[XCVIII]

This is one of the most obviously mystical of Vidyāpati's songs:

'I am he whom I love, and he whom I love is I.'

Mansūr Hallāj.

Cf. the exclamation Śivoham, 'Shiva is myself (sohambhāva, He being I); and the injunction Devo bhūtva, devam yajet, 'By becoming God, worship Him!' also the half-dohā quoted in the note to [LXXXII], 9, i o.

3. O nija bhāva svabhāva hi bichurala, Forgetting her own bhāva and svabhāva, feelings and character, will and self-consciousness.

'At last I have found myself.'

Jalālu'd Din Rūmi.

'Whoso has not escaped from will, no will has he.'

Shamsi Tabrīz,