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4121-4130

  • May none but the Pír be (thy) master and captain!—not the Pír (old man) of the rolling sky, but the Pír of right guidance.
  • The devotee of darkness sees the light immediately as soon as he becomes subject to (the authority of) the Pír.
  • What is required is self-surrender, not long toil: ’tis useless to rush about in error.
  • Henceforth I will not seek the way to the Ether (the highest celestial sphere): I will seek the Pír, I will seek the Pír, the Pír, the Pír!
  • The Pír is the ladder to Heaven: by whom (what) is the arrow made to fly? By the bow. 4125
  • Was it not Abraham that caused the gross Nimrod to (attempt the) journey to heaven by means of the vulture?
  • (Impelled) by self-will, he often went upward; but no vulture can fly to heaven.
  • Abraham said to him, “O traveller, I will be thy vulture: this is more seemly for thee.
  • When thou makest of me a ladder to go aloft, thou wilt ascend to heaven without flying”—
  • As the heart (spirit), without provisions or riding-camel, travels (swiftly) as lightning to west and east; 4130