Atmānanda- Laharī

  Shivam Shivam is the stillness of the inner mind, Shivam is the movement of the outer world. Shivam expresses through the five elements: as vast space that holds all things, as air that dances as life, as fire that hungers and shines, as water that journeys, as earth that steadies. Shivam sings as the sentient pulse in birds that stitch dawn with songs, in frogs that bead the night with rhythm, in creatures that wander by sun and by moon, in humans crowned with imagined thrones. Shivam rests as insentient rock Shivam is pure existence, Sat. Shivam shines as cosmic intelligence, Chit. Shivam is absolute happiness, Ananda. Shivam is the single undivided mass of awareness. Immanent in all, yet transcending all. Shivam cannot be seen or grasped. Shivam cannot be known by inference. Shivam cannot be enveloped by thought. Shivam cannot be communicated. Shivam cannot be described. Only when the movement of mind falls silent, in the depth of inner stillness, does Shivam reveal itself. Sh...