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

Garden: How blessed is Kabir...


How blessed is Kabîr, that amidst this great joy he sings within his own vessel. It is the music of the meeting of soul with soul; it is the music of the forgetting of sorrows; it is the music that transcends all coming in and all going forth.

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 97 (partial); 2.90. sâhab ham men, sâhab tum men]

Here is the full poem:

XCVII

II. 90. sâhab ham men, sâhab tum men

  The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you, as life is in every seed.
    O servant! put false pride away, and seek for Him within you.
  A million suns are ablaze with light,
  The sea of blue spreads in the sky,
  The fever of life is stilled, and all stains are washed away;
    when I sit in the midst of that world.
  Hark to the unstruck bells and drums! Take your delight in love!
  Rains pour down without water, and the rivers are streams of
    light.
  One Love it is that pervades the whole world, few there are who
    know it fully:
  They are blind who hope to see it by the light of reason, that
    reason which is the cause of separation—
  The House of Reason is very far away!
  How blessed is Kabîr, that amidst this great joy he sings within
    his own vessel.
  It is the music of the meeting of soul with soul;
  It is the music of the forgetting of sorrows;
  It is the music that transcends all coming in and all going
    forth.


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."