Discourses of Rumi

382 V DISCOURSES OF RUMIable to augment them. All these emotions passover you, and yet you are wholly unaware wherethey come from, where they are going, and whatthey will do. Since you are incapable of penetratingyour own moods, how do you expect to penetrateyour Creator?Those whore sons say, “God is not in the heavens.”You cur, how do you know God is not? Yes,you have measured heaven span by span. Youhave gone through all of it, and you pronounce,“God is not in the heavens.” Why, you do notknow the whore you have in your own home,then how could you know the heavens? Oh yes,you have heard of heaven, and the names of starsand the spheres. You think that is something. Ifyou really penetrated the depths of the heavens,or even mounted one single step, you would neverutter such nonsense.When we say that God is not in the heavens,we do not mean that God is not in the heavens.We mean that heaven cannot contain God, whileGod contains all. God has an ineffable link withthe heavens, just as He has established an ineffablelink with you. All things are in the hand ofGod’s omnipotence, within His creation and