Arpan’a’ » Garland (1994 – 1999)

SANTOS’A

Didi — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:49:32 +0000

When I am satisfied with myself as I am,
I look lovingly, benevolently at my whole life. And I find my God approaching from thousands of directions; accompanying me incessantly.
Some celebration occurs: the Divine in me rejoices at Itself from without and within.
A communication happens: a constant flow of loving and responding between the inner and the outer, surpassing all the barriers of the mind and the skin.
The eternal flow of Love rises and ebbs; pulsates through me just like it does throughout the whole Universe.

BLOOMED

Didi — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:47:32 +0000

It is not that the “Spring comes”,
but the first flowers which died
in their mad rush to bloom
in anticipation of It
- they are the Spring!
It is not that “the Beloved comes”,
but the lover – mad for Him -
reveals the Beloved within herself!
My loving makes Him “come”;
my loving gives Him life
within this existence of mine!
Beloved comes
through the loving of the lover.

The Beloved is the fragrance of the flower.
Lover’s part is: to bloom.

Ba’ba’ – I am Yours and You are mine…

GLORIOUS SIMPLICITY

Didi — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:45:32 +0000

God doesn’t know that He is Lord
- it is us who see that Perfection;
That Love and Peace in Him
and long to be like That.

But That isn’t “there”
- it’s here and now;
it does as It wants;
it loves as It can,
and in that Presence
it is beyond Time and Space;
it is devoid of any supposed glory
but is ordinary
and in that simplicity – Glorious.

CLEVER GAME

Didi — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:43:57 +0000

Clever is Your Game, my Lord:
what I have – I forget,
what I miss – I reminiscent about…

If I would have seen You;
if I would have held You in my arms
- would I neglect that sweet memory?
Would I postpone and ignore
Your worship?

And in this way
- missing, longing, pining, crying -
You keep stirring my heart;
keep my loving alive?

Strange are the ways of life
- paradox gives it meaning.
The One Who Is Always Here
keeps me missing Him,
so that in a wild search
I surrender all my expectations
and accept what I already have.

YO-YO

Didi — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:41:30 +0000

Like a spool on a rope:
You let me fall away from You,
and greater the speed
of my drifting,
that harder the bump
and stronger the jump
back to You…

IN YOU

Didi — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:39:01 +0000

My Ba’ba’, my Ba’ba’,
how much do I miss You…
You are my mother and my father;
You are my sister and my brother;
You are my master,
my friend and my lover
- in You all my wishes drown;
in You all my dreams reconcile…

ABOVE PRINCIPLES

Didi — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:37:35 +0000

My God,
who can love Principles?!
- In You principles became alive
and that aliveness charms us.

ETERNAL HOME

Didi — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:36:02 +0000

I am a foreigner in this world;
an alien from another time and space
- when will You call me back
to Your abode?
With You something of the Eternal
touched this shore
and, oh, how I pine for It
- my real home!

BEYOND LOGIC

Didi — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:34:28 +0000

When You’ve removed Yourself
from my sight,
You’ve truly entered
my heart.

IGNORANCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Didi — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:32:44 +0000

Ignorance:
to forget Him
and to not know
that you’ve forgotten Him.

Knowledge:
to remember
that You’ve forgotten.