Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)

I am beginning to start wondering about a term that is used to describe the Persian poet Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273) which is “…an ecstatic…” I wonder how close an ‘ecstatic’ energy from the 13th Century compares to what we have been taught to recognize in the 21st cent. as ‘divine’, which for me is close to
an ‘inspired’ artistic state, and fits within a more generally philosophical term a.k.a. the ‘transcendental.’

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DAILY POEMS FROM RUMI

I arrived once again, like the spring breeze;
I rose like the sun visible to all.
I am the Sun in mid-summer, contrary to the old season;
I have brought liveliness and joy to gardens.
A thousand ring doves are searching for me in their songs.
A thousand nightingales and parrots are flying in my directions.
The news of my arrival reached the fish in the sea;
The ferment of the sea created a thousand waves.

(Divan 1140:1-4)

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