Theos-Talk Archives (May 2011 Message tt00055)

Dear friends,



In this White Lotus Day, as we celebrate the passing of HPB, here is a
passage from the "Light of Asia" by Sir Edwin Arnold:



"If ye lay bound upon the wheel of change,
And no way were of breaking from the chain,
The Heart of boundless Being is a curse,
The Soul of Things fell Pain.

Ye are not bound! the Soul of Things is sweet,
The Heart of Being is celestial rest;
Stronger than woe is will: that which was Good
Doth pass to Better -- Best.

I, Buddh, who wept with all my brothers' tears,
Whose heart was broken by a whole world's woe,
Laugh and am glad, for there is Liberty!
Ho! ye who suffer! know

Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels,
None other holds you that ye live and die,
And whirl upon the wheel, and hug and kiss
Its spokes of agony,

Its tire of tears, its nave of nothingness.
Behold, I show you Truth! Lower than hell,
Higher than heaven, outside the utmost stars,
Farther than Brahm doth dwell,

Before beginning, and without an end,
As space eternal and as surety sure,
Is fixed a Power divine which moves to good,
Only its laws endure." [1]



Best regards, Joaquim





NOTE:



[1] "The Light of Asia" by Edwin Arnold, at
www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/books/lightasi/asia-8.htm
<http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/books/lightasi/asia-8.htm>



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