Category: The Jewelled Garden

Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (1690 – 1752 CE) was a Sufi mystic and poet who lived in Sindh, located in what is now Pakistan. ‘Bhittai’ is an honorific recalling his Continue Reading →

Kamalakanta Bhattacharya (1769-1821 CE) was a Brahmin priest from Bengal who became famous as a singer poet. HIs songs were made in devotion to Kali, wife of the god Shiva, Continue Reading →

For more about the Egyptian poet and Sufi Shaikh Umar Ibn al Farid (1181 – 1235 CE) see this earlier post. I was alone with the Beloved and between us Continue Reading →

For more about the Egyptian poet and Sufi Shaikh Umar Ibn al Farid (1181 – 1235 CE) see this earlier post. These verses are taken from ‘The Wine Ode’. Be Continue Reading →

Jnaneshar, also known as Jnandev, (1275-1296 CE) was one of four children of a father who had initially left his wife to become an ascetic sadhu, but who, in an Continue Reading →

For more about the 18th c. CE Sufi and highly respected Ottoman poet Seyh Galib, see this earlier post. Love is a lamp of God, I am its moth;love is Continue Reading →

For more about this 12th c. CE Shaivite from south India, see this post. Whenlike a hailstone crystallike a waxwork imagethe flesh melts in pleasure     how can I tell you? The Continue Reading →

For more about the 14th c. CE Persian Sufi and poet Mohammed Shrin Maghribi, see this post. O end of every beginning,O beginning of every end,O manifest of every hidden,O Continue Reading →

The 10th c. CE mystic Devara Dasimayya, a devotee of Shiva, the ‘rider of the bull’ and ‘Rama’s master’ – or Ramanatha, here looks from the point of view of Continue Reading →

Lalon Shah (c. 1774-1890 CE) is one of the most important of the mystic-poets of the Baul tradition. He lived in western Bangladesh, and hundreds of his songs are still Continue Reading →