Tuesday, September 19, 2000

Garden: The swan has taken its flight...


The swan has taken its flight to the LAKE beyond the mountains; why should it search for the POOLS and ditches any more? Your Lord dwells within you: why need your outward eyes be opened?

Where to next: the LAKE or the POOL?


[Source: RT 33 (partial); 2.105. man mast huâ tab kyon bole]

swan. This is the hamsa bird, a symbol associated with ultimate reality (Brahman) and also with moksha, release from the cycle of birth and death.

Here is the full poem:

XXXIII

II. 105. man mast huâ tab kyon bole

  Where is the need of words, when love has made drunken the heart?
  I have wrapped the diamond in my cloak; why open it again and
    again?
  When its load was light, the pan of the balance went up: now it
    is full, where is the need for weighing?
  The swan has taken its flight to the lake beyond the mountains;
  why should it search for the pools and ditches any more?
  Your Lord dwells within you: why need your outward eyes be
    opened?
  Kabîr says: "Listen, my brother! my Lord, who ravishes my eyes,
    has united Himself with me."

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