Every Enemy Within

Excerpted from the Taittiriya Upanishad, translated by Eknath Easwaran:

Refuse not food to those who are hungry.
When you feed the hungry, you serve the Lord,
From whom is born every living creature.
Those who realize the Self within the heart
Stand firm, grow rich, gather a family
Around them, and receive the love of all.

Realizing this makes our words pleasing,
Our breathing deep, our arms ready to serve
The Lord in all around, our feet ready
To go to the help of everyone in need.
Realizing this we see the Lord of Love
In beast and bird, in starlight and in joy,
In sex energy and in the grateful rain,
In everything the universe contains.

Drawing on the Lord's resources within--
Security, wisdom, and love in action--
We conquer every enemy within
To be united with the Lord of Love.

 

It should be obvious, but the book I'm reading at the moment is The Upanishads by Eknath Easwaran, ©1987.