Monday 19 December 2011

Overwhelmed by the eternal Wine, The heart was reciting joyfully...by Rumi

At every instant the heart hears 
this call from the blazing sun: 

"Renounce the torch of the earth 
and gain the torch of beyond."

Since you are serving the Beloved,
why hide ?

Gold shines always brighter
from the wounds inflicted
by the goldsmith.

Overwhelmed by the eternal Wine,
The heart was reciting joyfully:

"The wine may tear my life away,
it will give me another life."

~ Rumi
Ode (Ghazal) 538
"Breathing Truth - Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi"
Selected and Translated by Muriel Maufroy
Sanyar Press - London, 1997

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