{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sok/sok77.htm","path":"hin/sok/sok77.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sok/sok77.htm","text":"III. 48. t\u00fb surat nain nih\u00e2r\nOPEN your eyes of love, and see Him who pervades this world I consider it well, and know that this is your own country.\nWhen you meet the true Guru, He will awaken your heart;\nHe will tell you the secret of love and detachment, and then you will know indeed that He transcends this universe. {p. 119}\nThis world is the City of Truth, its maze of paths enchants the heart:\nWe can reach the goal without crossing the road, such is the sport unending.\nWhere the ring of manifold joys ever dances about Him, there is the sport of Eternal Bliss.\nWhen we know this, then all our receiving and renouncing is over;\nThenceforth the heat of having shall never scorch us more.\nHe is the Ultimate Rest unbounded:\nHe has spread His form of love throughout all the world.\nFrom that Ray which is Truth, streams of new forms are perpetually springing: and He pervades those forms.\nAll the gardens and groves and bowers are abounding with blossom; and the air breaks forth into ripples of joy. {p. 120}\nThere the swan plays a wonderful game,\nThere the Unstruck Music eddies around the Infinite One;\nThere in the midst the Throne of the Unheld is shining, whereon the great Being sits--\nMillions of suns are shamed by the radiance of a single hair of His body.\nOn the harp of the road what true melodies are being sounded! and its notes pierce the heart:\nThere the Eternal Fountain is playing its endless life-streams of birth and death.\nThey call Him Emptiness who is the Truth of truths, in Whom all truths are stored!\nThere within Him creation goes forward, which is beyond all philosophy; for philosophy cannot attain to Him: {p. 121}\nThere is an endless world, O my Brother! and there is the Nameless Being, of whom naught can be said.\nOnly he knows it who has reached that region: it is other than all that is heard and said.\nNo form, no body, no length, no breadth is seen there: how can I tell you that which it is?\nHe comes to the Path of the Infinite on whom the grace of the Lord descends: he is freed from births and deaths who attains to Him.\nKab\u00eer says: \"It cannot be told by the words of the mouth, it cannot be written on paper:\nIt is like a dumb person who tastes a sweet thing--how shall it be explained?\"\n{p. 122}","title":"LXXVI","type":"page"}