The Impulse

Awake! Awake! Yes i am;

Joy “O” Joy  a joy To see

The blooming in the flower

The expression in the baby’s cry

The initiative in the thief

The greed in the money maker

The hunger for power in the despot

Awake! Awake! Yes i am;

Joy “O” Joy  a joy To see

The voice in the paint

The praxis in the sculpture

The gravity in the river flow

The sun in the gust of wind

The primordial OM in the Sun’s Radiance

Awake! Awake! Yes i am;

Joy “O” Joy  a joy To see

The attraction between planets

The renewal in Shiva’s destruction

The deep growl of the diesel train engine

The eye sensing the spectrum

The I’s limiting stranglehold

Awake! Awake! Yes i am;

Joy “O” Joy  a joy To see

Jealousy & anger ruining relationships

The malice & rancor of belittling identities

The yearning for the beyond

The senses distracting

The spark rekindling togetherness

Awake! Awake! Yes i am;

Joy “O” Joy  a joy To see

The impulse gathering strength

Barriers fading

Service beckoning

To seek success in the other

To relish the other’s delight

Awake! Awake! Yes i am;

Joy “O” Joy  a joy To see

The very same Prana

In the urge for bodily Union

In the tasting of the tasty

In the doership of the act

In the creativity of art

In the ideation of the idea

In the drawing out of the I maker into the universal

Awake! Awake! Yes i am;

Joy “O” Joy  a joy To see

Allah’s breath that Iblees failed to bow to

In the Thomist coprincipalship residing in every heart

In the Guru Granth Sahib’s antaryami

In Garuda’s hooked beek  devouring the coiled serpent

In the wisdom of the tathagatha

In the Nivritti of the saragna

Awake! Awake! Yes i am;

Joy “O” Joy  a joy To see

The sole source manifest

The all mother express

As the soothing call of the koel

The pesky sting of the mosquito

The single monad diversify

The only root branch out

All beings propagate from the one

Awake! Awake! Yes i am;

Joy “O” Joy  a joy To see

The all encompassing life force

Behind the land,

The mountains, rivers and forests

The flora and fauna

The perceived, the perceiver and the perception

The event, the circumstance, the context

Behind the hero, the villain

The crime; the virtue

A locus without centre

The same sovereign in every separate heart

Awake! Awake! Yes i am;

Joy “O” Joy  a joy To see

The question arising, Is this IT?

The observer observing?

The mere witness? The Sakshi?

The resounding answer

Yes this joy is the joy

Of the impulse gathering speed

The observer observing!

---Gnaneshwar B.Pettukola