The Sacred Circle

Mandala song

When entering the realm of inner vision,

We must create a threefold sacred circle,

Composed of purity, of strength and knowledge

Surrounding us like a protective wall.

The purity of heart creates the lotus-circle;

The admantine scepters form the second ring:

The power-circle of determined will and higher aims;

The third one is the ring of wisdom-flames.

The threefold magic circle thus unfolded,

Grows with the depth of heart´s vibration,

Grows with the strength of inner penetration,

Grows with the wisdom that knows life and death.

But only when this world becomes a magic circle,

In which each point can be a living center:

Then we surmount the cause of all illusion,

The riddles of rebirth, of death and dissolution.

Then nothing remains rigid, self-contained;

No point coagulates into a finite "I",

Each being in the others is enshrined,

And in the smallest lives infinity.

Then we shall see released to higher norm

This world as essence of the highest mind,

Which, formless though, creates and moves all form,

Inspires and transmutes it, ever unconfined.

Lama Anagarika Govinda