Who Rules Over?

M A Y A

P O E T R Y

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Did You Ever Wonder, 

Who Rules Over,

Your Body, Your Mind,

Your Breath, Your Feelings?

Did You Ever Wonder, 

When Inadvertently You Say,

My Body, My Breath, My Mind,

My Possessions, My Feelings, 

My Memory, My Cravings,

Did You Ever Wonder,

Who Cares For You, 

When You're Absent-minded,

Walking Along the Precipice, 

On The Sharp Mountain Ridge?

When Inadvertently You Claim, 

The Body, The Breath, The Mind,

The Memory And The Feelings, 

As Your Own, owned By You, 

Like Many Worldly Things!

Don't You Carelessly,

Because Of The In-attention,

Oblivious Of The Fact,

Whether There Is A Possessor,

Whether There Is The Possessed,

The Things That Are Owned, 

And The One That Is The Owner,

Exist Independently Apart And,

Different From One Another?

Where-from Arrives The Thought,

That Splits Up Itself As Me and Mine, 

Where You Are The Body And Mind?

Where You Seem To Have Control, 

And You Rule over All These Things?

Or, Maybe, There Is A Power,

Beyond All Your Knowledge,

Beyond Your Understanding,

That Alone Controls Your Body,

Your breath And Your Mind?

Could You Ever Comprehend,

Could You Ever Understand, 

That Mysterious Power,

From Where You Come,

Where-from In Existence,

You May Call It's God, 

You May Say It's Love, 

Did You Ever Wonder, 

Neither God Nor Love, 

It's But The Power Of Karma, 

Neither Your's Nor Mine,

Not Of Those Innumerable Beings,

But Only Of Totality As Whole.

Nothing Other Than Destiny,

Another Name Of MAYA.

Once You See And Know,

You Stop Finding Out, 

The Causes And The Reasons, 

For Whatever Seems To Happen, 

Because It's Just Senseless,

Meaningless And Absurd Too. 

Then You Abide In The "What Is",

Timelessly, Unaffected, In Peace,

And Become Peace Itself. 

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