Month: February 2020

आँखों में झलकती ख़ुशियाँ, होंठों पर थिरकती-बहती ख़ुशियाँ !!! जहाँ मिले ख़ुशियों का ख़ज़ाना, बटोर लो अपने अरमानों के गुल्लक में.

हर चर्चा, हर बात में ज़िक्र ‘मैं’ की दिखाता है अहंकार. पर ‘मैं’ या अपने वजूद की खोज, आध्यात्मिक खोज है- स्वयं की, अपने अस्तित्व की. हमें क्या जानना है जीवन समर में? हमें क्या सिद्ध करना है? अपना अहंकार या अपना अस्तित्व? इसे समझने के लिए अच्छा है, एक बार झाँक लेना अपने अंदर.

Let go of your worries

and be completely clear-hearted,

like the face of a mirror

that contains no images.

If you want a clear mirror,

behold yourself

and see the shameless truth,

which the mirror reflects.

If metal can be polished

to a mirror-like finish,

what polishing might the mirror

of the heart require?

Between the mirror and the heart

is this single difference:

the heart conceals secrets,

while the mirror does not.

– The Divani Shamsi Tabriz, XIII

A moment of happiness,

you and I sitting on the verandah,

apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.

We feel the flowing water of life here,

you and I, with the garden’s beauty

and the birds singing.

The stars will be watching us,

and we will show them

what it is to be a thin crescent moon.

You and I unselfed, will be together,

indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.

The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar

as we laugh together, you and I.

In one form upon this earth,

and in another form in a timeless sweet land.

Rumi ❤

Kulliyat-e Shams, 2114

Love is the Water of Life

Everything other than love for the most beautiful God

though it be sugar- eating.

What is agony of the spirit?

To advance toward death without seizing

hold of the Water of Life.

Rumi ❤

Masnawi I 3686-87

But if a mirror ever makes you sad

you should know that it does not know you.