EFS:[Nukkad]The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam

[Mohammed Siddiqui <>]

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                       The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam

        Spiritual Interpretation by Paramahansa Yogananda

          Look to the Rose that Blows about us 
          "Lo Laughing," she says, "into the World I blow:
             At once the silken Tassel of my Purse
          Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden Throw."

Glossary - Look : Analyze.  Rose that blows about us: Material pleasures
that surround us. Laughing into the world I blow ;  Mocking, on every breeze
I waft the temptations of sensory pleasures.  Silken tassel of my purse :
Attachment to the senses, which binds man to worldly experiences. Tear : Cut
off by wisdom. Its treasure on the garden throw : Fling its false pleasures
on the earth.

Spiritual Interpretation
     Fragrant and short-lived as the rose, the pleasures of materiality mock
human beings who do not understand their ephemeral nature. Delay not that
understanding, lest you be trapped in the enfolding pleasure-petals,
entombed like the bee that tarries too long in the lotus closing at sunset.
     Tear asunder with wisdom the stem of attachment that holds together
your prison of passing pleasure petals. Fling them underfoot and press
forward through the garden of life on your pathway to infinity.

Practical Application
     Most mortal beings who come into this world are like roses that blow in
the garden; after a brief, materially pleasurable existence, they shed the
petal of their lives in the oblivion of death. Such a meaningless existence
cannot satisfy man. He should fully employ his God-given life in the
acquirement of liberating wisdom, that he may banish forever the delusion of
material happiness and find within himself the ever-conscious,
ever-existing, ever-new joy of the soul.
     In the chamber of introspection, analyze the temporal, dissatisfying
nature of the sense pleasures -- gaudily promising outwardly empty. By close
scrutiny you will discern how the impermanence of sense delights mocks you.
You will realize that you would be better off without these unstable rosy
pleasures that abound in material life. With this realization comes desire
to tear away their sustaining stem - your attachment to them. If,
strengthened by wisdom, you are able to do this you will easily discard your
false imaginings about the value of material pleasures, and you will cast
from your consciousness all desire for them.
     It is only by deep discrimination that one understands the unworthy
nature of material desires and becomes able to tear them away from the
heart. The prudent man cultivates discrimination. But anyone who remains
addicted to sense pleasures long enough cannot but realize, finally, their
fickle nature and the necessity of freeing the soul from their imprisoning
roots.

PS:
found this beauty sleeping in my in-box, sharing
with all of you by JUST putting IT in out-box!
sIDDiqUi
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Wondering if someone has a collection of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. kindly
send to me!

thanks in advance.
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Mohammed  Siddiqui 
 


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