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  • Take heed, never be wedded to self: do not, like an ass, be always falling into water and mud.
  • That stumbling arises from shortsightedness; for like a blind man, he (such a one) does not see the ups and downs. 3220
  • Make the scent of Joseph's shirt thy stay, because his scent makes the eye clear.
  • The hidden Form and the Light of that Brow have made the eyes of the prophets far-seeing.
  • The Light of that Countenance will deliver (thee) from the fire: hark, be not content with borrowed light.
  • This (borrowed) light makes the eye to see that which is transient: it makes body and mind and spirit to be scabby (diseased).
  • It has the appearance of light, but in reality it is fire: keep thy hands off it, if thou desire the (true) radiance. 3225
  • The eye and spirit that sees (only) the transient falls on its face continually wherever it goes.
  • A far-seeing man who lacks knowledge may see far, just as (one has) far sight in dreams.
  • You are asleep with parched lips on the bank of the river, and (in your dream) are running in search of water towards the mirage.
  • You see the mirage far away and run (towards it): you become in love with your own sight.
  • In the dream you boast to your friends, saying, “I am the one whose heart possesses vision, and (I am) the one that rends the veil. 3230
  • Lo, I see water yonder: hark, make haste that we may go there”—and ’tis (only) the mirage.
  • At every step you hurry farther away from the water, whilst you keep running on towards the perilous mirage.
  • Your very setting-out has become the barrier (which prevents you) from (seeing) this that has come close to you.
  • Oh, many a one sets out to some place from the spot where the object of his quest is (to be found).
  • The (far) sight and boasting of the sleeper is of no avail; it is naught but a phantasy: hold aloof from it. 3235
  • Thou art sleepy, but anyhow sleep on the Way: for God's sake, for God's sake, sleep on the Way of God,
  • That perchance a Traveller (on the Way) may attach himself to thee and tear thee from the phantasies of slumber.
  • (Even) if the sleeper's thought become (subtle) as a hair, he will not find the way to the Abode by that subtlety.
  • Whether the sleeper's thought is twofold or threefold, still it is error on error on error.
  • The waves are beating upon him without restraint, (whilst) he asleep is running in the long wilderness. 3240
  • The sleeper dreams of the sore pangs of thirst, (whilst) the water is nearer unto him than the neck-vein.
  • Story of the ascetic who, notwithstanding his destitution and numerous family, was rejoicing and laughing in a year of drought whilst the people were dying of hunger. They said to him, "What is the occasion for joy? It is an occasion for a hundred mournings." "For me at any rate ’tis not (so)," he replied.
  • Even as (for example) that ascetic was laughing in a year of drought, while all (his) folk were weeping.
  • So they said to him, “What is the occasion for laughter, (when) the drought has uprooted (destroyed) the true believers?