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#3045 - Monday, January 14, 2008 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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"My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless" - Rumi
Birdsong brings relief
to my longing.
I am just as ecstatic
as they are,
but with nothing to
say!
Please, universal
soul, practice
some song, or
something, through me!
- Rumi
When the ear is
penetrating, it becomes an eye.
Otherwise,
the word of God becomes entangled
in the
ear and does not reach the heart.
(II 862]
The world
is full of remedies,
but you
have no remedies until God
opens a
window for you.
Though
you are unaware of that remedy now,
God will
make it clear
in the
hour of need.
[II, 682-3]
When the ocean comes to you
as a lover,
marry, at once, quickly,
for God's sake.
Don't postpone it!
existence has no better gift.
No amount of searching will find this.
A perfect falcon, for no reason
has landed on your shoulder
and become yours.
- Rumi. Mathnawi.
We’re
quite addicted to subtle discussions;
we're
very fond of solving problems.
So that
we may tie knots and then undo them,
we
constantly make rules for posing the difficulty
and for
answering the questions it raises.
We're
like a bird which loosens a snare
and then
ties it tighter again
in order
to perfect its skill.
It
deprives itself of open country;
it leaves
behind the meadowland,
while its
life is spent dealing with knots.
Even then
the snare is not mastered,
but its
wings are broken again and again.
Don't
struggle with knots,
so your
wings won't be broken.
Don't
risk ruining your feathers
to
display your proud efforts.
[II, 3733-8]
There is a world outside Islam and Disbelief,
We are enamoured of the atmosphere therein.
The mystic lays down his head when he reaches there.
There is neither Islam nor Disbelief in this place. -
Rumi In Divan-i Shams, Rumi says:
What is to be done, O Muslims? for I do not recognize
myself.
I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Muslim.
I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of
the sea;
I am not of Nature's mint, nor of the circling heaven.
I am not of earth, nor of water, nor of air, nor of fire;
I am not of the empyrean, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor
of entity.
I am not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of
Saqsin
I am not of the kingdom of 'Iraqian, nor of the country of
Khorasan
I am not of the this world, nor of the next, nor of Paradise, nor
of Hell
I am not of Adam, nor of Eve, nor of Eden and Rizwan.
My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless
When we talk about the witness in our verse,
we talk about you.
A pure heart and a noble demeanor
cannot compete with your radiant face.
They will ask you
what you have produced.
Say to them,
except for Love,
what else can a Lover produce?
- Rumi
Trans Shahram Shiva
http://www.rumi.net/rumi_by_shiva.html
I just discovered 'The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi'
translated by E.H. Whinfield is online at:
http://muslim-canada.org/sufi/book0rumi.html
All six volumes are there.
gill
http://www.allspirit.co.uk/