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b'Two Poems by His Holiness Guruji Swami Vishnudevanand Saraswati of Prayagraj~Allahabad (1904-1997), read by Rev. Dr. Swami Bhajanananda Saraswati. Guruji wrote these poems in 1978 sitting on a bench in Central Park in response to a devotee\'s question: "What is vairagya?" \\n\\xa0\\nADMONITION I \\nOh Son of Immortality! \\nYou are the Divine Dweller \\nYou have come here as a stranger and a traveler \\n\\xa0\\nIt is a domain of diversity and endless dilemma \\nLife is perpetually puzzling in its phenomena and panorama \\n\\xa0\\nHere there is always attractive and repulsive illusion \\nYou may play or struggle but be detached from delusion \\n\\xa0\\nThe life of sensuality is confused, deviated, and fallacious slavery \\nThe habit of mundane greediness is temptation and bad beggary \\n\\xa0\\nBe free from this changing farce and absurdity of duality \\nDon\'t be blindly absorbed in this transitory sensuality \\n\\xa0\\nThis mysterious dramatic stage is not your final goal \\nPlay dispassionately and finish your ordained role \\n\\xa0\\nGo to the background of plurality, quality, and quantity \\nKnow that Unity, Self-identity, and Inconceivable Divinity \\n\\xa0\\nThere is neither darkness or light or nothingness \\nBut Plenum, Superconsciousness, and Full Awareness \\n\\xa0\\nIt is not a mental conception, imagination or hallucination \\nBut Supersensuous Perception and Self-Realization \\n\\xa0\\nIt is the culmination of culture and the consummation of wisdom \\nIt is the life of emancipation and the Divine Freedom \\n\\xa0\\nADMONITION II \\nOh Dearest Soul, \\nRise from animality; cross the realm of humanity \\nTaste the Immortality and realize the Eternal Divinity \\n\\xa0\\nRefrain from ignorant sensuality; know your Self-Identity \\nDance in ecstasy in the the innermost field of felicity \\n\\xa0\\nGo beyond the changing pleasure and pain, timidity, and knavery \\nControl the stubborn mind and be free from empirical slavery \\n\\xa0\\nThrough the inner senses enjoy the innermost Light and Sound \\nTranscend this profane world; recognize the Provident Profound \\n\\xa0\\nInternal Existence is the embodiment of Peach, Bliss, and Wisdom \\nExternal perception is hallucination, delusion, and bad boredom \\n\\xa0\\nThe external force is the field of mysterious phantasmagoria \\nIt is a tantalizing puzzle spreading like infectious bacteria \\n\\xa0\\nHow wonderful is the Perennial Peace of Celestial Scenery \\nIs the fruit of Yogic Meditation and Spiritual Discovery \\n\\xa0\\nBe heedful and free from the live of corruption and pollution \\nRealize the Self and attain Everlasting Joy of Blissful Liberation \\n\\xa0\\nGo beyond good and evil, mind and speech, and the sensual bound \\nDive deep into the River of Rapture; reach the Divine Ground \\n\\xa0\\nIf you be desireless, in the nothingness you may find \\nThe Ubiquitous, All-knowing, the Superconscious mind \\n\\xa0\\nThe Self knows no anger, hate, nor enmity \\nSelf remains unchanged from infancy to maturity \\n\\xa0\\nHe is beyond space and time; He has no form or hue \\nHe is you whom you seek; He seeks all of you \\n\\xa0\\nHe is the Creator, Destroyer, and Inner Ruler \\nHe is the All-sustainer and Cosmic Controller'