Prem Rawat Unrehearsed Poetry: The Permanent

This life has come and it will go.
Its quick.
A batting of an eye
and the universe changes.
Nothing stays the same.
Birth is happening; death is happening.
Coming and going is happening.
All is in motion.
Changes are everywhere-change, change, change.
Our bodies are changing every day.
And the force of life
is coming into us and going, pulsing through our existence.
Even when no part of our body
is moving,
breath is coming and going-
in its magnificence, in its stillness,
in its simplicity
And our life is afoot.
Every day that goes by takes a toll.
Every day we age
and two things happen.
One: We inch closer to the unavoidable.
And two: A gift is given to us.
I remind people
that life is the most beautiful thing.
When we can embrace life, everything falls into place.
Every day
we can accept a new day as it comes because that new day is packed with the possibility of fulfillment.
Everything that is happening is taking
place in this moment called now.
We believe in tomorrow.
We live for tomorrow.
But tomorrow never comes.
Why?
Because whenever tomorrow decides to come, it becomes now.
It becomes today.
However long we live,
we will always be stuck in now.
We will never see tomorrow, and we will never see yesterday.
It is a physical impossibility.
We exist in this moment called now, but we recognize it the least.
We have no idea where we are.
We can be very comfortable in the now if we don't try to paint tomorrow, and we don't try to paint yesterday.
Here, in the now,
life is dancing a beautiful dance
in awe of the magnificent,
yet simple,
beauty of existence.
When I was born, even though
I hadn't yet been given a name,
I was still alive.
No one knew what to call me.
There I was,
and breath was coming into me.
And in my own little way, I was welcoming it.
Now here I am, and people want
to look at my accomplishments.
Well, there will always be someone who
will do something
better than I do.
I am transient, not permanent.
But the permanent is within me, as it is in everyone.
And in this journey,
if I didn't get to see anything else but
the one that is within,
I would be happy.
It would be worth having come here.

Maharaji