Sufi poem on futility of bitterness and self-pity

[Onkar]

Sufi poem on futility of bitterness and self-pity

 

Overcome any bitterness that may have come

because you were not up to the magnitude

of the pain that was entrusted to you.

 

Like the mother of the world

who carries the pain of the world

in her heart, each one of us is

part of her heart and therefore

each is endowed with a certain measure

of cosmic pain

You are sharing in the totality

of that pain and are called upon

to meet it in joy instead of

self-pity.