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بگذری زان نقشهای هم‌چو حور ** جلوه آری با عجوز نیم‌کور
- (No); thou leavest those houri-like figures and displayest thyself to a half-blind old woman.
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در عجوزه چیست که ایشان را نبود ** که ترا زان نقشها با خود ربود
- What is there in the old woman that was not in them, so that she rapt thee away from those figures (and attracted thee) to herself?
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تو نگویی من بگویم در بیان ** عقل و حس و درک و تدبیرست و جان 145
- (If) thou wilt not say (what it is), I will tell (thee) plainly: ’tis reason and sense and perception and consideration and soul.
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در عجوزه جان آمیزش‌کنیست ** صورت گرمابه‌ها را روح نیست
- In the old woman there is a soul that mingles (with the body): the pictured forms in the hot-baths have no (rational) spirit.
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صورت گرمابه گر جنبش کند ** در زمان او از عجوزه بر کند
- If the pictured form in the hot-bath should move, it would at once separate thee from the old woman.
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جان چه باشد با خبر از خیر و شر ** شاد با احسان و گریان از ضرر
- What is soul? (Soul is) conscious of good and evil, rejoicing on account of kindness, weeping on account of injury.
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چون سر و ماهیت جان مخبرست ** هر که او آگاه‌تر با جان‌ترست
- Since consciousness is the inmost nature and essence of the soul, the more aware one is the more spiritual is he.
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روح را تاثیر آگاهی بود ** هر که را این بیش اللهی بود 150
- Awareness is the effect of the spirit: any one who has this in excess is a man of God.
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چون خبرها هست بیرون زین نهاد ** باشد این جانها در آن میدان جماد
- Since there are consciousnesses beyond this (bodily) nature, in that (spiritual) arena these (sensual) souls are (like) inanimate matter.
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جان اول مظهر درگاه شد ** جان جان خود مظهر الله شد
- The first soul is the theatre of the (Divine) court; the Soul of the soul is verily the theatre of God (Himself).