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Sohbet of the Week (51 - 24) Sufi Poems – Mirabai - 12 Mirabai (1498-1546) was an Indian mystic and poetess. Her very personalized ecstatic songs of love, praise and lamentation have remained alive through the centuries and are still recited and sung by Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and Christians alike on the Indian subcontinent today. * * *
O my Friends
O my friends, what can you tell me of Love, whose pathways are filled with strangeness?
When you offer the Great One your love, at the first step your body is crushed. Next be ready to offer your head as his seat.
Be ready to orbit his lamp like a moth giving in to the light, to live in the deer as she runs toward the hunter's call,
in the partridge that swallows hot coals for love of the moon, in the fish that, kept from the sea, happily dies.
Like a bee trapped for life i n the closing of the sweet flower, Mira has offered herself to her Lord.
She says, the single Lotus will swallow you entirely.
* * * Heartily, Puran Dear friends, here is a wonderful website - an overview over all the many outstanding poets which the Indian Sufi Culture has brought in the course of the many centuries.
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Dear friends, here are the collected 'Sohbets' 2024, much joy listening! |
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