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Jnanakrishna (Mikhail Coffman)
"Man, Destiny, Eternity or Philosophy of the Grand Unity"
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Songs-Meditations
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FATUM
Can we let the first comer to know a secret?
Whom should I talk to about what I know?
My current situation surely will never let
The world to know core of my secret.
Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat.
Harvest is founded on sowing,
A coming moment now is born,
Consequence is hidden in reason,
And again the ties of time befall.
In daybreak darkness curls away,
In moment centuries and ages change,
Sunset comes towards new day,
And death is strengthened by chain of births.
The universe is full of wishes,
Our will is born in wishes,
Our will is followed by our deeds,
Our deeds are dawn of our life.
Where hate eternally is flaming,
Where anger, greed and passion boil,
Lies and improbity are reigning,
Fear, grief and death rule there.
Where light of good is always shining,
Where honesty and truth are friends,
Where generosity and passion fading,
Life, happiness and joy live together.
When your deeds are unselfish,
When your mind is tame
And your heart is cleansed with love
You’ll see the light of wisdom flame.
No fate can rule the Man,
He’s endowed with free will,
He can command his destiny
Born beautiful by Eternity wheel.
13-18/II – 1981
THE PATH
The sense of greatness we can grasp
By Quaternary Path of Highest Unity means,
The Yoga Light Quaternary Path,
The Path of Power, Knowledge, Love and unselfishness.
Excess and incontinence make
Illness, satiety and blindness,
From moderation people can obtain
Health, restraint and patience.
Gluttony and incontinence in eating
Lead to complete power of feelings,
If feelings are not kept in check,
Than passion begins its track.
The one who heap up wishes one on another,
For his own mind and body he is not a master,
He multiplies the suffering and agony,
And only darkness is his destiny.
If feelings are bridled and mind is pacified,
If higher than the body your thoughts can fly,
If the law of pure will commands,
Then mind in your heart ends.
The one who always shine with kindness,
The one who bring the stream of love into our world,
For him all living as for spring aspires,
And like the sun he is revered by everyone.
The one who throw away the egoism chains,
Who praise unselfishness in men,
Is free from retribution shackles,
He overcame the power of death.
The one who see the essence with the knowledge eye,
Who cross Eternity with shining mind,
The Path of Unity is his reward
He finds us all inside himself.
20-24/II – 1981
TO LIGHT
Not making harm, honesty, not appropriating other’s,
abstinence and not taking gifts is called Yama.
Internal and external purification, contentment, self-curb,
learning and worship Ishvara form Niyama.
PATANJALI. Yoga-Sutra, 11,30;32
If kindness takes its home inside you,
If all existing embraces your heart,
If never and nowhere no harm you do,
Your existence destructs enmity.
Who hit lies with frankness
And understand the grandeur of truth,
His path is path of honesty
And his words acquire power.
His thoughts and words are true,
His deeds are always right.
Never taking other’s is his rule
And he will get the wealth and might.
The one who dispel the error by knowledge,
Who tame his feelings with purity
And dissipate passion with abstinence
The spring of light power gushes out in him.
Inside him generosity shines,
He knows the joy of renunciation,
And all the presents he declines,
He used to go beyond the time.
Who beat himself on his own
And who is dressed in purity,
Whose body is pure the same as soul,
He overcame outrage of flesh.
Who beat awakening of path,
Whose soul is getting close to Truth,
Who’s satisfied with every day
Achieves the highest happiness.
Who come to knowledge through abstinence,
Who get his purity through suffering,
He builds his bridges over distance
And through self-curb he finds himself.
Who tirelessly use to think,
Who know the secrets of prophetic books,
Who understand what sages speak,
To him Parvati shows her image.
Who understand Yoga Light Truth,
Inside whom plays the higher music,
Who give to people his entire boost,
He is together with sacred Shambhala.
27/II – 8/III – 1981
IN DARKNESS
People constantly and undoubtedly make sure,
that transient can’t satisfy them. (SRI SHANKARA ACHARIA)
Wise man serves to internal, not external. (LAO CZY)
Who find his aim in corporal pleasures,
Who’s searching for bliss here and there,
He’s looking for eternal in finite measures,
His path is made of sufferings and despair.
The one who keep up an acquaintance with whoever
And not at all fussy in eating and drinking,
Who make disorderly life a system whatever,
He always craves like he is sleeping.
Who wants to soothe the flame of passion,
Who endeavors to extinguish a fire with a gas mixture,
Who wants to exhaust his feelings with wishes,
In his own shadow he finds us all w tries to hide from heat.
Who spends his life in useless twaddle,
Who buries thoughts in flow of words,
His precepts all around he squanders,
He’s not sometimes happy with himself.
Who looks for popularity and values glory,
Who is overwhelmed by conceit
And who forgets the world of calm in honors,
He sows envy soil with pride.
