[Sunlight] Go, seek the water!

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Know that the outward form passes away,
but the world of reality remains forever.
How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug?
Leave the jug; go, seek the water!

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Surat-e zâher fanâ gardad be-dân
`âlam-e ma`nâ be-mânad jâvedân
Chand bâzi `eshq bâ naqsh-e sabu
be-gozar az naqsh-e sabu raw âb ju

-- Mathnawi II:1020-1021
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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[Sunlight] Go, seek the water!