[Sunlight] "Look at the Water of the water"

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Day and night there is movement of foam on the Sea.
You see the foam, but not the Sea. Amazing!
We are dashing against each other like boats:
our eyes are darkened though we're on clear water.
O you who've gone to sleep in the body's boat,
you've seen the water,
but look at the Water of the water.
The water has a Water that is driving it;
the spirit has a Spirit that is calling it.

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Jonbesh-e kaf-hâ ze daryâ ruz o shab
kaf hami bini va daryâ ni `ajab
Mâ cho kashti-hâ be-ham bar mi zanim
tireh cheshmim va dar âb-e rawshanim
Ay to dar kashti-ye tan rafteh be-khvâb
âb-râ didi negar dar b-e âb
b-râ bist ku mi rânadesh
ruh-râ Ruhist ku mi-khvânadesh

-- Mathnawi III: 1271-1274
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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[Sunlight] "Look at the Water of the water"