Monthly Theme: Trust

This Love Between Us
Music: Reena Esmail
Text: Dhammapada Chapter 10 Verses 129-132, Guru Granth Sahib, Romans 13:8-12, Pahlavi Rivayat: 8a8, Kabir and Isa Upanishad, Acharanga Sutra, and Divan-i Shams-i Tabrizi Rumi

I.
All beings tremble before violence
All fear death
All love life

See yourself in others.
Then whom can you hurt?
What harm can you do?

For he who seeks happiness
By hurting those who seek happiness
Will never find happiness

For your brother and your sister, they are like you
They, too, long to be happy

Never harm them.

And when you leave this life
Then you will find happiness too

II.
How can we call someone evil, when all are creation of the One?

III.
Owe no man anything but to love one another.
For he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law.

For,
Thou Shall not kill
Thou Shall not steal
Thou Shall not bear false witness
Thou Shall not covet
And if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word:
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
The love of our neighbor hath no evil. Love, therefore, is the fulfilling of the law.
The night is passed and the day is at hand.
Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light.

IV.
All humankind would know its own lineage and stock;
never would a brother be abandoned in love by his brother nor a sister by her sister.

V.
This love between us was born from the first humans;
it cannot be eradicated
as the river its way into the ocean
what is inside me flows into you.
(For the) one who sees all beings in the Self
and the Self in all beings,
(he) harbors no hatred;

To the seer,
all things become the Self.

What delusion, what sorrow can there be
for him (the one?) who beholds such oneness?

Are you searching for me?

I am in the next seat
My shoulder rests against yours.

The (Lord) is inside you, and also inside me;

(just as) the bloom is hidden in the seed.

VI.
If the mind is sinful,
blamable,
intent on works,
acting on impulses,
producing cutting and splitting,
quarrels, faults and pains,
if it injures living beings,
it kills creatures,
then one should not employ such a mind in action.

If the speech is sinful,
blamable,
intent on works,
acting on impulses.
producing cutting and splitting,
quarrels, faults and pains,
if it injures living beings,
if it kills creatures,
then one should not utter that sinful speech.

VII.
The lamps may be different, but the Light is the same
All religions, all this singing, one song.

I have bestowed on each one a unique mode of worship, I have given every one a unique form of expression.

I look not at the tongue and speech, I look at the spirit and the inward feeling.

Religions are many, God is one.
The lamps are different, but the Light is the same: it comes from Beyond.

Concentrate on the essence,
Concentrate on the Light.

Concentrate on the Light.