"A Gentle...Persistent Assault On The Mind"

[bobby1933]

Repeating the name of the Beloved

by Bulleh Shah

English version by J. R. Puri and T. R. Shangari
Original Language Punjabi

Repeating the name of the Beloved
I have become the Beloved myself.
Whom shall I call the Beloved now?

-- from Bulleh Shah: The Love-Intoxicated Iconoclast (Mystics of the East series), by J. R. Puri / Tilaka Raja Puri
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Comments

[cathy_edgett]

Wow!

[bobby1933]

Yes :)

[amaebi]

I've often wondered what it's like to respond to a mantra of naming. I know that a lot of people do. I just have no feel for it, myself, and have not succeeded in acquiring such a feel. I can get it as one sort of the mystical response to any sort of mantra. Though that's not exactly my cuppa, either. But I have the impression that, for those to whom the -- ah, wow, I think I understand a bit of it! It is a calling for the beloved!

I think.

[bobby1933]

Provoked to thought i am not quite able to articulate as other things are going on in my small mind. This will probably require a separate post.

[amaebi]

Clarifying: I suddenly realized that calling to/for might be a part of it. I'm SO not imagining I know the whole. :D