Hoopoe with a crown of wisdom

Hoopoe with a crown of wisdom

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Hoopoe with a crown of wisdom

Under the shadow-tree of reality

Gathered birds headed by the old wise hoopoe;

One asked: “Are there sounds that come only from sounds?

Words only from words, sans sense or sight or song?”

“But there is music that needs no musician,

Day that needs no sun, self-rapt and alone.”

And they reached the lake of bright tranquillity,

And saw own images truer than themselves.

4 September 2024

प्रज्ञायाः मुकुटेन सह हुपो

यथावास्तविकतस्य छायावृक्षस्य अधः

सङ्गृहीताः पक्षिणः वृद्धैः बुद्धिमान् हुपोभिः प्रमुखाः;

एकः अपृच्छत्- “किं ध्वनयः ये केवलं ध्वनेभ्यः आगच्छन्ति सन्ति ?

शब्दाभ्यां एव शब्दाः, अर्थहीनाः न च दृष्टिः न च गीतानि?”

“किन्तु अस्ति सङ्गीतं यस्य सङ्गीतकारस्य आवश्यकता नास्ति,

दिनस्य न प्रयोजनं सूर्यस्य, आत्मनः व्याप्तस्य, एकान्ते च” इति ।

ते च उज्ज्वलशान्तिसरोवरं प्राप्तवन्तः,

स्वतः सत्यतराणि च स्वप्रतिमाः दृष्टवन्तः।

४ सितम्बर २०२४

2 responses to “Hoopoe with a crown of wisdom”

  1. RY Deshpande Avatar
    RY Deshpande

    यत्र सुप्तो न कंचन कामं कामयते न कंचन स्वप्नं पश्यति तत्सुषुप्तम् । सुषुप्तस्थान एकीभूतः प्रज्ञानघन एवानन्दमयो ह्यानन्दभुक् चेतोमुखः प्राज्ञस्तृतीयः पादः ॥

    5) When one sleepeth and yearneth not with any desire, nor seeth any dream, that is the perfect slumber. He whose place is the perfect slumber, who is become Oneness, who is wisdom gathered into itself, who is made of mere delight, who enjoyeth delight unrelated, to whom conscious mind is the door, Prajna, the Lord of Wisdom, He is the third.

    https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/18/the-mandoukya-upanishad

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    RY Deshpande

    The all-knowing Creator (Prajñānghana)

    A third spirit stood behind, their hidden cause,

    A mass of superconscience closed in light,

    Creator of things in his all-knowing sleep. ||149.19||

    All from his stillness came as grows a tree;

    He is our seed and core, our head and base. ||149.20||

    All light is but a flash from his closed eyes:

    An all-wise Truth is mystic in his heart,

    The omniscient Ray is shut behind his lids:

    He is the Wisdom that comes not by thought,

    His wordless silence brings the immortal word. ||149.21||

    He sleeps in the atom and the burning star,

    He sleeps in man and god and beast and stone:

    Because he is there the Inconscient does its work,

    Because he is there the world forgets to die,

    He is the centre of the circle of God,

    He is the circumference of Nature’s run. ||149.22||

    His slumber is an Almightiness in things,

    Awake, he is the Eternal and Supreme. ||149.23||

    [Savitri Book Eleven]

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