No Road to Tread — A Deep Poem on the Spiritual Journey

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Having crossed the river,
where will you go, O friend?

There’s no road to tread,
No traveler ahead,
Neither a beginning, nor an end.

There’s no water, no boat, no boatman, no cord;
No earth is there, no sky, no time, no bank, no ford.

You have forgotten the Self within,
Your search in the void will be in vain;
In a moment the life will ebb
And in this body you won’t remain.

Be ever conscious of this, O friend,
You have to immerse within your Self;
Kabir says, salvation you won’t then need,
For what you are, you would be indeed.

~ Kabir

The spiritual journey is one of life’s greatest paradoxes, for its purpose is to help us arrive at where we already are (we just don’t realize it until we travel on the journey). Photo by Gabriela Palai

This poem conveys one of the greatest paradoxes of the spiritual way: there is no way.

There is no way in the sense that we do not need to follow a prescribed set of rules, rituals, or practices to achieve awakening.

The only thing that is required is to recognize and live from our ever-present Essence, or…