Category: The Jewelled Garden

Adi Shankaracharya was an 8th c. CE Hindu teacher and scholar who is credited with the systematisation of Advaita Vedantism. For more about him, see this earlier post. You are Continue Reading →

For more about the Persian Sufi and poet Fakhruddin Iraqi, see this earlier post. Every word of every tongue isLove telling a story to her own ears.Every thought in every Continue Reading →

Sheikh Fariduddin Masud (1173 – 1266 CE), commonly called Baba Farid Ganjeshakar, was a famous Sufi of the Punjab. For more about him, see this earlier post. Says Farid,I thought Continue Reading →

The much loved mystic and poet Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (1006 – 1088 CE) was from Herat in western Afghanistan. For more about him, see this earlier post. The one You Continue Reading →

Here the 16th c. CE Punjabi mystic and poet Mira bai dismisses those who seek God through pilgrimages and external observances. Why look elsewhere, she asks, for what is already Continue Reading →

This poem celebrates the liberating power of sound and vibration. For more about the 16th c. mystic and poet Dadu Dayal, particularly honoured amongst the Sikhs, see this earlier post. Continue Reading →

The Marathi mystic and poet Janabai – who calls herself Jani in this poem – worked all her life as a domestic servant or ‘dasi’, in a home in which Continue Reading →

Basava, born in what is now Karnataka, was a 12th c. statesman, philosopher-poet and devotee of Shiva. While serving as the prime minister, he greatly energised the Shiva bhakti movement, Continue Reading →

Bhagat Pipa was a 15th c. king in the Rajput region, who left his throne and became a wandering ascetic under the guidance of the Bhakti guru Ramananda. Very little Continue Reading →

Sant Dariya sahib was a saint in Bihar during the 17th-18th c. For more about him, see this earlier post. ‘Nam’ means the divine name; ‘satguru’ is the true guide. Continue Reading →