Self-forgetfulness

Self-forgetfulness

August 2014

By Life Positive

A wonderful poem by Rabindranath Tagore, telling us the benefits of forgetting ourself as we perceive us to be.   This teaches us many lessons of life and entrances us also.

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My sweetest Lord Supreme, Is self-forgetfulness

A divine blessing Or An animal curse?

‘Self-forgetfulness can never be

A curse.

It can only be

A sad experience

In a seeker’s ever running and

Transcending journey

To the Beyond.

The self-forgetfulness of puny ‘i’

Is a blessing supreme indeed,

As the self-remembrance of the

giant ‘I’

Is an unparalleled blessing

On the seeker’s march along

the path

Of reality’s space.

Forget the sad and the saddening past;

Remember the illumining

and the illumined present.

Accellerate the birth and the life-flow

Of the fast-approaching future-noon.

Before the dawn of realisation-height,

Self-forgetfulness at times saves

The seeker’s inner sky

And outer moon.

After the birth of realisation-height,

Self-forgetfulness in the heart

Of a Master divine

Is the zenith of impossibility

remote.’

– Rabindranath Tagore