The Drowned Book
Ecstatic and Earthy Reflections of Bahauddin, the Father of Rumi
BLUE ROBE 23
Show the true way. (Qur'an 1:6)24
I have been given a taste for what is beautiful. Like milk
running through my body, the gates open. I wear a blue robe
woven of six directions with watercolor images flowing over
the cloth, a thousand kinds of flowers, yellow jasmine, wild
iris. Orchard corridors, handsome faces on the street, I am
composed of this beauty, the attar of pressed plants, rose oil,
resinous balsam: live essence, I am the intelligent juice of
flowers.
ONE OF THE WAYS GOD TASTES
In the middle of praying I was thinking about the nymphs of
paradise again, said to be half-camphor, half-saffron, with
their hair of pure musk.
Then I remembered the old saying about such and such
whose head is soaked in shame, with his foot bound tight in
truthfulness.
Then I recalled the qualities of God: compassion, generosity,
elegant intricacy, luminous wisdom, mercy, beauty. I became
grateful that I know the taste of some of these qualities,
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