Silence is a Refuge

                 --Yogi Ananda Viraj

 

Silently a yogi sits,

stands, walks, and talks—

for the silence pervades

them all.

 

The other incarnates

the yogi’s silence.

as we meet, greet, and talk

with the silence

behind suppositions

of otherness.

 

We move, breathe, and live

silence—always present

if we but turn to it and have faith

in it its formless tranquility.

 

Silence is not simply there;

it makes all places possible.

Music is the mathematics

of silence, thinking is

its expression, and 

conversation its distribution.

 

All things are possible in and

because of silence, no mere

absence but a profound presence.

 

All things originate and vanish

in its embrace. 

 Take refuge in Om-nipresent

Silence—it will always be there, waiting

in its translucent sentience.