Discourses of Rumi

FIHI MA FIHI V 351sought the coat for the warmth. You were in lovewith warmth. In winter you can not find warmthand therefore need the medium of the coat, butonce the summer sun starts to shine, you fling thefur jacket away.“When heaven is rent asunder,” and “Whenearth is shaken with a mighty shaking,” are referencesto yourself. They mean that you have experiencedthe pleasure of being gathered together,but the day is coming when you will experiencethe pleasure of being torn apart. Then you willbehold the expanse of the other world and bedelivered from this present narrowness. Forinstance, if someone is held down by four nailsfor a long time, they start to feel comfortable withthis condition, and forget the pleasure of beingfree. After they escape the four nails, then theyrealize the torment they had been in. Similarly,children are swaddled and put to rest in a cradle,and they are perfectly at ease with their handsbound. But if a grown person were cribbed in acradle, it would be torment and prison.Some feel pleasure when roses bloom and pushforth their heads from the bud. Some feel pleasure