Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Rumi quatrains

You’ve filled my life with joy like sacks of sugar
Preserved me like a petaled rose, in sugar
And now today I’m seized by peals of laughter-
What joyous sounds you sprinkled in my mouth!!


And another quatrain:

The human body’s talisman, once torn
It’s essence pure will mix again with earth
Once heaven breaks the talisman’s frail flesh
Earth returns to earth, to the pure what’s pure.


And my mind reverts to something I read in “ The Upanishads”!!!

All this is full. All that is full.
From fullness, fullness comes.
When fullness is taken from fullness,
Fullness still remains.

OM Shanti Shanti Shanti

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