![]() ![]() Later in the Song of Myself, Whitman states that "All truths wait in all things. ![]() The experience emancipated him from all that he had been before." We may surmise that it was during this period, on that 'transparent summer morning' when Whitman 'loafed on the grass,' that he has described in Song of Myself. The change came presumably when he was 29, for we find strange thoughts and phrases, mystical and axiomatic, the very stuff of Leaves of Grass, beginning to appear in his note books of this period. At 27 his poetry was banal, sentimental and mechanical. A hackwriter and a middling sort of poet transformed into a pet-prophet with a grand vision and voice of power. Nambiar elaborates a Hindu perception of this mystic adventure: "A revolutionary transformation came over Whitman. Hindus would acknowledge this experience as Satchidananda (existence, consciousness, bliss). In this passage from Song of Myself, Walt Whitman, a 19th century American poet, shares his personal encounter with consciousness. And that a kelson of the creation is love." And that all men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters. ![]() And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own. And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own. "Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth. ![]()
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