SUBSTANCE AND PEACE

If a substance makes you humble and peaceful,
What’s wrong there to have it and become so?
Where the world is spinning crazy!
And you know that there is nothing beyond SANTA/PEACE.

BUT, there is a danger….a loop-hole to fall in.
There are enough chances of PSEUDO-PEACE.

Rumi says

"Let go of your worries
and be completely clear-hearted,
like the face of a mirror
that contains no images.
If you want a clear mirror,
behold yourself
and see the shameless truth,
which the mirror reflects.
If metal can be polished
to a mirror-like finish,
what polishing might the mirror
of the heart require?
Between the mirror and the heart
is this single difference:
the heart conceals secrets,
while the mirror does not."

The Divani Shamsi Tabriz, XIII

Rumi says

"I swear, since seeing Your face,
the whole world is fraud and fantasy
The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf
or blossom. The distracted birds
can't distinguish the birdseed from the snare.

A house of love with no limits,
a presence more beautiful than venus or the moon,
a beauty whose image fills the mirror of the heart."

The Divani Shamsi Tabriz XV

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