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دفتر اول - بخش ۲۶ - دفع گفتن وزیر مریدان را / Book One - Section 26 - The Vizier's Refusal to Speak to the Disciples

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گفت هان ای سخرگان گفت و گو
وعظ و گفتار زبان و گوش جو

پنبه اندر گوش حس دون کنید
بند حس از چشم خود بیرون کنید

پنبهٔ آن گوش سر، گوش سرست
تا نگردد این کر آن باطن کرست

بی حس و بی گوش و بی فکرت شوید
تا خطاب أرجعی را بشنوید

تا به گفت و گوی بیداری دری
تو زگفت خواب بویی کی بری

سیر بیرونیست قول و فعل ما
سیر باطن هست بالای سما

حس خشکی دید، کز خشکی بزاد
عیسی جان پای بر دریا نهاد

سیر جسم خشک بر خشکی فتاد
سیر جان پا در دل دریا نهاد

چونک عمر اندر ره خشکی گذشت
گاه کوه و گاه دریا گاه دشت

آب حیوان از کجا خواهی تو یافت
موج دریا را کجا خواهی شکافت

موج خاکی وهم و فهم و فکر ماست
موج آبی محو و سکرست و فناست

تا درین سکری، از آن سکری تو دور
تا ازین مستی از آن جامی نفور

گفت و گوی ظاهر آمد چون غبار
مدتی خاموش خو کن، هوش دار

English translation

He said: Beware, O captives of talk and discussion, seekers of admonition and speech through tongue and ear. Put cotton in the ear of the lower sense; remove the bandage of sense from your eyes. The cotton of that inner ear is the ear of the head: until this outward ear becomes deaf, the inward ear is deaf. Become without sense, without ear, and without thought, so that you may hear the address, 'Return!' So long as you are at the door of waking talk, how will you catch any scent from the speech of sleep? Our speech and action are an outward journey; the inward journey is above the heavens. Dry sense saw dryness, for it was born of dryness; the Jesus of the soul set foot upon the sea. The journey of the dry body fell upon dry land; the journey of the soul set foot in the heart of the sea. Since your life has passed on the dry road, now through mountain, now sea, now plain, where will you find the Water of Life? How will you split the sea's wave? The earthen wave is our imagination, understanding, and thought; the watery wave is effacement, intoxication, and annihilation. So long as you are in this intoxication, you are far from that intoxication; so long as you are drunk on this, you shrink from that cup. Outward speech and talk are like dust; for a while make silence your habit; be alert.

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