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Before the Outer World Is Destroyed - At Least Save Yourself
Source: The Hidden Splendor #07
Rumi is saying:
THE NEWS WE HEAR IS FULL OF GRIEF FOR THE FUTURE.
BUT THE REAL NEWS INSIDE,
IS THERE'S NO NEWS AT ALL.
Everything is silent
and everything is as
beautiful, peaceful, blissful as it has always been.
There is no change at all; hence, there is no news.
Inside it is an eternal ecstasy,
forever and forever.
I will repeat again
that these lines may become right
in your lifetime.
Before that happens, you must reach within yourself
where no news has ever happened, where everything
is eternally the same,
where the spring never comes and goes but always remains;
where flowers
have been from the very beginning --
if there was any beginning --
and are going to remain to the very end, if there is going to be any end.
In fact, there is no beginning and no end,
and the garden is lush, green, and full of flowers.
Before the outside world is destroyed by your politicians,
enter into your inner world.
That's the only safety left,
the only shelter against nuclear weapons,
against global suicide,
against all these idiots who have so much power to destroy.
You can at least save yourself.
I was hopeful,
but as the days have passed
and I became more and more acquainted with the stupidity of man...
I still hope
just out of old habit;
but really my heart
has accepted the fact
that only a few people can be saved.
The whole of humanity is determined to destroy itself.
And these are the people... if you tell them
how they can be saved,
they will crucify you.
They will stone you to death.
Going around the world,
I still laugh,
but there is a subtle sadness in it.
I still dance with you
but it is no more with the same enthusiasm
as it was ten years ago.
It seems
that the higher powers of consciousness are helpless
against the lower and ugly powers of politicians.
The higher is always
fragile, like a rose flower;
you can destroy it with a stone.
That does not mean that the stone becomes higher than the rose flower;
it simply means the stone is
unconscious of what it is doing.
The crowds are unconscious of what they are doing,
and the politicians belong to the crowd.
They are their representatives.
And when blind people are leading other blind people,
it is almost impossible
to wake them up;
because it is not only the question that they are asleep -- they are blind too.
There is not time enough to cure their eyes.
There is time enough to wake them
but not time enough to cure their eyes.
So now I have confined myself completely
with my own people.
That is my world,
because I know those who are with me
may be asleep, but they are not blind.
They can be awakened.
Okay, Vimal?
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