[Sunlight] Know the true definition of yourself

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Suppose you know the definitions of all substances
and their derivatives,
what good is this to you?
Know the true definition of yourself.
That is indispensable.
Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it,
that you may attain to the One who cannot be defined,
O sifter of the dust.

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Hadd-e a`yân o `araz dânesteh gir
hadd-e khvod-râ dân keh na-bovad zin gozir
Chon be-dâni hadd-e khvod zin hadd goriz
tâ beh bi hadd dar resi ay khâk biz

-- Mathnawi V:564-565
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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[Sunlight] Know the true definition of yourself