Rumi’s Quatrain (no 77) can have so many interpretations
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Doing as others told me,
I was blind.
Coming when others called me,
I was lost.
Then I left everyone,
myself as well.
Then I found everyone,
myself as well.
— Version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva
“A Garden Beyond Paradise”
Bantam Books, 1992
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for awhile
i chose myself to adore
losing me in me
i deserved no more
it seemed i couldn’t
see myself
yet i knew
when i stepped out
then me and myself
i beheld
— Translation by Nader Khalili
“Rumi, Dancing the Flame”
Cal-Earth Press, 2001
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For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
From within, I couldn’t decide what to do.
Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
Then I walked outside.
— Version by Coleman Barks
“Open Secret”
Threshold Books, 1984
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Imitating others,
I failed to find myself.
I looked inside and discovered
I only knew my name.
When I stepped outside
I found my real Self.
— Translation by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
“Rumi: Whispers of the Beloved”
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1999
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Rumi’s poetry melts the heart and inspires the soul to experience the ecstatic love. It transposes one into the mystical world of the infinite.
And also I want to add that I found this blog quite interesting, really I like it very much.
Here I found rumi’s poetry, well I want to ask one thing ‘what is the meaning of Quatrian, is it means poem’!!
I want to share with all of Rumi lovers, the treasure of Rumi poems, Zikr which I found on Gurumaa.com
On 14th Feb, 2007, there was a special sufi event called ‘Zikr’ was happened by Sufi Dervishes from Turkey, especially invited by Anandmurti Gurumaa to spread the fragnance of Love in India..
Rose
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A quatrain is a four lined poem – consisting of two rhymed couplets (like the ghazal. It is supposed to be a self contained poetic form that touches on a wide range of subjects and ideas in those four lines.