Salaam, or Submission / Submersion

(inspired by Swami Rudrananda)

There is refuge           there - - in the breath,

          draw subtle, deep;            gather yourself        contract, compel

                   your attention inwardly - -

                                    drop anchor

                        and bring your mind to zero.

Let what has already created you      expand.       That

                         wherein self-conscious inhibition dissolves

                               and ego is under command of the Silence.

That is the practice.        Peace     the evidence of practice

                                                is real power.

       Self-proven, relying on no condition,

                     neither does it nurture any taste for drama.

S. Inayat-Chisti, ca. 1986