A Year With Rumi: Day 1- A Just-Finishing Candle Review

Rumi has drawn the contrast between two symbols in the poem: candle and flame it creates.

Candle is used as symbol life on this earth- the physical body and the flame as the symbol of life beyond this world- the world of soul. He says we are so much entangled in this physical world and the mundanity linked to it that we forget our end is nothing but death. We are at last bound to leave the physical form (candle) and just be reduced to flame to merge with the eternal world.

He thus encourages us to be safe from all the distracting elements the world offer- praises, condemns, vice, virtues and just focus on the moment we will be reduced to nothing but a flame where none of those mundanity matters.

About A Year With Rumi Series: I have heard a lot about Rumi and how his writing emancipate truths about life and elements associated to it. I have now embarked on journey to read him via a collection of his work A Year With Rumi. While I embark on this journey, I am starting to record how I decipher his work on this series. I will read a piece each day and write about that piece here. Join me in this year long journey and feel free to enlighten me with your wisdom too as we are to experience the Rumi's work differently in different context.