[Sunlight] Tonight we go to that place of eternity -- Quatrain 168

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Today, Sunlight offers two interpretations of Quatrain 168:

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Tonight we go to that place of eternity.
This is the wedding night –
a never-ending union
of lover and Beloved.

We whisper gentle secrets to each other
and the child of the universe
takes its first breath.

-- Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
A Garden Beyond Paradise
Bantam Books, 1992

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This night there are no limits to what may be given.
This is not a night but a marriage,
a couple whispering in bed in unison the same words.
Darkness simply lets down a curtain for that.

-- Version by Coleman Barks
"Unseen Rain"
Threshold Books, 1986

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[Sunlight] Tonight we go to that place of eternity -- Quatrain 168