Poem: Chakras of Self
Contributed by :Dr. Balveer Sikh
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Chakras of Self
by Dr. Balveer Sikh
Introduction
The mind is often seen as one entity, but in truth it is a constellation; a crowd of voices shaped by memory, emotion, and conditioning. In my years of psychological practice and deep meditation, I have witnessed how these layers are not unified but scattered across time and identity. Yet they function as one through the illusion of ego.
This poem is a meditative journey inward, from the fragmented mind to the subtle body of energy and light. Drawing from the understanding of kundalini, where each chakra colors our experience, the rainbow here becomes a metaphor for how our identities and emotions arise from energy centers. At the deepest level of awareness, these distinctions dissolve into One.
May this reflection offer insight into the layered beauty and unity of our being.
Chakras of Self
Scattered;
In awareness and unconscious,
Thoughts, emotions,
Feelings;
Yet they act as one.
Look deeper:
See a crowd—
Young and old,
Stupid and wise,
Hurt and sad,
Happy and drunk,
Slow and fast.
Under one banner
They congregate:
The feeling of I, mine,
Me, self, and myself.
Deeper still—
Another flag,
Rarely displayed,
Rarely seen,
Fooling all.
Ego rides,
Yet hides.
Be still.
And in silence, see:
A million memories
And their agents,
A million feelings
And they say,
Floating in a flux,
All at once,
Never as one.
Many more looks,
Deeper and deeper,
And deeper still:
There is no mind,
Nor I, me, or ego,
But a soup of energy,
From top to toe—
A flood of light,
Floating as one.
Deeper still,
Awareness remains.
Ego splits
Into a rainbow—beautiful.
Every colour:
A center
For feeling,
For thought,
For memory.
Thoughts that spark emotion:
Just a blip
In the rainbow.
Pain and suffering:
The same.
The I, the self—
Just colours
In the purest light.
How do I stop the flux
And step from the soup
Of I, me, myself?
How does the rainbow
Return to its source?
How do all colours,
All centers,
Glow as one?
Into One.
