Geetika .'s Blog: Telling Tales

Once in lifetime kind of book. Reading this book was a journey. As if it spoke my heart, my language, my understanding of spirituality. Elif Shafak must be a sufi at heart to have written this gem. It holds the essence of spirituality and sufism. My love for Rumi is decades old but it seems this book chose me as it was handed over by a street book seller to me in Kolkata. He said mam take this you will like it. This book has answered everything that had baffled me.

Wellwishers of Rumi hated Shams - a wandering dervish but a highly spiritual and awakened soul, thinking of him to be a fraudster who wanted to avail some personal benefit out of Rumi. That hatred mounts up and one day they get Shams killed. But they never get Rumi back even after Shams dies.
Rumi and Shams were just two sides of the same mirror. Shams crossed path with Rumi for it was time for Rumi's transformation. No transformation happens without pain. And the mediums mostly become both the reason and the cost of the transformation. Every Spiritual Transformation of a Rumi would cost a Sham and it would always be an incomplete tale of Rumi having to live without Shams. Just as Ella lives without Aziz in the end.

Love doesn't know boundaries or religion or society. It just is
. The Forty Rules of Love