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DR. TOM STANKS

The Upanishads





One with the divine,
I myself am That.
Who can say more?

Yet more needs said,
Words piercing heaven
Water the earth.

Caught in ecstasy,
     direct experience absorbing the witness
     into One without another,

Where knower, known and knowing are one,
     and God and Self are Same,
     all that can be uttered is:
     "Unspeakable."

Once returned
     from the Himalayas of the soul--
     supreme consciousness and liberation--
     the sage knows no exclusion.

All is illusion
     that does not last,
     for he has met
     the One and Only.

Yet the traveler
     lives in both worlds,
      knowing God is not this nor that
     but goal and ground,
     moving as us
     to transform His One Form into many,

The Immutable living in the changing.

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