Perfect servitude

Perfect servitude                                                                                                

Mastery in servitude, Meher said. 

Liberation attained by becoming

the perfect slave – sitting raptly

at the feet of the Master,

the slave’s whole being ever attuned

and attentive to the Lord’s whim;

personal concerns and desires

revealed to be indulgences and distractions

to be shooed away like bothersome flies.

To sit in meditation is simply

to sit at the Master’s feet,

nothing to achieve but emptiness,

perfect servitude, the relinquishment

of a personal will.  Daily loss upon loss.

To meditate is to surrender the false

to the true, the fragment to the whole –

to surrender our misshapen, fraudulent identities

which underwrite all the calamities of the world.

O child of God, maya is the ignorance

of Who you really are.