Why Does Rumi See Life As a Dream That Must Be Interpreted?

Mira Prabhu:

Life, to Rumi, was a great dream that we humans had to interpret in order to evolve. Read on for more of Rumi’s gorgeous insights…and thank you for sharing, Dr. Steven Fox!

Originally posted on Dreams: Guide to the Soul is a dream interpretation book and ebook:

Enter Rumi’s World with Dreams

The great Rumi shows his profound understanding of life:

“THE DREAM THAT MUST BE INTERPRETED

This place is a dream.

Only a sleeper considers it real.

Then death comes like dawn,

and you wake up laughing

at what you thought was your grief.

But there’s a difference with this dream.

Everything cruel and unconscious

done in the illusion of the present world,

all that does not fade away at the death-waking.

It stays,

and it must be interpreted.

All the mean laughing,

all the quick, sexual wanting,

those torn coats of Joseph,

they change into powerful wolves

that you must face.

The retaliation that sometimes comes now,

the swift, payback hit,

is just a boy’s game

to what the other will be.

You know about circumcision here.

It’s full castration there!

And this groggy time we live,

this is what it’s like:

A man goes…

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