Category: The Jewelled Garden

Nammalvar was one of the twelve Tamil Alvar poet-saints, said by tradition to have been born in an enlightened state in 3059 BCE. These verses are to the Divine in Continue Reading →

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897 – 1981) was a householder jnana yogi who lived in Bombay. For more about him, see this post. The following brief but very rich excerpt is from a Continue Reading →

Muktabai was born in the 13th c. CE in Maharashtra. She and her three brothers were all saints in the Nath tradition, which synthesised elements of Buddhism, Shaivism and yoga. Continue Reading →

Eknath Maharaj (ca. 1533 – 1599 CE) was a Hindu saint, philosopher and poet in Maharashtra. Little is known about his personal life, but he was a disciple of the Continue Reading →

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897 – 1981) was born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli in Bombay. As a young man, he built up a string of small goods shops, married, and with his wife had four Continue Reading →

Haude Gosain was a follower of the mystical Baul tradition of Bengal, said to have been born into a Brahmin family in 1795, but there is very little recorded of Continue Reading →

The following is related in Muslim tradition, that Jesus, the Christ, said: “Let him who thinks that God is slow with His bounty beware! For God might be angry, and Continue Reading →

Hung-chih Cheng-chueh (1091–1157) CE) was a Chinese Chan master of the Soto school. It appears that little is know of him. Silently and serenely one forgets all words;Clearly and vividly Continue Reading →

For more about the mystic and poet Khwaja Shamsuddin Muhammed Hafiz of Shiraz, see this post. ‘Sabaa’ is the breeze from the east at dawn, to which lovers are said to Continue Reading →

The Mughal era Sufi and poet Abdul-Qader Bedil (1644 – 1721 CE) lived most of his life during the reign of the Emperor Aurangzeb. For more about him, see this Continue Reading →