Burst Twenty Three (For the youth in you):
Hello Change!
Hello change, welcome inside my home of Truth. You are time, while my home is timelessness. Awareness is its name and its doors are open to all guests like emotions, thoughts and perceptions. There is much fun at this home where great plays – comedies and tragedies – are staged frequently, in its spacious halls and airy chambers. Relative truth and relative falsehood are always the hero and the villain here. And, change, you indeed are their flesh and bones. This home is their life.
Change, my friend, you have come again and again into this home – year after year, AS year after year. Now you are at my door as 2004, which is just another name of yours. But for you, my home is very silent. With your presence too, this home is just as silent; not all see it though.
Your nature is to sing and dance, to laugh and cry. You raise hue and cry over all issues, which are your own creations. You always made people believe that my roof would come down and my walls would collapse. Nothing happened so far; nothing can ever happen to my home.
You are time, space and causation. You are thought, memory, desire and fear. You seem to be everything. Actually you are nothing. You are just my shadow – multidimensional and many-hued.
Loving welcome to you. Come, entertain me with your magic.
O New Year, (I would not ask that serious question, “What is new?”), come on in. My home receives you in all friendship.
Swami Chidananda