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Discourses of Rumi

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116 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIThere are beings who are hawkers <strong>of</strong> God.Night and day they fill trays. By day you spendaway your portion to make your living, by nightthese beings replenish your tray.For instance, in the other world there are sightsand visions <strong>of</strong> many kinds. A sample <strong>of</strong> those hasbeen sent to you to see in this world. Sight is notlimited to this world only, but the human bodycannot bear more than this.Thousands <strong>of</strong> people, generation after generation,have come and filled themselves from thatSea, returning again and again. That source isinfinite. The longer we stay upon that Infinite Sea,the colder our heart grows for this world <strong>of</strong> samples.This world is coined in that Mint and mustreturn to that Mint again. All our parts haveissued from that Mint, are samples <strong>of</strong> that Mint,and must return again—small and great, for allliving creatures. Yet upon the tray <strong>of</strong> this worldlife becomes visible; without the tray it is not visible.That infinite world is a subtle world and doesnot reveal itself openly—yet look how wonderfullyit makes its appearance here! Don’t you see

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