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A selection of thoughts, poems, aphorisms, stories, from Heaven and
Earth... maybe somewhere else too.
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The Poetry Pages at Abichal.com,
If for one second you can comprehend the mysteries,
You will offer your life willingly.
As long as you are drunk with yourself, you will be
darkness eternally;
Once intoxicated with Him, you will be awakened.
Ruba'iyat
From 'Breathing Truth - Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi
The Song of Life
Seek not the perfume of a single heart
Nor dwell in its easeful comfort;
For therein abides
the dear of loneliness.
I wept,
For I saw
The loneliness of a single love.
In the dancing shadows
Lay a withered flower.
The worship of many in the one
Leads to sorrow.
But the love of the one in many
Is everlasting bliss.
J. Krishnamurti
From: 'The Song of Life'
DIVIDING GOD
The moon starts singing
When everyone is asleep
And the planets throw a bright robe
Around their shoulders and whirl up
Close to her side.
Once I asked the moon,
“Why do you and your sweet friends
Not perform so romantically like that
To a larger crowd?”
And the whole sky chorus resounded,
“The admission price to hear
The lofty minstrels
Speak of love
Is affordable only to those
Who have not exhausted themselves
Dividing God all day
And thus need rest.
The thrilled Tavern fiddlers
Who are perched on the roof
Do not want their notes to intrude
Upon the ears
Where an accountant lives
With a sharp pencil
Keeping score of words
Another
In their great sorrow or sad anger
May have once said
To you.”
Hafiz knows:
The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness,
When you have found the courage
To marry
Love.
(“The Gift” – versions of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky)
THE LIVING GOD
(Written to an American friend from Almora, 9th July
1897.)
He who is in you and outside you,
Who works through all hands,
Who walks on all feet,
Whose body are all ye,
Him worship, and break all other idols!
He who is at once the high and low,
The sinner and the saint,
Both God and worm,
Him worship — visible, knowable, real, omnipresent,
Break all other idols!
In whom is neither past life
Nor future birth nor death,
In whom we always have been
And always shall be one,
Him worship. Break all other idols!
Ye fools! who neglect the living God,
And His infinite reflections with which the world is full.
While ye run after imaginary shadows,
That lead alone to fights and quarrels,
Him worship, the only visible!
Break all other idols!
Swami Vivekananda
Monday February 28, 2005 7:07
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