A Episode In The Life Of The Clear Sighted Man [part Ii] Poem by Suraj Motiwala

While every minute seemed as an hour long and hours passed like days, the clear sighted man, in his love for the Sun remained amazed!
The silky paths that were made manifest the honeyed streams, the fruits, the melodies and the meadows increased his intoxication and dispelled his woes!

He then prostrated himself and said, ‘Glory be to Thee O my God, for blessing i cannot recount! ’ on rising he beheld the Sun, descending behind the mount; Caught up in fear, frenzied and hardly sane, he resolutely chased the waning Sun but all in vain!

With shaky legs and teary eyes, just when he could pursue no more, the heedless two1 heard, scoffed and ridiculed at his doleful heart’s roar.

‘What good are you, with that great lament in your heart? Do you want to guide us, who himself is in the clart? ’, ‘Are not my pebbles more reliable than the fruits of which you speak? ’, ‘Is not my lamp more dependable than the Sun you seek? ’
The unceasing bleating of those two clouded the sight of the young man, he attempted to eat the rocks but could barely chew, and then taking shelter in the cave regarded he, the lamp as his sun anew.

The weeds, the filthy stream it all seemed as a bad dream, the short-sighted man was content with all, even if he had to disgracefully crawl. Every minute seemed as an hour long and hours passed like days, the discerning young man could take it no more, and abandoned their ways.

He came out of the cave, through the sky cased wilderness his own way he paved, on reaching the end, he knelt and with downcast eyes he begin to pray;
Ere long his face radiated with glee, miseries started to melt, as he beheld the dawning ray!

After this many nights did he come upon, but he hesitated not, rather joyfully awaited the morn;
That one ray unsealed the portals of wisdom to him, he then believed in that ‘for everything a time hath been fixed, and for every fruit a season hath been ordained.’2

He began to ‘see the end in the beginning, peace in war and friendliness in anger’3; he apprehended the enigma that after day, night contained the test, after happiness, wisdom disguised as sorrow visited him at his Lord’s behest!

The clear-sighted man ‘could now tread the desired path, without transgressing what was right4’, as the Sun had set his heart afire enabling him to scatter the dazzling light!

By Suraj Motiwala

References:

1: The referred here are the blind and the short-sighted man.
2: Gleaning’s from the Writings of Baha’u’llah
3: The Seven Valley’s by Baha’u’llah
4: Analects of Confucius