Sometimes, as we boil like carrots in a pot, This is the way He’s designed to pull us towards Him. So, it’s in our best interest to positively face our destiny and fulfill our obligations by leading a clean, positive, moral life and not creating new obligations to tie us to this creation.īut everything we do is being directed by the Lord, as we are his shadows. These are our karmas, or debts from prior actions that must be repaid and balanced in order for us to be reunited with the Lord. We all come into life with a destiny assigned to us to fulfill, in order to resolve obstacles that stand between us and the Lord. When we examine and understand our actions in life, we see that everything that happens, and all our movement towards the Lord, are through his guiding hand. The Lord is the mover behind our actions, and his love and intent are expressed in everything we do. He’s also implying that everything the shadow does is directed and inspired by the Lord. We’re like him, but a less substantial or developed version. So Rumi is saying we are a somewhat darker reflection of the Lord.
Shadowing is also a term used to follow or imitate someone. The light illuminates the shadow as similar to the real shape, but not quite the same. A shadow is an opaque and fleeting shape that mimics a real shape because of the way the light shines on that shape. He’s changing the imagery here, by saying that we are the same as the Lord, just in a shadow form, which is a very revealing image. He continues in the original poem, speaking about the friend, saying: Our job is to be receptive to it, in the depths of our being.
He’s saying that we need love in the same way that we need water, and again that love flows like a constant stream from the Lord. In another poem, he says:ĭon’t give value to a life lived without love. Rumi often uses images of water to describe divine love. True seekers are willing to give up anything in the world in order to experience this connection. And the master provides us with the example and inspiration that divine union is possible. The master is the mirror within whom we can catch a glimpse of the elusive Lord. It’s the link to our divine heritage, and it’s natural for us to be drawn towards that source, in the same way that a stream of water flows without heed for any obstacles in its way.ĭivine love is the way that our innermost heart experiences our relationship with the friend, who, to Rumi, is both the inner Lord, and also the master or Sheikh, which in his case was Shams-e-Tabrizi. To paraphrase, Baba Ji has said that love is the core of our being. Mystics and spiritual teachers throughout time have explained to humanity that each one of us has a soul within us that is a spark or drop of the same essence as the Lord. Rumi calls our seeking an “unstoppable torrent,” which rushes headfirst towards the Lord, since it’s our “duty” to follow the inner attraction our soul feels towards its divine origin.
He opens this poem by making the point that there’s an inherent force within human beings that seeks divine love and union with the Lord, or the “friend” that’s within each one of us. The thirteenth-century Sufi mystic, Jalal al-Din Rumi says:
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