Rumi and the Play of Poetry 

By his works on Rumi, Coleman has done humanity a great service.

Rumi guides us with love and awakening, not fear and punishment. Master scholar with a playful loving heart, what a combination.

Reminds me of Rumi “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. . . " Beauty of Rumi glowing through the beauty of Barks.

This is one of the most beautiful renderings of Rumi's poetry that I have ever heard. The modern music perfectly harmonizes with Rumi's ancient words, and creates a magic that further confirms for me the relevance of Rumi's poetry today. Thank you to Coleman Barks for sharing Rumi's poetry in this video and in your books.

Just outstanding. Sometimes these words reach a place I never knew was there.

Without listening to Rumi, I have to end my life goodbye for nothing. He showed me what I’m and what I have to doing during my life and learned me what calls LOVE.

You'll love Rumi with this rich voice, with unexpected musical vibes, with blues rhythm, with the sweet and sour of cello, the heavenly sound of harp and the calling of the flute.

Rumi is love! Love belongs to all... It doesn't matter where he lived, where he was born or to which religion. All he was and is, is LOVE. Be that! Forget the rest. And thank you Coleman Barks for your astonishing work!

Sometimes I feel so sad that some people called our nation Iran(Persia) "Axis of Evil". I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW THE LAND AND NATION OF the root of poets like Molana Rumi, Algebra, math, sciences and arts can be called axis of evil! So unfair! LOVE AND PEACE TO ALL NATIONS! This is from Molana Rumi's master, Shams: "We all have different faces, characters and names. If God wanted us to be all the same, He would have done it. Not to respect the differences, to accuse others is our fault and not respecting God." (Shams Tabrizi)

The free verses of Rumi in English by Coleman Barks makes us feel Rumi enchanting with us to open the deep taverns of heart and we drink the Ocean of Love making us tranquilized and we dance in madness and frenzy and we become the music and song in this great unison of Love.

Rumi was born as Mohammed Jalaluddin Balkhi, on September 30, 1207 C. E. in Balkh Province, Afghanistan. He descended from a long line of jurists, theologians, and mystics, including his father, who was known by followers of Rumi as “Sultan of the Scholars.” When Rumi was still a young man, his father led their family more than 2,000 miles west to avoid the invasion of Genghis Khan’s armies. The family travelled to Baghdad, to Mecca on pilgrimage, and to Damascus and eventually settled in Konya in what is now western Turkey. This part of the world was then known to its inhabitants as Rum, a name derived from the Byzantine Roman Empire that had formerly held it. Jalaluddin's name in religion and literature - Rumi - is itself derived from Rum. Rumi became a celebrated Islamic scholar at a young age and was admired for his learning. However, his life changed when he met the wandering mystic Sham al - Din in 1244. This meeting had a profound impact on Rumi, he felt Sham to be a divinely inspired person and he took him to be his Guru. Under the guidance of Shams, Rumi became interested of the way of the Sufi. Rumi is today thought of being a mystic and poet and is closely identified with Sufism within Islam, where devotees seek a direct union with God. Through his poetry, Rumi expressed his philosophy which included tolerance of all religious beliefs, the importance of goodness and charity, and above all, he advocated the importance of love. Rumi passed away on December 17th, 1273 in Konya, Turkey; his body was interred beside that of his father. Today, Rumi is loved around the world and is the best selling poet in the United States.

A moth, flying into the flame says with its wingfire: Try This. The wick, with its knotted neck broken, tells you the same. A candle, as it diminishes, explains- Gathering more and more, is not the way Burn. Become Light and Heat and Help. Melt. The ocean sits in the sand, letting its lap fill with pearls and shells; Then, empty. A bitter salt taste hums- This. The rose purifies its face, drops the soft petals Shows its thorn; and Points. Wine, abandons thousands of famous names The vintage years and delightful bouquets, To run wild and anonymous Through your brain. The flute, closes its eyes and gives its lips to Hamsa's emptiness Everything begs, with the silent rocks For you- to be flung out like light Over this plain

What a enlightened man? He lived in Georgia. Rumi lived 600-700 hundred years ago on the other site of the ocean and land..Yet, he brought back Rumi's poetry into life. I call that enlightenment.

This man dies in front of my eyes and I will continue as his door man to Rumi proudly

i was there , now i am here ,,,love both times

I love you final final cause I'm a freshmen to your class and I see what a profond poet you have done for us in America. I don't think another will surpass you through my life time cause most don't get the shot you did for us cause you, Rumi,Hafiz and many others will go on thank you so much Coleman 🌹

It does not matter what land we are born on, we leave it, we come back to it, maybe we come back to the water. If we are born in the water, then the labels wash away!!

My favorite all time youtube.

17:30 poems that feel drowned in the beloved ~ Coleman Barks

I'd have loved to see this live. Wouldve been blissful

thank you Coleman Barks....I listened to Rumi with a new ear..very beautiful!

We. Love you Colman barks x🌹🥰😜

I keep coming back to this...

I'll never let colemens barks go in honored

Magnificent reading and accompanying music you got me crying a river

so beautiful.... blessed to hear rumi's poem and such beautiful music

The poems of Rumi are burning my soul!!!! unlike to see it in Translations!

Allah kareem is merciful to these people.

Soo Excited..can't wait to experience this❤️

I agree if nothing else he has been my window to a world I knew but till Rumi I could only imagine

Love and Much Humbleness to Rumi

Outstanding explanation, job well done, full of passion

No words to appreciate this cascade of Rumian Americanization of Truth.

he is just fantastic with his views

So beautiful! Thank you!

