Yoga - abdu's song: mankind is but an atom of a moment's span

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abdu's song: mankind is but an atom of a moment's span

azo64000@yahoo.co.uk

2006-05-05, 11:29 am

[What know'st thou, man, of Life?
and yet, forever twixt the womb, the grave,
Thou pratest of the Coming Life,
of Heav'n and Hell thou fain must rave.

The world is old and thou art young;
the world is large and thou art small;
Cease, atom of a moment's span,
To hold thyself an All-in-All!]

Sufi Hajj Abdu in The Kasidah by sir Richard Burton
vive!
azo,
a humble servant of hajj abdu,follower of the
[the teaching of the school abhorr'd
"That maketh man automaton,
mind a secretion, soul a word."]
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