BT Song 1545

Bhakti Song 1545

When I read the following lines from Rumi, I was struck down by one word of God ‘slapping’ the bhakta to teach her the secret of bhakti which is always a mystic experience where all kinds of duality disappears.  No theology or philosophy can explain this or certain theologies/philosophies won’t even accept.  But like a mystic a bhakta also transcending theology/philosophy become one with the TRANSENDENTAL-IMMANENT ETERNAL REALITY in her pilgrimage.

Not only Rumi, but so many mystics and various bhakti saints have expressed the same view based on their experience going beyond all kinds of human limitations. If I start to quote even some of them, that will go for several pages.  And there is no need for that as each bhakta has her own unique experience that needs no endorsement from others—even from God?!?! Going beyond even Rumi’s experience.

BT Song 1545 I disappeared in you

When I stretched

My hands

To touch  you

Why did you reject it?

When I asked

This question to you

‘If you come with the sense of

“I” to me

In order to help you

You understand that

It is not “I” that is coming

I gave that slap

Along with the sense of “I”

Even renouncing yourself

You have to come to me

Who dwells within you

And to help you to realize

That the one who comes

Unto me is also

Not that “I”’.

When you gave that

Response to me then

I realized that you gave that

Not to me but only to yourself

Once I understood this

Along with “I” and “mine”

Renouncing me completely

And experiencing that

I becoming You and

You becoming me

Both coming together

Mingling with each other

Finally realizing that

At the end we both are ONE

We even disappeared

Merging with each other

Gurukulam, 21-12-2023, 11.30 pm.

….I reached my hand

To touch you. You struck it down.

“Why are you so harsh with me?”

“for good readon. But certainly not

To keep you away! Whoever enters this place

Saying Here I am must be slapped.

This is not a pen for sheep.

There are no separating distances here.

This is love’s sanctuary.

…

— Coleman Barks, The Essential Rumi, New York, HarperCollins, 2004 [1995]Talking in the Night, Sohbet: Meetings on the Riverbank, p. 77

BT Song 1545 உன்னில் மறைந்தேன்

தொட்டுன்னை பார்க்க

நீட்டிய கரத்தை

தட்டி நீ விட்டதன்

காரணம் கூறு

என்று நான் உன்னிடம்

கேட்கிற போது

‘“நான்” என்ற சொல்லுடன்

என்னிடம் வந்தால்

சட்டென அறைவிட்டு

வருவது “நான்” அல்ல

என்பதை நீயும்

புரியணும் என்றுதான்

“நான்” என்ற சொல்லுடன்

தன்னையும் துறந்துதான்

உன்னுள்ளே இருக்கும்

என்னிடம் வரவேண்டும்

வருவது நீயல்ல

என்பதை நீயும்

முதலில் அறியணும்

என்று உணர்த்திட’

என்று நீ எனக்கு

பதில் தரும் போது

தந்தது எனக்கல்ல

உனக்கே நீ என்பதை

உணர்ந்ததன் பின்னர்

“நான்” “என” தென்கிற

சொல்லுடன் என்னையே

முற்றாகத் துறந்து

நீயே நானாகி

நானும் நீயாகி

இருவரும் இணைந்து

ஒன்றாகக் கலந்து

இருவரும் இறுதியில்

ஒன்றென உணர்ந்து

இரண்டறக் கலந்து

மறைந்தோம் நம்மிலே

குருகுலம், 21-12-2023, இரவு 11.30