[Sunlight] "If you are born of Adam"

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If you are born of Adam, sit like him
and behold all his progeny within yourself.
What is in the jar that is not also in the river?
What is in the house that is not also in the city?
This world is a jar, and the heart-spirit is like the river;
this world is the chamber, and the spirit is the wondrous city.

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Gar to Âdamzâdeh-'i chon u neshin
jomleh zorriyât-râ dar khvod be-bin
Chist dar khom keh andar nahr nist
chist andar khâneh k-andar shahr nist
In jahân khomast va del chon ju-ye âb
in jahân hojreh-st va del shahr-e `ojâb

-- Mathnawi IV: 809-811
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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[Sunlight] "If you are born of Adam"

[Sunlight] Tricks, or right thought?

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Students of cunning have consumed their hearts
and learned only tricks;
They've thrown away real riches:
patience, self-sacrifice, generosity.
Right thought opens a way.

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Hileh âmuzân jegar-hâ sukhteh
fe`l-ha o makr-hâ âmukhteh
Sabr o isâr o sakhâ-ye nafs o jud
bâd dâdeh k-ân bovad eksir-e sud
Fekr-e ân bâshad ke bo-g'shâyad rahi
râh-e ân bâshad keh pish âyad shahi

-- Mathnawi II:3205-3208
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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[Sunlight] Tricks, or right thought?

[Sunlight] Unite the scattered parts

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Here, Sunlight offers three presentations from the Mathnawi,
volume 3, verses 3287 -- 3299:

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The gold of your intelligence
is scattered over many clippings and bits
of wanting. Bring them all together
in one place. How else can I stamp it?

Think how a great city concentrates
around a point. Damascus or Samarcand.
Grain by grain, collect the pieces.

The Beloved then becomes food and water,
lamp and helper, dessert and wine.
Many-ness is confusion and intellectual talk.

Silence gives answers. I know that,
but my mouth keeps opening involuntarily
like a yawn or a sneeze.

-- Mathnawi IV: 3287-3299
Version by Coleman Barks
Delicious Laughter
Maypop, 1990

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Your intelligence is split into a hundred busy tasks,
in thousands of desires, in large and small things.
You must unite these scattered parts with love and
become as sweet as Samarkand and Damascus.
Once you are unified, grain by grain, then you can be
stamped with the royal seal.

-- Mathnawi IV: 3288/3290
Version by Muriel Maufroy
Breathing Truth - Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi
Sanyar Press - London, 1997

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Your intelligence is spread over a hundred "important" affairs,
over thousands of desires and concerns great and small.
You must unite the scattered parts by means of love,
so that you may become as sweet as Damascus and Samarkand.
When you have become united,
particle by particle, from out of perplexity,
then it is possible to stamp the King's seal on you.

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`Aql-e to qesmat shodeh bar sad mohemm
bar hazârân ârzu o temm o remm
Jam` bâyad kard ajzâ-râ beh `eshq
tâ shavi khvosh chon Samarqand o Demashq
Joz jozi chon jam` gardi ze eshtebâh
pas tavân zad bar to sekkeh-ye Padeshâh

-- Mathnawi IV: 3288-3290
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance
Threshold Books, 1996
Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra

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[Sunlight] "In Silence" -- Ghazal 1897

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"In Silence"

A guide has entered this life in silence.
His message is only heard in silence.

Take a sip of his precious wine
and lose yourself.
Dont insult the greatness of his love,
for he helps all those who suffer, in silence.

Polish the mirror between the breaths.
Go with him beyond words.
He knows your every deed.
He is the one who moves the wheel of heaven,
in silence.

Every thought is buried in your heart;
He will reveal them one by one, in silence.

Turn each of your thoughts into a bird
and let them fly to the other world.
One is an owl, one is a falcon, one is a crow.
Each one is different from the others
but they are all the same in silence.

To see the Moon that cannot be seen
turn your eyes inward and look at yourself,
in silence.

In this world and the next,
dont talk about this and that;
Let him show you everything,
shining as one . . .
in silence.

-- Ode 1897
Version by Jonathan Star
"Rumi - In the Arms of the Beloved"
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York 1997

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[Sunlight] "In Silence" -- Ghazal 1897

[Sunlight] "Knock at the door of your own heart"

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There's a basket full of loaves on your head,
yet you're begging for crusts of bread from door to door.
Pay attention to your own head, abandon giddiness.
Why are you knocking at every other door?
Go, knock at the door of your own heart.

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Yek sapad por-e nân torâ bar farq-e sar
to hami khvâhi lab-e nân dar be-dar
Dar sar-e khvod pich hel khireh-sari
raw dar del zan cherâ bar har dari

-- Mathnawi V: 1073-1074
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
(Persian transliteration courtesy of Yahyá Monastra)

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