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

Tuesday, September 19, 2000

Garden: With this earthen vessel...


Within this earthen vessel are bowers and groves, and within it is the Creator: within this vessel are the seven oceans and the unnumbered stars.

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 8 (partial); 1.101. is ghat antar bâg bagîce]

Here is the full poem:

VIII

I. 101. is ghat antar bâg bagîce

  Within this earthen vessel are bowers and groves, and within it
    is the Creator:
  Within this vessel are the seven oceans and the unnumbered stars.
  The touchstone and the jewel-appraiser are within;
  And within this vessel the Eternal soundeth, and the spring wells
    up.
  Kabîr says: "Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within."

Garden: Receive the waves...


Receive the waves in your body: what SPLENDOUR is in the region of the sea! Hark! The sounds of conches and bells are rising. Kabîr says: "O brother, behold! The Lord is in this VESSEL of my body."

Where to next: the VESSEL or the SPLENDOR?


[Source: RT 23 (partial); 2.40. tinwir sâñjh kâ gahirâ âwai]

Here is the full poem:

XXIII

II. 40. tinwir sâñjh kâ gahirâ âwai

  The shadows of evening fall thick and deep, and the darkness of
    love envelops the body and the mind.
  Open the window to the west, and be lost in the sky of love;
  Drink the sweet honey that steeps the petals of the lotus of the
    heart.
  Receive the waves in your body: what splendour is in the region
    of the sea!
  Hark! the sounds of conches and bells are rising.
  Kabîr says: "O brother, behold! the Lord is in this vessel of my
    body."