"A sober-minded person asked Jesus. " What is the hardest to bear of all things in existence?"
He replied, "O my dear soul, the hardest is God's anger, on account of which hell is trembling, as we are."
The questioner asked, "What is the security against this anger of God?"
Jesus answered, "To abandon your own anger at once."
Rumi (Vol 4, 113-115)
Commentary: Today's assignment.
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The Mathnawi, Jalalu'ddin Rumi's master work, is a 1200 page poem. Having studied it in an intensive tutorial with a Persian scholar, Dev Prakash in 1979, I am now rereading it 30 years later,using the Reynold Nicholson translation. My hope is that you will find these short selections speaking to your soul, as they do to mine.
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