Sacred Heart #10

Between the conscious and the unconscious, the mind has put up a swing:
all earth creatures, even the supernovas, sway between these two trees,
and it never winds down.

Angels, animals, humans, insects by the million, also the wheeling sun and moon;
ages go by, and it goes on.

Everything is swinging: heaven, earth, water, fire,
and the secret one slowly growing a body.
Kabir saw that for fifteen seconds, and it made him a servant for life.

Kabir (1440 – 1518) was a famous Indian devotional mystic, poet and saint. Today, Kabir is an important personality in Hinduism, Sikhism and in Sufism.  

When reading this poem picture a gigantic pendulum swinging back and forth in an eternal movement. The mind has created this pendulum and the two poles of the swing create the alternation between the conscious and the unconscious, the known and the unknown. It reminds me of the Great Breath of Brahma as described in Hinduism.

Within these arcs are people and plants, animals and angels, supernovas and suns. It contains everything and all are moving in an endless rhythm of existence and non-existence.

Within this movement, the secret one is slowing growing a body! Who is this secret one? What is this body? In just 15 seconds Kabir knew and “it made him a servant for life.”