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Librería 7artes
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
This is the best known work of Mevlana Rumi consisting of 24,660 couplets in seven books. Rumi himself defined his work as a work of destruction, destruction of the worldly for the sake of embracing the Divine. He warns the reader in advance to be prepared to let go of everything:Every venture one’s life may repleteMathnavi’s purpose is the Great Defeat.Set afire, burning with cleansing heat,On the anvil, egos ply and beat.This book, if you open, read, entreatYour life, a mendicant’s, in the street.I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as plant and rose to animal,I died as animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soarWith angels bless’d; but even from angelhoodI must pass on: all except God doth perish.When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,I shall become what no mind e’er conceived.Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existenceProclaims in organ tones,To Him we shall return.
