Category: The Jewelled Garden

For more about the 13th c. CE Persian mystic Mahmuyd Shabistari, see this post. What are “I” and “You”?Just latticesIn the niches of a lampThrough which the One Light radiates. Continue Reading →

The gnani yogi Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj here draws a clear distinction between the profound unity of love and the desires of the mind, which, he tells us, are the source Continue Reading →

Sufi mystics speak of levels of experience as one journeys toward the goal. Here Abdul Karim al Qushayri gives a glimpse of the states of ‘unveiling’ and ‘witnessing.’ Through your Continue Reading →

Very little is known about the life of the Vaishnavite devotional poet-saint Sri Ramananda (mid-14th – mid-15th c. CE?). He appears to have been born in Allahabad, perhaps to a Continue Reading →

Sheikh Ibrahim Efendi (1591? – 1655 CE) was a Turkish dervish in the Helveti Order, who lived in Istanbul. Little is recorded about his personal life. The following are the Continue Reading →

Sri Nasargadatta Maharaj received the following question at the time of the war in what was then East Pakistan, subsequently to become Bangladesh. For more about Sri Nisargadatta, see this Continue Reading →

Aisha, the youngest wife of the Prophet Mohammed, and known as the Mother of the Believers, related that if he was informed of anything about a certain man, he would Continue Reading →

Nammalvar was one of the twelve Tamil Alvar poet-saints, said by tradition to have been born in an enlightened state in 3059 BCE. These verses are to the Divine in Continue Reading →

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897 – 1981) was a householder jnana yogi who lived in Bombay. For more about him, see this post. The following brief but very rich excerpt is from a Continue Reading →

Muktabai was born in the 13th c. CE in Maharashtra. She and her three brothers were all saints in the Nath tradition, which synthesised elements of Buddhism, Shaivism and yoga. Continue Reading →