Suhrawardi - Three Treatises on Mysticism.pdf - Platonic Philosophy

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one hole through which they put a little
victuals and provision of his livelihood.
millet for the sake of
Times passed. This peacock forgot himself, the kingdom,
the garden and the other peacocks. He looked at
himself and could not see anything except the dirty and
wretched leather and a very dark and uneven habitation.
and confirmed in his mind that there
Pie made up with that,
can be no land larger than the base of the basket. So that
he firmly believed that if
anyone contends a pleasure and a
dwelling and a perfection beyond this, it will be absolute
heresy, complete blunder and pure ignorance. But, whenever
a wind blew and he received the smells of flowers, trees,
roses, violets, jessamines and varieties of basils through that
hole lie found a strange pleasure. A commotion appeared
in him and he experienced the delight of flight. And he felt
but lie did not know where the desire came
a desire in him,
from, because he considered himself no other than the
leather, and the world no other tlum the basket, and the
food no other than the millet. He had forgotten everything.
And also, when he sometimes heard the notes and sounds
of the peacocks and the tunes of the other birds, his desire
and inclination became manifest, but he did not become
aware through the sounds of the birds and the blowing of the
morning bieeze. One day he was enjoying these:
"There came to me the morning breeze almost saying:
I am a messenger to you
from the friends."
For a long time he remained meditating what that
sweet smelling wind was and where those melodious sounds
came from.
U
O lightning that flashes,
From what sides of the enclosure do you spread?"