The Lord Is In Me
April 30, 2008 at 7:24 pm (beauty, heart, inner journey, inner life, inspiration, journey, love, poetry)
Tags: beauty, inspiration, kabir, poetry
I love the mystic poetry of Kabir. I particularly like this translation of his poem…
The Lord Is In Me
The Lord is in me, and the Lord is in you,
As life is hidden in every seed
So rubble your pride, my friend,
And look for Him within you.
When I sit in the heart of His world
A million suns blaze with light,
A burning blue sea spreads across the sky,
Life’s turmoil falls quiet,
All the stains of suffering wash away.
Listen to the unstruck bells and drums!
Love is here; plunge into its rapture!
Rains pour down without water;
Rivers are streams of light.
How could I ever express
How blessed I feel
To revel in such vast ecstasy
In my own body?
This is the music
Of soul and soul meeting,
Of the forgetting of all grief.
This is the music
That transcends all coming and going.
Kabir
pete
Thomas White said,
May 5, 2008 at 1:36 pm
How beautiful.
I am reminded when I read this that when I remember that we all have the “Lord within”, how can we hate, how can we destroy, how can we not love?
Thomas
Heidi said,
May 12, 2008 at 5:28 am
Hi Pete,
I’ve got to agree with Thomas - how beautiful!
It also makes me feel very thankful for Oprah’s “New Earth” seminars & Tolle’s book. Not so long ago, I was still really struggling with the concept of God - and I would have dismissed this post just because it mentions the Lord.
I had issues with organized religion, yet I felt a growing sense of spirituality, of oneness, of shared energy. I didn’t know how to reconcile that with the type of God that organized religion presents to us.
I feel such personal irony that while organized religion is up in arms about Oprah and Eckhart (who do they think they are? Do they think they are God? etc…
- it was the “New Earth” webinars that actually helped me realize that what I’d been feeling actually WAS God!
I have reconnected to God in a way that I had never imagined! I’m gradually learning how to be in relationship with my spirituality and with God - and therefore, with myself!
So today, I could read your post and feel the peace & joy of being connected to all living things. For me, it’s a little the reverse of what Thomas talks about - when I truly understand that we are all connected, I realize that the same way that I love those around me is how I can love myself! I don’t have to hold myself to a higher standard - I can choose to forgive myself with the same generousness that I try to share with those around me!
Perhaps we hate, we destroy and we don’t love because we DON’T love ourselves first of all. I certainly find it much easier to be present, to judge less and forgive more when I am firmly rooted in my own sense of self and the joy that brings.
What do you think?