DEVOTION

FROM ALAN JACOBS ADVAITA VEDANTA

SONNETS OF EXPERIENCE

DEVOTION
The Self is dear to all as perfect love,
Unbroken devotion a stream of purest oil,
Our Sage finds Self within like God above.
His child  after hard and persistent toil,
Finds ego's most resistant mind soon melts,
Sadhak finds certain faith in God alone.
This golden flowing stream of love smelts
Foul dross, his heart's desire becomes his own.
They who once linked form to God's Holy Name,
In time transcends that image just the same.
With Bhakti ripe and hearing Truth complete,
Heart's blossom on the bough flowers replete.
In love with that one most truthful emotion,
They sprout a fresh white lotus of pure devotion.