SONGS OF KABĪR
by Rabindranath Tagore
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Author: Rabindranath TagoreEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-04-09
ISBN: 1604594594
Number of pages: 56
Publisher: Wilder Publications
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Book Review: Sublime
Summary: 4 Stars
Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel prize for literature with his 'Gitanjali', however i am not always that mad on his poetry... this however is something different.
I have not read any of the other translations of Kabirs poetry, must have to say that this is atmospheric, and whilst reading this work for the first three or four times my heart was smoldering within me. the burning fire of love. this guy Kabir was an absolute master. i feel almost embarassed not giving this book five stars. this book is pointing so clearly towards truth and love.
i am still reading the songs of Kabir, though have leant it to a friend for a few days. loved it so much had to share with someone else! i have recently read some of Tukaram's Abhangas (songs), rather wonderful, more worshipful than Kabir, but less immersed in love. his language of love is less real than Kabirs. Mirabai... is more of longing 'after' the love has gone, not as inspiring as Kabir or Tukaram. all pretty special in their own way. i would rank Kabir as first among these three.
though having always said that to me the ultimate has to be Love, i say that i belive this to the utter depths and bottom of my heart and though beliving this so surely have to with dejection say that i the least of lovers, he who has harmed more than done good am smitten at the feet of God, unworthy even to be called his slave, even his toe nails - unworthy to look upon. i say this with absolute honesty.
... but with hope and i hope i am not deceived, he reassures me that i am his. that he loves me and that he is using me... though how is often a matter of sore perplexion to me.
so i the least of lovers, the most hateful of the most hateful, bow before and offer my worship to Loving Kindness Himself. knowing that i am unworthy, in the sight of God and in the sight of men, to be called his disciple.
i was exhorted to love, above all things to love, but when i tried to i found and still find myself unable to do so... thank God for the Grace and mercy found in Jesus Christ, who is my only hope.
with my scrap of love, from, flakey. xxx
ps. some musings on the fire of love... the fire of love may burn within, or simply be a little glow, this warmth we feel from time to time within our hearts may become a raging flame. from the fire of love we receive the light of truth and from the light of truth we find the colours of being. the one being potentially the many and the many being potentially the one. the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God who is 'fire'". (Blaise Pascal). light represents truth and awareness is truth, truth is also life. if a being has awareness (and all do) then it has truth and having truth it has life. even the inanimate has life. mountains, cups, seeds and fields. awareness (truth) is aware of colour or being which is 'consciousness'. consciousness arises from awareness. beings, themselves conscious, arise from awareness, and yet the objects/forms we percieve are objective realities. only that perception often filters what it sees. one will see 'i', another will see '1'. another will see both. and another none. so as my friend told me... we should try to remove our filters and view reality objectively. possible? seek and ye shall find.tc.
another metaphor is of the 'roaring' of the flame as being the 'word'. it is a sound and is spoken. the word being one... it is 'i'. i am one, you are one... one is an individual. the word is subject. in having a subject we see an object. the object is 'you' two. the word produces 'knowledge'. knowledge is not 'understanding' (truth) though the subject seeks to understand the object in order to love. i seek to understand you. knowledge is 'knowing', deep down. some will say that words can only point towards this, others will say that certain words are transcendent. roaring of flame, is like light of flame. the word is also a vibration, as is being... sound, the music of light, the roaring of flame. every word being a sound is in our mind as a vibratory word, it is words that can activate 'knowledge', the words being themselves little miracles in the mind... so truth 'understanding' may be expressed in a simple smile, and word/sound in a complex harmony, essay or conversation, both 'truth' and 'knowledge', proceed from the flames of love, being different they complement each other.tc. ***
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