In this poem from the Mokhtar Nameh, Attar contrasts the heavy burden of the ego ('I') with the spiritual weightlessness of the Qalandar. Approaching the spiritual threshold with selfhood brings shame and diminishes the seeker to a state lower than dust. While the ego carries the weight of self-absorption, adopting the way of the Qalandar—a dervish who abandons all attachments, including the self—achieves a state of weightless, ego-free liberation.