This poem is inspired by Yoga Sutra 1.
3.
Tadadras tu svarupe avasthanam.
Than the sea of S in its own true nature.
This sutra reminds us that beneath every thought,
Emotion,
Memory,
Role,
And story,
There is a quiet awareness that knows experience.
We are not only what passes through the mind.
We are also the presence that sees,
Feels and recognizes what is passing.
This poem is an invitation to rest as the seer within,
The awareness that remains steady even when thoughts and emotions move.
You do not need to become someone new.
Simply pause.
Notice what is present.
And remember the awareness already here.
This poem is titled The Seer Within.
Thoughts move softly through the mind like shadows crossing morning light.
They come,
They change,
They feed away.
While something deeper stays inside.
A fear may rise,
A memory call,
A name from yesterday returned.
Yet every image comes and goes while quiet awareness does not turn.
You are not only what you feel,
Nor every story you have known.
Beneath the rolls and shifting forms,
There is a presence all your own.
The sky is not the passing cloud.
The screen is not the scenes it shows.
The lake is more than every wave.
The witness more than what it knows.
When sorrow comes,
Let sorrow speak.
When joy appears,
Receive it too.
But do not build your final name from any feeling passing through.
A thought is known,
A breath is known,
The body thus the heart can see.
And in the space that holds it all,
The seer bathes silently.
No need to search for what you are or make awareness something new.
The one who watches every change.
Has always quietly been you.
TADA DRASTU SVADHUPEVASTHANAM When restless forms no longer stir,
You rest beneath the changing world,
Established as the silent seal.
