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About Michael MathiasTimeline (1940 - ) |
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(9) My Blind Musicians (from Tagore: Gallery of Sketches)
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("When the string of the mind is properly attuned to the universe then at
each point the universal song can awaken its sympathetic vibrations. It was because of this music roused within that nothing then felt trivial to the writer... so we, when filled with the song of youth, became aware that the harp of the universe has its variously tuned strings everywhere stretched.... I had so long viewed the world with external vision only, and so had been unable to see its universal aspect of joy... This experience seemed to tell me of the stream of melody issuing over space and time, re-echoing thence as waves of joy which float right back to the Source... the creation of The Arch-Poet is thus returning back to Him in a flood of joy...." ) -Tagore," My Reminiscences." pp. 222-223 (Age 50 years old) Behold, The Blind Musicians Play My Song of Unlimited Love! Let The Poets become Living Poems So that My Lovers will sing to Me. They shall praise Me all the day long And at night be transfigured into My Song. For as The Musicians surrender their fingers unto Me, They see neither notes nor bars But the Unlimited Music of My Presence. They are blinded by Me. Only I see Where their fingers must go. They are blind in My Light Letting My Music play through them. And the Music they play is Nameless Because I Am The Only Name Wordless Because I Am The Only Word. But The Poets who hear Me recognize My Voice of Love Singing into them and through them forever. Let My Musicians record My Song as it arrives breaking My Silence! Copyright (C) Michael Mathias, Collected Works, 1993-2005
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