Undistracted by the memory of past sins,
by imagined pleasure,
by the bitter aftertaste of old wrongs and humiliations,
by all the fears and hates and cravings
that ordinarily eclipse the Light.

Let there be a voice to assure them,
by day and even while they are asleep,
that in spite of all the terror,
all the bewilderment and confusion,
the ultimate Reality remains unshakably itself
and is of the same substance as the inner light
of even the most cruelly tormented root.