“You have learnt so much
And read a thousand books.
Have you ever read your Self?
You have gone to mosques and temples.
Have you ever visited your soul?”
Bulleh Shah, the revered Sufi poet, composes with a serenity that seeps into the very marrow of the soul. His verses possess a rare alchemical force – piercing through the heart of human suffering, soothing it, cleansing it, and ultimately embalming the seekers anguish.
His beautiful poetic universe portrays the restless seeker – one tormented by an unquenchable longing for the Beloved – who wanders through innumerable shrines and sacred sanctuaries, only to confront the profound futility inherent in any search directed outward.
Bulleh Shah’s paradox-laden verses redirect the seeker’s gaze inward, toward to the quiet inner chamber of self-awareness where truest pilgrimage unfolds. Here, the parched yearning of the soul is finally quenched, for the seeker awakens into a higher consciousness – discovering the Beloved not as a distant divinity, but as the luminous essence permeating the inner sanctuaries of one’s own being.
Through my poem, I have sought to embody the journey from –
- External wandering to inward discovery
- Ritualistic seeking to silence and surrender
- Intellectual understanding to experiential Ishq
- The turbulence of ego to the grace of dissolving into divine will
- Restlessness to serene inner blossoming
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