Category: The Jewelled Garden

Sri Nasargadatta Maharaj received the following question at the time of the war in what was then East Pakistan, subsequently to become Bangladesh. For more about Sri Nisargadatta, see this Continue Reading →

Aisha, the youngest wife of the Prophet Mohammed, and known as the Mother of the Believers, related that if he was informed of anything about a certain man, he would Continue Reading →

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 →