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Immersion in Divine Unity and the Ocean Metaphor in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 13, Poem 6)

In Chapter 13, Poem 6 of Attar's Mokhtar Nameh, the poet juxtaposes the boundless, eternal 'ocean' (دریا) of Divine Unity with the insignificant 'small pool' (کوپله) of limited worldly existence. The poem serves as an injunction for the spiritual seeker—the 'man of the Encounter' (مرد لقا)—to become completely immersed in the Unity of God (��حدت خدا). Attar's rhetorical question highlights the spiritual absurdity of remaining preoccupied with a finite, trivial state of being when the vast, eternal reality of the Divine is accessible.

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