The meaning is not yet clear,
it is still obscure.
I travelled quite a journey
to find that meaning,
but only smoke touched my sense.
Here and there,
it showed some signs.
In many moments of darkness,
Inexplicable events happened
when I had lost all hope.
Sometimes,
even before distress could knock
at my door,
the meaning showed its way
and steered me away
from thorns that could prick.
We have not yet grown our minds
to understand it.
Lots of visions failed,
missions abandoned
from below earth to the stars,
seclusion in deep mountains,
penance observed knowingly and unknowingly,
exposing self to utter distress,
traversing long and winding ways on foot,
keeping stomach on wait,
waking up at dead hours of night,
reciting hymns not understood,
and continues…
Some people did get something
but not the meaning
which they never sought as well
as that was not the goal.
In the realm of consciousness
that’s called life,
pleasures, materials, achievements,
health, fame, money,
more important than the meaning
and running after is critical.
An impartial and impractical mind needed
to reach the improbable,
a mind with no impressions of the world,
pure and sublime, to which
the meaning still eludes itself,
fraction by fraction it reveals
and then happens the unthinkable -
An enlightened heart takes birth
who tries to explain
and lead them to the meaning,
but followers only have
problems to solve.
So the meaning remains elusive
and my search continues…