[Sunlight] "The Five Spiritual Senses"

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The five spiritual senses are all connected.
They've grown from one root.
As one grows strong, the others strengthen, too:
each one becomes a cupbearer to the rest.
Seeing with the eye increases speech;
speech increases discernment in the eye.
As sight deepens, it awakens every sense,
so that the perception of the spiritual
becomes familiar to them all.

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Panj hess bâ hamdegar payvasteh-'and
zânke in har panj ze asli rasteh-'and
Qut-e yek qut-e bâqi shavad
mâ baqi-râ har yeki sâqi shavad
Didan dideh fazâyad notq-râ
notq dar dideh fazâyad sedq-râ
Sedq bidâri-ye har hess mi-shavad
hess-hâ-râ zawq munes mi-shavad

-- Mathnawi II: 3236-3239
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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[Sunlight] "The Five Spiritual Senses"