The path of your soul

The path of your soul                                                                                
 
Catholic mystics through the centuries 
wrote of past life sanskaras and karmic law,
 
of soul-evolutionary tendencies and impressions
that clamor in the present life to be spent. 
 
They did not use Hindu/Buddhist terminology.
They spoke scripturally of Original Sin
 
as the primordial source of ungodly impulses,
manifesting fresh desires and temptations.
 
The Sufis refer to these latent impulses as the nafs.
Taoists use yet another sociolect. 
 
Numerous descriptions of the same quandary
and endeavor down the various paths
 
leading to the one Goal,
as many as there are the souls of men.
 
O child of God, cling tightly to Baba’s damaan.
You are treading the path of your soul.