… Love alone is devoid of all purpose, and a spark of divine love sets fire to all purposes. The goal of life in creation is to arrive at purposelessness, which is the state of Reality.
– Meher Baba
दर्द सह कर भी तेरा नाम लिए जाते हैं
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वही आबले हैं वही जलन
मेरे सोज़-ए-दिल में कमी नहीं
जो लगा के आग गए हो तुम
वो लगी हुई है बुझी नहीं
न बुझाओ तुम न बुझेगी ये
न ये बुझने वाली लगी है अब
मैं जो जलता हूँ मुझे जलने दो
के मजा ही अपनी जलन में है
तेरी याद ऐसी है बा-वफ़ा
पस-ए-मर्ग भी ना हुई जुदा
तेरी याद में हम मिट गए
तेरी याद दिल से मिटी नहीं
मेरी ज़िंदगी पे न मुस्कुरा
मुझे ज़िंदगी का अलम नहीं
जिसे तेरे ग़म से हो वास्ता
वो ख़िज़ाँ बहार से कम नहीं
वही ज़िंदगी वही मरहले
वही कारवाँ वही रास्ते
मगर अपने अपने मक़ाम पर
कभी तुम नहीं कभी हम नहीं
किसी और की ये जबीं नहीं
ये मेरी जबीन-ए-नियाज़ है
कि ये जिसके दर पे भी झुक गई
तो फिर उस के दर से उठी नहीं
मेरा कुफ़्र हासिल-ए-ज़ोहद है
मेरा ज़ोहद हासिल-ए-कुफ़्र है
मेरी बंदगी वो है बंदगी
जो रहीन-ए-दैर-ओ-हरम नहीं
मुझे रास आएँ ख़ुदा करे
यही इश्तिबाह की साअतें
उन्हें ऐतबार-ए-वफ़ा तो है
मुझे ऐतबार-ए-सितम नहीं
न वो शान-ए-जब्र-ए-शबाब है
न वो रंग-ए-क़हर-ए-इताब है
दिल-ए-बे-क़रार पे इन दिनों
है सितम यही कि सितम नहीं
न फ़ना मेरी न बक़ा मेरी
मुझे ऐ ‘शकील’ न ढूँढिए
मैं किसी का हुस्न-ए-ख़याल हूँ
मेरा कुछ वजूद ओ अदम नहीं
दर्द सह कर भी तेरा नाम लिए जाते हैं
तेरे दीवाने तुझे याद किए जाते हैं
उनसे कहते नहीं क्यों जलवा दिखया मुझको
लोग दीवाने पे इलज़ाम दिये जाते हैं
जाने वाले तेरे कदमों के निशां बाक़ी हैं
हम तो सजदे उन्हीं राहों पे किए जाते हैं
तू नवाज़े न नवाज़े तेरी मर्जी ऐ दोस्त
हम तो सजदे तेरी चौखट पे किये जाते हैं
एक हम हैं, के हमें कुछ भी नहीं पास ए वफ़ा
एक वो हैं, के करम हम पे किए जाते हैं
हम परस्तार ए मोहब्बत हैं हमें जाम से क्या
वो निगाहों से पिलाते हैं पिये जाते हैं
ऐ ‘फ़ना’ इश्क़ का दस्तूर तुझे क्या मालूम
इश्क़ में दिल ही नहीं सर भी दिए जाते हैं
शुक्रिया तेरा रफ़ूगर हमें इतना तो बता
क्या मोहब्बत में गिरेबाँ भी सिये जाते हैं
दर्द सह कर भी तेरा नाम लिए जाते हैं …
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May 1937,
… Baba stayed in Nasik for a few days, and on the morning of 28 May before breakfast, he delivered this discourse on love (which Nadine wrote down):
What is love? To give and never to ask. What leads to this love? Grace. What leads to this grace? Grace is not cheaply bought. It is gained by being always ready to serve and reluctant to be served.
There are many points which lead to this grace:
Wishing well for others at the cost of one’s self;
Never backbiting;
Tolerance supreme;
Trying not to worry (which is almost impossible, but try anyway);
Thinking more of the good points in others and less of their bad points.
When Christ said, “Love your neighbor,” he did not mean fall in love with your neighbor. If you do one of the above perfectly the rest must follow. Then grace descends. Have love; and when you have love, union with the Beloved is certain. When you love, you give. When you fall in love, you want. Love me in any way you like, but love me. It is all the same.
Love me. I am pure, the source of purity, so I consume all weaknesses in my fire of love.
Give your sins, weaknesses, virtues all to me — but give. I would not mind even one falling in love with me; I can purify. But when you fall in love with anybody else you cannot call it love.
Love is pure as God. It gives and never asks; that needs grace.
Yogis in the Himalayas, with their long eyelashes and beards meditating for years, sitting in samadhi, they have not this love. It is so precious. The mother dies for her child — a supreme sacrifice — yet it is not love. Heroes die for their country, but that is not love.
You can only know love when you have love. You cannot understand it theoretically, you have to experience it.
Majnun loved Laila. This was pure love, not physical, not intellectual, but spiritual love. He saw Laila in everything and everywhere. He never thought of eating, drinking, sleeping without thinking of her. All the time he wanted her happiness. He would have gladly seen her married to another if he knew that would make her happy.
At last, it led him to me. When you love there is no thought of self, but of the Beloved every second continually.
You would not be able to have this love even if you tried. It requires grace. But trying leads to grace.
What is God? Love. Infinite love.
https://www.lordmeher.org/rev/index.jsp?pageBase=page.jsp&nextPage=1843
October 1960,
… On Wednesday, 12 October 1960 (the original date for the end of his fast), Baba had some rice and dal, and also buttermilk and soup. But eating the food only made his pain greater, because swallowing hurt terribly.
Strangely, Baba slept well that night. However, the next day, 13 October, the pain was the same all over his face. It was more concentrated on the right temple, ear lobe and root of the tongue. Scabs were forming on the blisters. These areas were fomented and ointment was applied. Two vitamin injections were also given. Baba would complain of a “screwing” type of pain inside his right ear that made him feel as if he were now going deaf.
While discussing matters in the hall with the mandali later that day, Baba expounded on the purposelessness in infinite Existence:
Reality is Existence infinite and eternal. Existence has no purpose by virtue of its being real, infinite and eternal. Existence exists. Being Existence it has to exist. Hence, Existence, the Reality, cannot have any purpose. It just is. It is self-existing.
Everything — all the things and all the beings — in Existence has a purpose. All things and beings have a purpose and must have a purpose, or else they cannot be in existence as what they are. Their very being in existence proves their purpose; and their sole purpose in existing is to become free of purpose — meaning, to become purposeless.
Purposelessness is of Reality; to have a purpose is to be lost in falseness. Everything exists only because it has a purpose. The moment that purpose has been accomplished, everything disappears and Existence is manifested as self-existing Self.
Purpose presumes a direction, and since Existence, being everything and everywhere, cannot have any direction — directions must always be in nothing and lead nowhere.
Hence, to have a purpose is to create a false goal.
Love alone is devoid of all purpose, and a spark of divine love sets fire to all purposes. The goal of life in creation is to arrive at purposelessness, which is the state of Reality.
https://www.lordmeher.org/rev/index.jsp?pageBase=page.jsp&nextPage=4720
Meher Songs 