Five Senses
Five Senses - meaning Summary
Transcending Sensory Knowledge
Rumi's 'Five Senses' argues that spiritual love transcends ordinary perception. It separates divine attraction from the five senses and spatial directions, presenting love as an inner experience aimed at union with the Beloved. Divine permission may later reveal deeper meanings in clearer speech, but true secrets belong only to those who know them; skeptics hear nothing but emptiness. The poem contrasts esoteric knowledge with ordinary comprehension.
Read Complete AnalysesLove has nothing to do with the five senses and the six directions: its goal is only to experience the attraction exerted by the Beloved. Afterwards, perhaps, permission will come from God: the secrets that ought to be told with be told with an eloquence nearer to the understanding that these subtle confusing allusions. The secret is partner with none but the knower of the secret: in the skeptic’s ear the secret is no secret at all.
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