The Cosmic Dance (Sufi) & Rumi

 

           The Cosmic Dance (Sufi) 

                      c.1650 Isfahan

     An ecstatic union of dervishes, the Simurgh, birds, fish, insects, and animals
all swept up in the current of the Cosmic Dance!!

                            Maulana Jalal ud-Din  Muhammad Balkhi
                                                 (1207-1273)

                                                 ~*~  Rumi ~*~

      
از جمادی مُردم و نامی شدم — وز نما مُردم به حیوان سرزدم
مُردم از حیوانی و آدم شدم — پس چه ترسم؟ کی ز مردن کم شدم؟
حملهٔ دیگر بمیرم از بشر — تا برآرم از ملائک بال و پر
وز ملک هم بایدم جستن ز جو — کل شیء هالک الا وجهه
بار دیگر از ملک پران شوم — آنچه اندر وهم ناید آن شوم
  پس عدم گردم عدم چو ارغنون — گویدم کانا الیه راجعون


'I died as a mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was Man.
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar
With angels bless'd; but even from angelhood
I must pass on: all except God doth perish.
When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,
I shall become what no mind e'er conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones,
To Him we shall return.' 

                                                           ~*~

Rumi's epitaph reads:
     'When we are dead,
           seek not our tomb in the earth,
                but find it in the hearts of men.'




                                               ~*~RUMI LIVES HERE ! ~*~



Eid Mubarak - Aug.2012 !

~ *Transcendent Journey * ~ Autobiography of Swami Jnanananda Giri .*.¸¸.*~ ☆~*.¸¸.•*`*•.✽

                              "Read the book and know the book is reading you."

    Swamiji said this when I spoke about the book and the people who asked
how they could get it...
    'Transcendent Journey', the Autobiography of Swami Jnanananda Giri 
may be had now only by Swamiji Himself when meeting him, as a prasad,
this too, at His own discretion.  ~*~

     Swamiji also said, "As a child I used to read the family Bible that had been in
our house for generations.  It was over 200 yrs. old and was the first printing
in Europe in German. It weighed 15 kgs!  It said that God first made the whole
creation of earth, plants, animals, etc. and then He made the Human beings.
When He made the Human Beings He put His own breath in them.
This astonished me very much.  I asked my mother why God didn't put His
breath in the animals and everything else also, why only in the human beings?
My mother said, 'Because He knew that the Humans would forget it!'
We would forget that the breath is God's, that all have the same breath, and
that it is God's property."


                                     ~*~*~Ananta Hari Om!~*~*~

 

ℳακє ฿ʀɨgհŧ ☼☼ ♥☼¥øʊʀ Krἶʂհɴα Jαɴαmαṧհŧαmἶ!✼♥

 
"Chaturbhujam Ghanshyamam
Lasanmakarkundalam.Sureshvanditam
Mathuresham Namamyaham"
                                                                 ✼

I ௰ɨʂн Ƒøʀ ¥øʊ Ѧℓℓ Ƭհɛ ฿ɛαʊŧɨғʊℓ Ƭհɨɴgs➸
Ƭհαŧ ℳακє ฿ʀɨgհŧ✼☆ ♥
¥øʊʀ Krἶʂհɴα Jαɴαmαṧհŧαmἶ * ~
௰ɨŧհ ₲ʀɛαŧ ἶnŧɛɴṧɨŧγ!


                                                  ☼✦Jai Sri Krsna!✦☼ 

Sankirtan Samrat Swami Mukund Hariji Maharaj, Delhi. 1973 ~

Swami Parvatikar - ANCIENT INDIAN STRINGS

Swami Parvatikar - ANCIENT INDIAN STRINGS

GREAT BEENKARS-Swami Parvatikar-raag pilu pahadi.

Badrinath ~ Dattatreya Rama Rao Parvatikarji Maharaj

 

  Swami Parvatikarji Maharaj  in Badrinath

Vina Maharajji

Vina Maharajji  Badrinath Dham

                      Swami Parvatikarji Maharaj and Baba Sripadji Sri Badrinathji c. 1975

    Swami Dattatreya Rama Rao Parvatikarji (1916-1990), is seen here
playing his 'Brahma Veena', as he called it, at the Badrinath Temple.
    He said it was the only one left in existence and that he had to help in the
making of it himself, getting several strings added to the lower side (like a
harp).  It had a truly mystical sound.  Swamiji would be here during the entire
season that the presiding deity resided in Badri Nath Dham. Because of an
 introduction letter from Babaji, I was able to stay as a guest with a family
of Swamiji's dear desciples, who succeeded in persuading me to stay on
one month instead of three days! He would daily sit in the temple compound
and would teach me the swaras, and when others would come we would all
sing kirtana lead by him. "Sriman Narayan, Narayan". Interesting was his
morning practice of first having bath in Tapt Kund, a natural hot mineral
spring, and then immediately having an ice cold bath in the grace-filled
river of Alakananda.  And after this he would do yogasanas in the sunshine
beside the river, ending them with Shishasana, headstand, and that alone for at
least 15 mins.
          
   Although Swamiji spent all his Spring and Summer days in Sri Badrinath
Dham, we were surprised to see that his own 'Ishtadev', form of worship
was Sri Narsinghji Bhagavan! That amazing image could be held in one
hand, and he was seated on a throne with the child Prahladji on one knee
and Sri Laxmi Devi on the other.
   Whenever I set with Swamiji in inside the temple area we would sing
and he would tell us amazing stories of the grace of Sri Badri Narayana,
and His devotees.  Only once did I see him in Sri Vrindavan, when there
was the special music festival there in Niddhi Van of Swami Hari Dasji
Samaro.
         Several times He has been on TV, the 'Door Darshan featured
 him playing his unique 'Brahma Veena' and singing beautiful bhajans.
          He is one of the very beautiful saints of India whose grace and
blessings I will always treasure.
                 
                                                          

                                                                Baba Sripadji in Badrinath
                                                                 

                                                                     Swami Vimalanandaji

                                                                               

                                                                               

                                                                             

Swami Vimalanandaji and Baba Sripadji at Badrinathji 

just before Deevali!!   

     

                                               
                                                                 
                                                        ~*~ Jai Jai Badri Vishal! ~*~