Category: Poetry Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 147
Copyright: Nov 30, 2025
A devotee becomes a disciple when love ripens into surrender and reveals the Guru as the Self within.
(540 poems)
Devotee Is Disciple unfolds the eternal movement from devotee to disciple, and from disciple to None, where Guru, God, and Self shine as one indivisible flame. Across its five parts and 540 verses, the work reveals that the path is not attained by effort, ritual, intellect, or doctrine, but is received through Guru’s grace. The ego dissolves in that light, and what remains is pure Presence.
A central thread runs through the book: the world is crowded with nigurus, who parade names but hold no flame. They speak loudly, trade forms, and mislead seekers with hollow claims. In contrast, the Guru’s silence is fire, His glance severs illusion, and His word—unornamented and direct—is transmission itself. Nothing false can survive before His flame.
Throughout the verses, the book affirms that simplicity is the highest expression of realization. It is not a stylistic choice but the natural state that arises when the Guru shatters ego’s noise. In that clearing, the mind returns to equipoise—still, empty, and serene.
The Nath tradition is illuminated in its pure essence: devotion is the seed, Guru’s grace the rain, and Self-realization the flowering. All hollow externalities are rejected—ritual pride, costumes, borrowed lineage, technical displays, and Yoga without surrender. True Yoga is selfless love; true lineage is living flame; true mandala is inner silence.
Each part deepens a single truth: Nothing is achieved; all is received. Nothing is claimed; all is given. Nothing is two; all is One.
In the end, the seeker disappears, devotion completes itself, and only Guru-Self remains. The book closes in one taste—One Flame, One Love, One Heart within—where all paths end and all beginnings dissolve.
Early Works is an exhaustive compilation of the first decade of the poems and stories of Z.B.McClure. Included are family photos, rare personal photos, photos of 1st draft manuscripts of many of his early poems. Also some biography and memoir materia
A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).