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time is very relative.
You are sitting by the side of a person who is dying -- then you will know how long the night becomes: there seems to be no end to it. You are with your beloved, after many years you have met, and the night goes so fast, as if it were just a few moments. You cannot believe how fast it has gone. It seems the night played a game with you -- it went fast -- just not to allow you time enough to be with the beloved.
Time is relative, not the clock time but psychological time. Those who have known glimpses of God, for them this world is really difficult to live in, and the night is very dark and very long. The Christian mystics have a right word for it; they call it'the dark night of the soul'.
... HOURS GO BY...
BECAUSE I AM ALONE...
And you will know real aloneness only when you have seen God. Before that you have known aloneness -- sometimes your friend is not with you, your wife is not with you, your husband is not with you, your children are not with you -- yes, you have known a certain kind of aloneness,. but that is nothing compared to the aloneness that you will know when you have seen God. Then that aloneness is like a knife in the heart. One is almost crucified.
I SIT UP SUDDENLY, FEAR GOES THROUGH ME..
I cannot sleep because He may be coming. Who knows when He will come? His ways are unpredictable, He comes at very unexpected moments. One has to be alert and watchful. So I wake up, I sit up suddenly again and again, and fear goes through me: "He has not come. Has He forgotten me? Has He lost interest in me?"
These are the fears of a lover -- tremendously magnified, infinitely magnified, when the lover is nobody except God Himself, nobody other than God Himself.
KABIR SAYS: LISTEN, MY FRIEND
THERE IS ONE THING IN THE WORLD THAT SATISFIES,
AND THAT IS A MEETING WITH THE GUEST.
Nothing else ever satisfies, Nothing else can ever satisfy. Without attaining to God, without becoming God, without merging with God, you are going to remain discontented. Contentment, real contentment, has only one meaning: that is the meeting with the Guest.
KAHAT KABIR SUNO
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