minnet eylemem, Seyyit Nesimi

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minnet eylemem, Seyyit Nesimi

6/7/2008

Hâr içinde biten gonca güle minnet eylemem
Arabi Farisi bilmem, dile minnet eylemem
Sırat-i müstakim üzre gözetirim rahimi
iblisin talim ettiği yola minnet eylemem

Bir acaip derde düştüm herkes gider


Oy nesimi, can Nesimi ol gani mihman iken
Yarın şefaatlarım ahmed-i muhtar iken
Cümlenin rızkını veren ol gani settar iken
Yeryüzünün halifesi hünkara minnet eylemem

                                                                      

Düzyazıya çevirme:

Dikenlerle (Balçıkta) biten goncaya karşı eziklik duygusu taşımam. Arapçayı ve Farsçayı bilmem ve dile karşı da bir eziklik duygusu taşımam. En doğru yol (Hak yolu) olarak esirgeyenin yolunu gözetirim, şeytanın gezdiği (idman yaptığı)yere de ihtiyacım yok.

Herkes kazancının peşine giderken ben bir acayip derde düştüm, bugün bulduğumu bugün yerim, yarın yiyeceğimi Tanrı bağışlar. Bu dünyanın malına zerre kadar değer vermem; çünkü maddi manevi ihtiyacımı veren Tanrı’dır, bu nedenle O’nun kuluna karşı bir eziklik duygusu taşımam.

Oy Nesimi, dost Nesimi ki (şu dünyada) elindekinden fazlasını istemeyen bir misafirim; ahirette affolmam için yolum Hz. Muhammed iken ve tüm kulların maddi - manevi ihtiyacını veren, günahların üstünü örten Tanrı iken bu dünyanın hünkârına karşı da bir eziklik duygusu taşımam.  

AÇIKLAMASI         

(1.  dörtlük: Nesimi, dikenleriyle açan bir goncaya bundan dolayı hayranlık duymamaktadır. O günün yaygın dilleri Arapça ve Farsça bilmediğini, dil bilmemenin de kendi seçimi olduğunu belirtmektedir. Bu dünyaya ait hiçbir şey Nesimi’yi ilgilendirmemektedir. Onun için asıl önemli olan insanı Allah yolundan çıkarmaya çalışan Şeytan’dan uzak durmak ve en doğru yol olan insanı kötülüklerden esirgeyen Tanrı yolunda olmaktır. O, tüm mutasavvıflar gibi Tanrı’ya kavuşma düşünce dışında hiçbir şeyle ilgilenmemektedir.)

(2.    dörtlük: Tasavvuf düşüncesinin bu dörtlükte daha da ön plana çıktığı görülmektedir. Nesimi, bu dünya nimetlerine zerre kadar değer vermediğini, mal- mülk peşinde olmadığını, bulduğuyla yetindiğini belirtmektedir. Amacı Tanrı’ya ulaşmak olduğu için, insan-ı kâmil olma yolunda maddi ve manevi yönden bir doyum içersindedir ve bu doyum kendisinden daha iyi durumda olanlar karşısında bir eziklik duymamasını sağlamaktadır. Bu dünya malı bu dünyada kalacaktır, önemli olan Tanrı’ya kötülüklerinden arınmış olarak kavuşmaktır.)  

(3.   dörtlük: Kendisine dışarıdan bakan Nesimi, yine tasavvuf düşüncesini dile getirirken ülkeyi yönetenlere sultana karşı bir başkaldırı içindedir. Tasavvuf düşüncesine göre yerin ve göğün tek sahibi Tanrı’dır, bu nedenle kendisini bu dünyada elindekiyle yetinmesini bilen bir misafir olarak tanımlıyor. Ahirette günahkâr olmadığına aracılık edecek Hz Muhammed ve tüm günahları affetme, bağışlama gücüne sahip Tanrı karşısında Tanrı’nın yeryüzündeki temsilcisi sayılan sultan, Nesimi için hiçbir şey ifade etmemektedir.




