THE CHALLENGE OF THE VAST
(Bijoylakshmi Das, 17th Feb 2020, Puri)
ItIt’s when the sublime silence seeks solace in the vacant naught,
Matter ceases to be meaningless in the highest altitude ever sought,
Life blooms in the enlivenment of a blossoming paradise
It’s there I meet you Beloved! In my inner awakening’s brightest sunrise.
Away from the world in the immense solitude where now I do live,
In Beauty’s beatific Bounty the outward chaos comes to an eternal cease,
The vast infinitude adores me in the beautiful expanse of the amazing Blue
The loving caress, the golden welcome! Oh Dear! It is none other than the unseen You.

The infant longing to be in love with the untouched Absolute
All my breath stops there in the earthly longings irresolute,
The spirit soars high, listens to the Clarion Call of the inmost Soul,

That lives deep within me, guided my Consciousness to reach the invisible Goal.
I‘ve been clad with the shapeless Flame’s all-solacing clasp,
The Earth belongs to me, I’m no more a victim to her serpentine grasp,
The mundane responds to the deathless Delight to descend down,
The Glory of the All Alone is adorned with the Immortal’s crown.
The mortal mirth no more momentary in the momentous hours,
The Heaven’s felicity drops its nectar not in drops but in showers;
The sweet kisses of the distant Sweetheart’s never-parting lips,
The earthly sojourn sings the songs if the Empyrean Bliss.
The formless fortitude regains faith in the once fugitive certitude vast,
The agony’s amour is ready to touch the ecstasy’s enrapturing heart,
The spilth of paradise is in plenty upon the breast of the browny earth,
Look upward, rise from your stupor of the all-lingering ignorant mortal birth.
The enlightening effulgence of the imperishable rays from the abode above, makes me bathe in the all-touching Alone’s immaculate Love,

I’m one with Him in my body-less attire of the Soul sacrosanct –
Making my life worthwhile in the Omnipresent’s immensity vast.
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