Category: The Jewelled Garden

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 →

For information about the 13th c. CE Italian mystic Jacopone da Todi, or Jacopone Benedetti, see this earlier post. O Love, divine Love, why do You lay siege to me?In Continue Reading →

For some information about Sant Dariya Sahib of Bihar, see this previous post. Blessed is the eye which is permeated with love.Without love it is like a pebble or stone.Like Continue Reading →

For information about Mira bai, the 16th c. CE Punjabi mystic, see this earlier post. My merciful Lord,Pray hear my petition;I am drifting in the world’s stormy sea,Rescue me, if Continue Reading →

This hymn to Nirvana, or the eternal bliss that appears with the extinction of separation and the realisation of Oneness, is usually called Nirvana Shatakam, the latter word being a Continue Reading →

An imam, required by his position not only to lead prayers, but also to preach in the mosque and invite people to God, once visited the great Persian Sufi Abul Continue Reading →

Bayazid, or Abu Yazid, Bistami was a Persian Sufi of the 9th c. CE. For a little more about him, see this post. Bayazid said, “For thirty years I sought Continue Reading →