The Spirit of the Saints
The Spirit of the Saints - meaning Summary
Cyclical Cleansing of the Soul
Rumi likens the Spirit of the saints to a heavenly Water that descends to cleanse the world, becomes tainted by human sin, and then returns to its divine Source to be renewed. The cycle repeats: the spirit pours out God’s healing balm until it seems spent, then is revitalized at the Fountain and sent again. The poem presents spiritual generosity as restorative, sacrificial, and cyclical.
Read Complete AnalysesThere is a Water that flows down from Heaven To cleanse the world of sin by grace Divine. At last, its whole stock spent, its virtue gone. Dark with pollution not its own, it speeds Back to the Fountain of all purities; Whence, freshly bathed, earthward it sweeps again, Trailing a robe of glory bright and pure. This Water is the Spirit of the Saints, Which ever sheds, until itself is beggared, God’s balm on the sick soul; and then returns To Him who made the purest light of Heaven.
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