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 control

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 to our meditations” Barry Lerner revised edition poems on a spiritual path advanced sant mat and sufism in Urdu poetry

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 Ghazni Ayaz Moses Adam Ibn Yahya Maneri 1263-1381 1980 Maktubat-i Sadi Persian sufi master Makhdum Sahib Bihar

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