Senses
Senses - meaning Summary
Freedom Within Sensory Bonds
This poem asserts a spiritual vision that embraces, rather than rejects, sensory life. The speaker refuses renunciation and finds divine freedom within worldly pleasures and relationships. Sensory experiences—sight, hearing, touch—are presented as channels for the divine, transforming illusions into illumination and desires into love. The overall message celebrates integration: devotion need not deny the senses but can transfigure them into devotion and joy.
Read Complete AnalysesDeliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight. Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draught of thy wine of various colours and fragrance, filling this earthen vessel to the brim. My world will light its hundred different lamps with thy flame and place them before the altar of thy temple. No, I will never shut the doors of my senses. The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight. Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.
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