There is a Chinese saying: “For joy to happen it needs ‘two’”… So, in bhakti yoga, this intrinsic, joy-seeking nature of the soul causes everyone to search for love. Because God -in this act of love which is the creation- could not silence his love. And as every lover, God needed to voice his heart. And as all lovers do, he tinted his word with secrecy. I composed this poem as an attempt to unveil this esotericism. ~Art by Indrahni Ghosh~ The tongue -which by nature tastes- meets the sweet, the flavor. After which, sweetness is experienced by the one doing the tasting. Thus rasa manifests from the union of the two. And from this union an experience of oneness occurs. But, according to the bhakti yoga tradition, rasa can occur only when there is “two”. Rasa is a Sanskrit word for the flavor of the emotion experienced at the time of union with God. Rasa is of divine origin and this poem celebrates the union of the Divine Couple R...
Women's Spiritual Poetry