Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Paradise passeth

Sadly the winter passeth away. I shall miss snuggling into a rajai (quilt) with a favorite book. One of the best feelings in the world. Imitating the Mughal emperor Jahangir*, one can say -

Gar bar-ru-e-zamin ast; hamin ast, hamin ast, hamin asto!
If there is paradise anywhere on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here!

And that paradise is in the security of the quilt. It's a whole different world in there.

Mughal emperor Jahangir with a sufi saint,1618


*Jahangir said this about Kashmir, his favorite place. 

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