Bhakti Theology Song 1530

1530 We don’t know separation

Not abiding within me

If you go everywhere

Not a single place

Will become your own

If you abide only within me

Not wandering everywhere

Then every place

Would become your own

The secret in this is

Indeed, a great wonder

It is important for you

To understand this

Not going to other places

If you abide in me

Then we both can become

Complete in each other

Leaving me alone

If you go to other places

Then that also might become

An empty place for you

Do you want emptiness

Or do you want to become complete

First of all

You better decide this

Coming and

Abiding within me

Along with you

You make me also complete one

If the question

ever comes

In other’s mind that

who is telling this

As He abides in me

And as I live in Him

We both tell this

Joining together

Both of us joining together

And becoming complete

We never know the separation of

You and Me

Gurukulam, 7-12-23, 11. 45 pm.

“When you are with everyone but me,

                    You’re with no one.

When you are with no one but me,

                    You’re with everyone.

Instead of being so bound up with everyone,

                    be everyone.

When you become that many, you’re nothing.

                              Empty.’-Rumi, Emptiness, Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi, trans. New York, HarperCollins publishers, New Expanded Edition, 2004 [1995], p. 28

“No more I but the Lord lives in me; the life that now I live He lives in and through me”.—Sevanand

If salt/sugar is put in water, we know well that it gets dissolved and becomes one with water.  But my question is: is it the salt that dissolves or the water that observes it?

It happens in both ways.  Once both water and salt working together become one, though the salt loses its form, it still retains its nature [both chemically and in taste].  The same is with water.  Though new quality is added to it, still it never loses its nature and form.  Similarly, when a bhakta becomes one with Bhagavan, it is also a two way process: Bhagavan comes and dwells within her and she also allows Bhagavan to abide in her.  Once they both become ONE, they retain their individuality at the same time they forget their separation of YOU and ME.

Never read Rumi.  Then you will become a MYSTIC not a theologian or a philosopher.  Because:

“Mystics are experts in laziness.  They rely on it,

Because they continuously see god working all around them.

The harvest keeps coming in, yet they

Never even did the plowing!—Rumi, The Night Air, Barks, op. cit., p. 30