Within This Body Poem by Prabir Gayen

- Within the body-

Within this body the vast ocean,
Waves upon waves the sound dements.
Within this bodythe rivers brooks and bourns,
With diverse drift do they flow.
With rhythm the day and night
the body moves,
The movement is delusion to mortal eye.
The sky and the heavenly bodies
the light and shadow,
Within this body the entire cosmos still and knows.
The Sun -rise andsun -set happen within this body,
The Moon bright and dark among stars within this body.
Within this body the sky is empty,
And space is filled with useless activity.
Down the ages the body flows,
And nowhere does it find the way to go.
Body meets body and branches spread,
The root is underground where no ground is found.
Within this body the Essence sprouts,
And the essential is whelmed to rest in root.
The root is without root and infinity,
Within this body the infinity doth dwell.
Within this body the disembodied lives.
No living is there as it is non-living Being.
Time to time the seers peep,
From outer surface to inner space.
Living is the root to find the root,
Living is too tiny to hold the room.
Within this body the sun and the moon,
the day and the night doth dwell in a room.
The mirror within the mirror,
And beyond mirror is the Master.
Scriptures come and go,
with new road to show.
Words upon words and heaps of lex and jus,
Within the body everything lives.
Within the body the without is found,
No way is the way to be in without.
From having to being is the root,
Road itself is the root and infinity is the room.
Within this body the purity lives,
Beauty is the song to be lost in,
Beyond the border of mind the sun shines,
The sun of knowledge to be at home.
Within the body lives the Heaven,
Sky within sky and love within Love.
Dreams good or bad sweet and sour,
Sleep sound or shallow drop to naught.
With the ceasing of the music of dream,
Sleep and knowledge,
Ultimate freedom winks from every pore.
From all the sides and cores,
Divinity awakens to embrace theshore.
Within the body freedom lives,
With losing all the manners and meekness,
With innocence like an infant one Embraces oneself.
Shore breaks and dissolves into the ocean.
Within the body the without reigns,
Without the body the ultimate is attained.