The Delights of Inner Experience: Tulsi Sahib

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The following comes from "The Shabdavani" (hymns, poetry) of Tulsi Sahib,

Saint of Hathras, India 1763 - 1843.

 

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THE BLISS OF UNION WITH THE BELOVED

 

Whose soul is attached to the Word [shabd, Light/Sound of God], revels

ever in cosmic flight;

Revels ever in cosmic flight, and realizing the

Lord, plays with Him.

The Mystery of the Inaccessible and the secret

of the scriptures he unravels:

He reaches his Home within and its Essence

he comes to know;

In the lotus feet of the Beloved he sees

his true destination.

The happily married woman rejoices with her

Spouse every moment, O Tulsi,

For her soul is attached to the Word (Shabd), and

revels ever in cosmic flight.

 

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THE WONDERS OF INNER SPACE

 

Who have seen within, the splendor of the

celestial region with their inner eye, they

alone can know the beginning of the

beginning.

 

Who have found the secret of the Supreme

state, only they give us hints of that

state.

 

Who have merged their souls in Shabd have

realized the truth of what the Master hath

said.

 

Who have penetrated the Current of spiritual

regions above, they alone know the state

of the Inaccessible.

 

Varied aspects of the Mystery and the secret

of the Unspoken Word are unravelled by

them.

 

Who have brought Faith and have learned

this Truth, they alone can look for the

Lord.

 

With the grace of the Master all afflictions

go, and he gives deliverance from the

anguish of this world and the hereafter.

 

Only a rare holy one, who hath surrendered

himself/herself to a Saint, realizes the Primeval

Being.

 

Who hath played this game at the peak of

the firmament,

 

He alone, O Tulsi, hath quenched his thirst

for this world.

 

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These were exceptionally beautiful poems...

 

Thank you for sharing them with us :-)

 

Love and Light,

bo