The Urdu Poetry of Sant Darshan Singh translated to English by Barry Lerner in Love’s Last Madness revised edition 2018 poem 47 / 74 of Mata e Nur Arabi Wujud the Necessary Being of God alam e mumkinat alam e imkan Ghalib Iqbal Asghar Gondvi Kulliyat Sarud zindagi Akbar Allahabadi bas ik ishare men mangoes

1966 in the Journal of Thomas Merton an intimate version June 19, 1966 “I went to bed like a good little monk” “only fireflies” “shelves of Buddhist books” “solitude like standing under a cold shower” “isness” “my apostolate” “archetypal M” Louis Zukofsky “Derby Day is always beautiful” Eckhart

Letter 97: Death the Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri Paul Jackson “eye of the needle” “I am close to those whose hearts are broken” “the vision of God” thorns

The 33rd verse of Mata’e Noor by Darshan Singh and the 33rd verse of the Quran Q: 33:72 translated from Urdu to English by Barry Lerner in Love’s Last Madness “not in tulip or rose” “the whole world’s sorrow and anguish he entrusted to me - No other heart was imbued with such sympathy” Mir: sab peh jis bar ne girani ki us ko yeh natavan ut ha laya The load that all others found burdensome This feeble one came forth to shoulder Sant Darshan Singh

The Hundred Letters of Sharafuddin Maneri translated from Persian into English by Paul Jackson in the classics of western spirituality Paulist press letter 96: The Forty-Day Retreat “Springs of wisdom will appear on the tongue of anyone who sets aside forty dawns for the Lord” Q7:142 “keeping one’s stomach empty of food” “Awarif ul-Ma’arif forty veils Attar “you should if you can, stay in the humble service of a spiritual master as long as breath remains in you” astonishment

Love’s Last Madness revised edition by Barry Lerner English translations of Mata’e Nur by Sant Darshan Singh Ji Maharaj poem 45 / 60 “I have no need for Jamshayd’s royal chalice or his wine” steadfast live moth’s passion heroic courage Beloved’s house “the sight of my beloved is all that I desire” Kashi Kaba Mecca Varanasi Benares Ferdowsi Shah nameh Book of Kings Jam e Jam cup Urdu Persian Sant Mat 1921-1989

The Journal of Thomas Merton from the Intimate Merton June 9, 1966 concelebration of celebrating together up to ten in New York bottle of champagne “marrying” her M ? His nurse girlfriend ? “Priest who has a woman” listening at the gatehouse real spiritual danger sex? Hugs and kisses protestants buddhists “midsummer diary” “habit of isolation” “don’t sing love songs you will awake my heavy battle-axe mother the church the silver dagger Joan Baez all men are false He decided to sleep alone al his Life diamonds and rust June 1966 A Midsummer Diary for M. To marry or become monk

Kirpal Singh Morning Talks chapter 13 “learn to die so that you may begin to live” “conscious co-worker of the divine plan” “do you leave the body at will” Plutarch “those who are initiated into the mysteries of the Beyond, their soul has the same experience of leaving the body as it has at the time of death” “if you rise above body consciousness every day at will” then you can “go jolly” poem 44 / 32 Love’s Last Madness by Darshan Singh Barry Lerner Urdu poetry Mata’e Noor “a love-mad guide is what I want”

H. H. Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj satsang talk translated to English May 23 the path of spirituality has many layers which are explained by Sant Darshan Singh’s verses: four categories of people “go through life fumbling about” Shiv Netra Kabir

Reading the Journals of Thomas Merton April 27, 1966 “terribly in love” jacques Raissa Maritain “we might as well go all the way” “follow your ecstacy” nurse M “reading and meditation remain important” Kentucky Derby Louisville Cincinnati Merton Room at Bellarmine college