This world is a mountain and our actions send forth melodies -- that echo right back to us with the melodies we sent forth! --Rumi, Masnavi
"Eeen jahan koohast o fe'le ma neda; sooye ma ayad nedaha ra seda"
This blog includes excerpts from my book entitled The Lover's Gaze: Rumi's Guide for Lovers and Spiritual Seekers. In it I try to provide balanced (not too literal, yet not diverging from the original Persian) translations and commentary on the poetry and practical philosophy of Rumi, the Persian Sufi Mystic and Poet. The translations in this blog are copyrighted. If you wish to use them send me an email and I will need to verify usage then send you a formal email of permission of usage.
3 comments:
was looking for Rumi resources when i stumbled upon your blog. it's good that you have commentaries to come with the poems. keep it up!
btw, i'd like to know which book you can recommend for somebody who's just starting to get acquainted with rumi.
brilliant, speechless!
thankyou for sharing
Hi Tina, thanks for your comment. I have started a series that will have commentaries and will focus on instances where Rumi speaks of Love. There are many books out there of course and each has a good initial section that will be a good intro to Rumi. I like W. Chittick's Sufi Path of Love in particular. Truth be told I am finishing a book on Rumi and once we publish it I will post a link here.
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