The grape’s journey in Mevlânâ

In Mevlânâ, the grape is a journey: unripe grape, ripe grape and wine stand for the stages of knowing, finding and becoming. A dervish who has reached the secret of existence is called “a dervish who has become a grape.” The roses in the garden of his tomb in Konya were planted by order of his son, to keep his father’s love of roses alive.

Source: Selen Yeğenoğlu, Bilge Sözen Şahne, “Maddeden Manaya: Bitkiler ve Mevlana”, Lokman Hekim Dergisi 6(1), 2016 (Yeğenoğlu and Sözen Şahne, Lokman Hekim Dergisi, 2016). This is a folk record, not a treatment recommendation.