God Stands Alone in the Garden

On this balmy summer night
Jasmine mingles her euphoria
With mesmerizing music
Streaming from the starry inner sky.
Cicadas chronicle each moment
with delighted rhythmic calls.
Off in the distance
A bell chimes
Shining joy.

God stands alone in the garden
Waiting for his lover
Who has forgotten all about
The appointed hour
To meet again
In one another’s eyes
And fly entwined
Far and high and wild
Spirit unto Spirit
Reveling in holy embrace
Then floating, buoyant
Into the brightest ecstasy
Of sacred starry Oneness.

God stands alone
In the Garden,
His refulgent face reflected
In a thousand shining leaves.
He smiles and shakes his head
Then walks away

While his forgetful lover Lies in the arms of sleep
And dreams deep sorrow
And heartsick hope
For love.
_{Original poem by a satsangi}

Longing for darshan is equal to meditation? But how can you have darshan without meditation? By darshan Baba Ji Maharaj meant that inner darshan of the Radiant Form of the Master.

But longing to be one with the Radiant Form of the Master you can’t obtain without meditation. The purpose of physical darshan is to create longing for that inner darshan, and then meditation naturally takes us to that level of consciousness where we can see the Radiant Form of the Master. Then the purpose of darshan and meditation is achieved.
_{Maharaj Charan Singh, Die to Live}