عشق الروح : قصائد خالدة عن نشوء الروح وسموها

by Deepak Chopra

العشق الخالد ليس بحاجة إلى الشعر ، ولكن من حسن الطالع ، أن بعضاً من أولئك المتماهين في عشق الله دونوا كلمات سمحت لنا نحن القراء ، بالولوج إلى عالمهم المفعم بالنشوة .

في الشرق على وجه الخصوص : أي ضمن ذلك الحزام من الجغرافيا ، و الممتد من المنطقة العربية إلى شبه القارة الهندية يكاد المرء لا يلحظ فارقاً بين الشاعر و القديس.

Genres: Poetry

190 pages, Paperback

First published March 27, 2001

About the author

Deepak Chopra, MD serves as the Founder and Chairman of The Chopra Foundation, and Co-Founder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing.

As a global leader and pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine, Chopra transforms the way the world views physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social wellness. Known as a prolific author of eighty books books with twenty-two New York Times best sellers in both fiction and non-fiction, his works have been published in more than forty-three languages.

Chopra’s medical training is in internal medicine and endocrinology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Dr. Chopra serves as Co-Founder and Chairman of The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Founder of The Chopra Well on YouTube, Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Columbia University, Assistant Clinical Professor, in the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of California, San Diego, Health Sciences, Faculty at Walt Disney Imagineering, and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization.

GlobeIn acknowledges Chopra as "one of top ten most influential spiritual leaders around the world." TIME magazine has described Dr. Chopra as "one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century and credits him as "the poet-prophet of alternative medicine."

Reviews

[Ghufran Alhawaj]

الكتاب عبارة عن مجموعة من القصائد في العشق الإلهي لعدة شعراء، رُتّبت حسب تسلسها الزمني. قصائد الرومي، حافظ، كبير، ميرابي ثم طاغور.

كنت قد تعرفت مسبقاً على الرومي و حافظ، أما هنا في هذا الكتاب تعرفت على الآخرين. و هنا بعض الاقتباسات:

الأغنية الأبدية للحياة تتدفق من خلالك
و مع ذلك، فأنت تحبس أنفاسك كي تعتصرها إلى داخلك.
يوقظك الإله بقبلة منه كل صباح
إلا أنك تُصرّ على أن تنام و تنام.
#حافظ

إنهض أيّها القلب؛ يا قلبي،
فسيّدك موجودٌ بجوارك.
إجرِ نحو معشوقك
فهو يكاد يلامس رأسك المترنّح نعاساً.
لقد غفوت لآجالٍ لا عدّ لها،
أليس هذا هو الصّبح الذي عليك فيه أن تنهض؟
#كبير

أضعتُ دربي حيث تمتدّ الدّروب،
إذ لا أثر لممرٍّ في عرض الماء أو عرض السماء،
فالدّرب خبّأتها أجنحة الطيور و النجوم المتّقدة،
و أزاهير الموسم العابر.
لذا، فقد سألت قلبي،
"هل تحمل بين ثناياكً شيئاً من حكمةٍ تسري في دم دربٍ غير مرئيّة؟"
#طاغور

[Qabas Albawy · Rating 3 out of 5]

حين تحس بنبض الحياة ، ابحث عن السبب
انه الضيف الوحيد الذي لن تحييه مرتين

[- · Rating 3 out of 5]

جولة ممتعة .. حافظ وطاغور أعجبتني نصوصهم أكثر💚

يقول طاغور:" هذه العذوبة الصرفة تتبرعم في أعماق قلبي" 🌸

[sher · Rating 2 out of 5]

meh. the translations didn't really hit. 2.5 ⭐

chopra's essay did well in introducing the poets and their selected poems, however, i couldn't see or feel the passion he wanted to communicate. i was looking forward to how divine love and divine intoxication were evoked by famous poets of colour but i was underwhelmed. the translations are subjective to chopra's interpretation and while i'm sure chopra is a masterful translator and writer, i just couldn't connect to this version of rumi and hafiz's poems. though, i was pleasantly surprised to find the works of a south asian female poet, mirabai! and i must say, tagore's poems were the ones i had tagged the most. here are some of my favourites:

Reproof by Rumi
Why boast of your strength?
The same wind that can topple a tree
Caresses the grass.

Spontaneity by Kabir
When you feel most alive, find out why.
This is one guest you won't greet twice.

Merging by Kabir
A drop melting into the ocean—
That you can see.
The ocean melting into a drop—
Who sees that?

Listen! by Rabindranath Tagore
Listen, my heart, to the whispering of the world.
That is how it makes love to you.

My Sign by Rabindranath Tagore
My heart beats in waves
on the shore of the world
And writes its name in tears
with these words:
"I love you."

