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The Unstruck Drum of Eternity: Poetry of Kabir
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Continuing in the grand tradition of Rumi and Kahlil Gibran, explore the light within your own sensuality in the company of Kabir, the incomparable 15th century poet, weaver, mystic and musician of Benares. "Open the window to the west, / In the sky of love, now be lost; / Drink the sweeter honey that steeps / And imbues with heat, the petals / Of the lotus of the heart's lips. / Receive the waves in your body: / What splendor is in the warm sea! / Hearken to the sounds of conches / And bells, rising through the branches." The poetry of this 15th century mystic has been recreated in modern English rhymed couplets by Jabez L. Van Cleef, joining the ranks of his poetic interpretations of spiritual texts from all of the world's great religious traditions. Van Cleef's voice in dramatic readings explores the fine distinctions between metered prose and music, by creating a spoken word sound environment that lulls the listener into a state of profound receptivity. In this collection of songs there will be found examples which illustrate nearly every aspect of Kabir's thought, and all the fluctuations of the mystic's emotion: the ecstasy, the despair, the still beatitude, the eager self-devotion, the flashes of wide illumination, the moments of intimate love. All opposites are reconciled: bondage and liberty, love and renunciation, pleasure and pain. Unity is the one thing that matters to the soul, its destiny and its need; and this union, this discovery of God, is the simplest and most natural of all things, if we would but grasp it. It is brought about by love, not by knowledge or ceremonial observances; and the apprehension which that union confers is ineffable--"neither This nor That," as the poet has it. The Divine may best be found in the here-and-now: in the normal, human, bodily existence, the "mud" of material life. "We can reach the goal without crossing the road -- In the home is reality." There love and detachment, bondage and freedom, joy and pain play by turns upon the soul; and it is from their conflict that the Unstruck Music of the Infinite proceeds.
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Continuing in the grand tradition of Rumi and Kahlil Gibran, explore the light within your own sensuality in the company of Kabir, the incomparable 15th century poet, weaver, mystic and musician of Benares. "Open the window to the west, / In the sky of love, now be lost; / Drink the sweeter honey that steeps / And imbues with heat, the petals / Of the lotus of the heart's lips. / Receive the waves in your body: / What splendor is in the warm sea! / Hearken to the sounds of conches / And bells, rising through the branches." The poetry of this 15th century mystic has been recreated in modern English rhymed couplets by Jabez L. Van Cleef, joining the ranks of his poetic interpretations of spiritual texts from all of the world's great religious traditions. Van Cleef's voice in dramatic readings explores the fine distinctions between metered prose and music, by creating a spoken word sound environment that lulls the listener into a state of profound receptivity. In this collection of songs there will be found examples which illustrate nearly every aspect of Kabir's thought, and all the fluctuations of the mystic's emotion: the ecstasy, the despair, the still beatitude, the eager self-devotion, the flashes of wide illumination, the moments of intimate love. All opposites are reconciled: bondage and liberty, love and renunciation, pleasure and pain. Unity is the one thing that matters to the soul, its destiny and its need; and this union, this discovery of God, is the simplest and most natural of all things, if we would but grasp it. It is brought about by love, not by knowledge or ceremonial observances; and the apprehension which that union confers is ineffable--"neither This nor That," as the poet has it. The Divine may best be found in the here-and-now: in the normal, human, bodily existence, the "mud" of material life. "We can reach the goal without crossing the road -- In the home is reality." There love and detachment, bondage and freedom, joy and pain play by turns upon the soul; and it is from their conflict that the Unstruck Music of the Infinite proceeds.
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×O DEAR ONE! Here, behold my land! / Sorrowless past understanding! / I cry aloud to king and beggar, / To emperor and miracle worker...
CLOUDS THICKEN and rise in the sky! / O, listen to the deep voice cry, / The clouds roaring, Lay waste! Lay waste! / The gray rain comes in from the east; / Its monotonous hiss strikes the dust...
I AM NEITHER of the pious, / Nor the force of ungodliness; / I live neither by the strict laws, / Nor by the vagaries of sense...
OPEN YOU, EYES of love, / Unbid, and see Him who pervades this world. / Consider Him as your legacy, / And know this is your own country...
IF GOD IS in the mosque there, hid, / Then who owns this wide world, outside?
WHEN YOU will have come there at last, / To the ocean of happiness, / Do not go back while you still thirst. / Wake, foolish man! for Death stalks you...
WHEN I PART from my Beloved, / My heart is full of blight and dread: / I have no comfort in the day, / Nor have I sleep to comfort me. / To whom shall I my sorrow cry?
THE HIDDEN BANNER is planted / In the temple of the cloud; / Around is spread the blue canopy / Decked with the moon and its array...
THE LOCK of error shuts the gate, / Hurry! Before it is too late, / Open it with the key of love: / You know the key I’m speaking of...
A SORE PAIN troubles my daylight, / And I cannot sleep in the night; / I long to meet with my Beloved, / And my father's house is decayed, / The place I felt so safe and sure, / Gives me no pleasure any more...
MORE THAN ALL else do I cherish / That love, in my own heart’s dear wish, / Which makes me live without limit / In this bright world we all inhabit...
THE MIDDLE REGION of the sky, / Wherein the spirit speaks to me, / Shines with a soft music of light; / The music blossoms, pure and white, / And my Lord finds there His delight...
BETWEEN the universal poles / Of conscious and unconscious wills, / There has the mind made a great swing: / Thereon hangs every world and being...
TELL ME, O SWAN, your ancient tale. / From what land have you come to call? / To what shore will you fly anon? / Where would you take your rest, O Swan?
WHEN HE HIMSELF reveals Himself, / Then God Himself makes visible / That which at once cannot be seen. / As the seed is hid in the plant, / As the shade is still in the tree, / As the void is behind the sky, / As infinite forms possess the void...
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