(Note. Our Elder Brother yesterday gave a Friend and Me some very beautiful Guidance on Rumi’s Field that’s out beyond right and wrong. So this morning when He said to get up and look up Rumi, He actually adjusted Rumi’s poem: Don’t go back to sleep, saying that it is the next step to Reunion; translated beautifully by Coleman Barks.)
Thank You for getting up and Listening. You can see how this is the second step, so to speak, in willingness for the precious Reunion. It is the part that calls for self-discipline. And it is crucial. For all the world calls to You to give up such foolish thinking that there really is Something Else right here. Yet You know there is.
The unconsciousness of the world – also known as ego – wants No-One awakening. For then the dream is over, the ego’s day is done forever. You can see it has quite a vested interest in keeping You asleep.
So please put My re- translation of Rumi here, and it is self-explanatory; i.e. I have made the ideas clear.
Don’t Go Back To Sleep
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
~From Essential Rumi
by Coleman Barks
The singing birds, heralding the sunrise, are calling to You to Awaken now. They wonder at Your attachment to such dreaming when You could be sharing with them the perfect roundness of the rising sun. Joining Your song with their joyous singing.
Don’t go back to sleep!
What is it that You really want? Are pain and suffering justification for the dream that You are somehow god of sorts? Surely You cannot believe such nonsense! That is the stuff of dreams, and dreams ain’t really living, are they? They are little ‘deaths’. Make the choice for Life.
Don’t go back to sleep.
Don’t go back into the dream. For its promises are empty of Reality. It offers only pain and horror, and constant nameless fear. It is a dread that never leaves a Dreamer, no matter how the dream seems to satisfy the moment. It is the fear of the punishment of God, a concept more than ridiculous. A most deliberate dream suggestion of the ego keeping You All bound to Your own fear for eons.
Would You not claim Your Freedom now? It is free for the asking. At least accept the possibility.
Don’t go back to sleep.
While You can go back and forth across the line where two ways of being seem to touch, why – after tasting freedom – would You go back to slavery?
Don’t go back to sleep.
Ignore the tempting coziness of Your bed. It is inviting You back to hell. Why would You go there?
Don’t go back to sleep.
Make the choice for Heaven and for Freedom. You can choose any and every moment. Choice is always Yours.
Brother choose again. Sister choose again. Choose for happiness. Why not right this minute? Why prolong the misery? Atonement isn’t penance. It is Our Joining!