Sunday, February 12, 2023
Worship Service
11:00 a.m.
“True Devotion”
Service conducted by
Srimati Karuna, Minister
Sunday Bulletin
The devoted heart articulates what words cannot convey. The expression of true devotion is uttered through every movement of the heart string, yet, words fail. The great mystic poets of love have turned phrases that offer themselves to the pages of eternity. And Mahatma Gandhi spoke of the “gossamer string of love.” It is the delicate and ethereal nature of pure love that transcends all limitations.
“The light of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright: The melody of love swells forth, and the rhythm of love’s detachment beats the time.
Day and night, the chorus of music fills the heavens;
and Kabir says ‘My Beloved One gleams like the lighting flash in the sky.’
Do you know how the moments perform their adoration?
Waving its row of lamps, the universe sings in worship day and night,
There are the hidden banner and the secret canopy:
There the sound of the unseen bells is heard.
Kabir says: ‘There adoration never ceases;
there the Lord of the Universe sitteth on His throne.’
The whole world does its works and commits its errors:
but few are the lovers who know the Beloved.”
—Songs of Kabir
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore