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SHOWING THAT THE SYSTEM OF THE UNIVERSE ORIGINATES IN THE SELF AND THAT THE CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF ALL INDIVIDUALS DEPENDS ON STRENGTHENING THE SELF.
| THE form of existence is an effect of the Self, | |
| Whatsoever thou seest is a secret of the Self, | |
| When the Self awoke to consciousness. | |
| It revealed the universe of Thought. | |
| A hundred words are hidden in its essence: | 190 |
| Self-affirmation brings Not-self to light. | |
| By the Self the seed of opposition is sown in the word: | |
| It imagines itself to be other than itself | |
| It makes from itself the forms of others | 195 |
| In order to multiply the pleasure of strife. | |
| It is slaying by the strength of its arm | |
| That it may become conscious of its own strength. | |
| Its self-deceptions are the essence of Life; | |
| Like the rose, it lives by bathing itself in blood. | 200 |
| For the sake of a single rose it destroys a hundred rose gardens | |
| And makes a hundred lamentation in quest of a single melody. | |
| For one sky it produces a hundred new moons, | |
| And for one word a hundred discourses. | |
| The excuse for this wastefulness and cruelty | 205 |
| Is the shaping and perfecting of spiritual beauty. | |
| The loveliness of Shirin justifies the anguish of Farhad.33 | |
| One fragrant navel justifies a hundred musk-deer. | |
| ''Tis the fate of moths to consume in flame: | |
| The suffering of moths is justified by the candle. | 210 |
| The pencil of the Self limped a hundred to-days | |
| In order to achieve the dawn of a single morrow. | |
| Its flames burned a hundred Abrahams34 | |
| That the lamp of one Muhammad might be lighted. | |
| Subject, object, means, and causes— | 215 |
| All these are forms which it assumes for the purpose of action. | |
| The Self rises, kindles, falls, glows, breathes, | |
| Burns, shines, walks, and flies. | |
| The spaciousness of Time is its arena, | |
| Heaven is a billow of the dust on the road. | 220 |
| From its rose-planting the world abounds in roses; | |
| Night is born of its sleep, day springs from its waking. | |
| It divided its flame into sparks | |
| And taught the understanding to worship particulars. | |
| It dissolved itself and created the atoms | 225 |
| It was scattered for a little while and created sands. | |
| Then it wearied of dispersion | |
| And by re-uniting itself it became the mountains. | |
| ''Tis the nature of the Self to manifest itself | |
| In every atom slumbers the might of the Self. | 230 |
| Power that is expressed and inert | |
| Chains the faculties which lead to action. | |
| Inasmuch as the life of the universe comes from the power of the Self, | |
| Life is in proportion to this power. | |
| When a drop of water gets of Self''s lesson by heart, | 235 |
| it makes its worthless existence a pearl. | |
| Wine is formless because its self is weak; | |
| It receives a form by favour of the cup. | |
| Although the cup of wine assumes a form, | |
| It is indebted to us for its motion. | 240 |
| When the mountain loses its self, it turns into sands | |
| And complains that the sea surges over it; | |
| The wave, so long as it remains a wave in the sea''s bosom.35 | |
| Makes itself rider on the sea''s back. | |
| Light transformed itself into an eye | 245 |
| And moved to and fro in search of beauty; | |
| When the grass found a means of growth in its self, | |
| Its aspiration clove the breast of the garden. | |
| The candle too concatenated itself | |
| And built itself out of atoms; | 250 |
| Then it made a practice of melting itself away and fled from its self | |
| Until at last it trickled down from its own eye, like tears. | |
| If the bezel had been more self secure by nature, | |
| It would not have suffered wounds, | |
| But since it derives its value from the superscription, | 255 |
| Its shoulder is galled by the burden of another''s name. | |
| Because the earth is firmly based on itself, | |
| The captive moon goes round it perpetually. | |
| The being of the sun is stronger than that of the earth | |
| Therefore is the earth fascinated by the sun''s eye. | 260 |
| The glory of the red beech fixes our gaze. | |
| The mountains are enriched by its majesty | |
| Its raiment is woven of fire, | |
| Its origin is one self-assertive seed. | |
| When Life gathers strength from the Self, | 260 |
| The river of Life expands into an ocean |