Who dreams of perishable riches,
Who glows with passion for hoarding,
Who burns his soul with greediness,
He saves up ashes with smoke stinking.
Who wants to poison himself with power,
Who is intoxicated with false glorification,
Who wants to drink the flattery treacle,
Prefer a poor substitute to grandeur.
10/III – 15/III – 1981.
SHADOW OF ETERNITY
…I say: there is nothing constant in the world,
Everything changes and every new look is shaky.
Time is always running out,
Like a river; rivers and hours can not stop…
Time consumes everything.
(PUBLIY OVIDIY NAZON.
Metamorphosis. XV,177-181,234.)
You are an incessant destroyer
And creator at the same time.
You are time – the almighty healer,
An infant, youth and old man at once.
Like Truth is tasted in destiny
All existing is created in you,
In you life flows with rain
And disappears inside you too.
You are the ringing of spring streams,
You are the summer drone of bees,
You are the limpid grief of autumn distance
And silver shroud of winter over the Earth.
You are the truth of day and triumph of light,
The dark of night and grief of ignorance,
Immortal knowledge and bliss identity,
The dark of ignorance and the suffering reason.
You are the boarder of ghost illusion in magic dream,
An always melting mirage of foggy reveries,
An arachnidan haze of happiness in the sheet lightning,
You are the purity from the ocean of tears.
You are the empty infinity of corollaries and reasons,
You are the row of revenge and a swallow of wishes,
You are the momentary Eternity lappet,
An impetuous stream of formation.
Your image is year, the basis of the universe,
Your source is sun, the owner of light,
Your look is the sacred daybreak smile,
Your basis is the food for death and life.
17-20/III – 1981.
TIES OF TIME
Harvest is founded on sowing,
A coming moment now is born,
In reason consequence is hidden,
And again the ties of time befall.
Like seed is a reason and essence of fruit,
Present is sang in the past,
Like a picture in artist’s plan,
Present is sowing of the future.
Like a water stream flows down the mountain,
Like years cling to the row of moments,
Wishes maintain in endless chain,
Inexorable Karma knout is power of death.
Like a river stream flows ahead,
Like impetuous seconds run forward,
Like wave tears along to the bank,
The boomerang of deeds ekes us through Eternity out.
The one who’s got into the past,
Can understand the essence of the present,
Who understands the sense of present,
Holds the key to the future.
Who separates himself from an ocean of being,
Who carries the burden of duality through the dark,
Who segregates a drop from the water,
He will find the hard way of ignorance.
Who understands the Truth of Unity,
Who does not quail before non-existence,
Dispels the Maya’s shaky spells,
And owns the eternal secret of death.
Who finds sense of life in perception,
Who defends from self-interest with renunciation,
Whose eyes look in unknown direction,
Is lightened by the shining of wisdom.
27/III – 3/IV – 1981.
PURIFICATION
What dreams may come for in that sleep of death
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil?
(WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet)
Only blowing out passion and pacifying thoughts,
Looking inside, not outside,
Only placing our minds inside hearts by knowledge,
We can find the palace of Truth inside us.
Hearing the prophetic voice of heart in silence,
Seeing the light of love with knowledge eyes,
Understanding the bewitching future tunes,
We can find the gift inside us bequeathed to wise.
If we have once tasted bliss of disavowal
And praise the Grand Unity
Dissolving ourselves in love and all eternal
We create our being and soar to the limit.
From the dark of passions to the light of knowledge,
Gathering good from abstention,
To clean ourselves from evil through self-curb we urge,
We clinging to the Truth sing the praises of Yoga.
We curb our mind and flesh,
We comprehend our nature by heart,
We look in concentration depths,
We drink eternity and bliss in contemplation.
Drowning in silent rest of Yoga,
And getting power from self-curb,
Defended by asceticism’s armor,
We making will tough strengthen our spirit.
When hearts fly high over the stars,
When cleansing minds in awful tortures,
We bow before the Man to give regards,
We sow happiness and take off discords.
Take off the shackles of ignorance,
Through thinking take off all your doubts,
Reject the power of death
And understand the sense of life and feel the immortality.
Leave the petty anxiety alone,
Achieve the heights available to mind,
Perceive the daring fly to liberation,
You will find Eternal Song in ages.
Take off mistakes and evil,
Take off the burden of attachments
Take off Maya delusion and weakness,
We’ll find our way, complete the God’s assignments.
We smell the immortality aroma,
Provide ourselves with unlimited patience,
We taste with knowledge food for thought,
We bring the light of good and shining meekness.
We wash ourselves with suffering in font,
Direct out minds to worthy goal,
Defend from evil with the dispassionateness shield,
We will unite with Shambhala and we’ll defeat Maya.
