Though he has no form

by Muktabai

English version by Willis Barnstone


Though he has no form
my eyes saw him,

his glory is fire in my mind
that knows

his secret inner form
invented by the soul.

What is
beyond the mind

has no boundary.
In it our senses end.

Mukta says: Words cannot hold him
yet in him all words are.

-- from The Shambhala Anthology of Women's Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Aliki Barnstone

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