The Story Of Swami Rama - Holybook

The Story Of Swami Rama
Her mouth was open wide,
And she was devotmng the moon with her eyes!
The moon leapt from the windows of her eyes,
into the sacred temple of youth,
And there the moon melted away in the clear
lake of her heart!
O Moon! Stop! you thief! what?
Entering without permission into other people's
homes?
Like this! O bold Moon!
The waters of the lake have merely thy face
reflected,
But thou hast made the maiden's heart thy
home,
Ah! the secret that the scientist knows not,
The mystery that his telescope reveals not,
The solution that the mathematician finds not,
The riddle that Astronomy unravels not,
Thou thus revealest that secret in the hut of a
mere weaver 5 .
O Moon! what wayward wandering thine is this,
What is this calm luxury in that little heart?
And why strayest thou in the huts of the poor
and the lowly like this?
5
The reference is to Kabir and Kabir's self-realised daughter
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