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When I see His ways, I sing

Namdev, Namdev poetry, Yoga / Hindu, Yoga / Hindu poetry, Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama) poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Sikh poetry by Namdev
(1270 - 1350) Timeline

English version by
Nirmal Dass

Original Language
Hindi

Yoga / Hindu : Vaishnava (Krishna/Rama)
Sikh
14th Century

When I see His ways, I sing.
Thus I find peace, O brothers.

O brothers, lose yourself in the Word;
the true guru shall lead you to Deva.

Where light shimmers,
there resounds the unsounded Word.

Light blends with light:
this I perceived by the guru's grace.

There were rubies bright as lightning
in my own lotus-room.

He is near, not far.
He fills my very breath.

Where shines the eternal Sun,
there a lamp also dimly burns.

I finally understood by the guru's grace.
Now the slave Namdeva is blended with the Eternal.

 

 

-- from Songs and Saints from the Adi Granth, Translated by Nirmal Dass

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Themes

  Light
  Lotus
  Sun
 
 


Recommended Books


Hindi Padavali of Namdev, by Winand M. Callewaert / Mukund Lath
Namdev, His Mind and Art: A linguistic Analysis of Namdev's Poetry, by R. N. Maurya
Songs and Saints from the Adi Granth, Translated by Nirmal Dass

 

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