The Power of Words

The Journey

Taken from:

beyond the world  A PATHLESS PATH – Readings Leading to AWAKENING & Inner Freedom

The Journey Each of Us Take

Posted on 27 June 2011

Though the following are roadsigns to the Himalaya Mountains, yet they remind us of our spiritual journey …

To expect an overnight spiritual awakening of some kind simply to fix what is in our unresolved heart
is only to short lived our faith in what we are embarking.

* * *

When we are rash in expecting spiritual awakening as something that can be created by the self,

we can only expect an ego crash.

* * *

Spiritual journey is not some kind of escapism but rather a gradual path of understanding
that leads to awakening. Enjoy the ride rather than thinking of the end.

* * *

Your journey defines your destination. Destination is not a place but rather an end.

Hence what you get at the end is what you have developed in the journey.

* * *

Forget about desiring anything or resisting anything when you step into the spiritual path.
It is not about getting anything or anywhere but on the contrary, drop everything, including the self.

* * *

Consistently check your mental attitude as that is where fabrications are.
If you don’t, its proliferation will blinds you, deluding you into spiritual ego.

* * *

We are all too familiar with ego crash whenever our spiritual expectation is not met -
yet strangely, we repeat it again as if we do not have it enough!

* * *

When you are not awake to your thoughts, you are dreaming it,
making it real and hence, will surely be frightened by it.

* * *

And so in the end, wakefulness is necessary, for without it
suffering becomes a reality, albeit a dream.

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The One Who Sees

If anyone has eloquence, a listener draws it out:

the teacher's enthusiasm and energy

are derived from the child he teaches.

When the harpist who plays twenty-four musical modes

finds no ear to listen, his harp becomes a burden:

no song comes to mind, his ten fingers will not function.

If there were no ears to receive the message from the Unseen,

no prophet would have brought a revelation from Heaven.

And if there were no eyes to see the works of God,

neither would the sky have revolved,

nor would the earth have smiled with fertile greenness.

The declaration lawlâka** means this,

that the whole business of creation

is for the sake of the perceiving eye

and the one who sees.

**"But for you," referring to the Holy Tradition (hadith qudsi):
"But for you (O Muhammad) I would not have created the worlds."

Mathnawi: VI: 1656-1661

Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski

Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance

Threshold Books, 1996

Free In Every Way

... Free from Freedom Itself ......

..

(image credit : HERE)

Take someone who doesn't keep score,

who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,

who has not the slightest interest even

in his own personality:
He's free.

Version by Coleman Barks,

"Open Secret"

Threshold Books, 1984

(image credit : HERE)

happy is the one

who doesn't need to try

getting wealthy

or remaining poor

free from people

and worldly worries

a stranger to himself

free in every way

Translation by Nader Khalili

Rumi, Dancing the Flame

Cal-Earth Press, 2001 

(image link)

Peaceful

is the one

who's not concerned

with having more or less.

Unbound by name and fame

he is free from sorrow

from the world and

mostly
from himself.

Translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi

Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999

Two Wings

  سورة النبأ  Sura An-Naba (78) Verse 8

وَخَلَقْنَاكُمْ أَزْوَاجًا

And We have created you in pairs
(male and female, tall and short, good and bad, etc.)

(credit image - HERE)

God turns you from one feeling to another

and teaches by means of opposites,

so that you will have two wings to fly,

not one.

Mathnawi II: 1552; 1554

Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski

"Rumi: Daylight"

Threshold Books, 1994

The Glow of Humble Longing

(image credit : HERE)

Everyone who delights in some act of devotion
can't bear to miss it,
even for a short while.
That disappointment and grief
are as a hundred prayers:
what is ritual prayer compared
with the glow of humble longing?


Mathnawi II: 2769-2770
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight", Threshold Books, 1994

Today in Konya

(Shrine of Jalaluddin Rumi, Konya, Turkey)

Today...

A couple of hours ago.....

HERE..., in Konya

When I die...

When I die
when my coffin
is being taken out
you must never think
i am missing this world

don't shed any tears
don't lament or
feel sorry
i'm not falling
into a monster's abyss

when you see
my corpse is being carried
don't cry for my leaving
i'm not leaving
i'm arriving at eternal love

when you leave me
in the grave
don't say goodbye
remember a grave is
only a curtain
for the paradise behind

you'll only see me
descending into a grave
now watch me rise
how can there be an end
when the sun sets or
the moon goes down

it looks like the end
it seems like a sunset
but in reality it is a dawn
when the grave locks you up
that is when your soul is freed

have you ever seen
a seed fallen to earth
not rise with a new life
why should you doubt the rise
of a seed named human

have you ever seen
a bucket lowered into a well
coming back empty
why lament for a soul
when it can come back
like Joseph from the well

when for the last time
you close your mouth
your words and soul
will belong to the world of
no place no time

~RUMI, ghazal number 911, 
translated by Nader Khalili.

(Mausoleum of Rumi, Konya, Turkey)