BEYOND THE SCREEN TO INFINITY
a celebration of the arrival Of Meher Baba's
DISCOURSES on the Internet June 17, 2004
(that website is http://www.discoursesbymeherbaba.org)
I
In the garish 1971 Chicago night
He waited in line to climb
Onto a fume-breathing Greyhound
For the ride to New York City.
He felt nothing garish.
Scarcely aware of bus exhaust
Or the motley human column
He focused on the pages
Of a paperback with a sky-blue cover.
He was in Paradise. Twenty-two years
He had waited for these secrets,
Having had to lose all including
Sanity before being able
To appreciate that living
Is not automatic,
That there ARE secrets
For storing up gold
In one's Spirit-account
Rather than squandering
The capital one was born with
And going bankrupt.
The outside world did not exist,
There was only his consciousness
Burning onto each page
As that page revealed the essence
Of the very world outside,
So beautiful and cruel.
II
Instead of busses now
I travel mostly by computer.
This morning those same pages
Leapt onto my screen.
Reading "The Life of the Spirit",
I felt the words lead
Beyond the monitor
Back to that Place
Where everything else disappeared
As the Master dictated
Through His sky-blue book
What is real and what is illusion,
How to look for Him in the midst of living
And how to keep Him in my heart.
I bow to His Words flashing
Out of the darkness onto our screens:
Bit by bit, Humanity will receive its Blessing.
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A link to Walt Whitman's poem, "Passage To India",
published in 1871 to celebrate a previous "mystical",
electronic connect-up of the world,after telegraph
cables made quick, global communication possible for
the first time.
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