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Jnanakrishna (Mikhail Coffman)
"Man, Destiny, Eternity or Philosophy of the Grand Unity"
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Dedication
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…We must use all efforts to unite until we are alive, unite with virtue and mind,
because the award and the hope we nourish will be really great!
(PLATON. Fedon)
1.
Try to separate internal from external, delicate from rough with tranquility
and circumspection, caution of understanding, daring of knowledge.
(HERMES TRISMEGIST. Emerald tablet)
Blind can’t point the way to the blind,
Fool can’t make another fool clever,
Proud can only make flatterer proud,
Miser can’t make liar truthful.
Ambitious man can’t make the coward brave,
Flatterer can’t teach the boaster be humble,
Voluptuary can’t make the lazy work,
Liar can’t hold miser back from greed.
The sin of vanity can’t be avoided by wealth,
(The river can’t be stopped by the snow dam)
Chain of suffering can’t be broken by craftiness,
You will never scoop out the ocean of wishes
In fumes of wishes passion never fades,
Shackles of ignorance can’t be taken off by twaddle,
Happiness of health will take gluttony away,
Hot wind of bliss will dry up your mind.
Tight embrace of darkness can’t be broken by ignorance,
You can not find the joy of rest in dreams,
Seething chaos of feelings can’t be pacified by wishes,
Fearlessness of wisdom can’t be found in evil.
Revenge of Just Karma can’t be alleviated with entreaty,
Blindness of attachments can’t be cured with tears,
The burden of selfish ends can’t be lightened by words,
You can not cry with grief for weakness of your past deeds.
Prophetic power of death can’t be avoided by feebleness,
In silent abyss of time the fog of happiness fades,
Dark gulf of evil can’t be defeated by violence,
Firm chains of egoism can’t be dissected with steel blades.
16/VII – 4/IX – 1981
2.
…Where is the beginning of this circle and where is the end,
Where did we come from and where we will go from here?
…Look back at your self and think about Who you are,
where you are and where you will go afterwards?
(OMAR HAYAM. Rubayat)
How should we carry heavy burden of grief?
How should we overcome eternal retribution weight?
How to defeat the power of dark authority?
When will our doubts go away?
How should we break the ties of death with knowledge?
How to achieve unselfishness with disavowal?
How to save the light from verbal darkness?
How to grasp the radiance of Truth of Unity?
Why does the smoke of wishes curl in the fog of feelings?
Why does evil grow up from thirst for being?
Why does mirage of love streams from the passion fumes?
Where is the place to where ignorance is leading?
Who create uncountable patterns of Maya?
Where’s the beginning of endless chain of wishes?
What is the sense of primeval illusionary game?
Where is the end of ghostly pursuit of happiness?
Where is the base of aspiration for love?
Where is the limit of unquenchable thirst for suffering?
How ignorance shackles are forged?
Where does sages’ fear of death burn?
Which seed was the beginning of the world tree?
Where is the stream of formation direction?
What truth was hidden by the wish?
Where is the result of Eternity incarnation?
To what sacred aim does mind aspire?
Where does circulation of thoughts rush?
What magic flutes bewitch the spirit?
Who creates life destroying Death?
25/X – 1981 – 21/I – 1982
3.
To master thought and word, -
I praise you, Forefathers of all Existing,
Shiva and Parvati, united like thought and word!
(KALIDASA, Family Raghu)
Streaming from Eternity through Eternity into Eternity,
Carrying curtain of illusion from death to death,
By the river of wishes directed into infinity,
Flows changeable stream of ignorance.
In shoreless Eternal Ocean a thought is born,
Speech jingles in singing delight of bliss,
Darkness lies on Earth as a winged time,
In the unity of mind and speech life seethes.
Truth wears the cover of wish,
Depth of thoughts is hidden behind feelings,
Blindness is the base of blindness,
In the dark of passion word’s power can’t be seen.
The peace of knowledge’s in the bliss of dreams,
In gorge of feelings waterfall of thoughts coils,
In Eternity’s embrace the swarm of deeds spins,
In Truth’s oblivion cascade of words boils.
Prophetic Karma’s justice is inexorable,
Wish is completed by will, will is completed by deed,
Your own legacy is law of Revenge,
The Highest law that completes triune will.
Like beauty is the face of virtue,
Like purity are clothes of bliss,
Like simplicity is friend of wisdom,
Man’s essence is recreation of greatness.
The sense of greatness we can comprehend
By Quaternary Path of Highest Unity means,
The Light Yoga Quaternary Path,
The Path of Power, Knowledge, Love and unselfishness.
15/I – 116/IV – 1982
4.
POWER SONG
Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyakhara, Dkharana, Dkhiana,
Samadhi – the main organs of Yoga.(PATANJALI. Yoga-sutra, 11,29)
The highest distinction of man is persistence
in overcoming the insuperable obstacles. (LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEEN)
The mighty power of concentration,
Immeasurable power of concentrating mind,
Where thought is curbed by suffering of purification,
The power of spirit and steel of will can be recognized.
