Sublime

The Sufi is “not Christian or Jew or Muslim,” Rumi wrote. He is not of “any religion or cultural system … not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all … not an entity of this world or the next.” He is, in Ishan Kaiser’s description, “the actual temple of the fire

“The word swaraj is a sacred word,” he said, “a Vedic word, meaning self-rule and self-restraint, and not freedom from all restraint which ‘independence’ often means.”

We don’t experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away. Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route, not looking for alternatives, not thinking that there is ample time to do things later.

You see, the second precept,[198] the avoidance of theft, essentially concerns refraining from stealing our own opportunities for realisation . . . NR . . . and squandering the proceeds on attempting to create more comfortable methods of remaining in samsara.

The dramatic way in which both Hindus and Muslims had rallied to the Mughal capital at the outbreak of the Uprising had demonstrated the degree to which the mystique of the dynasty was still very much alive more than a century after the Mughals had ceased to exercise any real political, economic or military power.

Mitra la gardienne des alliances et

Such is the relationship between Īśvara and oṁ; it is not a culturally agreed upon designation. Īśvara was known by the syllable oṁ in previous creations, and will be for all eternity; it is an eternal designation not assigned by human convention or socially agreed upon usage