"Oh, dear, now the kingly monsoon is onset with its clouds containing raindrops, as its ruttish elephants in its convoy, and with skyey flashes of lighting as i
_*Original*_: Urdu
lab pe aatii hai duaa banake tamannaa merii
This we have now
is not imagination.
251.
Are you depressed? Then take of bhang one grain,
Do not leave me alone, a helpless woman.
My strength, my crown,
This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives.
This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth.
WHEN He Himself reveals Himself, Brahma brings into manifestation That which can never be seen.
As the seed is in the plant, as the shade is in the tree, as th
Thus did Radha and Krishna feel in their hearts the transports of first love. Their eyes spoke to each other the language of deep love and there was no need for
I have found a guru in Raidas, he has
given me the pill of knowledge.
I saw myself in a wide green garden, more beautiful than I could begin to understand. In this garden was a young girl. I said to her, "How wonderful this place
A despondent highway is stretched,
its eyes set on the far horizon
Inspired by the letters of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Wishing for the roses of your lips
All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river
moving in you, a joy.
I ask for a moment's indulgence to sit by thy side. The works
that I have in hand I will finish afterwards.
A certain person came to the Friend's door
and knocked.
Elevation bestows the sky's nearness to my abode
O my mind,
Worship the lotus feet of the Indestructible One!
She bids the herds bound sportive o'er the meads,
And with glad songs awakes the joyous grove,
see so deeply within myself.
Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
We do not get a human life
Just for the asking.
Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially panting, what passionate bosoms aflaming with fire
Drink deep of the hush of the hyac
WITHIN this earthen vessel are bowers and groves, and within it is the Creator:
Within this vessel are the seven oceans and the unnumbered stars.
The life brought me so I came; the death takes me away so I go
Neither I came on my own nor I go with my will
Today, like every day, we are ruined, ruined (by "wine").
Don't open the door of worry, but take up the lute!
In love, aside from sipping the wine of timelessness,
nothing else exists.
Seeing Radha stand alone, Krishna came from behind and blindfolded her with his hands. But his hands could not fully cover her large and elongated vivacious eye
The one I was searching for on the earth and in heaven
Appeared residing in the recesses of my own heart
In the stillest hour of the night, as I lay half asleep, my seven selves sat together and thus conversed in whisper:
First Self: Her
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