Showing posts with label Garden: Filling. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 19, 2000

Garden: Touch his feet...


Kabîr says: "Touch His feet, who is one and indivisible, immutable and peaceful; who fills all vessels to the brim with joy, and whose form is love."

Next: This is the end of a path, but not the end of the garden. Return to the beginning: would you like to follow the FLUTE, or answer the call of the VEENA?


[Source: RT 70 (partial); 3.9. s'îl santosh sadâ samadrishti]

feet. The touching of the feet is a form of pranama, a ritual salutation.

Here is the full poem:

LXX

III. 9. s'îl santosh sadâ samadrishti

  He who is meek and contented., he who has an equal vision, whose
    mind is filled with the fullness of acceptance and of rest;
  He who has seen Him and touched Him, he is freed from all fear
    and trouble.
  To him the perpetual thought of God is like sandal paste smeared
    on the body, to him nothing else is delight:
  His work and his rest are filled with music: he sheds abroad the
    radiance of love.
  Kabîr says: "Touch His feet, who is one and indivisible,
    immutable and peaceful; who fills all vessels to the brim with
    joy, and whose form is love."

Garden: O Kazi, O Pundit...


O, Kazi, O Pundit, consider it well: what is there that is not in the SOUL? The water-FILLED pitcher is placed upon water, it has water WITHIN and without.

Where to next: the FILLING of the pitcher, the being WITHIN... or perhaps the SOUL itself?


[Source: RT 46 (partial); 1.98. sâdho, sahajai kâyâ s'odho]

Kazi = Qadi, a judge in a Shari'a court.

Pundit = Pandit, a Hindu teacher or scholar.

Here is the full poem:

XLVI

I. 98. sâdho, sahajai kâyâ s'odho

  O sadhu! purify your body in the simple way.
  As the seed is within the banyan tree, and within the seed are
    the flowers, the fruits, and the shade:
  So the germ is within the body, and within that germ is the body
    again.
  The fire, the air, the water, the earth, and the aether; you
    cannot have these outside of Him.
  O, Kazi, O Pundit, consider it well: what is there that is not in
    the soul?
  The water-filled pitcher is placed upon water, it has water
    within and without.
  It should not be given a name, lest it call forth the error of
    dualism.
  Kabîr says: "Listen to the Word, the Truth, which is your
    essence. He speaks the Word to Himself; and He Himself is the
    Creator."