Stay alive forever!

You think you are alive
because you breathe air?
Shame on you,
that you are alive in such a limited way.
Don’t be without Love,
so you won’t feel dead.
Die in Love
and stay alive forever.

 

Rumi❤️

Only Breath- We Are Nothing But Breathing Human Beings

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu
Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion
or cultural system. I am not from the East
or the West, not out of the ocean or up
from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not
composed of elements at all. I do not exist,
am not an entity in this world or in the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any
origin story. My place is placeless, a trace
of the traceless. Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two
worlds as one and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner, only that
breath breathing human being.

❤️❤️Rumi

Let go of your worries 

रूमी की पंक्तियों आपको क्या कहतीं हैं? ज़रूर बतायें. आप सबों के विचार मेरे लिए बेहद मायने रखते हैं.
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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.

 

Rumi ❤️

Only Breath

 Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system.

I am not from the Eastor the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground,

not natural or ethereal, notcomposed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or in the next,

did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a traceof the traceless.

Neither body or soul. I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner,

only that breath breathing human being.

Rumi ❤   From Essential Rumi by Coleman Barks

Image courtesy- Aneesh.

Do you know what you are ?

Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript of a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.

 


― ❤ Rumi, Hush, Don’t Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

Painting courtesy- Lily Sahay

ज़िंदगी के रंग- 89

मेरी एक पुरानी कविता –

ना जाने क्यों, कभी-कभी पुरानी यादें दरवाजे की दहलीज  से आवाज़ देने लगती हैं। 
AUGUST 16, 2018 REKHA SAHAY

 

एक टुकड़ा ज़िंदगी का

     बानगी है पूरे जीवन के

            जद्दोजहद का.

                उठते – गिरते, हँसते-रोते

                      कभी पूरी , कभी स्लाइसों

                                  में कटी ज़िंदगी

                                      जीते हुए कट हीं जाती है .

                                  इसलिए मन की बातें

                           और अरमानों के

                    पल भी जी लेने चाहिये.

                   ताकि अफ़सोस ना रहे

अधूरे हसरतों ….तमन्नाओं …. की.

जिंदगी के रंग -145

अब क्या लिखें कि तुम्हारे जाने से क्या हुआ ?

अब क्या बताएँ कि तुम्हारे मिलने से क्या हुआ था?

खंडित काव्य में व्यक्त आधा अधूरापन  सा,

हवाओं ने बदला रूख जीवन यात्रा का।

तितिक्षा से…बिन प्रतिकार,

बिना शिकायत, धैर्य से कोशिश है,

भँवर में जो शेष है … बचा है….

उसे बचाने की।