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Spiritual Verses | The Jalaluddin Rumi
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Begun in 1262 AD, Masnavi-ye Ma ‘navi, or ‘spiritual couplets', is thought to be the longest single-authored ‘mystical’ poem ever written. As the spiritual masterpiece of the Persian Sufi tradition, it teaches how to progress to the ultimate goal of the Sufi path - union with God. Jalaloddin Rumi was a poet and a mystic, but he was first a teacher; in these verses he draws the reader into the complexities of human love and separation and explains the path to divine love through the elimination of self-regard and worldly desires. Drawing on diverse sources from bawdy tales and fables to stories of the prophet Mohammed, these verses are brief in expression yet copious in meaning.
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Rumi is great! Here, Anton Lesser reads Book One of his epic, the Masnavi. (Sadly, subsequent volumes don't appear to have followed.) These teaching stories deserve and repay contemplation but they also make for fine entertainment.

quietlycuriouskate On a somewhat silly note, I'm sensitive to voices and couldn't shake the image that I was being read to by Sir Thomas More from "Wolf Hall". 1y
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