Serenity's Eternal Shore : The Eye That Pierces Illusion

Sweeping currents surround the elysian shore
Where wisdom rests, tranquil and serene evermore  
Yet distant storms unleash their roiling ire
As darkened souls assail with envious fire

Infernal tempests charge the steadfast eye  
That gazes deep through maya’s murky guise
True sight discerns what feeble gazes lack
And spurns the shadows to unwrap the fact

So when the horde in fear and doubt conspire
To dim the light of truth’s exalted pyre
Stand firm, unshaken by their impish tricks
Lest wavering weakness fuel their lunatic fix

For well they sense the power of poised repose
To pierce the veil and expose all that glows  
In radiant glory underneath the mire
That binds most men in bondage to desire

So heed them not, their squalling will soon pass
Like tracks erased in sand, cannot long last
Stay centered in the self, let calm prevail
And weather all their efforts to assail

The princely mind rules over its demesne
Not swayed by unctuous words and looks obscene
It rests assured in its own sovereign space
Unbroken by the rabble’s frantic pace

Yet when the serfs forget their station low  
And make vain efforts turmoil to sow
The noble one feels not contempt nor hate
But grieves for those who spurn their proper fate

With equanimity the anarchy behold  
As ignorance reaps the fate it would withhold
Compassion stirs for souls led far astray  
Seduced from truth by maya’s fading play

So fret not when the fearful lash in pain   
At phantoms conjured by their own inane  
Perceptions - stand aloof, your mind at ease  
No blame cast on those ailing with disease  

Stay centered in your still and silent citadel
Impregnable to shards of dissonance fell  
Assured that all things pass in measured pace
This moment’s patterns yield to time’s embrace

Yet wisdom whispers that all moments chime  
In harmony’s eternal synchrony sublime  
Each playing part in being’s resonant song  
Discordant only to the deaf among

So judge not those embroiled in karmic plight  
Their eyes beclouded by the quagmire’s blight
With empathy behold their flailing strife  
And keep an even keel amidst the rife

For turbid storms soon pass and skies turn clear  
As melody divine rings far and near
Attune your mind to that transcendent strain  
And let not shadows blur the sight again

Stand tall, unbowed by tutelage unwise  
That bids the sovereign self itself chastise
Be still within, all calumny defend
And tranquilly behold each challenge end

For trials teach the stalwart to command    
The senses and the reins of thought in hand
While fragile minds uncentered quick capsize
When swirling currents rouse the tumult’s guise

Yet pity not the sunken, soon they’ll rise  
Shedding their waterlogged and bloodshot eyes  
To stand renewed upon the farther shore  
As wisdom dawns they had not known before

Thus vision clears in every battle won  
Each victory reveals the One in One  
No foeman now where union shines revealed  
As warring thoughts and clamors all are healed

So stay the course when gales of fury gust  
Know trials make in time the mind robust  
And enemies may prove the self’s best friend  
Their venom curing what they would offend

Be then a sea of patience, ebb nor flow  
Come storm or shine, stay tranquil, balanced, slow  
Winds die, crests crumble, tempests never last  
All dissipates before the sea so vast

The waves imagine they can stir the tide  
Yet never can its silent depths divide  
Stay one with depthless self and drink life’s fill  
While trifles spark and flutter as they will

So stand unshaken, sturdy as a hill  
Assailments wash away and leave no ill  
Their memory fades like tracks left in the sand  
While wisdom grows beneath understanding’s hand

Stay true, unvexed by all that would erode  
The sovereign self’s serene and safe abode  
Fear not, stay strong and obstacles will bend
As Truth shines forth and shadows find their end.