So Much Magnificence

[David Baxter PhD]

Ocean of Love/ So Much Magnificence - Miten/ Deva Premal
Dec 27, 2009

An Ocean of love lives within each heart. It is the source of peace for the soul and the source of peace for the world. Exquisite music by Miten/ Deva Premal that is a mixture of song, mantra, and prayer.



Music: So Much Magnificence by Miten with Deva Premal from the album The Essence, available at Deva Premal & Miten

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Music: Deva Premal and Miten from the album Songs for the Inner Lover.

Deva Premal and Miten are spiritual companions who travel around the world, singing and sharing their songs with all of us. They met at Osho?s Ashram in India and have been together for a long time.

The poem, So much Magnificence, is a beautiful song inspired in one of Kabir?s poem. Kabir was born in 1440 and died in 1518. He was born in Benares, India. He was a weaver and decided to write because he was inspired by the Sufi poetry and by Rumi, a spiritual Persian mystic master.

Poem of Kabir
The darkness of night
is coming along fast,
and the shadows of love
close in the body and the mind.
Open the window to the west,
and disappear into the air inside you.
Near your breastbone there is an open flower.
Drink the honey that is all around that flower.
Waves are coming in:
There is so much magnificence near
the ocean.
Listen: sound of immense seashells!
Sound of bells!
Kabir says: "Friend, listen,
This is what I have to say:
The Guest I love is inside me!"

~ Kabir

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Translated by Robert Bly, The Kabir Book (Beacon Press)
Images: Corbisimages and devapremalmiten.com

CD available here: Miten with Deva Premal | Songs for the Inner Lover | CD Baby Music Store

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[David Baxter PhD]