Omar Khayyam - [66] So while the Vessels one by one were speaking,

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Alan Jacobs <alanadamsjacobsOmar Khayyam - [66] So while the Vessels one by one were speaking,harshaDate: Wednesday, 4 March, 2009, 5:15 PM

 

 

 

 

S ppoem from the famed Sufi Poet Omar. Paramahansa Yogananda gives an apposite commentary below. The Paramahansa was one of those, later to become Jnanis, who had received SriBhagavan's Darshan. AJ--- On Wed, 4/3/09, Poetry Chaikhana <ivan wrote:

Poetry Chaikhana <ivan[Poetry Chaikhana] Omar Khayyam - [66] So while the Vessels one by one were speaking,alanadamsjacobsDate: Wednesday, 4 March, 2009, 5:03 PM

 

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[66] So while the Vessels one by one were speaking,

By Omar Khayyam(11th Century)

English version by Edward FitzGerald

So while the Vessels one by one were speaking,One spied the little Crescent all were seeking: And then they jogg'd each other, "Brother! Brother!"Hark to the Porter's Shoulder-knot a-creaking!"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-- from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, by Omar Khayyam / Translated by Edward FitzGerald

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Hi Alan -With this quatrain from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, instead of my own commentary I'll offer an excerpt of the interpretation given by Paramahansa Yogananda. This gives us an interesting, kaleidoscopic view of the poetry of Omar Khayyam: These are verses written by a Muslim Sufi, translated by a British Christian, and here interpreted by a Hindu Yogi..."While each soul-awakened devotee expressed his wisdom thoughts, one among them with deeper perception than the rest perceived a marvel all of them were seeking: the 'little Crescent,' or third eye of wisdom, hidden in the forehead -- the all-seeing eye of divine wakefulness."When the others learned of his experience, they understood what he had found: the long-sought gateway to Truth. Then to one another they exclaimed enthusiastically, 'Brother! Brother! Let us, too, gaze through this soul-window. And let us

listen to the Sound that reverberates through the universe. Hark! Our souls vibrate with the great symphony of Life emanating from the all-pervading Music of Creation."-- Paramahansa Yogananda, from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Explained, Edited by J. Donald WaltersIn other words, the "Vessels" are people or souls. The Crescent -- which is, of course, a fundamental symbol of Islam -- is, according to Yogananda's interpretation, the third eye or brow chakra through which true spiritual vision occurs. It is the doorway of awakening. The Porter is God -- the one who carries creation and upholds Reality. Old-style porters would tie a rope around a heavy burden to hold it on their shoulder and, as they walk with the weight, that shoulder-knot would often

make a creaking noise against the shifting strain. But this creaking shoulder-knot is the sound that holds material existence aloft, the sound of creation. It is by first discovering that inner sound and following it with the awareness that we finally discover the crescent doorway that opens unto enlightened awareness.All that encoded into four dancing lines...Ivan

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