Rumi is one of my favourite mystics, and this one of my favourites of his poems.
‘One, One, One’
The lamps are different,
but the Light is the same.
So many garish lamps in the dying brain’s lamp-shop,
Forget about them.
Concentrate on essence, concentrate on Light.
In lucid bliss, calmly smoking off its own holy fire,
The Light streams towards you from all things,
All people, all possible permutation of good, evil, thought, passion.
The lamps are different,
But the Light is the same.
One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind,
Endlessly emanating all things
One turning and burning diamond,
One, one, one.
Ground yourself, strip yourself down,
To blind loving silence.
Stay there, until you see
You are gazing at the Light
With its own ageless eyes.
1 comment on “One, One, One”
Oh, I adore that! The oneness of existence-Sufi Wahdat al Wujud from the glorious Rumi and the Advaita Vedanta of your Aum icon !