If I took away your worries and fears
If I took away your anger and judgments
If I took away your greed and jealousy
If I took away your cravings and clinging
If I took away your aversions and resistance
What will remain?
Pause and feel this!
What really remains?
If I took away the sense of lack
If I took away the barriers to love
If I took away the roadblocks to health
If I took away the causes of stress
If I took away the ground of suffering
What will remain?
Pause and feel this!
What really remains?
If the sense of limitations falls
If gratitude overflows
If incessant thinking stops
If stillness in body deepens
If attention comes to rest
What will remain?
Pause and feel this!
What really remains?
If the sense of identity parts
If otherness falls
If separateness disappears
What will remain?
What, if anything, can you say
About what remains?
What would you be
Without all these overlays
Of body-mind?
What would you be
Without the personal identity?
Don’t think and tell me
Rather, be this as it is! Wholly!
What really remains?
Love
Sundar.
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Find who you really are in direct experience. The book, “Awaken: An Experiential Exploration of Enlightenment” presents a guided form of Self-Inquiry, a direct path to Self-Realization.