalls, but rise above all these into self-contemplation transcending the body till you clearly perceive that this outer instrument is but an apparel of the soul which in transmigratory phenomenal whirl you are wearing now, casting it off when its hour is done, then rewearing a fresher apparel to do business in life before the vanity of phenomenal existence is seen through once and for all and you emerge free, shorn of all such earthly appendage. Meditate on the ephemeral nature of temporal existence and seek refuge in Thakur who is the primal mate, the final friend and the abode of infinite bliss and 'peace which passeth understanding'. 🕉

Written by Sugata Bose