Absorbed in God: A Deep Rumi Poem on Connecting with God

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The light of the senses and spirit of our ancestors
doesn’t perish like the grass,
but, like the stars and moonbeams,
they vanish in the radiance of the Sun.

It’s like the naked man who jumped into the water,
so that he might escape from the hornets’ stings:
the hornets circled above him, and whenever he put out his head
they would not spare him.

The water is recollection of God,
and the hornet is the thought, during this time,
of such-and-such a woman or man.

Hold your breath in the water of remembrance,
so that you may be freed from old thoughts and temptations.
After that, you will assume the nature of that pure water,
entirely from head to foot.

As the noxious hornet flees from the water,
so…it will be afraid of approaching you.
After that, be far from the water, if you wish;
for in your innermost soul you are of the same nature as the water.

Those persons then who have passed from the world
are not nonexistent but are absorbed in the attributes of God,
even as the star…