Showing posts with label Garden: Creature. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 17, 2000

Garden: That formless God...


That formless God takes a thousand forms in the eyes of His creatures: He is pure and indestructible, His form is infinite and fathomless, He DANCES in RAPTURE, and waves of form arise from His dance.

Where to next: the DANCE or the RAPTURE?


[Source: RT 26 (partial); 2.75. ônkâr siwae kôî sirjai]

Here is the full poem:

XXVI

II. 75. ônkâr siwae kôî sirjai

  All things are created by the Om;
  The love-form is His body.
  He is without form, without quality, without decay:
  Seek thou union with Him!
  But that formless God takes a thousand forms in the eyes of His
    creatures:
  He is pure and indestructible,
  His form is infinite and fathomless,
  He dances in rapture, and waves of form arise from His dance.
  The body and the mind cannot contain themselves, when they are
    touched by His great joy.
  He is immersed in all consciousness, all joys, and all sorrows;
  He has no beginning and no end;
  He holds all within His bliss.

Garden: The creature is in Brahma...


The creature is in BRAHMA, and Brahma is in the CREATURE: they are ever distinct, yet ever united. He Himself is the tree, the seed, and the germ. He Himself is the flower, the fruit, and the shade. He Himself is the sun, the light, and the lighted. He Himself is Brahma, creature, and Maya.

Where to next: BRAHMA or the CREATURE?


[Source: RT 7 (partial); 1.85. Sâdho, Brahm alakh lakhâyâ]

Brahma = Brahman: The "ultimate reality" or "creative principle" (ब्रह्मन्), usually transliterated into English as Brahman, while Brahma (ब्रह्मा) is the creator god. (Tagore uses the English spelling Brahma for both.)

Here is the full poem:

VII

I. 85. Sâdho, Brahm alakh lakhâyâ

  When He Himself reveals Himself, Brahma brings into manifestation
    That which can never be seen.
  As the seed is in the plant, as the shade is in the tree, as the
    void is in the sky, as infinite forms are in the void—
  So from beyond the Infinite, the Infinite comes; and from the
    Infinite the finite extends.
  The creature is in Brahma, and Brahma is in the creature: they
    are ever distinct, yet ever united.
  He Himself is the tree, the seed, and the germ.
  He Himself is the flower, the fruit, and the shade.
  He Himself is the sun, the light, and the lighted.
  He Himself is Brahma, creature, and Maya.
  He Himself is the manifold form, the infinite space;
  He is the breath, the word, and the meaning.
  He Himself is the limit and the limitless: and beyond both the
    limited and the limitless is He, the Pure Being.
  He is the Immanent Mind in Brahma and in the creature.
  The Supreme Soul is seen within the soul,
  The Point is seen within the Supreme Soul,
  And within the Point, the reflection is seen again.
  Kabîr is blest because he has this supreme vision!