Self-Transcendence and Ego Sacrifice in Attar's Mokhtar Nameh (Chapter 8, Poem 24)
In Chapter 8, Poem 24 of the Mokhtar Nameh, Attar characterizes the path of spiritual love as one of complete submissiveness and ego sacrifice, symbolized by losing one's head. He explains that self-assertion is useless, and the only true remedy for the spiritual traveler is self-transcendence, or coming out of oneself, to overcome the illusion of separate existence.
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