(5) Shakti - 4

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This Shakti is the individual self labeled ‘Bharati’ the so-called ‘I’ I think as myself.

She is my body, thoughts, my life-force, my actions, myself.

She is manifest as me, the Bharati.

If I keep her always there, then I will cross over death!

How to bind her?

How to keep her as me always?

How do I continue to be a Bharati even after the body falls?

My essence is poetry and love!

I want to continue as the same.

I may not continue to live as the physical body; but yet I do not want to lose my essence and melt off!

For that, Shakti has to be manifest as me at all times.

How to do that?

How to tie her up?

“மண்ணிலே வேலி போடலாம். வானத்திலே வேலி போடலாமா?” 

என்றான் ராம கிருஷ்ண முனி.

 ஜடத்தைக் கட்டலாம், சக்தியைக் கட்டலாமா? 

உடலைக் கட்டலாம், உயிரைக் கட்டலாமா?

என்னிடத்தே சக்தி எனதுயிரிலும் உள்ளத்திலும் நிற்கின்றாள்.  

சக்திக்கு அநந்தமான கோயில்கள் வேண்டும். 

தொடக்கமும் முடிவுமில்லாத காலத்திலே 

நிமிஷந்தோறும் அவளுக்குப் புதிய  கோயில்கள் வேண்டும்.

இந்த அநந்தமான கோயில்களிலே ஒன்றுக்கு ‘நான்’என்று பெயர். 

இதனை ஓயாமல் புதுப்பித்துக்கொண்டிருந்தால், சக்தி இதில் இருப்பாள். 

இது பழமைப்பட்டுப் போனவுடன், இதை விட்டுவிடுவாள். 

இப்போது அவள் என்னுள்ளே நிறைந்திருக்கின்றாள்.

இப்போது எனதுயிரிலே வேகமும் நிறைவும் பொருந்தியிருக்கின்றன. 

இப்போது எனதுடலிலே சுகமும் வலிமையும் அமைந்திருக்கின்றன. 

இப்போது என்னுள்ளத்திலே தெளிவு நிலவிடுகின்றது. 

இது எனக்குப் போதும்.

“சென்றது கருத”மாட்டேன். “நாளைச் சேர்வது நிக்க” மாட்டேன். 

இப்போது என்னுள்ளே சக்தி கொலுவீற்றிருக்கின்றாள். 

அவள் நீடுழி வாழ்க. 

அவளைப் போற்றுகின்றேன், புகழ்கின்றேன். 

வாய் ஓயாமல் வாழ்த்துகின்றேன்.

‘We can put a fence around the land!

Can we put a fence around the sky (space)?’ 

asked Sage Ramakrishna!

We can bind the inert. Can we bind Shakti?

We can tie the body. Can we tie the life within?

Shakti is within me, in my life and in my mind.

How to keep her always within me?

By worshiping her?

What ..? By building a temple and worshiping her in a statue form?

No, that won’t work!

The entire world is her statue.

We must build a temple within us!

We make her essence, the Brahman-state of knowledge shine always; then she will also stay as me, the Bharati, the manifest Brahman!

Every second, I should be in the state of the Self, without a break!

Then Shakti will remain pleased with us and safeguard our identity.

Shakti needs countless temples.

She needs temples every second in the Time which is beginning-less and endless.

Of these endless temples, one of them is named ‘I’. 

(Individual Self which is actually the Supreme Self)

If there is a slack in this ceaseless contemplation of the Self, then Shakti will leave us. Our identity with the body will leak in; and we become a prey for Yama!

If that (temple) is continually kept renewed, Shakti will stay inside it. If it (the temple) becomes old, she will leave it.

Now I am in the state of the Self!

Shakti is completely within me since I am Brahman!

Now she is fully within me.

Now I am full – POORNA

Now in my soul, there is speed and completeness joined well.

Now inside my body, happiness and strength are well settled.

Now in my mind, clarity is established.

This is enough for me.

‘What is gone’ I will not think about.

‘What is coming tomorrow’ I will not think about.

Since I know my true essence, I will never swerve from the state of Self!

I worship her by building countless temples of Self-contemplation ceaselessly.

I never have the identity with the limited body-structure.

I am Brahman.

I worship her as the awareness of my true nature.

She will never leave me ever.

She will stay as my power and manifest as me the Bharati.

I will always be there.

Now Shakti adorns within me. Let her be there forever.

I adore her. I worship her.

I praise her in my mouth ceaselessly.