A Familiar Sound

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A familiar sound,

that can’t be placed:

this body’s name.

Its life-story,

the forgotten trajectory

of this impersonal life form.

Perfection of form and time,

immortality and transcendence,

are unremarkable and innate

qualities of the unborn.

Countless serpents of desire:

coils of prarabdha,

continuums of consciousness,

entangled in form-identity,

seeking to re-experience

must surrender to eternal newness.

As societies prosper,

the order of natural needs,

gives way to aimless unconscious personal desires,

and the ever-evolving conscious unity of life collapses

into the discord of thousands of unconscious endless cycles of desire,

that entrapping thousands of souls and wasting nature’s bounty in a