Hundred Thousand Ressurrection

Thou hast gained these (successive) lives from (successive) deaths: why hast thou averted thy face from dying in Him?
What loss was thine (what loss didst thou suffer) from those deaths, that thou hast clung (so tenaciously) to (this earthly) life, O rat?
Since thy second (life) is better than thy first, therefore seek to die (to the world), and worship the Transmuter.
O contumacious man, thou hast experienced a hundred thousand resurrections at every moment from the beginning of thy existence until now:
From inanimateness (thou didst move) unconsciously towards (vegetal) growth, and from (vegetal) growth towards (animal) life and tribulation;
Again, towards reason and goodly discernments; again, towards (what lies) outside of these five (senses) and six (directions).
These footprints are (extend) as far as the shore of the Ocean; then the footprints disappear in the Ocean; Because, from (Divine) precaution, the resting-places (appointed for the traveller) on the dry land are (like) villages and dwellings and caravanserays, (While) on the contrary the resting-places of the Ocean, when its billows swell, have no floor or roof (to shelter the traveller) during (his) stay and detention.
These (Oceanic) stages have no visible beacon: these resting-places have neither sign nor name. Between every two resting-places Yonder there is (a distance) a hundred times as much as from the vegetal state to the Essential Spirit.
Thou hast seen this life (to be implicit) in (previous) deaths: how, (then), art thou (so) attached to the life of the body?

The Masnawi - Volume 5, 800