WHIRLING

Do you know what the whirling is? It is hearing the voices of the spirits saying "Yes" to God's question "Am I not your Lord?" It is deliverance from ego and reunion with Lord.

Do you know what the whirling is? It is seeing the Friend's states, hearing the secrets of God from across the curtains of the unseen.

Do you know what the whirling is? It is escaping one's existence, continuously tasting the everlasting existence in the absolute non-existence.

Do you know what the whirling is? It is making one's head a ball in front of the Friend's kicks of love and running to the Friend without head and feet.

Do you know what the whirling is? It is knowing Jacob's sorrow and remedy, it is smelling the smell of the reunion with Joseph from Joseph's shirt.

Do you know what the whirling is? It is swallowing Pharaoh's spells just like Moses' staff every moment.

Do you know what the whirling is? It is a secret from the Prophetic Tradition: "There is a moment for me with God where no Archangel or no Prophet can come in between God and me." It is reaching that place without any means where no Angel can fit.

Do you know what the whirling is? It is, like Shams-i Tabrizi, opening the eyes of the heart and seeing the sacred lights.

(From Sefik Can Efendi, "Fundamentals of Rumi's Thought".)