Just Climb It Poem by Bashyam Narayanan

Do not keep decorating the ladder
Climb it
Ladder is a structure
Designed to help you reach heights
In convenient ascending steps
It is not the end
It is only a means
To achieve something at a level above you
All religious rituals and
Spiritual instructions
Are no better than a ladder
Helping you reach a roof top
Where there is total harmony and peaceful bliss
We have been associated with some faith or the other
And the majority of us are lost in the structure
Beauty and contents of this ladder
With no attempt to climb
And reach that divine top and self realization
You have every right to claim
That your faith is the most wonderful ladder
And it is the only way to realization
But you can only claim
With no real chance to prove its worth
You may add some more intermediate steps
In this religious ladder
To help less capable souls climb with some ease
But again, you need to climb
Otherwise you are left in the middle
With no real achievement
Some of us would have reached such a height
From where they would have had the
Ultimate divine experience
Identify them from their sayings
And follow them
Instead of just decorating the ladder
Just climb it