The River
The river, an undercurrent that sings the voice of Brahman, is the Great Ultimate
that lives in every soul; if one can quiet the voices of the mind and still the
undulating hum of civilization , one will hear the voice of the Atman. The song that
no ears can hear, no eyes can see, an ancient language of the Vedas. We, like the
rocks that line a riverbed are in a unitary flow of a great current, subject to the tides
of constant and gradual change. Ah, but what lies underneath, the vital principle, the
principle of the universe, this is eternal and is in all that is alive.
Carol Roselle 2005