Dance in triumph forever....

Encapsulating the mystic vision of Rumi


The Concept Note:
The name Mawlānā Jalāl-ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhī better known as Rumi to the English-speaking world stands for Love and ecstatic flight into the infinite. Rumi (1207-1273), a 13th century Persian poet, Islamic jurist and theologian is one of the great spiritual masters and poetical geniuses of mankind and was the founder of the Mawlawiyah Sufi order or the order of the Whirling Dervishes, a leading mystical brotherhood of Islam.
Spirituality, rationality and morality co-exist in Rumi’s thoughts. In his system, God, the universe and humanity are embraced in a single all-encompassing vision, the vision of creative love.

Rumi perceived Nature as an entity that possesses wisdom and communicates with God, its creator. According to him Nature is articulate which only the enlightened mind could understand.
In his world of mysticism the religions across the world merge with one another. To him The Absolute resides in one’s heart.

Rumî comprehends the whole process of evolution in a grand system. He resorts to love as the fundamental urge that creates attraction and affinities: “All atoms in the cosmos are attracted to one another like lovers. Everyone is drawn towards its mate by the magnetic pull of love.” If cosmic love were not there, all existence would freeze and shrink into nothingness.

According to Rumi’s philosophy the malice between man and man and that between Natures is transient. What are permanent are the existence of creative love and the existence of Life as a whole. There is no religion greater than the religion of Humanity itself.

Thus right from the creation to formation to chaotic destruction the true self cannot receive spiritual guidance and nourishment if it's detached from the heart. Our inner self is the centre of divine love, faith, music and poetry, uplifting our spirit to realms above, for us to hear the tunes of the Gates of Paradise.

There are some significant personalities who with the help of their voice and breath, their love and excitement, and their promise for humanity always remain fresh and alive over the course of centuries. Time evidently fails to make these characters obsolete. Their thoughts, analyses, explanations, and spiritual messages, which will never be lost, represent, ever anew, alternative solutions and prescriptions for today’s social problems, in great variety and diversity.

Rumi is one such personality. He is a man of light—one who receives his light from the spirit of the Absolute, distributing this light in a variety of manners to everywhere. Despite the vast amount of time that separates his life from ours, Rumi continues to hear us, to share our feelings, to present solutions to our problems in a voice that is without equal. Despite the fact that he lived some centuries ago, he remains absolutely alive among and with us today.

In this visual extravaganza, Rumi’s mystic voice comes alive through the soulful voice of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. Rahat, who comes from the great legacy of Sufi tradition, has carved a niche for himself in the global music scene as well. Here he is not just the singing enunciation but through the amalgamation of lush romantic harmonies, rhythmic complexities, and lyrical melodic passages, his voice is the protagonist depicting Rumi’s spiritualistic wisdom. The heightened sensitivity of Rumi’s verses find repletion through his magical voice. He is Rumi personified.


Rumi’s perception of Nature is expressed through the sentient and sonorous voice of renowned singer Shubha Mudgal. Her unique voice has created a tapestry that uses and warp and weft of the classical and the contemporary. The tumultuous and serene sides of Nature are delineated through Shubha’s strong, full-throated, power-packed yet detailed voice.

Rahat and Shubha together through this eclectic and esoteric composition symbolize the mystique man-woman milieu giving birth to the Single Being at the backdrop of Nature as perceived by Rumi.