Self is everywhere

 Self is everywhere, shining forth from all beings,

vaster than the vast, subtler than the most subtle,

unreachable, yet nearer than breath, than heartbeat.

Eye cannot see it, ear cannot hear it nor tongue

utter it; only in deep absorption can the mind,

grown pure and silent, merge with the formless truth.

As soon as you find it, you are free; you have found yourself;

you have solved the great riddle; your heart forever is at peace.

Whole, you enter the Whole. Your personal self

returns to its radiant, intimate, deathless source.

Mundaka Upanishad

Oh my, these words are to me like a psalm or prayer which refracts so many glimmering truths as a prism in light. 

“As soon as you find it, you are free; you have found yourself;/you have solved the great riddle; your heart forever is at peace.” This is the particle upon which I rest today as “freedom” feels suddenly and slowly approaching. While I may never arrive, I am confident of revelations and beckoning.

Perhaps all of this journey is a search for the true self, abandoning the false one, the egoic one, like the peeled leaves of an artichoke. And, even more perhaps, is the notion that self, like the Divine, is everywhere “shining forth”. 

Transcendent radiance is the unifying eternal hope.