To clean your thoughts and tame your wishes,
Destroy confusion of your feelings with impassivity,
To find the unflinching peace in knowledge,
You’ll come to wisdom and subdue yourself.
When secret sense of Unity is understood,
Self-cognition takes away the dark and fears,
When greatness treasure’s found inside you,
We overcome the limit disseminating evil into ashes.
21/V – 14/VII – 1981.
SONG ABOUT SHAMBALA*
All help you need is inside you.
Endless future is ahead you. Create your future.
(SVAMI VIVEKANANDA. Cosmos, 11. Microcosmos)
You are fighting against frantic storms,
You are impetuous flight of blue lightning,
You are the burning of the sacred flames
And inspired flight to the Truth of Unity.
You are the sweetness of bright kindness,
You are the spring of crystal honesty,
The insuperability of truth and effulgence of happiness,
You are abstention, generosity and knowledge lunar image.
You are the happiness of shining purity,
You are the loyalty light and comfort for the soul,
Curb power and disavowal sanctity,
You are the secret mantras’** and Eternity keyhole.
You are the wisdom cresset, concentration power,
The lighthouse of the all-embracing love,
You are immortal Truth and the immensity of blooming,
You are the victim of unselfishness that can be found high above.
You are perfection Path and world defender,
Your nature is the light of sun,
You master is the Greatest Shiva, Prophetic Yogi’s Patron,
Who burns your ignorance with suffering.
You are the Highest Sense of being, the Release,
You are the ocean of the spirit and a spring of being,
You are the honored Master’s wise patience,
You are the happiness of learning, the Truth’s main meaning.
You are infinity of mind and endlessness of thought,
You are the secrecy of Highest Knowledge, Eternal rest,
You are the inmost Yoga country, immensity of wisdom
And the sacred face of Man, the life’s crest.
23/XI – 8/III – 1982
*Shambhala – according to ancient Asian nations’ belief
is mythic inmost abode of Great Yogis,
Highest Sages and Eternal Teachers of Mankind.
**Mantras – sages’ Speeches, sacred formulations,
which have some magic attributes,
according to Indian teaching.
KARMA
...He achieves his destiny according to his deeds,
his deeds depend upon his will,
his will depends upon his wishes.
(Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, IV,4,5)
The daybreak burns with knowledge immortality,
The sunset shines in night of wishes,
Man brings the death’s secret into eternity,
Sun of Truth contains the Game delight.
The Unity of being is the triumph of light,
The scales of good and evil truth shows,
Everything is good that can unite,
Evil is all that disjoins.
The Unity of being is world’s essence,
The one is wise who lives embodying the unity,
Creating good creates himself in others,
And burning evil inside for his own purity.
The one is wise who had found immortality in himself,
Who always shines with the purity of unselfishness,
Who builds the lighthouse on the Path with all-embracing love,
Diffused the dark of ignorance with Higher Knowledge.
Nature directs its eternal dance to you,
Your wish creates the universe,
You are the King of Nature, God and Master,
But you must reap the fruits of wishes!
Like sculptor works with chisel,
Like artist accomplishes his idea,
Man is Master and Creator of his destiny,
In our deeds we create our future!
Again and again centuries cross the eternity,
Again and again the ocean of desires waves,
Again and again galaxies pass through the sunshine,
Again and again human beings fill their minds with a radiance of glory!
2/I – 4/III – 1983.
GRAND UNITY
Tat tvam asi.*
…Indeed it’s just the thing. Everything is everywhere.
Only the one who sees difference here walks from death to death.
...This is that, – this is how the highest bliss is supposed to be...
(Katha Upanishad, 11,1,9-10;11,2,14.)
The “I” is hidden in Uniting,
Not in passion or isolation,
Not in endless silly chatting,
The sense of being is the Grand Unity song!
Creating is completed by united life power,
The united ocean of mind agitates thinking,
Universe is strengthened by the unity of forms,
In Eternal Hymn “I am” we’re singing.
I am – this is the ancient symbol of secrecy of being,
I am – this is the beginning and the end of illusion spells,
I am – this is the secret sense of Fulfillment,
Master’s and Creator’s shining wreath.
I am the immense ocean of mind, infinity of space,
I am the wave of thoughts, seething surf of feelings,
I am the Man, gray-haired Eternity of life and death,
Creating immortality with fire of sacred love.
I am the Man, Master and Keeper of Highest Unity of worlds,
I am the Man, who disdained death of the Eternal Karma law,
I am the Man, I create and destruct Maya charming words,
I saw the essence of imperishable death’s secret.
Impassivity of wisdom is the Highest Knowledge Light,
The greatness of the spirit is the basis of the world,
Fire of all-embracing love is wisdom vow,
With suffering the wishes shackles it burns!
In Unity you’ll find your own immortal essence,
The Unity of Being is the Truth’s realization,
Feel the Unity inside to see the end of your own Path,
That’s the end of lives and deaths, the knowledge completion!
