Poems of Annihilation

Letter 85: Liberation from One’s Lower Soul Nafs Mind in The Hundred Letters by Sharafuddin Maneri Paul jackson with poem 27 of Darshan Singh in Love’s Last Madness Mata e Nur 52 path of grief “my desire is not to desire anything” “in every age there is always one man noted for his grief and others pass their time in the shade of his protection” “a master of grief makes more progress in a month”

Love’s Last Madness poem 26 & 27 / 21 & 52 of Mata e Nur by Darshan Singh Barry Lerner Urdu poems Quran 7:172 poems on a spiritual path

Letter 84: Struggling with and Controlling One’s Lower Soul Nafs Mind in The Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri classics of western spirituality Paul Jackson contemplation belly uner control going hungry healthier Yahya Mu’az: “devotion is a treasury of God. prayer is the key to the treasury. eating what is lawful is the teeth of the key” Satan John the Baptist intermittent fasting portion cont...

English translation of a Hindi talk of Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj May 11 SkRM live broadcast youtube Trus work is the love God “we should be able to hear the Word” “focus within Soar within” “Divine Sound calms our mind” “to know ourself and find God is the only work assigned to us” sos.org meditation

Love’s Last Madness poem 24 -20&13 in Mata’e Nur and poem 25 / 39 revised edition Barry Lerner “unflagging fortitude” “endurance boundless” “blood of my desires” “every atom is restless for revolution” “life finds happiness in continuous struggle” “Darshan, your efforts in gazing are a success” blind narcissus Rumi masnavi book 3 493 Sant Darshan Singh Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum Hazrat Shamin Karhani

1965 in the journal of Thomas Merton “great need for discipline in meditation” “reading helps” “being attacked with something in my solar plexus” loss of ojas Columbia my fiftieth birthday solitude C’est le comble to think and write implacable

Letter 83: Curbing the Lower Soul in the Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri “God grant you a high position among the pious” “man’s nature is refractory” “adopt a strategy” keep away from desires or work or pray life hacks Godly fear abstemious “so your life is but an hour” “getting ready for death” covid-19 Paul Jackson classics of western spirituality middle way

Love’s Last Madness poem 23 Translation of poem 51 in Mata’e Nur Urdu poem by Darshan Singh “my nights of anguish” tippler’s code Waiting for the Beloved chapter 22 in Spiritual Awakening most perfect art “fulfillment is reached when the fire of love burns in lover and Beloved with the same intensity” inculcate self-discipline Push button era instant on third eye restlessness “we have to give time...

Letter 82: Inordinate Desires a reading in The Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri Paul Jackson classics of western spirituality “surely you have no authority over My servants!” Q17:65 Khwaja Junaid: “what is union?” “The abandonment of following one’s own desires” “it is only when they have originated in confused desire and begun to appear that Satan pounces on them” Imam Shibli Sultan Mahmud G...

Love’s Last Madness poem 22 revised edition English translation of Poem 18 in Mata’e Nur by Darshan Singh Urdu Poet 1921-1989 ghazal houri love gone wild Shameen Janab Shamin Karhani poetry mentor 1913-1975 Urdu poet “a poet should make his life itself a poem” a Ghazal to Go on the go see Maneri inordinate desire Barry Lerner poems on a spiritual path mystical poetry

Satsang of Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj on the Inner Journey Plato’s cave “the point where the current begins - the third eye” “when the flame flashes from the cup there is an awakening” the ocean of spiritual consciousness sos.org Darshan Singh

Letter 81: The Lower Soul by Sharafuddin Maneri in the maktubati sadi the Hundred Letters “a little you ask, a little you say ; then your life is over!” attar ibn Yahya 1263-1381 Paul Jackson classics of western spirituality Indo muslim sufism sufi master

Love’s Last Madness poems on a spiritual path by Darshan Singh english translation of Urdu poems in Mata’e Nur by Barry Lerner poem 20 & 21 - 16 & 49 “ruffled brow” “pleasure in thirsting” Muqam-e Haq vatan Sant Ravi Das Adi granth Ganges Jamna Saraswati rivers fana fi’llah streams of nectar

December 1964 in the Journal of Thomas Merton “one must pray or go to seed” “the whistler and his dog” I was happy “my vocation to solitude” contemplation and eschatology gleichhheit Eckhart

Thomas Merton meets Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki in New York 1964 in the Intimate Journals “I am a New Yorker” Hillside avenue The ascent of truth Mihoko Okamura Continuum 3 and half sips green tea conclusion: literature, contemplation, solitude, Asia, Zen, Islam, Latin America Patrick Hart The Spirit of Simplicity Urs Von Balthasar Verbum Caro Verlassenheit protestants chinese princess

Letter 80: the Heart in the Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri translated by Paul Jackson from the Persian to English in the Classics of Western Spirituality “a man is where his heart is” “be careful not to rest on your laurels for even the twinkling of an eye” “the heart is such that it must be afflicted either with the pain of not finding or with the joy of finding” Yahya famous Sufi Khuda Ba...

Love’s Last Madness poem 19 revised edition English translation of Urdu Poem 37 in Mata’e Nur by Darshan Singh translated by Barry Lerner and Harbans Singh Bedi indifference incarnate Ghalib yeh kahan ki dosti hai Divan Khan 19 Iqbal bat kehne ki nahin Kulliyat Bang e dara 131 nafs al-jihadu l akbar mukhalafatu n nafs mystical poetry poems on a spiritual path 1921-1989

The Journals of Thomas Merton 1963 part V seeking peace in the hermitage Chuang Tzu nuclear war blurb or blog Intimate Merton

Love’s Last Madness, revised edition Poem 17 - Poem 47 in Mata’e Nur and Poem 18 / 38 translated from Urdu poetry of Darshan Singh by Barry Lerner and Harbans Singh Bedi “till the end of the world I will cherish the memory of those on life’s journey who were kind to me” “my heart had the mettle to bear endless pain” “where can he find some moments of quiet and peace?” “Rope of his wisdom” “saucy b...

English translation of a Hindi talk by Sant Rajinder Singh ji Maharaj on The third Sikh Guru Amardas followed by meditation

Letter 79: Spirit Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri Q:17:85 translated by Paul Jackson Kitab at Ta’arruf Attar Sa’di Maulana Rumi a tiny basket advanced Sufi mysticism Persian English

Poem 15 & 16 in Love’s Last Madness revised edition an English translation of Mata’e Nur Treasure House of Light by Darshan Singh poem 36 & 19 “intellect is a house of darkness” “don’t ask about the dark” “you are the bandit” “the face of every friend is an endless array of masks; My foes I recognize in any guise they try to pass” “strange entanglement” Barry Lerner arabic persian urdu 1988 Bowlin...

Hindi talk translated to English May 4th by Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj 3 friends a reunion money explorer mystic “we gain what our attention is most focused on” “can not still out body as easily when we get old” “you will find God in this Lifetime all you have to do is give flight to your Soul” Darshan Vivek is a gift of God to put it aside is our own folly Kabir Be Safe Be regular

The journals of Thomas Merton 1963 in the Intimate Merton “the best thing about the retreat has been working in the pig Barn” Dumoulin History of Zen koan “I myself am part ... of the climate”

Letter 78: Hope and Fear in the Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri Paul Jackson Paulist press be safe sun and shade hope and fear like two wings “truth means that you remove yourself from your path” “your nearness to God lies in your distance from yourself” “the very least of the signs of Nearness is contemplation and persistence” Sufi Master Ibn Yahya 1263-1381 Bihar classics of western spirit...