Not making harm, veracity and unlimited honesty,
Abstinence and not taking gifts,
Who is loyal to these goals wholly
Ready to go along the Highest Path of knowledge.
External and internal purity, satisfaction, self-curb,
Reading scripts, loyalty to the dreams,
When wish is directed to the Highest Essence,
Fear melts and appears firmness in problems.
Perseverance in corporal exercises,
Hardening will and taming will,
Where rules the Highest Essence,
Eternal Name is on everybody's lips.
The peace of light, evenness of breath,
Heat of sun and cold moonlight,
Where power is shined by the immensity of kindness,
Where thoughts and deeds unite.
Abstraction from external attention,
Purity of breath, control over feelings,
When looking inside yourself,
Vanity of thoughts disappears.
Staying on a thought of Highest Object,
Depth of thinking and Truth Shining,
Where concentration as a honey of knowledge,
Wisdom of Prophetic Yoga is arriving.
Flying to limit above our mind,
To heights of Spirit cheeky flight,
We find our heart in contemplating Truth,
There, power of death vanishes, decays.
Bliss of the unlimited rest,
Delight of uniting being with non-existence,
Where sacred Name rules completely,
We create the happiness of Highest Unity.
13/IV – 23/VIII – 1982.
5.
KNOWLEDGE SONG
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.
The light of knowledge will diffract the darkness of wishes,
Peace of thinking will solve your doubts,
Shining of mind will dispel ignorance,
Sparkling of wisdom will illuminate the knowledge world.
There’s no wisdom older in the ocean of knowledge,
Than gray Truth of Eternal Unity,
I exist in everyone but don’t belong,
All existing is united in me, with me.
You are Creator and Master of secret of being,
You are Eternal Destructor of Maya spells,
You breathe new life into world with the power of thinking,
Perception, will, creation are Man’s essence!
The secret sense of world is in you,
It’s you, who direct stream of destinies,
You are the driving force and wreath of universe,
Self-cognition is the end of Path.
You are the vital energy in infinite rhythm,
You are the center and beginning of all,
Wealth, glory, power are just foam in eternal ocean,
I am the ocean, that’s the highest knowledge and wisdom power.
You’ve shown time and place for all existing,
Your unselfish love warms the world,
You are Eternal Rational Felicity,
That is the highest sense of Unity and Released Light!
You are the palace of knowledge and wisdom keeper,
You covered the Truth with eternal death secret,
You are the Man, Creator, Guardian and Destructor,
That is the sense of essences and knowledge limit!
2 – 17/IX – 1982
6.
LOVE SONG
Love’s not time’s fool, though rose lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickles compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
(WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet 116)
Love makes austere calm,
Gives courage to the coward,
Enrich the stupid one with wit,
Brings happiness to lavish.
Doubts leave us in love,
Misfortune disappears in a flash,
Arrogant men calm down,
And kind one finds mine of happiness.
Love tame the obstinate,
Aspires ignoramus to knowledge,
Forbids the falsehood for a liar,
Promises pleasing rest for sage.
Love’s a reward for strong,
A shield of hope for the weak,
Love is a comfort for our mind,
Granite of firmness for belief.
Love can unite our hearts,
Seethes with breath in blood,
Destructs the cover of darkness
By its all-embracing light.
Warmed in the flame of love,
Defended by its armor shield,
Hymned world aspires to Eternity,
Cured by the love balsam.
Love is a driving force of creation,
Showing us wonderful dream of life,
Love is the Unity demonstration,
Unity is an Eternity Law.
4-11/X-1981
7.
IMMORTALITY SONG
So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,
And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.
(WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet 146)
With Karma-destiny we are entrained
Into circulation of events and things,
The fruits of our wishes must be drained
To continue deeds at the turn of days.
In row of flowing to Eternity creations
Our mind sows with lies the veil of Maya,
In ghost fog of wishes, words and decisions
Like happiness we value shaky stream of being.
The fear of death is in the isolation,
Because of dignity again we create the destiny mirage,
On wish of being suffering is founded,
With egoism we escape from Truth.
There are no feelings, happiness and bliss,
You can’t find rest in passion or in love,
You’ll find Greatness of a Spirit in total isolation,
You’ll find end of Path in total comprehension!
Arise from dreams, destroy the Karma chains,
Find with unselfishness the Truth inside your heart,
Crossing the wisdom path through time limits,
Feel immortality in you with wonderful sight!
Don’t be afraid of falling, don’t faint before grief,
The path is difficult and thorny, but you’ll see the light,
I am immortal – that’s your promise,
Comprehend humility and clean your mind!
Understand the Great Transition with knowledge,
Fly over thoughts, embracing limit with your mind,
The Yogis praise being of non-existence,
Inside the Truth by suffering inspired!
21-24/IX – 1982
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