12/III – 11/IV – 1983.
*This means – You are That – the main phrase of the Vedanta philosophy,
one of six orthodox philosophical systems in India.
ETERNAL PATH
We’ve said about sense of being a great deal,
But I still want to tell you, my friends:
Life is the main goal of life, and life is Eternal Wheel,
The Path, where you should close the beginning with the end.
Mysterious limit of charming game
Is covered by the wish’s foggy veil,
Covered by thoughts, feelings, passions and deeds,
Time flows away as an incessant river.
Millenniums and centuries drift as oblivion carpet,
Momentary dreams flow in endless row,
It seems that we are not free to choose our fate,
It seems that it’s not you who cast the die of fate.
Find a secret spring of power in yourself,
Find your rest in cognition of Eternal Truth,
Unite with impassivity of Higher Wisdom,
Light up the path of people with all-embracing love!
Remember ancient wisdom shining precept:
The one can’t die if he doesn’t rot,
Only unselfishness of sun will never fade,
Life, will, knowledge and Truth will never stop!
Direct your Path to knowledge heights,
Let light of Truth disseminate the dark of wishes,
Let Truth begin to shine in night of ignorance,
Truth is the Unity of world that shines in knowledge!
Find in yourself Almighty Lord,
You are Creator and Destructor at the same time,
Who sees all paths and secrets of the future,
You’ll find your dreams in Highest Unity.
3-8/IX – 1983.
THE GREAT TRANSITION
...Hesitation (appears) after man’s death – someone (say:)
he is, - others: he doesn’t exist.
Yes, I recognize it, taught by you…
Death, tell us about what we doubt about,
what is (enclosed) in the great transition...
(Katha Upanishad, 1.1.20;1.1.29)
Eternal game of cosmic origins
In depths of mind is placed by wish,
The thinking rest is the pedestal of will,
Our being is managed by the highest Karma law.
From death to death weakness wanders,
Tired by eternal grief – satellite of destiny,
Through lies and anger, passion and violence,
In night of ignorance it’s death whom we afraid.
World of events flows as a mirror mirage,
The silence ocean breathes with Eternity,
The mirror melts and your reflection disappears,
Immutable is essence – the beginning of onset.
Isolation is like sunny non-existence dream,
Quaint pattern of dream plaits destiny thread,
Time slides through dreams like silent shadow of Eternity,
Years, centuries and moments are shined by reveries.
Transience of wishes is full of thoughts,
Ocean of immortality foams with bliss of game,
Insouciance of life like premature river flows,
With wisdom shining the world pattern is woven.
Finding Truth inside yourself is Uniting with world,
The light of love and power is united in Highest Wisdom,
What is prophetic death’s secret? What is the knowledge vow?
What is the spring of joy? It’s hidden in Immortality!
Where in immortality Eternal Truths’ hope is,
Where in the power of unselfishness the spring of love rings,
Where in happiness of Cognition is the moment of millenniums,
Life crowns life, and suffering is swallowed by the sufferings!
4/X – 1983. – 27/III – 1984.
SAGE
…What is open through me, what will be, was and is now,
songs and strings conform through me.
(PUBLIY OVIDIY NAZON. Metamorphosis, 1, 317-318)
…I worship Truth, the best of beliefs. (IBN SINA)
Untimely sage, ever-existing King,
Who drank nectar of suffering from wisdom cup,
You are the Truth’s abode, Eternal singer,
Who creates the brotherhood of light knights!
Wise Yadnavalkya and frantic Beethoven,
Saint Francis Assizkiy and frantic Hindu*,
Your proud spirit is free from self-esteem and evil,
You unite knowledge and will into firm alliance!
Charming Shakespeare and legendary Patanjali,
Singing Ibn Sina and young Shankara forever,
You travel through centuries under the star marquees,
Burning time in flame of magic bonfire!
Omniscient Omar Khayyam and genius Leonardo,
Invincible David and bright Lao Czy,
Mysterious Hermes*, Badarayana, Kalidasa,
Alexandrine Clement, and Plato, and Heraclitus!
The Master of Light Yoga, Creator, Destructor,
Connecting centuries without passion.
You take away evil, Sacred Warrior,
A Wizard of knowledge, word and consonance!
A Teacher for the Teachers, Creator of geniuses,
Herald of the Unity of world of Highest Truth,
You are Man’s essence and wreath of existing,
Creator of Eternal Song of Wisdom!
Looking into dumb distance of time,
Understanding sense of essence and limits,
Crushing ignorance, burning the dream of Maya,
You are the Path, the Aim, brave pilot of light!
3-19/IV – 1984.
*Frantic Hindu – Swami Vivekananda was called so in America.
*Mysterious Hermes – Hermes Trismegist.
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