Music for Whirling like a Dervish

I've been listening to Manish Vyas' "Sufi Splendor", and spinning around my living room like Jelaluddin Rumi, the founder of the Mevlavi Sufi order of Whirling Dervishes. The poet. The breather of the words quoted on Sat Kartar's facebook page: "Don't go back to sleep....

I am rereading Bede Griffiths "Return to the Center", a book by a Christian and Hindu mystic who has dispensed with all the dichotomies, dogmatic thinking, and general bullshit to touch the Source.

Yesterday I gazed at pictures of a blessed cobra who performed pooja (worship) with sacred Bilva leaves the snake plucked himself and brought through the Therrenumpallanur Temple in Tamil Nadu, India, to place gently on the Shiva Lingam like any devoted Hindu would do. On the surface the snake even looks like he might be following dogma, and he is, but his actions were definitely not dogmatic! Not by any stretch. Ha, ha. Shiva, the Lord, has a sense of humor, and as my father says, the Divine does have a wildness about it.

I am trying to learn to ride the waves and not be consumed by them. Like any good surfer. And to the Hawaiian Kahunas surfing is a spiritual practice. Does it matter the 'name' of the faith, or the form? God is in the music, the dance, the pose, the words on the page, and in the snake resting on the Shiva Lingam with a Bilva leaf in it's mouth.