The reader is invited to peruse chapters in my book (available for free on the http://www.mothandtheflame.com website) where I have tried to capture some moments in eternity spent with Sant Darshan Singh ji, observing him over a few decades, listening to, and transcribing a few miracles of love, lyrical verses and explanations. One of my favorite of his verses that he gave out after an all night session was:

‘Please tell the darners of the night of waiting
That the cloak of my life has been torn from the very dawn.

Your life is a chandelier
of the sleeping chamber of beauty;
And mine is a candle
burning in the middle of the road,
Guiding strangers throughout the night.’

Loving regards,
Arran

Being a gardener, I wonder about the “gardener’s” line: “lightning and wind”.
The gardener, the one who reaps and sows? (and for me as a partner with G*d in creation) not only receiving the “bliss” but the elements to make it so: Vision, movement, sound, form, color, discomfort, surprise, awe.

BlesSings of renewed health to you, love and joy,
Joy

These, too, in the end were the gardener’s: the lightning and the wind
And that handful of pitiful straws I’d called my nest.

I was intrigued by the choice of tense here: past, and past perfect. He has come to realize that his earlier understanding of the world, and his place in it, was mistaken. Did he think that the lightning and the wind were something else, or someone else’s (his own? nobody’s?). Just as he thought he had a nest to call his own?

I feel that he is in a high, still, exposed place, no longer depending on old assumptions about enlightenment, sureness, self. Stripped down to a simple, pure feeling that he calls longing (and calls out, since silence and suppression of feeling are also shown to be delusions).

1. the longing culminates in Grace, and the personal experience ( knowing) of the Un-knowable ……

2. the paradox of Action ( effort) and Grace gets resolved in that experience….

3. that resolution of the paradox is the state of being, where ‘doing’ is ‘ doing’ nevermore …… where all becomes a ‘ happenning’…… Grace ……
and yet, there is no running away from ‘ doing’ what needs being done …. there is NO ‘ running away’, because you are not into doing any more …. running away cannot happen ….. all happens as it happens …. Existences Play , with narinder-ness in total acceptance of it … a part of Existential Play and Doing …

4.TILL THAT ‘HAPPENS ‘………. Doing, much Doing is the Way ….. and it is the Knowers of Truth that guide us into attitudes and conduct to strive for ……… Bhagvada geetha gives to the seeker, the threefold practise of ‘ Karma-yoga’( action , surrendering the ‘ fruit’ to the Lord),Bhakti ( devotion) and Gyana ( Knowledge of the True ) . All the scriptures speak nothing else …… they speak and shriek, in love of the seeking heart,what is the Way…. , of the Karma and ‘ Dharma’

5.The final test of ‘having arrived’ … is your conduct … and who is to judge the conduct ? …. you, yourself , of course …..! …… it is the movement of the self , for the self; … and it is the self , which chooses to die to the self , to realise the Self ….

6. Poetry Chaikhana , is Existence’s Gift to the Seekers on the sacred Path of love and Light through Ivan !!

……………… the last thought that comes to the mind is …….. that the self, when it ‘arrives’, it knows that it has not yet arrived …
…….. he, who Knows, knows now , that he ‘does not know’…….

…………….narinder

The poem selected is a song of Silence, which sings so loudly the song of LIght and Love .And, then …… your thoughts ………. you sing that song with such sweet Silence ………..

true understanding , true enlightenment is the mystical union of Silence and song , word and silence …… where the word is no more word , is Silence …. where Silence , not a word, is no more Silence , but is naught other than the word …….

listening to the song, one experiences that silence, one moves into the Silence of Being , which is termed ‘ enlightenment’ ……….. the presence of Being , just the presence, this Moment Now !

….. and the song and the commentary are One …… Darshan and Ivan are Not-two !

beloved of the Existence is Ivan, and a blessing to all is Existence’s gift of Ivan’s life dedicated to sharing all that he is ….

narinder ………..