From earth you became plant...

From the moment you came into this world

A ladder was placed in front of you

That you might escape

From earth you became plant,

From plant you became animal,

Afterwards you became a human being,

Endowed with knowledge, intellect and faith.

 

Behold the body, born of dust,

How perfect it has become!

Why should you fear its end?

When were you ever made less by dying?

When you pass beyond this human form,

No doubt you will become an angel

And soar through the heavens!

 

But don't stop there.

Even heavenly bodies grow old.

Pass again from the heavenly realm

And plunge into the vast ocean of consciousness.

Let the drop of water that is you

Become a hundred mighty seas.

 

But do not think that the drop alone

Becomes the ocean,

The ocean, too, becomes the drop!

 

Rumi

Done