awesome wish-share..tx...rumi-nations, eternal inspirations to the mystics in all of us..
sharing something i read recently:
"In the state of fana, which is also called ittihad, Lord and Worshipper, lover and Beloved, both disappear. If there is no lover there is no Beloved. If there is no devotee, there is no Lord. The two are an inseparable polarity, so the disappearance of one is the disappearance of the other."
Abd Al Kader

Lovely shares Jasjit.

Thanx Aachi, Sundar

Rumi is an all time favourite of mine and just had to start the New Year with him

Jasjit,

When we will begin starting a New Year with our own selves...lol.

Love you, hi sunder, aachi...just a spin...this way things remain a little more intresting...otherwise with thanks, lovely, perfect we will soon come to an end lol.

Here I am reminded of what Emerson said: "Don't write me quotes. Tell me what you know..."

Lol, now you make spin on it to say that I myself am quoting Emerson...Yes, but then am I not also one of you...all trying to learn from each other..

sure harb...i would welcome sharing of quotes...there are so many one has not read..sometimes, they contain seeds of great breakthroughs for us...when they convert into deep insights in personal spaces..
for me , this is reminiscent of a mystical meeting with my friend and master about 10-12 years back...
He just was listening to me and said, sundar, I am hearing jiddu from you, bach from , vivekananda from you , so and so forth..but where are you? my reality was my miserable, suffering state, conflicted in all i did...he facilitated my seeing of this reality and operating from there, rather than projected ideals my escape mechanisms brought into my life...for me, it was a great awakening ata crucial moment..i was battling a personal crisis, the murder of a very close friend.....and triggered processes of learning which are still continuing..just being with my misery, without justifications or projected solutions brought me into my "present"; i learnt the "art" of suffering and transcending through processes of "seeing"...till then i was "managing" my sorrow through adept mechanisms...seeing this opened up new doors for me...
in gratitude to processes of learning and masters as they occur in my life...
i hope i am not hogging blog-space through such sharing...sorry if i am...

in this context, have always wondered why people like ayn rand and dale carnegie ended up as suicides ( i have heard that they did, not certain, though) after sharing some very beautiful concepts with the world in self -actualization realms...did it remain just a concept in their realms..

hi harb,

well lets see....your comment encouraged me to think something....

na jaane kis soch ki mehfil mein aa gaye hum
na jaane kis chaah ki rang mein uthrein hai hum
vo kehthe hai ki ye khel hi tho hai
hum ne kaha ki aapki khel mein hum jaan gava baite...

( I wonder whose Thought is it that dragged me into the party, I wonder whose desire I am fulfilling, He smiles and says play on its just a play, I tell Him, Your play is my death.)

Forgive the mediocrity.

thats lovely aachi, threading into the chain...
theres a lovely sanskrit shloka ..Om Poornamadha Poornamidham....every part of the whole is a whole by itself...

Lol, you see the benefit...my googly is being hit with sixes...come to you a little later...

sunder, btw, that is the whole point...every real master will bring you back to yourr self...each time we quote anybody we are taking support...as if sying..just see not only I am saying it but such and such a great person also said it...SO what I am saying must be true...

Anyway you are shining through your posts...heading in the right direction...perhaps already there only some backlog to be get rid of..

Harb great point LOL (I mean about quoting, back-slapping ecah other etc)However for me the words of many that I like seem so much more poetic and deep than what my little head can manage. Rumi often sends me into spasms over how he captures the most inexpressible state in his thread. I guess poetry, haikus etc are better equipped for they leave enough space for the inferred even as they play with the stated. Prose unfortunately can be quite limiting to indicate the unlimited.

Aachi
Are those lines yours? Nice!

Sundar
Love Pooranmidah-Poonamidam- my favourite chant. If you check Ifsha's e-cards we have a lovely card with the mantra being sung in a beautiful rendition. You will like it.
Hogging blog space-nah! I agree with Harb you are a brave seeker, more so because you share your journey with so much transparency and sincerity and for all of us it is becomeing a collective of fellow-seekers-sangha or sta sangh in the true sense.

Omigosh! This is turning into a warm little cluster of friends well-met. How wonderful! Thank you Aachi, Sundar and Harb for bceoming part of this space and showering it with your fine tuned wisdom and love.

Zen Quote for us all
"When the master
Without a word raises his eyebrows
The posts and rafters
The cross beams and roof tree
Begin to smile
There is another place for conversing
Heart to heart
The full moon and the breeze
At the half-open window."

We are the ones who have met by the half-open window, revelling in the full-moon and the breeze.

Jasjit,

the lines are mine. I think they came out pretty well na? :)

harb,
point well taken...if i refer to masters, as i am writing , for me it is more an expression of my gratitude for learnings effected through them...and i share a sacred space with them which is invaluable for me...it is not to attest anything that i mention it...thanks...

jasjit, aachi,

indeed I have also felt that here is one special group....you may see a difference in my posts here and elsewhere...

aachi, your lines are not only well they are absolutely well far more so because they came from yourself....i said the same thing when i said that now my googly is being hit by sixer...isn't it good that i sent you back to yourself to dicover such great lines in your own self rather than in others...otherwise what is the difference some people quoting gurbani here and there and some some other great poets or holy books.

jasjit, of course you know the difference between those people and you (of your quoting anybody or any line from gurbani here and there, they go the whole hog, you quote to enhance you they quote to betray they have nothing of their own below these quotes...). I dont think i need to say mor.

here is a gift from me : http://www.khamush.com/

I hope you don't know this website already. ;-)

Cheers, Rohit

sunder, i understand.

aachi,

now i have again read your lines...now tell me are you less than any galib or rumi?

now this is my take though i have hardly ever written poetry..

ae aachi
jaan ka sog mat kar
jaan to aane jaane wali cheej hai
roj aati hai roj jaati hai
jaan ke bager ji kar dekh
iska kujh majha hi aur hai

salaam valekum...vaah vaah

Jasjit,
Couldn't resist posting this...

