Dadu's Classic Sant Mat Gospel

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Dadu's Classic Sant Mat Gospel

 

(Dadu was a Master in the Kabir branch of Sant Mat and his mystic poetry

is very remininiscent of Kabir.)

 

So priceless is birth, O brother,

That in it, the Supreme Lord can

be met.

 

The human body is the Door

to salvation.

 

If the meeting is not accomplished

while alive,

If the contact is not made while alive,

If the Lord of the universe is not found

while alive,

Then one is simply drowned.

 

The One who has made this temple

of our hearts,

He alone dwells in this temple.

None else but our Beloved is in our

hearts.

 

With thee is thy Friend. Let thyself

recognize Him.

Look not at a distance. Know Him

as thy reflection, O Dadu.

 

God is within all beings. He accompanies

all and is close by.

Musk is in the musk deer, and yet

it goes around smelling grass.

 

The self knows not God, although God

is with the self.

Being deaf to the Holy Sound of the

Master, sadly does he wander.

 

He for whom thou searchest in the world

dwells within thyself.

Thou knowest Him not, because the veil

of 'mine' and 'thine' is there.

 

He dwells within all beings, yet rarely

anyone knows Him.

He alone who is a devotee of God

will know Him.

 

By rendering service within the heart,

See thou the One who is indestructible

and boundless,

Having no limit either on this end

or on that end, sayeth Dadu.

 

After entering within, let one, O Dadu,

bolt the doors of the house.

Let one, O Dadu, serve the Lord at the

Door of Eternity.

 

God is within the self, His worship alone

is to be done.

 

Search thou for the Beloved close to the

place

Wherefrom the Sound emerges, and thou

shalt find Him, sayeth Dadu.

There is solitude there, and there is luster

of Light.

 

One who, turning the attention inward,

Brings it within the self,

And fixes it on the Radiant Form of

the Master,

Is indeed wise, O Dadu.

 

Where the self is, there is God; all is

filled with Him.

Fix thine attention within, O valiant

servant.

So does Dadu proclaim.

 

Fix thine attention within, and sing

always within the self.

This mind then dances with ecstasy, and

beats with pleasure the rhythm.

 

God is within the self; He is close

to the worshipper.

But leaving Him aside, men serve

external constructions, lameteth

Dadu.

 

This is the true mosque, this is the true temple.

So hath the Master shown.

The service and worship are performed

within.

 

-- Sant Dadu Sahib

 

--

James

Sant Mat Fellowship:

santmatfellowship

 

 

 

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