Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Bulleh! Ki jaana mein kaun?
One of the best Indi pop albums in a long time is Rabbi Shergill's album Bulla ki jaanna. The title song is a great tribute to a great Sufi saint, Bulleh Shah. Click here for a translation of the great song.
In the book Aghora II: Kundalini, Swami Vimalananda mentions of a beautiful incident. Bulleh Shah was used to keeping a count of his prayers using a rosary. Once he happens to overhear a conversation between a milk-maid and a friend of her. The milk maid had a lover and she was used to giving milk to him without caring for the quantity. This friend asks her why she does not care how much milk she is providing to her lover. For this the milk maid asks how she can measure her love for her lover? Overhearing this, Hazrat Bulleh Shah contemplates why he needs to measure his love for God by using the rosary, and throws away the rosary!
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
One of the best Indi pop albums in a long time is Rabbi Shergill's album Bulla ki jaanna. The title song is a great tribute to a great Sufi saint, Bulleh Shah. Click here for a translation of the great song.
In the book Aghora II: Kundalini, Swami Vimalananda mentions of a beautiful incident. Bulleh Shah was used to keeping a count of his prayers using a rosary. Once he happens to overhear a conversation between a milk-maid and a friend of her. The milk maid had a lover and she was used to giving milk to him without caring for the quantity. This friend asks her why she does not care how much milk she is providing to her lover. For this the milk maid asks how she can measure her love for her lover? Overhearing this, Hazrat Bulleh Shah contemplates why he needs to measure his love for God by using the rosary, and throws away the rosary!
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.
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