Surely, you've been told,
a Goddess flows
through your darkness,
thirsting for love.
Don't seek, be drawn.
Wander and be found.
Learn to age the wine
of your longing
in an empty sepulcher.
Pour yourself wordlessly
into the cup of desolation.
A blossom doesn't open itself.
Something warm and soft falls
into it's ovule
from another world.
You have two centers:
one here, one there.
A single inhalation pierces them both.
Honor this piercing as a gift
and you will be the very garden
where thorns become blossoms,
every cell of your flesh
a grail of nectar.
The Hamsa swan
descends from ravenous stars
to settle on still waters
at dawn, and drink
from the ocean in your chest.
She sings, "I am."
You sing, "Thee."
This is the Mystery
of the Bridal Chamber.
Her wings are your
inbreath and outbreath.
This is why you have a body.
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NOTE: Ham'sa is the natural mantra of the breath, as expounded in the Upanishads and the exquisite Yoga text, Vijnana Bhairava. 'Hamsa' also means 'swan' in Sanskrit. Aham-Sa: I Am She, I Am One With God. This is the natural inner sound of what Kabir called 'the breath inside the breath.' Vijnana Bhairava states:श्रीभैरव उवाचऊर्ध्वे प्राणो ह्यधो जीवो विसर्गात्मा परोच्चरेत् ।उत्पत्तिद्वितयस्थाने भरणाद्भरिता स्थितिः ॥२४॥'
The supreme Goddess, or highest Śakti, who is the essence of creation, goes on expressing herself upward and downward in the form of exhalation and inhalation. When the mind rests in the point between breathing out and breath in, one perceives the source of all worlds.'सकारेण बहिर्याति हकारेण विशेत् पुनः।हंसहंसेत्यमुं मंत्रं जीवो जपति नित्यशः ॥१५५॥'The breath is exhaled with the sound sa and inhaled with the sound ha. Thus, the human body perpetually recites this mantra, haṁsaḥ.'
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