Rooster - a Liaison between Self and The Divine
Before the sun shines its first ray To glitter the sky with golden hue, The rooster perches quietly, and cracks the shell of dawn. His crowing every daybreak Is sharp as truth and pure as oath, Meandering the dark sleeping world Lifting morning from its sheathe. Through him, the earth hears The divine beginning to revitalize, He rises where heaven blushes awake, Propelling to an entity brighter than itself. He is the coupling Between sleep and waking, A feathered messenger In the tabernacle of eternity. In the context of spiritual growth, The rooster helps the aspirant's awakening to higher consciousness and the pursuit of inner transformation. He serves as a potent metaphor for the soul’s progression from ignorance to divine consciousness, A liaison between the self and The Divine! The above poetic prose is an inspiration from my own experience of taking the Aurobindonian path as a result of the self-awakening action of the...