Pain That Endures. Visions That Reduce Poem by Kiran Pillai

There is a lot of pain around me.
Everyone is in pain. Serious pain.
Pain in the body. Pain in the mind.
Pain in the psyche. Is there a way out?

Why think of a way out of pain?
It's just too much enduring all this pain.
But, there could really a way out.
Right through the mucky juices of pain.

They say the way out is the way through.
Walk right through the pain. You may find
One way out out. Get deeper within.
Get to the very Self. Pain will subside.

Pains can be signals more than anything.
Pains are signals of our broken perceptions.
Get to the right perspective and nothing pains.
Nothing has the ability to hurt one who sees well.

Listen to the Masters. What is pain?
Is there life you are not living well?
Is there anything that is off center?
Then pain will come and signal you.

All pain cannot be taken away by others.
Come to the right vision. Pain may not bite much.
Pain still can come. Some pain here. Something there.
But, right vision can reduce the pinch of pain.

See where the pain comes from. Who is pained?
Often the one who we think we are is pained.
Us as the pure Self; the Brahman knows no pain.
Even death pains cannot hurt us really.

But, I see pain around me. Pain that travels.
Pain that moves from one area to the other.
Lingering pain that refuses to reduce.
Pain that just stays for years together.

How can lingering pain go away? Will it also?
Yes, it may. Try the vision. Maybe it might come.
Pray for it and it will pray for you. Settle within.
Pains can go. Cultivate vision for supreme.