Abraham by Asaf Halet Çelebi

Abraham

Abraham
knock down the idols in me with the axe in your hand who's propping new idols to replace the broken ones?

The sun smashed my house of ice huge blocks of ice came crashing down breaking the necks of the idols Abraham who took the sun into my house?

Nebuchadnezzar turned into idols the lovely women strolling the hanging gardens having embraced the timeless gardens I have kept those women to myself

Abraham
who is it that takes my heart for an idol and breaks it?
——————

İBRAHİM
ibrâhîm
içimdeki putları devir
elindeki baltayla
kırılan putların yerine
yenilerini koyan kim

güneş buzdan evimi yıktı
koca buzlar düştü
putların boyunları kırıldı
ibrâhîm
güneşi evime sokan kim

asma bahçelerinde dolaşan güzelleri
buhtunnasır put yaptı
ben ki zamansız bahçeleri kucakladım
güzeller bende kaldı

ibrâhîm
gönlümü put sanıp da kıran kim

Asaf Halet Çelebi

Tribute to madness ... Quoting Apple ...

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Be different ...

Divine madness - Times Of India

Divine madness

articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Sep 19th 2011

A psychiatrist unfamiliar with divine madness cannot distinguish between that state and the condition of a patient who is mentally challenged. Divine madness is an extreme form of mystical experience.

It is the final and definitive state sought by mystical saints across different and divergent faiths who seek to unite with the Supreme Power.

Hasidic Jews, Sufi saints, Eastern Orthodox and Western Christianity, Vaishnava gurus, Saktas and Shaivites; all have explored and revelled in the ecstasies and agonies of divine madness.

Defining madness

Psychiatry defines madness (psychosis) as "grossly inaccurate sense of reality." Which reality? If one accepts the philosophy that considers the world as illusion and the Divine as reality, all enlightened saints by this definition suffer from 'madness'.

Enlightened saints rise above the collective madness of the culture and society they live in. For the greater part of their time, they live internally in a purificatory spiritual trance, filled with a divine version of the worldly conditions they choose to leave behind.

Renowned 'mad' saints

In Tamil Nadu, the Alvars and the Nayanars displayed extreme shades of divine madness. Kannappa Nayanar carried flowers in his hair, water in his mouth and carefully tasted the meat he carried for offering to the Vayu Shivalingam at Sri Kalahasti. Since one of the eyes on the lingam was bleeding, Kannappa plucked out his own eye and placed it on the lingam. Seeing the lingam's other eye bleeding now, Kannappa placed his foot on that eye (to "feel" the location) and plucked out his other eye. He was about to place it where his foot signified the spot when Shiva appeared before Kannappa and embraced him in appreciation of his selfless devotion. To an observer, Kannappa's acts would've certainly appeared to be that of a madman. However, Shiva recognised them to be an expression of extreme and divine madness.

In Tamil, the word Alvar means "one immersed in God". The Alvars recognised saints by their madness. To the Alvars, a saint was one who displayed signs of being mad with love of God. Such an individual would run, jump, cry, laugh, sing, dance and roll on the floor in ecstasy, totally uninhibited. In Maharashtra, Sant Tukaram declared that the first sign that appeared after he had had a vision of God was madness. Tukaram states the ideal devotee is one who is mad in the eyes of the world. He describes himself as being drunk with God-realisation, no matter that it might seem foolish or crazy.

Saint Gora Kumbar once ecstatically danced in divine madness, oblivious of the fact that he was trampling his infant son to death. Sant Namdev revealed his divine madness by calling out, "Lord, please don't take your offering without this ghee", while running behind a dog that snatched a roti prepared for prasadam.

Bengali tradition

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was the role model for all mystic madmen. In his lifetime, Chaitanya displayed a range of ecstatic states. He would jump, dance, laugh, cry, roar and act as if possessed. He would roll on the ground, perspire and change to different colours; parts of his body would swell and transform. Chaitanya's body would stretch disjointedly in an abnormal way and then there were times when Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's limbs would withdraw into themselves like a tortoise.

