Discourses of Rumi

376 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIing me piece by piece? I cannot be contained inpieces. Listen, and follow me to unlimited riches.”In short, the beginning depends upon theend—may the end be praiseworthy! What is apraiseworthy end? That the tree whose roots arefixed firm in the spiritual garden, whose branches,boughs and fruits suspend over another land,and whose fruits have scattered—that in the endthose fruits should be carried back into that gardenof its original roots. But if the roots of a treebelong to this world, although outwardly proclaimingpraises of God, all its fruits should becarried back to this world. And if both roots andfruit are in the spiritual garden, then that is“Light upon Light.”