Discourses of Rumi

330 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIinstance, if people eat food that turns sour in theirstomach, they vomit it. If they did not cast outthat poison, it would become a part of them.The disciple dances and serves to find a placein the heart of the sheik. Anything the discipledoes that displeases the sheik is cast forth fromthe sheik’s heart, like the food we eat and thenvomit. Just as bad food would become part of us,unless we rejected it, so that disciple’s poor conductin time would become a part of the sheik,unless the sheik cast such actions out of theirheart.God’s love was proclaimed to the worldAnd every heart into confusion was hurled,Those hearts were burned and into ashes turnedThen to the indifferent wind their ashes spurned.In that wind of indifference the atoms of thosehearts are dancing and singing. If they are not,then how do we hear their song, and who is itevery moment that tells their tale anew? And ifthese hearts do not realize their very life consistsin burning up and spurning to the wind, how is itthey are so eager to be burned? As for thosehearts burned up in the fire of worldly lusts and