08/29/2026
Sri Ramakrishna’s Secret
Form is here as a guide to that we seek.
But ice melts to water we cannot keep.
The trouble is our grasp so firm and tight.
We cannot keep God, try as we might.
The answer is to swim in the ocean of bliss.
But even words fail in explaining this.
For water doesn’t swim or float, you see
If you want to see God, you have to just be.
The ice is the form, the answer to prayer.
When you are alone, suddenly God is there.
When knowledge arrives, ice melts with the sun.
But don’t be dismayed or grieve your loved ones.
Your loved one is God as are you and me.
And God is still there all around, it’s the sea.
As form, God is love come to soothe, to teach.
Don’t seek after God always out of reach.
Just be as you are—possibilities.
You are the earth, a bird, the trees.
Form as ice melts away, now a limitless sea
The sun of knowledge sets the form free.
SLMS 8/29/26