Whirling Flames - Shastro and Rumi

A trance-like mystical video inspired by the whirling dance meditation, with music by Shastro, soulful singing by Surabhi and poetry by Rumi. “There have been very few people who have moved and transformed as many hearts as Jalaluddin Rumi. In the world of the Sufis, Mevlana Rumi is the emperor. His words have to be understood not as mere words, but sources of deep silences, echoes of inner and the innermost songs. He is the greatest dancer the world has known. His dance is a special kind of dance. It is a kind of whirling, just the way small children whirl; standing on one spot they go on round and round. And perhaps everywhere in the world small children do that and their elders stop them saying, ’You will become dizzy, you will fall, you will hurt yourself,’ and, ’What is the point of doing it?’ Jalaluddin Rumi made a meditation of whirling. The meditator goes on whirling for hours -- as long as the body allows him; he does not stop on his own. When whirling a momen