Radiant Wisdom of the Mystics

May you be truly inspired by this rendition of the illuminating booklet "Seven Steps to the Temple of Light" by Uranda. Published by The Emissaries 4th Edition 1977

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Your Love 

Let Your love play upon my voice and rest on my silence.

Let it pass through my heart into all my movements.

Let Your love, like stars, shine in the darkness of my sleep and dawn in my awakening.

Let it burn in the flame of my desires and flow in all currents of my own love.

Let me carry Your love in my life as a harp does its music;

and give it back to You at last with my life. 

Rabindranath Tagore

The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore. Selected and edited by Herbert F. Vetter. © 1997 Herbert F. Vetter. Tuttle Publishing.

The Grasp Of Your Hand

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers,

Rabindranath Tagore

The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore. Selected and edited by Herbert F. Vetter. © 1997 Herbert F. Vetter. Tuttle Publishing.

Shvetashvatara Upanishad 6.23

He who has highest Bhakti (love)

of Deva (God),

just like his Deva,

so for his Guru,

To him who is high-minded,

these teachings will be illuminating.

~ Shvetashvatara Upanishad 6.23 Translated by Paul Deussen

When I lived in a house 

"When I lived in a house

I heard a monk's words

and saw in those words

nirvana

the unchanging state.

I am the one

who left son and daughter,

money and grain,

cut off my hair

and set out into homelessness.

Under training 

on the straight way,

desire and hatred fell away,

along with the obsessions

of the mind

that combine with them.

After my ordination,

I remembered 

I had been born before.

The eye of heaven became clear.

The elements fo body and mind

I saw as other,

born from a cause,

subject to decay.

I have given up the obsessions

of the mind.

I am quenched and cool."

Sakula (6th-5th Centuries BCE?)

(translated by Susan Murcott)

Voices of Light

1999, edited by Aliki Barnstone

Shambhala Publications, Inc.

My Voyage

I thought that my voyage had come to its end 

Rabindranath Tagore

The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore. Selected and edited by Herbert F. Vetter. © 1997 Herbert F. Vetter. Tuttle Publishing.

My Polar Star

I have made You the polar star of my

Rabindranath Tagore

The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore. Selected and edited by Herbert F. Vetter. © 1997 Herbert F. Vetter. Tuttle Publishing.

My Friend

I have come to You to take Your touch before I begin my day.

Let Your eyes rest upon my eyes for a while.

Let me take to my work the assurance of Your comradeship, my Friend.

Fill my mind with Your music to last through the desert of noise.

Let Your love's sunshine kiss the peaks of my thoughts and linger in my life's valley where the harvest ripens. 

Rabindranath Tagore

The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore. Selected and edited by Herbert F. Vetter. © 1997 Herbert F. Vetter. Tuttle Publishing.

Time To Sit Quietly 

I ask for a moment’s indulgence to sit by Your side.

Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs,

and the bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove.

Now it is time to sit quietly, face to face with You,

Rabindranath Tagore

The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore. Selected and edited by Herbert F. Vetter. © 1997 Herbert F. Vetter. Tuttle Publishing.

This Is My Prayer

Give me the supreme courage of love, this is my prayer - the courage to speak, to do, to suffer at Your will, to leave all things or be left alone.

Strengthen me on errands of danger, honor me with pain, and help me climb to that difficult mood that sacrifices daily to You.

Give me the supreme confidence of love, this is my prayer - the confidence that belongs to life in death, to victory in defeat, to the power hidden in the frailest beauty, to that dignity in pain which accepts hurt but disdains to return it. 

Rabindranath Tagore

The Heart of God: Prayers of Rabindranath Tagore. Selected and edited by Herbert F. Vetter. © 1997 Herbert F. Vetter. Tuttle Publishing.