Excellent!

Why is there not more of this ....why??? Awesome.

I personally love this because I got a true feeling for who Coleman Barks is within his mannerisms and stories in this and he spells out the essence of who the Sufi people of Rumi's time were and I got a better sense of Rumi as well.

Grrrrr this is my teacher I love you Coleman barks who taught me Sufi from a Christian book.... Ty 😘

Rumi a Persian man made our world 🌎 upside down in a good way

Always it is a way to be loving a love...

i love mevlana celaleddin-i rumi, he was the symbol of the global peace around the world...he s been honest to any other religious member or anyone who was not muslim etc...

Coleman Barks Come to Minneapolis, MN!!! Bissmillah Hu!

Brother I love you and I'll hold your mantle till I die and I hope one will continue 🌹

CB you r the man ...thank you

Thank you for posting this :)

Beautiful

I didn't understand your texts friend, but if you want to know the poems of Rumi, please learn Persian(Dari), and read them, but still it is so kind of you that you love him, thank you:)

I love you Rumi...I love you Coleman Barks.

I love this.

Beautiful! . . .

I'm proud to be Coleman's jouymens. What he did is history cause I'm here to take off the Beloved used us

Thanks, I really love this. But I think there are two problems. First, it would be reasonable that you use "Balkhi" instead of "Rumi" (because he was born in Balkh, and it is common), there are plenty samples about poets in this way like, "Attar Neishaburi", "Abol Moayed Balkhi", "Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani", "Saadi Shirazi", "Shams Tabrizi", ... . Second, poems have written in Farsi ("Persian") that you mentioned from Afghanistan and Turkey, it was good that you mention from Iran and Afghanistan. Also I belive that Mollana Jallaledin Mohamad (Balkhi) belong to all people , countries and cultures. Thanks for your attempts, Good Job.

I love this and thanks for sharing it!

Colemen barks I I love you, what you did is as amazing

When predicting the future in general (for all) the common English pronoun is "we" (first person singular). For example: "plants & animals (we) point electricity between atoms; including Rumi's coordinates when we pointed out +1atom in 'water' = H2O where Oxygen=+8"

It does not matter where he is from .He is from this universe

Great poetry

14:00 Sufis “the people of the heart”~Coleman Barkd

The performance was nice! But the original poem in Farsi/persian/dari with a background of traditional Persian music is greater!!! Molana or Romi has spoken Persian/Farsi/Dari. It does only matter that we (people with Dari/Farsi/Persian mother tongue) understand the poems more like it's original way (words)!!! We feel each world directly not through translated words!!!

rumi sufi music without ney .?????

It’s apparent the literature is written in Parci and it’s been written in Farci yet...???

We love you Colman barks🌹, Hafiz has a bunk for you watching what is happened

I am a being of God, and you are all alike... Rumi was definitely not about a beings origin or what he/she is, please would people do not comment on origins but speak of his poems, discuss what they are telling you... If you are here and you understand Rumi then you are partially awake so keep waking don't set yourselves back to sleep... Love to the One that is all...

Wow,I hope there are enough people learn from Rumi amd Coleman Bark. How could the rest be in lighted ?

What is the music she plays on harp at 26:30?

Hey Can I ask you a question. Do you know what is the last name of Rumi. sure you don't know!!! His last name is Balkhy and Balkh is a province in Afghanistan and Rumi is from Afghanistan. Next time plz read more about Rumi.

29:00 harsh Rumi poems ~ Rumi

Bhakti path. Devotional

Love it

Poor audio

Period!

Rumi Great Poet and philosopher **************

A university presentation and in the subtitles they spell Rumi as "roomie:???????

Divine.

applaus, hat mir gut gefallen

Rumi is talking about 4th dimensions world 🌎 DMT

rumi was Pakistani not from other countries. so please correct.

very nice, I like

beatifull. Can anyone translate it to spanish?

Wow

What is has done is tide changing in the ocean

the modern state of Afghanistan begins in 1709, sorry in 13th century there was only Persia so please do not call him Afghani.

i think you should read more about history, when rumi was born afghanistan was not a country, it was a province of persia so that makes rumi persian not afghani... afghanistan LATER seperated from persia, means no longer persia, but rumi was born before that time in persia and spent most of his life in turkey..

Colemen what you did for me will never be explained and I bet my own father might be jelious but w/o you I would never of found my home with Rumi and hafiz

Shams the lover and saver of rumi wasnt just a random guy. Research about him u might just find the SUNN

the description says he is afghan? that is a first. turks say he is turkish. afghans say he is afghan. that is hilarious. god forbid people admit to iran's literary history.

Nay,flot is our chakras in the body looks like Nay

excuse me....., Jalaledin Rumi was a Persian Poet living in Persia (which then land was much larger than today and included Turkey. Now the Western society is continuously mistaken and refer him being from Turkey. We should learn to get our facts straight and properly address them specially when it comes out of a university. Thank you

Forsi and Dari same, dont make separation caz of that; Eron, Avghoniston and Tojikiston are persian, forsi zabon, and share history and poets, like Rumi is from Avghanistan , (Balkh is Avghanistsan) im not afghan but im proud of us persians. I think people dont understand also meaning of word "persian" its of the time of persian empire which is not just Iran. with love salom

or he is a universe.

rumi poetres are persian

This is hardly Rumi. More than half of it is Barks's own poetry. I guess people come to hear Rumi and suffer through his dry material because they're already there.

RUMI was never born

23:25 'all purpose pronoun' ❤

Yes, but Rumi's poetry is not in Dari, it's in Farsi (Persian).....

20:56

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