The King and the Beggar by Rabindranath Tagore
[...] I got home that night and emptied my sack on the floor, only to spy a grain of gold gleaming there in the heap. Then, how bitterly I wept. If you did this for a tiny grain of wheat, what would you return if I had given you everything?

The Soul's Pain by Rabindranath Tagore
I feel this pang inside—
Is it my soul trying to break out,
Or the world's soul trying to break in?

[Leigh Ann · Rating 2 out of 5]

just not the book for me

[Swetha Bhat · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a soulful piece of art. The great spirituality, although beautiful, can be misunderstood sometimes, and bringing it out with beautiful colors and rays to the world makes it more palatable to many. The poems in themselves were inspiring, and the translation was sincere. I especially love Kabir’s.

Soul in love is a short little book to give you the right dash of inspiration on a gloomy day.

[M. Jane Colette · Rating 4 out of 5]

Re-introduced me to Tagore, and the Tagore selections are amazing! The Rumi and Hafez selections less so--but then, I am so set about the favourites there that Chopra could not have made me happy unless he had read my mind. Overall, a beautiful book.

[Caroline · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice overview of 5 poets, spanning time from the Dark Ages to the 1930's.

[jensen l · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have read a large majority of this book and I like it, but I don’t love it. This is a great book to introduce Western scholars/poetry lovers to Eastern poetry, but it is not entirely inclusive. Deepak Chopra’s “translations” are more like interpretations and he fails to embody the Hindu & Islamic influences within the poetry. Chopra is not the only translator of Eastern poets to do this, but he contributed to the erasure of Eastern religion, to make the poems more palpable for a Western audience.

This article in the New Yorker was really enlightening to read alongside this book: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-.... I would give this article a read & read this poetry collection with caution.

I do love the poets that Chopra included in this collection. I had read a lot of Tagore’s more popular poetry in other anthologies that I own, but I was captivated by Rumi & Hafiz’s linguistic simplicity. Other translations of both poets reflect the same simplicity.

[Judy Lindow · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Soul in Love is a small sampler of 5 important God-intoxicated poets from the east: Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz, Mirabai, and Tagore. Each of them permits us access to their ecstatic worlds in their own unique way. The handy little book is a gentle nudge to explore these poets in more depth -- I for one, already a lifetime devotee of Rumi -- having read some Hafiz -- am now ready to read Tagore. Deepak Chopra's insightful introduction essay is worth reading twice.

[Lisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved it! I do wish there had been more poems by Rumi and Mirabai though. I felt like Tagore had the most, and I liked his the least. They were still good though! I just liked the others more. Good book to be introduced to these different poet's work.

[Hawraki · Rating 3 out of 5]

مجموعة قصائد في العشق الإلهي للرومي، وحافظ، وكبير، وميرابي، وطاغور. جميلة وخفيفة لكن لعل كونها قصائد مترجمة أعاق الانسياب الشاعري للكلمات.

أحب على وجه الخصوص قصائد حافظ، وتعرّفت أخيرًا على أعمال طاغور.

[Firas Al Ramahi · Rating 3 out of 5]

أحببت جدا قصائد الرومي وكبير وكان أثر طاغور واضح على الكاتب أكثر من الشعراء الباقيين

[Dalal · Rating 3 out of 5]

عند قرائتك له ستشعر بأن حرقة الشمس و كأنها قُبلة على جبينك من مُحبٍ لك و بأن زرقة السماء ما هي إلا مُحيطك الذي تُبحر به و بأن أمواج البحر المتلاطمة كأنها حياتك المكتظة بالعلو تارةً و الإنخفاض تارةً أخرى و كأنك راكب أمواج محترف،كتاب ماتع يجمع بين قصائد جلال الدين الرومي و حافظ و كبير و ميرابي و طاغور و هم شعراء متصوفة،من القصائد الرقيقة التي أحببتها قصيدة"ليست سوى طفلة"لطاغور.

[Dala Al-Abdullah · Rating 5 out of 5]

عند قرائتك له ستشعر بأن حرقة الشمس و كأنها قُبلة على جبينك من مُحب،و بأن زُرقة السماء ماهي إلا محيطك الذي تُبحر به و بأن أمواج البحر المتلاطمة تلخص حياتك بالعلو تارةً و الإنخفاض تارة أخرى؛كتاب ماتع جمع بين قصائد الرومي و حافظ و كبير و ميرابي و طاغور و هم شعراء متصوفة من القصائد الرقيقة التي أحببتها قصيدة"ليست سوى طفلة"لطاغور.

[Mona · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rumi is good Tagore is better

[Asma Alomair · Rating 3 out of 5]

حليو

[Emily · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, so beautiful it brings shivers. It'd definitely be five stars from me, save that some of my favorites from these poets were missing.

[Mohammed Jawad · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a wonderful book