Mystic Poems From DADU

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Mystic Poems From DADU

 

It's good to read something from Masters everyday, either a bani

(mystic poem or psalm), letter, or spiritual discourse. Baba Jaimal

Singh said to his students, " Read from the Sar Bachan of Swami Ji

everyday. " He was referring to the two volumes of shabds (hymns) that

 

Swami Ji Maharaj composed. Others read or chant the Prem Bani of

Huzur Maharaj, or the hymns of Kabir, Guru Nanak, Rumi, Hafiz, Dariya

Sahib, Tulsi Sahib, or from any number of Saints that have blessed the

world (and continue to bless the world) with heavenly songs of love,

 

devotion, and mystic-union with their Beloved Lord. The verses below

 

are from Dadu the Compassionate Mystic.

 

Sant Dadu, 1544 - 1603, was a Master in the Kabir Lineage of Sant

Mat Bhakti.

 

Dadu was a Muslim by birth. At the age of eighteen he was initiated

 

into the science of spirituality by his teacher: Buddhan. Eventually

 

Dadu Dayal became a saint, and his mystic verses

are, centuries later, still highly revered in India and Pakistan.

 

So priceless is the 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.

 

A true Master unites us with God

And shows all within the body.

Within the body is the Creator,

And within the body is Onkar [divinity of the second heaven].

The sky is within the body, and close by

Is the earth within the body.

Air and light are within the body.

So is water contained within the body.

Within the body are the Sun and

the Moon.

And the Bagpipe is played within

the body.

 

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.

 

Destroy delusion, O mind, by means of

the Name of God and the Word

bestowed by the Guru.

The mind is then united with the One

untouched by karmas. Liquidate thereby

thy karmas, O Dadu.

 

If the mind stays with the Name of the

Supreme Lord even for a moment,

O Dadu,

All its karmas will be destroyed then and

there, within the twinkling of an eye.

 

The aspirant who fills his pot with drops

of Celestial Melody, alone survives.

How can he die, O Dadu? He drinks the

divine Nectar.

 

The artistic Creator is playing

the instrument in perfect harmony.

Melody is the essence of the five [elements],

and through the self is the Melody

expressed, O Dadu.

 

By enabling people to hear the Sound,

the Master can awaken them at His will. He

may, at His pleasure, speak within them, and

merge them in his own form.

 

The knowledge of the Sound Current

imparted by the Guru merges one easily into

Truth. It carries me to the abode of my

Beloved, says Dadu.

 

-- Dadu, " DADU THE COMPASSIONATE MYSTIC, " K.N. Upadhyaya, RS Books

 

 

 

 

 

 

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