Showing posts with label Garden: Time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden: Time. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 20, 2000

Garden: Even a flickering instant...


Even a flickering instant you cannot hold, and you make plans for tomorrow! Kal will pounce on you suddenly, as the hawk upon the partridge.

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 this time, or answer the call of the VEENA again?


[Source: CV 3.15.2]

Kal = Kala. This is Time personified, who is also associated with Death and the god Yama.

Tuesday, September 19, 2000

Garden: If thou art...


If thou art a true SEEKER, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt meet Me in a moment of TIME. Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."

Where to next: TIME or the SEEKING?


[Source: RT 1 (partial); 1.13. mo ko kahân dhûnro bande]

sadhu. A sadhu is an ascetic or holy person, someone dedicated to the spiritual practice known as sadhana.

Here is the full poem:

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I. 13. mo ko kahân dhûnro bande

  O servant, where dost thou seek Me?
  Lo! I am beside thee.
  I am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor
    in Kailash:
  Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and
    renunciation.
  If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt
    meet Me in a moment of time.
  Kabîr says, "O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath."