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Posted: 1/18/2008 11:52:13 AM | I am creating this thread to share some of the beautiful prayers or
the divine poetry or the verse written by a devotee with an extremely
worshipful attitude or the words a person who is mad after the love of
God/Christ/Allah. I hope, the poetry/verses in this section will inspire you
to come more close to the supreme personality and you would also like
to share something similar....
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With legs to take me, where I go
with eyes to see the sunset's glow
With ears to hear what I would know
Oh, GOD, forgive me when I whine!
I'm blessed indeed! the world is mine
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Posted: 1/18/2008 11:58:35 AM | My body is flooded
With the flame of Love.
My soul lives in
A furnace of bliss.
Love's fragrance
Fills my mouth,
And fans through all things
With each outbreath.
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 | |
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Posted: 1/18/2008 12:02:38 PM | I like it...Great Idea, this thread!
Sometimes I an angel sometimes
Another thing...
Sometimes
Most times
I Am
A lover
A catcher
Other times
Falling star
--Everytime
God finds me
Distracted
--God Makes ME
Look
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Posted: 1/18/2008 6:40:02 PM | Junky: It is good to know that you liked this thread. Hope, you will enjoy it more and more, which might revitalize your true self.
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We do not get a human life
Just for the asking.
Birth in a human body
Is the reward for good deeds
In former births.
Life waxes and wanes imperceptibly,
It does not stay long.
The leaf that has once fallen
Does not return to the branch.
Behold the Ocean of Transmigration.
With its swift, irresistible tide.
O Lal Giridhara, O pilot of my soul,
Swiftly conduct my barque to the further shore.
Mira is the slave of Lal Giridhara (God).
She says: Life lasts but a few days only.
~~~Mira
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Posted: 1/19/2008 10:23:41 AM | Do accept me this time, Lord, do. Please, Do not turn away.
Steal my heart and stay.
I don't wish to repeat those day devoid of you, Let them finish in dust.
Let my life now open up in light, forever awake and alert.
I do not know what deluded me,
and what promises lured me,
that i moved around here and there on roads, amidst meadows.
Now bring your face close to my heart and deliver a message, your own.
Many faults, many a deception still lurk secretly in my heart.
Do not turn me away any more for that.
Lord purify them in your fire.
~~~Tagore (from Gitabitan) | |
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Posted: 1/20/2008 2:11:46 PM | He whose devotion is for making money,
what knowledge can he gain.
He is meditating with his mind full of lust,
how God can reside in his mind.
He keeps his eyes on fruits of work,
can he ever be united with the God.
His mind is always engrossed with sensual subjects,
whether he can understand the God.
Tukaram Maharaj says, that those
who remember God with such motives will burn their faces. | |
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Posted: 1/22/2008 6:57:40 PM | O' how may I even express that secret word?
O' How can I say HE is not like this and He is like that?
If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed,
If I say that He is without me, it is falsehood.
He makes the inner and outer worlds to be indivibily one,
The conscious and the unconscious both are his footstools.
He is neither manifest nor hidden.
He is neither revealed nor unrevealed.
There are no words to tell that which He is. | |
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Posted: 1/22/2008 7:25:40 PM | Dev, I love this new thread too! When I get caught up I will post something, but for now I will just read!
you always seem to find just the right thoughts to share
you remind us that we are all full of what can be perceived as faults, but it is our hearts intent that takes us down the path which will bring us to knowledge
Namaste'
and junkyard, your energy still always makes me smile..
sometimes an angel
sometimes not | |
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Posted: 1/22/2008 8:15:27 PM | A Star Without a Name - Rumi
When a baby is taken from the wet nurse,
it easily forgets her
and starts eating solid food.
Seeds feed awhile on ground,
then lift up into the sun.
So you should taste the filtered light
and work your way toward wisdom
with no personal covering.
That's how you came here, like a star
without a name. Move across the night sky
with those anonymous lights. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2008 1:16:20 PM | Above one is a highly philosophical writting...Thanks Autumn Fantasy
Drea: No worry, Enjoy the reading that you like. You may not like
everything, but there are certain things that you like will certainly give you
happiness and knowledge.
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Guide this little boat over the waters,
what can I give you for fare?
Our mutable world holds nothing but grief,
bear me away from it.
Eight bonds of karma
have gripped me,
the whole of creation
swirls through eight million wombs,
through eight million birth-forms we flicker.
Mira cries. Dark One
take this little boat to the far shore,
put an end to coming and going.
-- Mira
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Posted: 1/25/2008 4:08:56 PM | Who is thy wife?
Who is thy son?
The ways of this world are strange indeed.
Whose are thou?
Whence art thou come?
Vast is thy ignorance, my beloved.
Therefore ponder these things and worship the Lord.
Behold the folly of Man:
In childhood busy with his toys,
In youth bewitched by love,
In age bowed down with cares --
And always unmindful of the Lord!
The hours fly, the seasons roll, life ebbs,
But the breeze of hope blows continually in his heart.
Birth brings death, death brings rebirth:
This evil needs no proof.
Where then O Man, is thy happiness?
This life trembles in the balance Like water on a lotus-leaf --
And yet the sage can show us, in an instant,
How to bridge this sea of change.
When the body is wrinkled, when the hair turns gray,
When the gums are toothless, and the old man's staff
Shakes like a reed beneath his weight,
The cup of his desire is still full.
Thy son may bring thee suffering,
Thy wealth is no assurance of heaven:
Therefore be not vain of thy wealth,
Or of thy family, or of thy youth --
All are fleeting, all must change.
Know this and be free.
Enter the joy of the Lord.
Seek neither peace nor strife
With kith or kin, with friend or foe.
O beloved, if thou would attain freedom,
be equal unto all.
~~~---Sankara (788-820) | |
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Posted: 1/25/2008 4:20:40 PM | God...
Posted: 1/25/2008 3 06 PM
Tell me of something and let truth have it's way
as does our free will, each one, everyday!
Let only the wishes be the might of your choice
be that of the outcome, the words of your voice
Is it intruding, to seek and to try?
or just an illusion to trust or deny?
Can be the outcome of the cares which we send
be only left barren by our hearts which contend
To the past which is rigid and cannot be trained
or that of the present to the answers so stained
Has tomorrow an outcome of a union to quest
or is time just her keeper and lets hope do the rest...
Time taints us with meeting, then thrashes us all
It forces our risings, and repeats when we fall
There's nothing to stop it, no one it will miss
it's aim is precision, it's truth is just this
No force cares to challenge, no war can be brought
against of its essence since by you it was thought
So can we be closer with your time still in place
to seek with an earnest in a world we must face
Each day without failure the truth reaches out
within it comes longing to avoid all the doubt
But within all the choices and beside all the gripe
comes something you gave us, her tears we all wipe
Away from the trauma she hides deep within
the answers we search for and where to begin
It vessels a chamber, no windows in sight
her tempest of choices, goes both wrong or right
Wisdom, oh wisdom she bites at the bit
Her reigns be of fire as our mouths try to fit
To word what is needed to ask unto you
asks whispering spirits what we ask you'll renew
Unto shadows of knowledge that are cast out like grain
towards the fields of the living and to death's final plain
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Posted: 1/25/2008 7:12:17 PM | | Thanks Yohanan. I did not know before about this thread "God". The poetry in that section is nice and I liked reading those. | |
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Posted: 1/26/2008 1:57:33 PM | The Goddess of Infinite Love
Blessed me with a kiss
Igniting a Fire that will never die
A Fire refining my body into a proper vessel for Her love
A Fire melting my soul into an ember of Her passion
A Fire burning away karma, fear, guilt
A Ray of pure light
Shining eternally from Her heart
Eternal Lover
Do not forsake me
Even when I doubt
Draw me closer to Your fire
Until nothing remains of me
but You | |
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Posted: 1/26/2008 2:04:16 PM | | Do you accept poems concerning theology, which may be somewhat more negative? IE - questioning God? | |
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Posted: 1/26/2008 2:22:48 PM | | You are most welcome to contribute your/some other 's poems, which you feel other should know/read. There are different types of reader in this forum and their interest are different....certainly a few/whole may like your. As per my understanding, theology never questions God. Atheist only questions about God and denies the existence of God. I personally prefer positive surroundings but not afraid on my faith on God. | |
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Posted: 1/26/2008 2:31:40 PM | Theology never questions God, true... But don't theologically inclined people do it all the time? How many faithful have had something abd happen to them, and been left questioning God afterwards? Questioning whether their faith was worth it? Read a book like Elie Wiesel's "Night" and you'll see a prime example of a man of faith who lost it in the face of the events of the Holocaust.
I'd say it's imperative for the faithful to question their faith, to keep it strong. I am not a man of faith, but I do have a deep seated respect for it, and admire it, and I honestly wish those who have it to have it truly - because it is a beautiful thing. Some of us, though we may admire faith, can't take Kierkegaard's leap of faith to establish a relationship with God. We're just not wired that way, or just haven't been pushed the right ways yet.
So, I'll just pose it again in light of what I've said... Would poems questioning God be all right as well? I'd rather not put a damper on the thread if this is to be purely pro-faith, because I've written at least one poem which questions God. | |
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Posted: 1/26/2008 2:36:37 PM | Actually, you've sort of given me the go-ahead, so I'll post.
Talking to God
Deus Absconditus, where are you?
I tried to speak to you today and I regret
That though the things I had to say were few
The things you had to say were fewer yet -
I ask you, what’s this silence to beget?
Silence does not suit well mortal ears
And really ‘tis a heavy weight to bear
So I tell myself at times about my fears
To make it sound like someone else is there
And wonder if you even really care.
I cannot love the absence that you bring
So I question if divinity is true,
And if it is, remind myself one thing -
That every god was once a devil too,
And may be once again, in time, for you. | |
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Posted: 1/26/2008 2:45:53 PM | | Sure, they do questions and thatswhy I said.....you are most welcome to contribute your opinions/experiences/feelings. It is difficult to say whether all the time theologically inclined people do questions God afterwards (certainly there are a few)....if they do, it does indicate they were not totally clear in their learning and understanding. | |
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Posted: 1/26/2008 3:00:37 PM | You're right, it is difficult to say whether theologically oriented people do question faith all the time... But there is ample evidence that a great number of people have qeustioned their faith, and it's doubtful that has stopped.
And, does it necessarily indicate that they weren't clear in their learnings? There are people who studied the Bible for decades, only to have their faith shattered by a certain event in their life. Devout people who were guided by the living word most of their lives... Isn't it hubris, to some degree, to assume that any person who ever questioned their faith just didn't understand the word of God? And that the faith that you have is that much more informed? | |
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Posted: 1/26/2008 7:08:14 PM | The number of theological people, who change their faith after certain event is very small. It is because the event grow bigger and that particular person remain smaller. Therefore wise persons use their skill and knowledge to grow over the events. And secondly, reading the Bible or Gita or Quran is futile, without sincerity and devotion towards it.
Certainly we all have our own understanding towards God. I did not question on other's understanding....Moreover, I do believe that most of the atheist also believe the existence of God.
About the faith...all have different faith as per their own understandings and the experiences from their own life. A killer and a doctor both use same knife in their respective faith and the way they were informed or tought. | |
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Posted: 1/27/2008 12:51:46 AM | | You know, I could go and start a theological debate here, but this is a thread about poetry, and I've already said my piece. I've enjoyed reading the poems others have posted, and I hope to see more show up here! Thanks for letting me in ;) | |
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Posted: 1/27/2008 3:11:54 PM | Lord, send me staggering with the wine
Of Your love!
Ring my feet
With the chains of Your slavery!
Empty me of everything but Your love
And in it destroy and resurrect me!
Any hunger You awaken
Can only end in Feast!
Sheikh Ansari
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Shaftworks: Good, may be in some other thread we will discuss more on theology and metaphysics.
It will make us know the perspectives of others to broaden our horizon. I like reading your poetry thread.
You are creative and intelligent. Good work..Keep it up. | |
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Posted: 1/28/2008 4:03:18 PM | Dear friend, turn to Allah.
This body shall become
dust in the miserable,
dark house of the grave.
Today is the day of union,
O Sheikh Farid,
so tame these wild cranes
of desire that inflame
and incite the heart.
We all know that we shall die
and never again return.
Then why do we love
this false world
and sell ourselves?
We must ever speak
of the true path;
let us not speak lies.
Let us walk the guru's (teacher's) course
like humble disciples.
Seeing strong, handsome youths
swim across to the other side,
a weak woman takes heart.
Those who pursue only gold
should be sawn in half.
O Sheikh, no one in this world
can stay alive forever.
The place upon which I now sit,
many have sat before
and gone on their way.
Cranes come to Katak,
forest fires in Chet (summer),
lightning in Savan (rains).
In winter, fair arms of women
adorn lovers' necks.
All ephemeral things pass on.
Think of this, O heart.
That which takes
six months to form
is destroyed in an instant.
The earth asks the sky, O Farid:
how many boatmen have come and gone?
The body merely rots in the grave,
but it is the soul
that must suffer the consequences.
~~~Sheikh Farid | |
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Posted: 1/28/2008 5:20:09 PM | Dear friend...
What the earth asks is simply this
Return to me My Child
Ash as is to dust
Smiles caught captured
Taken Held Felt beleive
Everyday a victory
Every thought Oceans
Every Dream beyond Farid
Ride the sonnet
Feel past Live present
Beleive
NEVER B A Farid bead...
The Earth asks the sky
Do You beleive in what you see
YES I beleive
In FREEDOM,apple pie (with a slice of cheddar)
Most of all I beleive WE are Free to live
oh and a good coffee hot an warm ;)
first sip IS yours ;) am i A Farid bead
just cautious
In anothers eyes | |
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