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What Amir Khusrau Wrote About Nizamuddin Auliya That Reads Like India's Most Honest Love Poem

The man who made a saint weepWhen Nizamuddin Auliya heard Khusrau sing for the first time, he wept. Not the composed, inward weeping of a man in prayer. He wept openly, in front of his disciples, in the khanqah at Ghiyaspur in Delhi. Khusrau was perhaps seventeen. He had come…

Times Life · Sep 11

What Chokhamela Wrote From Outside the Temple Door and Why Every Devotee Should Still Feel It

The man who prayed from the streetChokhamela never entered the Vitthal temple at Pandharpur. He stood outside, sometimes at the gate, sometimes at the wall, and he sang. He was a Mahar, a caste classified as untouchable in 14th-century Maharashtra, and no amount of devotion changed what the priests saw…

Times Life · Sep 4

Sant Janabai's Abhangas Hold the Spiritual Truth of Women's Invisible Labour and Devotion

She Did Not Transcend the Chores. She Wrote From Inside Them.Janabai was a dasi in the household of Namdev, the thirteenth-century weaver-saint of Pandharpur. She ground grain. She swept. She fetched water. She did every task that made the household function and that no one counted when the counting was…

Times Life · Sep 3