Discourses of Rumi

82 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIcould not separate himself from the thought ofher, causing him to cry:Your name is upon my tongue.Your image is in my sight.Your memory in my heart,Where can I send these words I write?The physical has such power that passion canbring us into a state where we are never apartfrom our beloved. All our senses are absorbed:sight, hearing, smell and the rest. No sense seeksa separate view, all being united. If each senseplays its part in full, all are immersed in one experienceand desire nothing else. Seeking for a separateview proves that one sense has not found itstrue, whole allotment. It is enjoying an incompleteportion and therefore is not immersed, norfulfilled. Then the other senses begin seeking theirown part, and all become divided.From the viewpoint of reality, all the senses seeone thing, but from the standpoint of outwardform they are each different from the other. Whenone sense is moved to absorption, all the sensesbecome absorbed in it. When a fly flies upward itmoves its wings, its head and its whole body sep-