“The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts”. Likewise, The Cornucopian half of this blog encompasses my blog in its entirety which otherwise is scattered into the myriad hats I wear creatively!!
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.
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
नासमझी…नादानी क्या बया करे समझदारों की?
जंगल…धरा तो जल हीं रहें हैं.
दुनिया ने तरक़्क़ी इतनी कर ली नदी …पानी पर भी आग लगा दी.
अपने घर में आग लगे, दो पल भी बर्दाश्त नहीं.
बेज़ुबान जलचरों का घर- नदियाँ जलती रहें, चिंता नहीं.
यह समझदारी समझ नहीं आती.
