Out beyond the ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a

field I will meet you there.

Rumi intro:

Rumi's full name was originally Jamaluddin Muhammad Balkh.

He is popularly known as "Rumi" – a name which comes from Arabic and literally
means "Roman." He acquired this name because he spent much of his life in the
Seljuk Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia, which had previously conquered the area from
the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire.

He is also known as Maulana in Iran and Turkey, which is a term of Arabic origin
meaning "our master."

Explanation of quote:

The world is overwhelming in its materialism. Human life in the world remains dominated by
material considerations. This is something that is uncomfortable and out of tune with
human nature.

Human beings are spiritual by nature. They love meditation and prayer.

Materialism of the world gives rise in a human to an internal struggle between the love for
spiritual and the material demands of life in the world.

Good and evil are coexistent in the nature that includes human nature. Materialism of the
world prompts human being to behave mean. Rich become rich in comparison to poor. A
leader becomes leader of many others who he leads as his followers.

Right and wrong get mixed in the world and they lose purity. They are easily tainted by
human desires. Desires lead to a morality that is mean. It teaches advancing one's interests
at the expense of others. One man's right is commonly another man's wrong.
It is because of this mean and material character of worldly human interaction that Rumi
mentions of meeting in the field beyond right and wrong.

If the spiritual human nature succeeds in taking over, the internal struggle is resolved. This
gives rise to a sense of oneness. Sense of duality or multiplicity is lost. It is union with the
beloved God.

Rumi was a great Sufi. This line from his poetry represents the Sufi union. It is the mystical
union of Sufi with God.

The way to a Sufi's mystical union with God is helped by a Shaikh - an accomplished Sufi
master.

The verse also represents union between Shaikh and his enlightened follower. This results in
the sharing of Shaikh's spiritual knowledge with his follower that enlightens him.