You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
....
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
My dear brother in law died unexpectedly on Thanksgiving week. Today is his memorial.
His son, a musician, will be singing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
Some artists have added to, deleted and re-written Cohen's gritty, humble and mystic lyrics. There are several versus, different versions. It's rumored that Cohen wrote 18 verses in the complete song. So many different artists have picked and chosen their favorites.
This is the abbreviated version attributed to Cohen himself by Amazon Lyrics.
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did—well, really—what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light in every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah
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@ s*
Just imagine….
You are the head of RSSB
And you figure out one thing.
(I’ll tell you in a separate comment what that ONE thing is)
From that one thing, all the following becomes OBVIOUS.
I mean so obvious, that it’s laughable.
1. That there CANNOT POSSIBLY be any regions, lords, kal, devil, Sat purush, soul, oversoul, god, etc etc etc.
2. There is NO SEPARATE SELF (Soul)
3. Any of the above that any person experiences is 100% definitely their IMAGINATION
4. There IS however, and VERY CLEARLY, the ILLUSION of a separate self. There appears to be a ME here inside somewhere (but it cannot be pinpointed)
The following conclusions can be made from the above:
If there is no separate self, then clearly, nobody can come to “collect” that non-soul, and there would be nowhere to take it.
There can be no “inner master” and no “inner journey”
There CAN and WILL be an IMAGINARY inner master and an IMAGINARY inner journey.
So – that’s the foundation laid.
So now: as the head of RSSB, you have inherited a lot of nonsense, and you know it.
What in heaven’s name will you do with it all?
You have TWO choices:
(1) You just come straight out and say it as it is.
(2) You slowly, but surely create doubt
If you do the former, people are going to think you have “lost it.”
The “it” here refers to your “marbles” (your sanity).
In the second case, they are going to be confused.
Which would you choose?
You want to be known as a madman? Or accused of confusing the sangat?
One more point. If you choose the former, you are also discrediting all your predecessors.
Just as a sidebar, this was the choice facing Faqir chand. He also had to discredit all his predecessors by coming out with his ideas as he chose the former.
So, GSD has chosen the latter. I would probably make the same choice too.
Posted by: Osho Robbins | January 06, 2019 at 01:35 AM
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Gurinder has only his own Darshan ( towards Charan )
and multiple serendipities. each day
HE WILL NEVER CALL CHARAN A LYER
This is the Great ( anti IQ, 666; ) way of The Almighty
for His real Lovers
THE ANAHABED SHABD
777
Posted by: 777 | 01/07/2019 at 05:40 AM
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THE LORD GOD IS ANALOGUE
Not Digital at all, . . NOT at ALL
777
Posted by: 777 | 01/07/2019 at 11:28 AM