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Bow, arrow and target!

Bow, arrow and target!

Laden with the flowers of countless heavens

And bloomed petals of thousand lotuses

The ‘bow’ is OM

Expressed into countless names and forms

The individual Self, the ‘arrow’ is

And, the Inexpressible,

Inconceivable, Imperishable Brahman, the ‘target’ is

In the silence of witnessing and watchfulness

The ‘arrow’ should be pierced gently

And tenderly grounded

With the target hit, ‘arrow’ becomes the ‘target’

And gained is Oneness

(Poem from my personal diary kept in between the tranquil showers of Maandukya Upanishad and Guru Granth Sahib)

Dr Deepak Bijalwan 

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