Attending to Attar, Day 9
The voice of the siren is sweet like drops of honey on the tongue. Sweet are the ways of the world. Their enticements are offered as spun sugar. The world asks that you eat heartily. But to devour such sweetness is to live in hunger. You yearn for more, and more never satisfies. You become ill and deranged. Chains of desire and hope form to bind you to body and soul. You grow thirsty and seek honeyed water from the earthly well. You are too famished to raise the cup. You cannot journey farther. You wish to live forever but cannot leave your cage. You are trapped unnourished in body and soul.
You hunger and thirst in the world. Spun sugar does not nourish. Honeyed water does not quench. Pick up your cup and drink from the spring that flows within. Drink in abundance. The water within nourishes you fully with wisdom and joy. You will live long and heartily knowing your true nature. You are the one. You are that which I AM. Surrender to the eternal by walking the way of the path. The way of the world serves you poorly. To think that you can survive in form forever is false immortality. Release your worldly chains. Release your attachments to body and soul. The shell does not provide. It is the kernel within that nourishes.
