Deepak Chopra & Madonna – My Burning Heart – Bittersweet (HD) ~updated

Deepak Chopra & Madonna – My Burning Heart – Bittersweet from the ”Love Poems of Rûmi”
My Burning Heart
My heart is burning with love
All can see this flame
My heart is pulsing with passion
like waves on an ocean
my friends have become strangers
and I’m surrounded by enemies
But I’m free as the wind
no longer hurt by those who reproach me

I’m at home wherever I am
And in the room of lovers
I can see with closed eyes
the beauty that dances
Behind the veils
intoxicated with love
I too dance the rhythm
of this moving world

I have lost my senses
in my world of lovers

Bittersweet
written by Rumi, edited by Deepak Chopra, reading by Madonna
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In my hallucination
I saw my beloved’s flower garden
In my vertigo, in my dizziness
In my drunken haze
Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel

I saw myself as the source of existence
I was there in the beginning
And I was the spirit of love
Now I am sober
There is only the hangover
And the memory of love
And only the sorrow

I yearn for happiness
I ask for help
I want mercy
And my love says:

Look at me and hear me
Because I am here
Just for that

I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl

I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you

Oh sweet bitterness
I will soothe you and heal you
I will bring you roses
I, too, have been covered with thorns

Intoxicated by Love
Because of your love
I have lost my sobriety
I am intoxicated
By the madness of love

In this fog
I have become a stranger to myself
I’m so drunk
I’ve lost the way to my house

In the garden
I see only your face
From trees and blossoms
I inhale only your fragrance

Drunk with the ecstasy of love
I can no longer tell the difference
Between drunkard and drink
Between Lover and Beloved

Rumi – Dancing in Fullness : Coleman Barks & David Darling

There are few experiences in life as satisfying as the poetry of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, which for many is the spiritual equivalent of enjoying a piece of rich delicious chocolate, listening to Bach, or perhaps sipping a glass of fine red wine.

There is a deeply sacred sensuality that runs through Rumi’s work, warming our hearts, arousing our spirits, and igniting our passion for awakening. One of history’s most cherished mystics, Rumi’s poetry truly knows no equal. The depth and beauty of Rumi’s ecstatic verses continue to reach to us through the centuries—timeless songs for the infinite Lover.

In this extraordinary performance, you will hear Rumi as you never have before—through the resonant, whiskey-and-syrup voice of Coleman Barks, a preeminent poet, scholar, and interpreter of Rumi’s work. Coleman’s recitation is gracefully accompanied by the music of David Darling, a Grammy-winning artist who recorded 2009′s Prayers of Compassion—connecting the earthy incense of Rumi’s words with the celestial strings of the cello, uniting Heaven and Earth in one of the most staggeringly beautiful productions of music and poetry that we’ve ever seen.

As the Buddha finds his enlightenment by sitting in immaculate Emptiness, Rumi finds his by dancing in radical Fullness. Here’s you opportunity to join him in that eternal ecstatic dance.

Poetry and music by Coleman Barks and Grammy-winning cellist David Darling.

Rumi: This is love

Rumi’s poem

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,

to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.

First, to let go of live.

In the end, to take a step without feet;

to regard this world as invisible,

and to disregard what appears to be the self.

Heart, I said, what a gift it has been

to enter this circle of lovers,

to see beyond seeing itself,

to reach and feel within the breast.

Rumi – The Alchemy of Love ( Recitation by Deepak Chopra )

The Alchemy of Love – Lyrics ( Recitation by Deepak Chopra )
You come to us from another world
From beyond the stars and void of space.
Transcendent, Pure, Of unimaginable beauty,
Bringing with you the essence of love.

You transform all who are touched by you.
Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence,
Bringing joy to ruler and ruled
To peasant and King.

You bewilder us with your grace.
All evils transform into goodness.
You are the master alchemist.
You light the fire of love in earth and sky in heart and soul of every being.

Through your loving existence and nonexistence merge.
All opposites unite.
All that is profane becomes sacred again

Rumi – Only Breath (Heart touching poem)

I am not a Christian or Jew or Muslim, or Hindu, or Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religionor cultural system.
I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up
from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all.
I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or in the next,
did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story.
My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know,
first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being.

Caught In the Fire of Love by Rumi – Recitation by Martin Sheen

A track from A Gift Of Love: Deepak & Friends present music from the Love Poems of Rumi, with Martin Sheen talking.

