IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY BELOVED DAD WHO LIVES THROUGH ME AND MY SIBLINGS

Hello, Dear Parent Friends of the Web! 

Here is a touch of my wisdom… to make a difference in the tapestry of life. 

Remembering My Dad, My Hero⏤Regal,

 Humble at Heart, and Lovingly Kind!

Thirty-three years ago

On this day of July 28, 1986

A Comfortless emptiness 

Pervaded my heart 
Seeing my precious and loving dad depart 
Waking me to the eerie knock on my soul, alas!

An unprecedented and uncanny darkness

Took over my mind

Never to be the same vivacious spirit

I have known of myself

Since the very inception of my life

A million tears shed

Mourning over my loss

Sobbing helplessly and hopelessly

Never brought solace, that lasts!

My life’s course changed forever

Aspiring to probe

Into the mystery of ‘being’ and ‘non-being’

So I may find the root of my soul

Through unfolding eternal time

Day after day

Vigor and valor held the rhythm 

Of my inner motivation

Propelled by intuition 

In search of TRUTH, the answer

Where is my dear one?

Seemingly gone, forever

Yet, there is a mystery

To be uncovered

Beyond mundane fervor

The river of my life

Courses through the space-time dimension

Surging across the bends, twists, bumps, and curves

Of many revelations

The river’s contents are replenished

From one moment, to the next

In accordance with the nature⏤of the perceiving mindset

From mental turbidity to clarity

The river brings the promise of crystallized TRUTH

My beloved father, I now know

Neither came, nor went! 

For I realize I have been caught, mistakenly

Between birth and death

Trapped in the illusion of ‘SELF’ 

And what belongs to SELF

Though the REALITY is far deeper 

Than the myth—called SELF

The TRUTH prevails, unfailingly

Since all beings are the modulations

Of ONE LOVE—unconditional

Devoid of attachment—to changing appearances!

Birth and death are just surreal manifestations

Until SELF is dispelled

With calm abiding and investigative attention

MIND—undifferentiated—the OCEAN

Of omniscience⏤infinite! 
Mind⏤differentiated⏤of manifest 

Multiplicity and Diversity

Of phenomenal revolutions

By sensory perception⏤finite

MIND—the OCEAN⏤the dancer,  
Ruffled and stirred

In response to the 'winds of KARMA'⏤or 'objectivity'

Spurred by sensory perception 
Of 'apprehender'⏤'apprehended' duality

Setting off waves of mentality

Upon the surface of the MIND OCEAN⏤of magnanimity!

Waves of multiplicity⏤

In diversity of appearance

Merging into one another

Across the causal field of relativity and mutuality

Interdependence⏤the precursor, of every phenomenon! 

All in the ONE, and ONE in the All

Is TRUTH and REVELATION 

From the purview of insightful intelligence!

My attachments—called by many names

Are the waves upon the MIND OCEAN—as processes of ‘being’

Evolving while conditions are present
By the power of attraction

And dissolving when conditions are absent

Until I wake up from the long night of SAMSARA

While it is more than three decades

Since my beloved dad’s passing,

And nearly two decades 

Since my wondrous mom’s passing

I no longer mourn, in vain

But celebrate their presence in me, and my siblings

Not forgetting, our off-spring!

This is where I am, today

Coursing through a higher level of vibration

Than what I have been, yesterday!

Attempting to soar higher⏤through contemplation

This is the only way to liberation!

For while I remain bobbing atop the OCEAN —in SAMSARA

My attachments are far from being dispelled 
Yet, I live in the light of TRUTH

That my parents never really went away!

Let me walk you along the path of peace and grace. 

Humanity cries out loud for help.