Msg for the Day from Rumi

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Jaya Sri Radhey! Namaste all.

 

 

"Do not be flattered by reason

reason is only

the child of the mind.

 

But true friendship

is born out of love and

is the water of life.

 

The footprints of the Friend

are all over the world

follow them and walk into life."

 

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"The intellectual is always showing off,

the lover is always getting lost.

The intellectual runs away

afraid of drowning;

the whole business of love

is to drown in the sea.

 

Intellectuals plan their repose;

lovers are ashamed to rest.

 

The lover is always alone

even surrounded by people;

like water and oil, he remains apart.

 

The man who goes to the trouble

of giving advice to a lover

get nothing. He's mocked by passion.

 

Love is like musk. It attracts attention.

Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade."

 

Kulliyat-e Shams, 21

 

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"Love is reckless; not reason.

Reason seeks a profit.

 

Love comes on strong,

consuming herself, unabashed.

 

Yet, in the midst of suffering,

Love proceeds like a millstone,

hard surfaced and straightforward.

 

Having died of self-interest,

she risks everything and asks for nothing.

 

Love gambles away every gift God bestows.

Without cause God gave us Being;

without cause, give it back again."

 

Mathnawi VI, 1967-1974

 

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"Passion makes the old medicine new:

Passion lops off the bough of weariness.

Passion is the elixir that renews:

how can there be weariness

when passion is present?

 

Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:

seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!"

 

Mathnawi VI, 4302-4304

 

- Sufi Saint Rumi

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Jaya Sri Radhey!