Who is Rumi?

Rumi’s poetry is very beautiful with meanings hidden from the linear mind. I have always felt connected to this mystical poet due to his sharing my birthday and his date of death being my father’s birthday. The poetry of Rumi is haunting and still quite a mystery to me, yet it brings great peace of mind when read from a place of openness to receive inner wisdom.

Wikipedia states that: “Rumi was an evolutionary thinker in the sense that he believed that the spirit after devolution from the divine ego undergoes an evolutionary process by which it comes nearer and nearer to the same divine ego. That all matter in the universe obeys this law, and this movement is due to an inbuilt urge (which Rumi called ‘love’) to evolve and seek enjoinment with the divinity from which it has emerged. The doctrine of the Fall of Adam is reinterpreted as the devolution of the ego from the universal ground of divinity and is a universal, cosmic phenomenon. Rumi believed that there is a specific goal to the process of evolution—the attainment of God. For Rumi, God is the ground as well as the goal of all existence.

It is often said that the teachings of Rumi are ecumenical in nature. For Rumi, religion was mostly a personal experience and not limited to logical arguments or perceptions of the senses. Creative love, or the urge to rejoin the spirit to divinity, was the goal towards which everything moves.

Rumi understood that only a selfless soul can really touch what is pure within us all and conveyed his unremitting love for all people, regardless of who they were, even as he called for them to release the shackles that bound them to this material world.”

Here is one of my favourite verses, which I find very well described by Anandmurti Gurumaa in this video.

 

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“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth 
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep!”
― Rumi

Another poem allows us to see that the spiritual path can appear to be difficult to the human mind used to seeing things in certain old paradigm ways.

You try to be faithful
And sometimes you’re cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Without you, I can’t cope.
And when you take the lead,
I become your footstep.
Your absence leaves a void.
Without you, I can’t cope.
You have disturbed my sleep,
You have wrecked my image.
You have set me apart.
Without you, I can’t cope.”
― Rumi

Rumi, alongside Sant Kabir and Tony Samara are spiritual masters I admire greatly for being able to communicate truth in a simple way, in order for humanity to realize that we are more than what we believe ourselves to be, and that there are steps we can take in any moment in order to realise the evolution of human consciousness.

To conclude, I invite you to take a moment for silence and meditate upon the words of Rumi below.

“Love calls – everywhere and always. We’re sky bound. Are you coming?” – Rumi

It is possible to read more about Rumi in many places on the internet but also in a book to be released later this year by Tony Samara Books called ‘Karma, Mantra & Beyond’ by Tony Samara.

 

 

Spirituality is the thread that joins the world together once we remember that this is so. It is a daily part of my life as I live in a small spiritual school in Europe that lives following the guidance of Tony Samara. We are fortunate to have daily satsang each morning Monday to Friday and again on Sunday evenings. We spend our day focused on a karma yoga schedule that allows for us to put aside the mind, and to the best of our abilities immerse ourselves totally in the selfless services that we are to perform.