Category: The Jewelled Garden

For more about the 15th c. CE mystic and poet Kabir, see this earlier post. Your Raam is in your heartWhy wander all over? Such rare gems hidden in the Continue Reading →

For more about the mystic and poet Khwaja Shamsuddin Muhammed Hafiz of Shiraz, see this post. Where have you taken your sweet song?Come back and play me a tune. I never Continue Reading →

Lalleshwari or Lal Ded was a 14th c. Kashmiri yogini in the Shaivite tradition. She is deeply loved in Kashmir, both by Hindus and Muslims, and it is said that Continue Reading →

As this is now the celebration of the Urs of Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (1238 – 1325 CE), the great Sufi master known as Mahbub-e-Ilahi, the beloved of God, this short Continue Reading →

Lu Tung-pin (755 – 805 CE) was a scholar, poet and student of the inner life who is considered one of the ‘Eight Immortals’ of the Taoist tradition. The ‘Tao’ Continue Reading →

In the Buddhist tradition, a bodhisattva is one who is on the path to Buddhahood, or supreme enlightenment. The simplest form of the Bodhisattva Vow is, “May I attain Buddhahood Continue Reading →

Najmaldin Kubra (1145 – 1221 CE) was born in present day Uzbekistan and became a very influential Sufi, the founder of the Kubrawiya Order. Among his students was the father Continue Reading →

Fikirchand was a 19th c. Baul mystic and poet. My soul cries out,Snared by the beautyOf the formless one.As I cry by myself,Night and day,Beauty amassed before my eyesSurpasses numberless Continue Reading →

An excerpt from The Dhammapada, the sayings of Gautama Buddha. Do not follow a bad law. Do not live in thoughtlessness. Do not follow wrong ideas. Do not be attached to the world. Continue Reading →

For more about Allama Prabhu, see this post. Looking for your light,I went out:      it was like the sudden dawn     of a million million suns,      a ganglion of lightnings     for my wonder. Continue Reading →