The Invitation
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From "Dreams of Desire" (1995)

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living.

I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's desire.

It doesn't interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool,
for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive..............

.......it doesn't interest me who you are now or how you came to be here.

I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.

I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself,
and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments........

Tell me a story of who you are,
And see who I am in the stories I am living.
And together we will remember that each of us always has a choice.

Don't tell me how wonderful things will be . . . some day.

Show me you can risk being completely at peace,
truly OK with the way things are right now in this moment,
and again in the next and the next and the next. . .

I have heard enough warrior stories of heroic daring.

Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall,
the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will.

What carries you to the other side of that wall,
to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?

Excerpted with permission from The Dance
Copyright © 2001 by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
(author of the book The Invitation).

Dear Sukanya

This is called manifestation of intention. I woke up on the 1st wanting to post this exact piece. However could not find it on my home computer had obviously saved it elsewhere. So I posted on Rumi. This has been my favourite piece for years, crystal and powerful in its invocation. I had actually sent it to 2 friends in England to exchange as vows on their wedding as I could not be with them that day. They too have cherished it.

Thank You for the wonderful post and the reminder that all good wishes carry powerful intent. A wonderful, healthy and creative New Year to you from us all.
love

Rohit,

Thanks and a very happy new year to you. Some great poems on that site you gave the link to. Hope the new year is full of light, joy and love for you and the fulfillment of all your dreams, big and small.

love
Anusheh

Two absolute Rumi favourites:

"Remember, even though I have done terrible things,
I can still see the whole world in your face."

"Two hands, two feet, two eyes,
good,
as it should be, but no separation
of the Friend and your loving.
Any dividing there
makes other untrue distinctions like "Jew"
and "Christian" and "Muslim"

Ghalib must find place in this post today:

"Muflis huye to yaar bhi agyaar ho gaye,
Daaman mein jitne phool the sab khaar ho gaye,
Ab aur kya girayegi duniya nigah se,
Itne hue zaleel ke khuddar ho gaye...

And then....this.. so that all may some day "walk in beauty"...

Ancient thoughts, from the Lakota, Sioux Indians. The name Lakota means "considered friends" or 'alliance of friends'.

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There is a way of living that Native Americans call " to Walk in Beauty ". It is said that one Walks in Beauty when one has Earth (physicality) and Sky (spirituality) in Harmony.

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Friend, do it this way:
that is, whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can
with both your heart and mind.
And if you do it that way,
the Power of the Universe
will come to your assistance,
if your heart and mind are in Unity.
When one sits in the Hoop of the People,
one must be responsible,
because all of Creation is related,
and the hurt of one is the hurt of all,
and the honor of one is the honor of all,
and whatever we do
affects everything in the Universe.

If you do it that way,
that is, if you truly join
your heart and mind as One,
whatever you ask for,
that's the Way It's Going to Be.

From: Seventh Meditation of the Twelfth Moon
"Earth Medicine — Ancestors' Ways of Harmony for Many Moons"

May the magic of these thoughts and words touch every life.

Sukanya

Lovely poems. Ghalib is an old favourite too as is Iqbal. Couldnt resist so here goes: "Kyun ziyakaar banun, sood faramosh rahoon, fikre farda na karoon, mehve gham e dosh rahun, naale bulbul kay sunoon aur hamatam gosh rahoon, hamnava mein bhi koi gul hun keh khamosh rahun?

Thank you for bringing warmth and magic to the blog.

love
anusheh

Goddess of Wine, ab to khamosh rahne ka sawaal hi nahin... this was one I hadn't known.. any idea what you all have unleashed here and in me?

here's one of my own...

is khamoshi ko majboori na samjho,
ye to junoon hai, zalzalaa hai
registaan mein
sirf khamoshi ka hi taj hai
insaan registaan mein hi to
is kadar kho jaata hai.

pal pal ke dard ko samet kar, sahej kar
registaan ne kaanton ka sehra banaaya
yeh kaanton ka bazm hai,
kaanton ki mehfil hai
yahan khamoshi mein kahkahe goonjte hein
kyunki kaanton ko
murjhane ka khauf nahin...

kaante bolte nahin, hume khamoshi se pyaar hai
kaanton ki muskan dikhti nahin
sirf dard ko sharminda karti hai
kaanton ke aage aasman bhi jhukta hai
is khamoshi mein hi to
insaan ka dil dhadkta hai.

wow..an awesome express, sukanya...

Sundar, thanks for the responses and feedback!

In all the years on the Net, this is my first attempt at sharing, expressing and connecting!
every response means so much, an affirmation that there might be many other souls out there who would speak to my spaces, threads & silences!
this blog space and the people on it, especially anusheh, jasjit and spirit peak have triggered the sharing..

Thanks and best always

thr iver flows as much for its own joy as for nourishing life around its banks and for teh organsims living in it, sukanya...stay with your flow....and trust it...