Sunday, April 11, 2010

New Fortune

"Have mercy upon the failure of our minds to comprehend You. O thou, who are beyond all understandings and conceptions.
O lovers, new fortune has arrived from the old World, that makes all things new.
From the World that is seeking a remedy for them that have no remedy: hundreds of thousands of wonders of the present world are contained in it.
Rejoice, O people, since the relief has come; be glad, O people, since the distress is removed.
The announcer of glad news is shouting in the ear of every sorrowful one, "Arise, O unlucky one, and take the road to fortune."
How should you keep silence now, O my beloved, when a drummer has appeared from the root of every hair in the body.
The One whom you seek in your slumbers, this is God! Open your eye, you will see that auspicious Moon.
Tribulations were laid more heavily upon God's dear ones, because the Beloved showed more playfulness towards the beauteous lovers.
God sports with the beauteous ones in every path."

Rumi (Vol.6, 1094-1109)

Commentary: You don't have to really understand Rumi's love songs, to appreciate the delight and the fragrance of a soul that enjoys this "sport", and has found his fortune.