ShivAllahSita sutra 3

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Let them gossip –

This mind never wavers.

Love fixes my mind on that enchanter

Of minds

As sorcery fixes on gold.

Birth after birth lost to slumber

Until, hearing the teacher's

Word, I awoke.

Mother, father, household, tribe –

Snapped like a thread!

Mira's lord can lift mountains –

He has aroused her.

 

~Mirabai

 

 

I am here to humbly remind you of what you already know.

I used to have mystical experiences myself, culminating in

The mystical experience of being myself.

I began to have this experience so often that I eventually

Rested in it, and finally everything became ordinary.

 

There is a Root from which springs the Stem and Flower.

The root is Truth-Consciousness.

The stem is the body, the experience of manifestation.

The flower is the dance and play of Love –

Body's natural expression.

 

~Ixnay

 

 

In my hurt this spring,

There is nothing,

There is everything.

 

~Sodo

 

 

Mind,

having no end

from no beginning,

though born,

though dying,

the essence -

empty-empty.

 

Of the mind,

what remains,

Just as it was born

Without a prayer

Becomes Shiva.

 

~Mitzvah