You darkness, that I come from,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence in the world,
for the fire makes
a circle of light for everyone,
and then no one outside learns of you.
But the darkness pulls in everything:
shapes and fires, animals and myself,
how easily it gathers them! -
powers and people -
and it is possible a great energy
is moving near me.
I have faith in nights.
Mano-budhy-ahankara cittani naham
na ca srotra-jihve na ca ghrana netre
Na ca vyoma bhumim na tejo na vayuh
Cidananda rupah sivoham sivoham
Na ca prana samnjo na vai pancavayur
na va sapta-dhatur na va panca-kosah
Na vak-pani-padam na copastha-payu
Cidananda rupah sivoham sivoham
Na me dvesa ragau na me lobha mohau
mado naiva me naiva matsaryabhavah
Na dharmo na cartho na kamo na moksah
Cidananda rupah sivoham sivoham
Na punyam na papam na saukhyam na dukham
na mantro na tirtham na veda na yajna
Aham bhojanam naiva bhojyam na bhokta
Cidananda rupah sivoham sivoham
Na mrtyur na sanka na me jati bhedah
pita naiva me naiva mata na janma
Na bandhur na mitram gurur naiva sisya
Cidananda rupah sivoham sivoham
Aham nirvikalpo nirakara rupo
vibhutvacca sarvatra sarvendriyanam
Na ca sangatam naiva muktir na meya
Cidananda rupah sivoham sivoham
Translation :
I am neither the mind,nor the intellect,nor the ego,nor the mind stuff.I am neither the body,nor the changes of the body.I am neither the senses of hearing,taste,smell or sight.Nor am i ether,the earth,the fire,the air.I am existence absolute,knowledge absolute bliss absolute.I am He,I am He.
I am neither the Prana,nor the five vital airs.I am neither the materials of the body,nor the five sheaths.Neither am I the organs of action nor objects of the senses. I am existence absolute,knowledge absolute bliss absolute.I am He,I am He.
I have neither aversion nor attachment,neither greed nor delusion,neither egotism nor envy.neither Dharma nor Moksha.I have neither desire nor object of desire.I am existence absolute,knowledge absolute,bliss absolute.I am He,I am He.
I am neither sin nor virtue,neither pleasure nor pain,nor temple,nor worship,nor pilgrimage,nor scriptures.And I am neither the act of enjoying,the enjoyable nor the enjoyer.I am existence absolute,knowledge absolute,bliss absolute.I am He,I am He.
I have neither death,nor fear of death,nor caste nor was I ever born,nor had i parents,friends and relations.I have neither Guru nor disciple.I am existence absolute,knowledge absolute,bliss absolute.I am He,I am He.
I am untouched by the senses.I am neither Mukti nor knowable,I am without form,without limit,beyond space,beyond time.I am in everything,I am the basis of the universe,everywhere am I.I am existence absolute,knowledge absolute,bliss absolute.I am He,I am He.
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by,
"Let us," said he, "pour on him all we can.
Let the world's riches, which disperséd lie,
Contract into a span."
So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honor, pleasure. When almost all was out, God made a stay,
Perceiving that, alone of all his treasure,
Rest in the bottom lay.
"For if I should," said he, "Bestow this jewel also on my creature,
He would adore my gifts instead of me, And
rest in Nature, not the God of Nature;
So both should losers be.
"Yet let him keep the rest,
But keep them with repining restlessness.
Let him be rich and weary, that at least,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast."
-george herbert
I am neither of the West nor the East
Not of the ocean, nor an earthly beast
I am neither a natural wonder
Nor from the stars yonder
Neither flesh of dust, nor wind inspire
Nor water in veins, nor made of fire
I am neither an earthly carpet, nor gems terrestrial
Nor am I confined to Creation, nor the Throne Celestial
Not of ancient promises, nor of future prophecy
Not of hellish anguish, nor of paradisic ecstasy
Neither the progeny of Adam, nor Eve
Nor of the world of heavenly make-believe
My place is the no-place
My image is without face
Neither of body nor the soul
I am of the Divine Whole.
I eliminated duality with joyous laughter
Saw the unity of here and the hereafter
Unity is what I sing, unity is what I speak
Unity is what I know, unity is what I seek
Intoxicated from the chalice of Love
I have lost both worlds below and above
Sole destiny that comes to me
Licentious mendicity
In my whole life, even if once
Forgot His name even per chance
For that hour spent, for such moment
I’d give my life, and thus repent
Beloved Master, Shams-e Tabrizi
In this world with Love I’m so drunk
The path of Love isn’t easy
I am shipwrecked and must be sunk.
-RUMI
With their whole gaze animals behold the open.
Only our eyes are as though reversed,
and set like traps around us, keeping us inside.
That there is something out there we know only from a creature’s countenance.
Never, not for a single day do we let the space before us
be so unbounded that the blooming of one flower is forever.
We are always making it into a world,
and never letting it be nothing.
The pure and unconstructed,
which we breathe and endlessly know,
and do not crave.
Sometimes a child loses himself in this stillness, and gets shaken out of it.
Or a person dies and becomes it.
For when death draws near,
we see death no more;
we stare beyond it with an animal’s wild gaze.
Lovers also look with astonishment into the open,
when the beloved doesn’t block the view.
It surges up unburdened in the background.
Sometimes neither can get past the other,
and so the world closes again.
Ever turn toward what we create,
we see it as only reflections of the open, darkened by us.
This is our fate: to stand in our own way, forever in the way.
We, always and everywhere spectators,
turn not toward the open,
but towards the stuff of our lives. It drowns us.
We set it in order, and it falls apart.
We order it again, and fall apart ourselves.
Who has turned us around like this?
Whatever we do,
we are in the presence of one
who’s about to depart.
— RAINER MARIA —
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
The universe is deathless; Is deathless because, having no finite self , it stays infinite. A sound man by not advancing himself stays the further ahead of himself, By not confining himself to himself sustains himself outside himself:
By never being an end in himself
He endlessly becomes himself.
And here, of action rooted in essence or being
There is no need to run outside
For better seeing,
Nor to peer from a window.
Rather abide
At the center of your being;
For the more you leave it,
the less you learn.
Search your heart and see
If he is wise who takes each turn:
The way to do is to be.
