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Discourses of Rumi

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350 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIsame—it excites you to seek the meaning, eventhough the words are never the reality.The other day someone said, “I have studiedmany sciences and mastered many ideas, yet I stilldo not know what essence in the human beingexists forever. I have searched, but I have not discoveredit.”If such things were knowable through wordsalone, you would never need to pass away fromyour self and suffer such pains. But if you did notendure the struggle <strong>of</strong> losing your temporary self,how could you ever know that essence which willremain?A boy says, “I have heard about the Kaaba, butno matter how far I look I can not see it. I will goup to the ro<strong>of</strong> and search from there.” When hegets to the ro<strong>of</strong> and stretches out his neck, he stillcan not see the Kaaba, so he rejects that anyKaaba exists. To see the Kaaba takes more thanthat. It is impossible to see it from the place whereone abides.In the same way, during winter, you hunt for afur jacket with all your soul, but when summerarrives you fling it away and forget about it. You

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