The Last Poem of Vimalkirti (1981)

A video recording of the reading of Vimalkirti's poem by Mushkan Kaisad Dorabjee, to the accompaniment of Chinmaya Dunster.

Possibly performed in the Resort, as we see Ma Jivan Mary in the public.

Text:

Your shadow after lunch.

Your little white shadow slipping right through my burning heart.

Where are you going?

I come? Yes, I want to come

Just come? Where are we going

I know not how to walk

I am ashamed of crawling after you

I know not

I guard your wake and sleep, I guard your day and night

But is you who takes care of me

I can offer only my body, but I will give it

So you can sleep and wake

You offer your being, and I am blind

Tears of pain and joy come to my blind eyes

Burning through my heart on their way to you

Where can we meet?

Let me settle into you, so I can heal my burns

I come. Those few steps seem like the path to eternity

I will make it

I have to heal

The path is healing me

If only I would not hurt myself again and again

credits

The last poem of Vimalkirti, Osho's guard

Read by Mushkan Kaisad Dorabjee

Vimalkirti left his body in 1981

Osho declared him Enlightened

Black and white photos by Sumant Moolgaokar

Music: "Shyam" by Chinmaya Dunster

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