Rumi is a poet. But he is also a significant spiritual teacher.
Rumi is an inspiration. He contributes to clearing up our confusion. He uses words to dress up events. He facilitates our understanding of issues pertaining to the heart, intellect, and soul. Due to his famous love affair with Shams Al-Tabrizi, I mistakenly believed that Rumi only wrote poetry about love before reading any of them. Along with writing flawless love poems, he also gave a moving speech on faith. He described love and detachment in such a spiritual way that I was completely taken aback. It’s challenging for me to single out one verse by Rumi as the best, but there is one that has a particularly strong impact on my spiritual development. I first discovered it in Coleman’s translation of Rumi’s poetry, The Essential Rumi.
The poem is called “A Great Wagon,” and the middle verse — my favorite — is below:
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”
doesn’t make any sense.
The breeze at dawn has 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.”
Three important concepts are highlighted in this verse: the understanding of the spiritual world, the investigation of non-judgment, and oneness. Some people undervalue or dismiss spirituality as a fad, but as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said: “We are not human beings experiencing a spiritual experience. We have a human perspective even though we are spiritual beings. In his poems, Rumi probed this truth. Not only do we exist in the metaphysical world, but we also are it. Since the dawn of time, our goal has been to see past our physical selves and recognise our true nature. Eight centuries before the widespread spiritual movement, Rumi wrote about it.
In addition, Rumi establishes a solid fact: black and white are artificial. We are aware of the good and evil, the true and false, the beautiful and the ugly. The grey area, which is devoid of conflicts, exists beneath the apparent black and white, but we are unable to see it. We have a propensity to judge the events that transpire in our lives. We categorise the things we dislike as “bad” and the things we enjoy as “good.” Our dualistic mind separates feelings, thoughts, and events, and we do so unconsciously. Our internal and external disputes are frequently caused by this mental division.
There is complete connectedness in this realm, which is free of categorization and judgement. When we realise our oneness with everything and everyone else, as he puts it, even the word “each other” will no longer make meaning. In our own minds, we believe that we are distinct from other people, animals, and environment. The reality is that we all come from the same energy. But without first letting go of judgments, we can never fully realise this oneness. A step towards achieving a higher realisation that knows no opposition is realising that all living things are a component of us.
Because of the way Rumi combines these concepts in this poetry, I adore it and identify with it. Before we can join the spiritual world and comprehend our “oneness,” we must first let go of judgements. Because of Rumi, whenever I catch myself making snap judgements or labels, I pause, make room in my mind, and recall to go to that field. I converge there, where I merge with everything and everyone. Because when I think of the universe as being separate, I only have room for myself.
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