Discourses of Rumi

FIHI MA FIHI V 281the saint’s presence reason grows and develops.This cannot be found from those demented onesaround whom the masses circle. No one who visitsthem is transformed beyond their own state,and no one finds completeness through such guidance.People might think they have found completeness,but that is not what we call completeness.Just like a child who is separated from itsmother finds comfort for a moment with someoneelse, this is not what we call comfort, since thechild has simply made a mistake.Physicians say that whatever is agreeable to thetemperament and brings satisfaction givesstrength and purifies the blood. However, this isonly true when someone is without disease. Forinstance, a bilious person finds sour things agreeable,and sugar disagreeable, because their tastehas become changed by their own distemper. Andso the truly agreeable is what is agreeable tosomeone before they fall sick. For example, awoman breaks her hand and then hangs it in asling so that it heals all crooked. Her surgeonmust make the bones straight and set them totheir original form. This is not agreeable to the