Caught In The Fire Of Love

My heart is on fire
In my madness I roam the desert
The flames of my passion
devour the wind and the sky
My cries of longing
My wails of sorrow
Are tormenting my soul
You wait patiently
Looking into my intoxicated eyes
You accept my passion
with the serenity of Love
You are the Master of Existence
One day I shall be a Lover like You

Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi-Poem “Come My Sweetheart”

Come my sweetheart is a beautiful poem by Rumi, the music and the narration is done by Sina.

Come My sweetheart
By J.Rumi

Come my sweetheart
lets adore one another before there is no more of u & me
a mirror tells the truth
look at your grim face Brighten up & cast away
ur bitter smile
A generous Friend give life for a friend
lets rise above this animalistic behaviour
and b kind to one another
Once u think of me dead & gone
u will make up with me… you will miss me
you may adore me
Why be a worshipper of the dead
think of me as gonner
Come , come & make up now
since u will come & throw kisses at my tombstone later
why not give them to me now
this is me the same person I may talk too much but my heart is silent what else can I do I am condemned to live this life.

Rumi: Say I Am You (Sufi poem)

Rumi’s poems elegantly and consistently touch our inner being and inspire us to go beyond our limitations towards the Divine.

The music: The credits do appear at the end of this video, but it is by the composer, Eleni Karaindrou, and is the theme music called “Eternity and a Day” from the movie, Aggelopoulos.

A note on the music: This entire video was constructed in silence-only the poem and the images were put together without my knowing what music would be the right one. The music is so important to the interpretation of these poems. Rather than reading them, the music is my voice. When I ‘laid’ this beautiful piece of music over the video it fit perfectly. Few edits were made to accomodate the images to fit the music. They seem to be made for each other.

A Gift of Love – Love Poems of Rumi

A Gift Of Love: Deepak Chopra Music Inspired By The Love Poems Of Rumi,
1. Because the idol is your face
2. Behind the Scenes
3.Looking for Your Face
4.The Agony and Ecstasy of Divine Discontent

1. Because the idol is your face, I have become an idolater.

Because the wine is from your cup, I have become a drunkard.
In the existence of your love, I have become nonexistent,
this nonexistence, linked to you, is better than all existence.

2. Behind the Scenes

Is it your face that adorns the garden?
Is it your fragrance that intoxicates this garden?
Is it your spirit that has made this brook a river of wine?

Hundreds have looked for you and died searching
in this garden where you hide behind the scenes.

But this pain is not for those who come as lovers.
You are easy to find here.
You are in the breeze and in this river of wine.

3. LOOKING FOR YOUR FACE

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your face
but today I have seen it

Today I have seen the charm, the beauty,
the unfathomable grace of the face
that I was looking for

Today I have found you
and those who laughed and scorned me yesterday
are sorry that they were not looking as I did

I am bewildered by the magnificence
of your beauty and wish to see you with a hundred eyes

My heart has burned with passion
and has searched forever for this wondrous beauty
that I now behold

I am ashamed to call this love human
and afraid of God to call it divine

Your fragrant breath like the morning breeze
has come to the stillness of the garden
You have breathed new life into me
I have become your sunshine
and also your shadow

My soul is screaming in ecstacy
Every fiber of my being is in love with you

Your efflugence has lit a fire in my heart
and you  have made radiant for me the earth and sky

My arrow of love
has arrived at the target
I am in the house of mercy
and my heart
is a place of prayer

4. The Agony and Ecstasy of Divine Discontent:
In the orchard and rose garden
I long to see your face.
In the taste of Sweetness
I long to kiss your lips.
In the shadows of passion
I long for your love.

Oh! Supreme Lover!
Let me leave aside my worries.
The flowers are blooming
with the exultation of your Spirit.

By Allah!
I long to escape the prison of my ego
and lose myself in the mountains and the desert.
These sad and lonely people tire me.
I long to revel in the drunken frenzy of your love
and feel the strength of Rustam in my hands.

I’m sick of mortal kings.
I long to see your light.
With lamps in hand
the sheiks and mullahs roam
the dark alleys of these towns
not finding what they seek.

You are the Essence of the Essence,
The intoxication of Love.
I long to sing your praises
but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart.

Come on Sweetheart