Rumi - The Heart Hides Secrets In Shame Poem by Ravi Kopra

Rumi - The Heart Hides Secrets In Shame



Leave your worries
and be pure in heart

Like the face of a mirror
that reflects all

Clear of all images
and yet all images in it

Man worries not the clear faced one.
Hold the mirror in your hand and look yourself in it

It will tell you who you are
Without lies not ashamed of itself

What's the difference between
the mirror and your heart?

The heart hides secrets in shame
The mirror does not.

Saturday, February 17, 2018
Topic(s) of this poem: heart,reflection
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
XIII


Dismiss cares and be utterly clear of heart,
Like the face of a mirror without image and picture.
When it becomes clear of images, all images are contained in it;
No man's face is ashamed of that clear-faced one.
Wouldst thou have a clear mirror, behold thyself therein,
For it is not ashamed or afraid of telling the truth.
Since the steel face gained this purity by discrimination,
What needs the heart's face, which has no dust?
But betwixt the steel and the heart is this difference,
That the one is a keeper of secrets, while the other is not.

-from Divani Shamsi Tabriz,
Edited and Translated by R. A. Nicholson
Ist published in 1898
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