Rani Rasmani who owned the Kali Temple where he served as a priest, at first considered Ramakrishna Paramhamsa as mad. Ramakrishna sat and cried for long periods of time and could not keep his clothing on his body. He cleaned out houses with his hands, ate the leavings of the jackals, and threw money into the river Ganga as he considered it to be useless.

Cultivating madness

The Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition is unique in cultivating divine madness by systematic design. Here the guru leads the disciple step by step through all the levels of bhakti from sadhana to the mystic madness of bhava and prema.

Sadhana Bhakti has two aspects, Vaidhi Bhakti and Raganuga Bhakti.

Vaidhi Bhakti consists of the many external regulative practices for purifying the soul. The chief regulative practices are: chanting Krishna's name, worshipping Krishna's moorthi, reading the Bhagavata Purana, living in a place of worship and associating with bhaktas or devotees.

Raganuga Bhakti or Lila Smarana is the interior practice of visualisation meditation. Here — similar to Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Exercises for his Society of Jesus — the disciple enters Divine (Krishna) Leela in a siddha deha or spiritually perfected body joining in as an observer and minor helper.

The potent cocktail of Vaidhi and Raganuga Bhakti explode in the agony and ecstasy of bhava and prema.

Role of the guru

The role of the ecstatic guru in the divine madness of bhakti is twofold. In the first phase, he initiates the novice and leads him into divine madness. In the second phase, the guru teaches the ecstatic, 'mad' person how to control and hide these states, so he may fit effectively in 'normal' society.

Such gurus are rare and evidence of their exaltation is not the states they display (for these can be faked), but the ecstatic states they are able to induce in their disciples.

If one has the fortune to find such a guru, one must firmly hold on to his feet and follow him to divine madness.

The author is a surgeon and spiritual teacher. Follow him on speakingtree.in

Original Page: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-19/god-i/30175025_1_madness-saints-eye

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Discussion between Joseph Campbell and Martin Buber regarding the sacrifice of Abraham

Joseph Campbell, the famous American anthropologist and mythology scholar, listening to the Jewish and zionist religious scholar Martin Buber who was talking about Phoenicians and what terrible criminals they were in sacrificing their elder sons to Moloch. About fifteen minutes later, he comes to Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac. Dr Campbell addresses the speaker: "Dr Buber, how do you distinguish between the divine and diabolical invitation ?" Dr Buber inquired : " What do you mean by that ?" Dr Campbell explained : " Well some fifteen minutes earlier, you were excoriating the Phoenicians for killing their oldest sons and now you 're celebrating Abraham for having been about to do the same thing with his oldest son. So, what is the answer ?" Dr Buber said : "The answer is 'We' with a capital W - We believe that God spoke to Abraham". That was the only answer Dr Campbell received regarding this matter.


From Dr Campbell book: Transformation of myth through time.

"Each man kills the thing he loves" : poem by Oscar Wilde upon witnessing the execution of a murderer

He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And murdered in her bed.

He walked amongst the Trial Men
In a suit of shabby gray;
A cricket cap was on his head,
And his step seemed light and gay;
But I never saw a man who looked
So wistfully at the day.

I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.

I walked, with other souls in pain,
Within another ring,
And was wondering if the man had done
A great or little thing,
When a voice behind me whispered low,
"That fellow's got to swing."

Dear Christ! the very prison walls
Suddenly seemed to reel,
And the sky above my head became
Like a casque of scorching steel;
And, though I was a soul in pain,
My pain I could not feel.

I only knew what haunted thought
Quickened his step, and why
He looked upon the garish day
With such a wistful eye;
The man had killed the thing he loved,
And so he had to die.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell, and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.

If Zen garden is so aesthetically charming, then ...

What can we say about the wild and untamed Amazon jungles ...

Approach your Lord in fear and trembling ... It is the true measure of your love ... If you are able to proceed ... I am reminded with the chamberlain of "la ilaha illa Allah" symbolism ...

This is my personal take on the ordeal of prophet Abraham and the sacrifice of his son ...

Regards,
Walid.