By Shanti ClementsJalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī, known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian muslim poet, theologian, and Sufi mystic. His poetry, which in recent times was recorded on CD-rom by Deepak Chopra and friends, evokes the purity of unconditional love, devotion and spiritual unity.
Rumi believed passionately in the use of music, poetry, and dance as a path for reaching God. For Rumi, music helped devotees to focus their whole being on the divine, and to do this so intensely that the soul was both destroyed and resurrected. It was from these ideas that the practice of "whirling" dervishes developed into a ritual form.
Rumi encouraged the practice of samā, listening to music and turning or doing the sacred dance. Samāʿ represents the mystical journey of spiritual ascent through mind and love to the Perfect One. In this journey, the seeker symbolically turns towards the truth, grows through love, abandons the ego, finds the truth, and arrives at the Perfect. The seeker then returns from this spiritual journey, with greater maturity, to love and to be of service to the whole of creation without discrimination with regard to beliefs, races, classes, and nations.
To listen to Rumi's poetry, please visit this website:
You might also like to view a video of his beautiful poem, Only Breath, below.
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With thanks,
The Circumference Team
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