A LOOK AT LIFE-98 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY A JOURNEY The world outside No doubt is beautiful and fascinating But it is nothing in comparison to the Inner world where you hardly live. You have travelled a lot Your mind wandered here and there Your organs of senses searched for Happiness everywhere But you failed miserably Real happiness you found nowhere Now when no outer world to roam Lockdown your outing For a change Look within Go inside and see what lies therein Just close your lies And sit for a few minutes That will convince you about the treasure That lies deep within. As you go deep Move along the spine Layers of consciousness will unfold Until you become the whole And your identification is complete Expand your consciousness And be the universe Contract yourself to a dot Feel you are the ocean and mountains Feel you are the atom, protons and neutrons in the nucleus The electrons orbiting around Think you are eating through thousands of mouths You are suffering in millions of bodies You are taking birth and dying every moment You are Krishna and Arjuna, Dhritarashtra, Duryodhan and the beheaded Belalasen Who could see nothing but the Sudarshan chakra Cutting alike friends and foes You are in the mid-sea surrounded by water But inside you, there is hardly any water That visualisation will introduce you to yourself And bring you close to reality. Be a spectator Watch your breath You will realise you are not breath Watch your body and mind Hands, legs, eyes, ears and other Organs of senses You will realise you are neither body nor mind You are that consciousness which drives The body and mind to action Without being involved Consciousness does not have birth and death It is immune to pleasure and pain It is untouched by pairs of opposites It is above time and space It has been there since infinity When there was no time and space Consciousness is not many It is one that pervades, holds and Is, in fact, the whole universe. Smruti Ranjan Mohan ©Smruti Ranjan mohanty #Stars A LOOK AT LIFE-98 BY-SMRUTI RANJAN MOHANTY A JOURNEY The world outside No doubt is beautiful and fascinating But it is nothing in comparison to the