Divine Realities

Lesson 61: Divine Realities

Before "gardener" or "vine" or "grape" existed in this world
Our soul was drunk with the Eternal Wine.
We proclaimed "I am the Supreme Reality"
In the Baghdad of the spiritual world
Before Al-Hallaj's condemnation and death on the gibbet.
Before the universal soul became the world's architect
Our life was happy in the wine shop of Divine Realities.
Our soul was like the universe, our soul's cup like the sun.
The universe was drowned in the light of the soul's wine.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi

(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)