Mystic Poems of the Masters

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I have found a Sea of Love

an inexhaustible flood;

I have opened a treasure of spiritual knowledge,

it diffuses the lustre of a million suns

arisen in Thy worshipper's souls.

Unexpectedly

without an effort

I have heard the Eternal Secret,

I have learned to know God.

 

-- St. Tukarama

 

SANT DADU'S MYSTIC POETRY

 

A quote from the 16th century Indian Master Dadu, in the Kabir

line, who outlined his vision of the spiritual life to be pursued during

our time here on earth:

 

Recognize the Path to your Beloved, O travelers and

take the route of the anguished lover in separation.

Keep the Master's grace in your thoughts, and reflect

upon his pure teachings. Develop love and devotion

with endearment, and keep the thought of the Creator

always before you. Try to merge yourself into God

like water and water. Fix your mind within by

following the Path of the Sound Current. A yearning

will arise; make then an intense and anguished call.

Repeat the Name of your Beloved, day and night,

again and again. With care in thought, word and deed,

you will cross to the other shore.

 

-- Sant Dadu in, "Dadu the Compassionate Mystic," K.N. Upadhyaya,

RS Books

 

O servant, where dost thou

seek Me?

Lo! I am beside thee.

I am neither in temple nor in mosque:

I am neither in Kaaba nor in

Kailash:

Neither am I in rites and ceremonies,

nor in Yoga and renunciation.

If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at

once see Me: thou shalt meet Me

in a moment of time.

Kabir says, "O Sadhu! God is the

breath of all breath."

 

The Lord is in me, the Lord is in

you, as life is in every seed. O

servant! put false pride away, and

seek for Him within you.

A million suns are ablaze with Light,

The sea of blue spreads in the Sky,

The fever of life is stilled, and all stains

are washed away; when I sit in

the midst of that World.

 

Hark to the unstruck bells and drums!

Take your delight in love!

Rains pour down without water, and

the rivers are Streams of Light.

One Love it is that pervades the whole

world, few there are who know it

fully:

They are blind who hope to see by

the light of reason, that reason

which is the cause of separation --

The House of Reason is very far away!

How blessed is Kabir, that amidst this

great joy he sings within his own

vessel.

It is the Music of the meeting of the soul

with soul;

It is the Music of the forgetting of

sorrows;

It is the Music that transcends all coming in

and all going forth.

 

-- Sant Kabir, "SONGS OF KABIR," Rabindranath Tagore, Samuel Weiser

Books, York Beach, Maine.

 

SULTAN BAHU:

 

I offer my prayer in the temple of my heart --

the only true place to worship God.

I stand in supplication, I bow in obeisance,

I tender my prayer without break in its repetition.

Hanging between life and death

my heart burns in the fire of separation from Him.

The Path indicated by the Prophet is true, O BaHU:

following it one can find God.

 

-- Sultan Bahu, a Sufi Master

 

 

 

 

 

 

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