Post by bluefedish on Jan 7, 2008 12:06:51 GMT -5
Rumi Jelaleddin (1207-1273)
A Persian Sufi poet of the thirteenth century AD, also known as Jelaluddin Balkhi, and considered by many the greatest Oriental mystic.
Rumi teached the Sufi doctrine that the chief end of man is so to emancipate himself from human thoughts and wishes, human needs and the outward impressions of the senses, that he may become a mere mirror for the Deity. So refined an essence does his mind become that it is as nearly as possible nothing: yet while in this state it can, by a union with the Divine Essence, mysteriously became the All. In his teachings he declared that names and words must not be taken for the things they represent.
Rumi wrote many exquisit lyrics. His greatest work was 'Mesnevi' or 'Mathnawi', a large collection of double-rhymed verses containing ethical and moreal precepts. He lived in Asia Minor at Iconium, modern Konya (Arabic), but was born in Balkh. He founded the Order of Dervishes, a Sufistic sect.
Selected Sources:
www.occultopedia.com/j/jelaleddin_rumi.htm
www.poetry-portal.com
A Persian Sufi poet of the thirteenth century AD, also known as Jelaluddin Balkhi, and considered by many the greatest Oriental mystic.
Rumi teached the Sufi doctrine that the chief end of man is so to emancipate himself from human thoughts and wishes, human needs and the outward impressions of the senses, that he may become a mere mirror for the Deity. So refined an essence does his mind become that it is as nearly as possible nothing: yet while in this state it can, by a union with the Divine Essence, mysteriously became the All. In his teachings he declared that names and words must not be taken for the things they represent.
Rumi wrote many exquisit lyrics. His greatest work was 'Mesnevi' or 'Mathnawi', a large collection of double-rhymed verses containing ethical and moreal precepts. He lived in Asia Minor at Iconium, modern Konya (Arabic), but was born in Balkh. He founded the Order of Dervishes, a Sufistic sect.
Selected Sources:
www.occultopedia.com/j/jelaleddin_rumi.htm
www.poetry-portal.com
