Garden of Mystery

"Know that the world is a mirror from head to foot,
In every atom are.a hundred blazing suns.
If you cleave the heart of one drop of water ,
A hundred pure oceans emerge from it;
If you examine closely each grain of sand,
A thousand Adam maybe seen in it.
In its members a gnat is like an elephant,
In its qualities a drop of rain is like the Nile.
The heart of a piece of corn equals a hundred harvests.

A world dwells in the heart of a millet seed.
In the wing of a gnat is the ocean of life..
In the pupil of the eye a heaven.
What though the corn grain of the heart be small
It is a station of the Lord of both worlds to dwell
there in".


~ Mahmud Shabistari