A persian Poem by Meher Baba - 1947
Translated from the Persian by Dr. FARHAD SHAFA

Though the embodiment of Truth, oblivious and asleep, YOU WERE
Thus in search of awareness,  conscious and awake. YOU BECAME

The seeker and the guide, YOU ARE
The lover and the mast, YOU ARE
The Testament to God, nay Adam itself, YOU ARE
lo, as the Avatar, YOU CAME

To behold Thy self, the whole and the parts, YOU BECAME
Thus in the multitude of shapes, towards the Baazar, YOU CAME

Gnosis on the path, in Truth is but YOU
In Fana and in Baka, manifested, YOU CAME

You became the ONE, you remained the ONE
Yet towards the many, even again YOU CAME

You drowned in the ocean, though from the morn of time
The ocean itself, YOU WERE
Your own lover you became, to as the Beloved, YOU CAME

Many an age you struggled_: in the sea of "Come and Go"
Till at last as man, captured in the waves, YOU BECAME

Good and Bad became the watchman of the soul
While reason and knowledge the heart's enchantress, BECAME
Beware, the cause of this affliction, your deeds themselves BECAME