Verses 57-59

May this dialogue
Open our eyes
to meet our Self
in our Selves.
Like in the deluge
It’s the ocean everywhere
Where does one search for source of the river?
Says Jnanadeva
Your existence is real
Without the particularities
Of name and form.
Rejoice in the living self
And be happy.

Verses 54-56

It’s the palate that
delights, delicacies a pretext.
It’s me that I admire,
the mirror a means,
the image but an impression.
I stuffed here
theses and postulates
and with
the alphabet of silence
composed this prelude
to our meeting.
It’s only a means,
If you wish to look at yourself,
Like a lamp needs light, its own,
to be able to see.

I have composed all this merely as a means, an image of your self and mine to see in this mirror.

Verses 51-53

The eye rejoices
in witnessing
scenic wonders
and with that sight
in darkness
gropes without stumbling.
Scenes emerge and fade
The sight does not.
Being -
the experience
of oneness.
Our persona-the pictures
that appear and fade.
Let us rejoice in the meeting.

Amid the transience of the world, permanent is the Being that experiences and not the Person who is but an amalgam of experiences, emerging and fading. Let us meet to touch the level of Being and not simply as Persons.