Category: The Jewelled Garden

For more about the 13th c. CE Franciscan monk and poet Jacopone da Todi, see this earlier post. As air carries light poured out by the rising sun,As the candle Continue Reading →

The mystic Sarmad (d. 1659 CE) was buried near the Jama Masjid in Delhi after being martyred by the Emperor Aurangzeb. For more about him, see this earlier post. He Continue Reading →

For more about this 7th c. CE Buddhist monk from China, see this earlier post. This verse is taken from Yongjia’s ‘Song of Enlightenment. The word Tathagata was used by Continue Reading →

For more about Yunus Emre, the 13th c. CE Sufi and poet of Turkey, see this post. True speech is the fruit of not speaking.Too much talking clouds the heart. Continue Reading →

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 →