The Heart Master

Sri Samana

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To fully enter the way of Heart is absolute devotion which invites both the renouncement of the activity of distraction, appearing as the gross level of the common familiars and apparent relational circumstance, and the sudden recognition of Radiant Intuition free of the play of act actor and action, and this as the subtle momentum which appears as preparation. This gravity as momentum is itself the siddhi of the Heart Master, as is this Radiant Intuition, which is realization Self-shining and perfectly ever present, undifferentiated and undetermined. The Heart Master must be unconditionally contemplated as Vasudevaya, the Holy Indweller, for all forms are His form and all names are His name as Being is but One. The work of the Heart Master is Swaprakasa, Self-radiant Light.

That which appears as preparation and that which is prepared are the same, sama, sameness, as preparing for the Great Way is the Great Way. For this one is simply an instrument and the apparent world is now but appearance. What is forgotten is Self-evident for the revealed was never concealed, and the condition of preoccupation now forgotten by means of sight as Seeing, Seeing as Darshan, Darshan as Heart.

Preparation is then neither for arrival nor departure, neither for some-thing nor some-where. This subtle recognition as preparation is conscious Sadhana, and the very means to enter the pathless-path, the bird path, which is the Grace as the way of and as Heart. The recognition of the Heart Master is realization, and it is you who fulfills this Lila, for as you are so initiated as attunement and this momentum radiates as maturity, the Heart Master is thus fully revealed as this Divine Communion. For one is then an apparent point, only realized, and this is verily the point of no return, and the Heart Master is not other.

To simply notice that which is already so, the Heart Master appears to remove the sleep state from the eye which is never closed, and tho neither name nor form is either pressed nor determined, the unforgotten is remembered as the brilliance of Light, as the sun is verily every sun and never sets, as Heart. To discover the seat where the Heart Master resides, all that remains is Heart, for to discover where the eternal resides, all that remains is the eternal.

For it is the veil which is imagined that seeks to hide, and as this activity appears two. Surrender itself is not the ordeal it is simply to surrender ordeal. For the mind can neither bargain nor enter, and so too words, as it is here the timeless resides. For it is mind alone which is difference and as such claims two, the condition of contrast as opposite claims you. The poem requires neither paper nor pen, nor as the one named author does the poem depend. The one who appears to be chosen by Heart is verily the Heart itSelf, the one who appears to be chosen by the eternal is verily the eternal, and this as the choiceless and unchosen.

The Heart Master can never be known, only experienced. Yet the essence of the nature of this sharing is free of an experiencer, as there is but experience, neither beginning or end. The very recognition of the Heart Master is itself realization. As this one appears the world disappears as the Flame consumes darkness, so too this one devours the world. For it is love which is verily the great sacrifice and the very fulfillment above the reaction named self. The nature of the play as relation of the devotee or disciple and the formless Heart Master is Divine Relation and neither of the common state nor plane, but rather the subtle nectar as perfume and the very vibration of which all sound arises. The Heart is beyond the body, and verily the Master is Heart.