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Lime

Ivan M. Granger, Ivan M. Granger poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry,  poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Yoga / Hindu poetry by Ivan M. Granger
(1969 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic
Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist
Contemporary

They say justice is found
beneath a lime tree --

but I come seeking
the scent
of its white blossom.

 

2003

 

 

Themes

  Bower
  Perfume
  Spring Blossom
  Tree
 


Recommended Books


For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics, by Roger Housden
Poems of Awakening: An International Anthology of Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Betsy Small

 

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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

There is an old Celtic tradition that says justice is best handed out beneath a lime tree. I first heard this when I lived on Maui, where I had a lime tree growing out front. I walked outside and stood before the lime tree in blossom and I was enveloped in the embrace of its sweet smell.

The law of justice, the karmic need to 'balance one's accounts,' is always superceded by the blissful release eternally offered by the living present. In the workings of divine law, the healing balm of love takes precedence in all things, even over justice.

 

 


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