gulab khandelwal selected poems

How to fly beyond life ?
Beyond. the body, beyond the mind,
Beyond my own self.
How should I get rid of the feelings
Of my smallness ?
Greet the Absolute with open arms ?
Sleep on the clouds
Spreading the lightnings as my sheet ?
Gather flowers from the garden of paradise ?

Should I sink within myself,
Which is the abode of nectar?
Where the sand is of silver
And even the emptiness is golden?
Where every moment
Thousands of universes emerge and vanish
At the nod of the consciousness?

Should I absorb the world in me
Or should I submerge myself in the world ?
I am myself both the question and the answer
Of my unspeakable, unearthly moments.
How to fly beyond life.
Beyond the body, beyond the mind,
Beyond my own self.