Spiritual Athlete Poem of
Kabir that Rober Bly Perform in video
_"The spiritual athlete often changes the color of
his clothes, and his mind remains gray and loveless. He sits inside
a shrine room all day, so that the guest has to go outdoors and praise
the rocks. Or he drills holes in his ears, his beard grows enormous
and matted, people mistake him for a goat.... he goes out into wilderness
areas, strangles his impulses, and makes himself neither male nor fame....
he shaves his skull, puts his robe in an orange vat, reads the Bhagavad-Gita,
and becomes a terrific talker. Kabir says: actually you are going in
a hearse to the country of death, bound hand and foot!
Kabir Ecstatic Poems Version
by Robert Bly. No one knows much about Kabir. A few life
details and few stories are told over and over. He was evidently not
a monk or an ascetic, but was married, had children, and made his living
by weaving cloth at home. Some say he was the son of Moslem parents,
other that he was found on the street and brought up by a Moslem couple.
There may have been in the house books of the great Sufi
poets of two hundred years before, such as Rumi. So it is possible Kabir
knew the eccentric energy of the Sufis, the heretical or rebellious
branch of the Mohammedans, by the time he was sixteen or seventeen .
It is said he then asked Ramananda, the great Hindu ascetic,
to initiate him. Ramananda refused Kabir, saying, “No, you’re
a Moslem.” Kabir knew that Ramananda went down to the Ganges each
day before dawn, and Kabir lay down on the steps. Ramananda walked out
in the half dark and stepped on the boy’s body. Astonished, he
leapt up and cried, “Rama!”Kabir then jumped up and said,
“You spoke the name of God in my presence. You initiated me. I’m
your student! “Ramananda then, it is said, initiated him. Kabir
became a powerful spiritual man and poet.
E-card
- 2__"Friend, hope for
the Guest while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive!
Think … and think … while you are alive. What you call "salvation"
belongs to the time before death."
E-card-3__"The
idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body
is rotten - that is all fantasy. What is found now is found then. If
you find nothing now, You will simply end up with an apartment in the
city of Death."
Book "The soul is here
for its own joy" Robert Bly Translation
E-card-1__"The
idea that the soul will join with the ecstatic just because the body
is rotten that is all fantasy. Then if you find nothing now, you will
simply end up with an apartment in the city of death."
E-card-4__"The
flute of interior time is played whether we hear it or not."
E-card-5__"I
know the sound of the ecstatic flute, but I don't know whose flute it
is."
Watch
Robert Bly performs the poetry of Kabir at one of
the Mythic Journeys conferences. Musical accompaniment by Eugene Friesen
and Arto Tuncboyaciyan.
