Image: Pacific Ocean – August 2015 – Self-Realization Fellowship Meditation Gardens – Encinitas CA – Photo by Ron W. G.
Original Song: “Where You Are” with Prose Commentary
This song “Where You Are” is one of my original compositions. The video accompanying it was created by landscape artist/photographer Ron Grimes.
Introduction and Text of “Where You Are”
My original song “Where You Are”is based on a simple premise: the singer is addressing her Divine Belovèd (God), asserting to the Belovèd the desire to be where the Ultimate Loved One is.
Each verse features rhetorical questions and musings upon the actual location of the Divine Creator. Because the Creator/Father of all creation is both within creation and outside of creation, the answer to all of the rhetorical questions is, naturally, yes.
Nevertheless, being where the Divine Belovèd is cannot be the same situation as being where a human friend or beloved is. Because it seems that God is playing hide and seek with his children, the singer asserts that her soul “soul tugs at the veil hiding You from me.”
Where You Are
First Verse
Are You standing on top of a mountain?
Are You sitting beside the vast grave sea?
How can I ever approach You?
Will You ever just come to me?
Second Verse
Are You speaking to me through my loved ones?
Are You quietly whispering through the silver stars?
Are You waiting to hear what my songs will sing?
Do You listen to the rapid beat of my heart?
Third Verse
If I offer You all in my stillness—
If I silently listen to the hum in my mind—
If I patiently fast from all my senses—
Will You break Your vow of silence and just come to me!
Chorus
Where You are is where I long to be.
I cannot understand where else I could seek.
My soul tugs at the veil hiding You from me.
Where You are is where I long to be.
Video: Linda Sue Grimes performing “Where You Are”
SoundCloud: Linda Sue Grimes performing “Where You Are”
Commentary on “Where You Are”
After much questioning, contemplating, and ultimately meditating, the devotee will find that the soul will remove the veil hiding it from the Over-Soul—the soul’s Creator, the Divine Belovèd, or any of the preferred name for the Ineffable (God).
First Verse: “Are You standing on top of a mountain?”
Are You standing on top of a mountain?
Are You sitting beside the vast grave sea?
How can I ever approach You?
Will You ever just come to me?
The singer opens with four rhetorical questions to the Divine Reality. The first two questions reveal earthly locations that are considered sanctuaries of sacredness, holiness, or just ordinary vacation escapes: mountain tops and sea sides.
The next two questions reveal that the devotee is still walking the sacred, devotional path to soul-realization (also known as self-realization or God-realization).
Before final liberation, the devotee experiences the separation from her Goal to be a heavy burden. That burden causes her to wonder if she, in fact, will ever be able to unite with the Creator/Father.
In her melancholy and sorrowful mourning because of the seeming distance, the devotee often wonders if the Lord will ever appear to her and make her know that she is His own child. Will she ever be able to attain the Sacred Goal of self-realization and experience unity with her Belovèd Divine Creator?
Second Verse: “Are You speaking to me through my loved ones?”
Are You speaking to me through my loved ones?
Are You quietly whispering through the silver stars?
Are You waiting to hear what my songs will sing?
Do You listen to the rapid beat of my heart?
In the second verse, the singer/devotee continues with rhetorical questions. Intuiting the answer yet not knowing the fullness of each answer, she inquires of the Divine Belovèd if He is communicating with her through her family and friends.
The singer likely is aware that God is speaking to her through everyone she knows and meets. But without that last step in the process of enlightenment, she does not know exactly what is being said or exactly what all that conversation might ultimately mean to her.
Thus, she also wonders if the One Who fashioned the “silver stars” may be signaling to her through those heavenly entities. Again, she likely knows it to be a fact, but that separation continues to prompt questions.
The singer wonders if Divine Mother anticipates what she sings in her songs. She wonders if her musical worship is reaching its intended Goal.
The singer/devotee often becomes anxious with a rapid heart beat, knowing that that heart beat needs to become calm to achieve stillness. She therefore wonders if the Creator Divine cares to listen to that rapid heart beat. And she wonders if the Ultimate Physician will perform some medical heavenly magic to help her still her rapid heart.
Third Verse: “If I offer You all in my stillness”
If I offer You all in my stillness—
If I silently listen to the hum in my mind—
If I patiently fast from all my senses—
Will You break Your vow of silence and just come to me!
The singer/devotee’s questioning becomes even more intense in the lyric of the final verse. She has shown that she knows that she must still the rapid beat of her heart, but she also must still all of her senses as she offers her every atom to the Divine Essence.
The devotee/singer shows awareness that she must listen the divine hum of the cosmic motor, the sacred AUM (Om) sound that upholds all of creation. She knows that she must remove her attention from worldly things and events and place that attention upon the locus beyond the senses, where the soul resides.
The singer/devotee remains certain that after she is able to accomplish all that is implied in her questions and musings, the Divine Belovèd Presence will, in fact, “break [that] vow of silence and [ ] come to [her].”
Chorus: “Where You are is where I long to be”
Where You are is where I long to be.
I cannot understand where else I could seek.
My soul tugs at the veil hiding You from me.
Where You are is where I long to be.
The chorus, instead of offering mere rhetorical questions and musings, makes an affirmative statement: the singer asserts that she wants to be where her Divine Beloved is. She reveals her intuition that she cannot find love, peace, fulfillment on the physical, earthly plane.
The singer/devotee insists that her soul is attempting to rend the cloth of separation from the Divine, as it “tugs at the veil” that keeps her from uniting with the Creator Belovèd.
The final line emphasizes as it repeats the important desire: “Where You are is where I long to be.” The importance of the chorus is demonstrated by its repetition after every verse.
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