T H E  C E L E S T I A L  F R A M E - BASE OF COSMIC CONSCOIUSNESS

The Pope tells Michael Angelo,
The Rose of Rome, not of Paradise,
The White Rose which our Tuscan Poet saw,
With the saints as petals !

And when the Rose was perfect,
Its hundred thousand petals were not saints,
But Senators in their Thessalian caps,
And all the roaring populace of Rome !

It is true that the great Italian Poet saw,
The Celestial Rose of Paradise !
Its heavenly petals were not mere petals,
But Sages immortalised by fame !

Same is the theme inscribed in the Gita,
That Great Scripture of the Philosophia Perennis,
When the aspirant achieves Cosmic Consciousness,
Seeing all in one Celestial Frame !

I see all Deities in Thy Celestial Body,
Also the diverse beings of the Universe,
Lords Brahma, Vishnu and Siva,
The Creator, Preserver and Destroyer & Sages.

पश्यामि देवांस्तव देव देहे सर्वांस्तथा भूतविशेषसङ्घान् ।
ब्रह्माणमीशं कमलासनस्थ-मृषींश्च सर्वानुरगांश्च दिव्यान् ॥ १५ ॥

Paśyāmi devāṁs tava deva dehe sarvāṁs tathā bhūta-viśeṣa-saṅghān
Brahmāṇam īśaṁ kamalāsana-stham ṛṣīṁś ca sarvān uragāṁś ca divyān

This verse is the game changer,
For the Scripture mighty,
It changeth nature of the dialogue,
From ordinary to mystical.

Sir Edwin Arnold wrote, So have I writ,
Its perennial wisdom here, its hidden Mystery.
For England, O our India,
As dear to me as She !