I am that
23 February 2009
The marvelous sound
That comes from the sky – I am That.
The sweet fragrance
That comes from the garden – I am That.
The great beauty
That comes from the heart and soul
Until I leave . . . Wait!
I can’t leave – I am That.
Rumi – version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
A Garden Beyond Paradise
Bantam Books, 1992
Another fabulous poem by Rumi.
One of the things that so amazes me is the similarity of thought in truly spiritual traditions around the world. Translate the title of this poem into Sanskrit and you have the famous Om Tat of Vedic thought. And the poem itself echoes, with such lyrical beauty, a description of God’s essence in the Bhagavad Gita.
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