Rumi's Masnavi - Since this world, like sleep, is covering it over as clouds cover the stars?

Since this world, like sleep, is covering it over as clouds cover the stars? —

می‌نیارد یاد کین دنیا چو خواب ** می‌فرو پوشد چو اختر را سحاب

Especially as it has trodden so many cities, and the dust has not (yet) been swept from its perceptive faculty,

خاصه چندین شهرها را کوفته ** گردها از درک او ناروفته

Nor has it made ardent efforts that its heart should become pure and behold the past; 3635

اجتهاد گرم ناکرده که تا ** دل شود صاف و ببیند ماجرا

That its heart should put forth its head (peep forth) from the aperture of the mystery and should see the beginning and the end with open eye.

سر برون آرد دلش از بخش راز ** اول و آخر ببیند چشم باز

The diverse modes and stages of the nature of Man from the beginning.

اطوار و منازل خلقت آدمی از ابتدا

First he came into the clime (world) of inorganic things, and from the state of inorganic things he passed into the vegetable state.

آمده اول به اقلیم جماد ** وز جمادی در نباتی اوفتاد

(Many) years he lived in the vegetable state and did not remember the inorganic state because of the opposition (between them);

سالها اندر نباتی عمر کرد ** وز جمادی یاد ناورد از نبرد

And when he passed from the vegetable into the animal state, the vegetable state was not remembered by him at all,

وز نباتی چون به حیوانی فتاد ** نامدش حال نباتی هیچ یاد

Save only for the inclination which he has towards that (state), especially in the season of spring and sweet herbs— 3640

جز همین میلی که دارد سوی آن ** خاصه در وقت بهار و ضیمران

Like the inclination of babes towards their mothers: it (the babe) does not know the secret of its desire for being suckled;

هم‌چو میل کودکان با مادران ** سر میل خود نداند در لبان

(Or) like the excessive inclination of every novice towards the noble spiritual Elder, whose fortune is young (and flourishing).

هم‌چو میل مفرط هر نو مرید ** سوی آن پیر جوانبخت مجید