"don't despair" [gatha]
Might you allow the great luxury
of my thinking of you my lord?
can you express generosity
by revealing yourself a little?
if you had been a beverage
I'd be drinking of you my lord
if you possessed a circumference
I'd be with you right in the middle
if as they say you are endless
can your center be found anywhere?
if O my lord you are friendless
I'll befriend you don't despair!
of my thinking of you my lord?
can you express generosity
by revealing yourself a little?
if you had been a beverage
I'd be drinking of you my lord
if you possessed a circumference
I'd be with you right in the middle
if as they say you are endless
can your center be found anywhere?
if O my lord you are friendless
I'll befriend you don't despair!
posted by david raphael israel at 12:10 AM
2 Comments:
Hi David, thanks for sending me the link to Raman Maharishi's Who am I, but yes, it's too dry right now for my frame of mind. Like "Don't despair" very much, specially the last two lines,
"if O my lord you are friendless
I'll befriend you don't despair!"
They seem to give me more answers than the actual answer to Who am I?
Thanks Batul -- a cheering note to read this Sunday afternoon.
The thoughts underlying this little poem generally, and the line you note in particular, are, I'd say, somewhat informed by my readings in both Hazrat Inayat Khan and Tagore -- variously expounding or exemplifying the paradoxical and charming attitude this line sketches.
I borrow the word "gatha" (btw) to denote short poems I think of as "meditation verses."
One poem of Maharshi's that I recall particularly enjoying in gone years was addressed to the mountain Arunachala. Anyway, the questioning your post expresses, seems good!
cheers,
d.i.
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