Category: The Jewelled Garden

For background on the 9th c. CE Persian mystic Junaid Baghdadi, see this post. For ten years I had to protect my heart from straying away and kept watch on Continue Reading →

For some background on the 10th c. CE Persian mystic Abul Hassan Kharqani, see this post. I do not say there’s no hell or heaven,but know that they are phenomena,and Continue Reading →

For some background on the Hindu minstrel poet and mystic Namdev, see this post. When I see His ways, I sing.Thus I find peace, O brothers. O brothers, lose yourself Continue Reading →

For information about Mirabai, the 16th c. CE Punjabi mystic, see this earlier post. Unbreakable, O Lord,Is the loveThat binds me to You:Like a diamond,It breaks the hammer that strikes Continue Reading →

For information about Loy Ching-yuen, see this post. Like muddy water our heart awaits cleansing;turbid or clear, its nature is of our choosing.Black or white, right or wrong –these things Continue Reading →

For more about Yunus Emre, the 13th c. CE Sufi and poet of Turkey, see this post. If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me Continue Reading →

For some information on the Buddhist monk and teacher Han Shan Te Ching (1546–1623 CE) see this post. People crave sensory stimulation. They enjoy this kind of external excitement. But Continue Reading →

For some background on the Mughal poet and Sufi known as Bedil Dehlvi, see this post. Why ask me of the differencebetween the Kaaba and the Christian monastery?Enslaved by this Continue Reading →

For some information about the Sufi mystic, poet and martyr Mansur al Hallaj, see this post. Your spirit is mingled with mineas wine is mixed with water;whatever touches you touches Continue Reading →

For some background on the Mughal poet and Sufi known as Bedil Dehlvi, see this post. Choose silence even if it cause you scandalMany breaths have I wastedin vain talk Continue Reading →