When destiny maneuvers the game of your life through advances, stalemates, and retreats, it should be remembered that these effects are from causes you yourself have created in past lives. Finally, their existences are cut short by the transition called death…. Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,Īs a checkerboard consists of alternate white and dark squares on which chessmen representing rulers and their underlings are moved about, so does the rotating earth with its alternating days and nights form a grand checkerboard on which are played the lives of human chessmen….Men are moved from one state or condition to another throughout their lives, and are often thwarted in purpose, unable to carry out their plans. ‘Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days In the solitude of my inner silence I have found the paradise of unending Joy.”
AH LOVE COULD YOU AND I WITH HIM CONSPIRE MEANING FREE
Ah, wilderness, free from the clamor of material desires and passions! in this aloneness I am not lonely. Thou dost sweetly intone to me the all-desire-satisfying music of wisdom. In this wilderness of deepest innermost silence-whence all tumult of thronging desires has died away-I commune with Thee, my Supreme Beloved, the Singing Blessedness. Unceasingly my heart recites the poetic inspirations of eternal divine love. Nourished by the life-giving ‘bread’ of prana, I quaff the aged wine of divine intoxication brimming the cask of my soul. “Sitting in the deep silence of meditation, with my mind concentrated on the cerebrospinal tree of life and spiritual consciousness, I rest in the shade of peace. Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,Ī Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse-and Thou John the Divine.’ The Rubaiyat may rightly be called ‘The Revelation of Omar Khayyam.’”Įxcerpts from Paramahansa Yogananda’s Wine of the Mystic The veiling of Khayyam’s metaphysical and practical philosophy in these verses reminds me of ‘The Revelation of St. “As I worked on the spiritual interpretation of the Rubaiyat, it took me into an endless labyrinth of truth, until I was rapturously lost in wonderment. I have felt that this dream-castle of truth, which can be seen by any penetrating eye, would be a haven for many shelter-seeking souls invaded by enemy armies of ignorance…. “Ever since, I have admired the beauty of the previously invisible castle of inner wisdom in the Rubaiyat. “One day as I was deeply concentrated on the pages of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, I suddenly beheld the walls of its outer meanings crumble away, and the vast inner fortress of golden spiritual treasures stood open to my gaze. I remember the great satisfaction I derived from his explanations of the twofold significance of several Persian poems. “Long ago in India I met a hoary Persian poet who told me that the poetry of Persia often has two meanings, one inner and one outer. Paramahansa Yogananda reveals that behind Omar Khayyam’s outward imagery is hidden a profoundly beautiful understanding of the joy and sublime purpose of human existence.įrom Paramahansa Yogananda’s introduction to “The Wine of the Mystic”: More than just a commentary, this book presents a spiritual teaching for the conduct of life. It was this universal outlook and breadth of vision that enabled him to elucidate the profound kinship between the teachings of India’s ancient science of Yoga and the writings of one of the greatest and most misunderstood mystical poets of the Islamic world, Omar Khayyam. Like the enlightened sages of all spiritual traditions, Sri Yogananda perceived that underlying the doctrines and practices of the various religions is one Truth, one transcendent Reality. Paramahansa Yogananda’s interpretation of the Rubaiyat was one aspect of a lifelong effort to awaken people of both East and West to a deeper awareness of the innate divinity latent in every human being. In his illuminating interpretation, Paramahansa Yogananda reveals-behind the enigmatic veil of metaphor-the mystical essence of this literary classic. Yet the true meaning of the poem has been a subject of much debate. The eleventh-century verses of Omar Khayyam, and their nineteenth-century translation by Edward FitzGerald, have long delighted readers. This volume, presenting Paramahansa Yogananda’s complete commentaries on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, brings together the poetic and spiritual insights of three men of great renown, whose lives spanned a period of more than nine hundred years.
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