Poem by Attar

The people of this world are like the three butterflies

in front of a candle’s flame.

The first one went closer and said:

I know about love.

The second one touched the flame

lightly with his wings and said:

I know how love’s fire can burn.

The third one threw himself into the heart of the flame

and was consumed. He alone knows what true love is.

Farid al-Din Attar

More about Attar later. He was a Sufi from the 12th century

The flame is the Agni of Hindu. It is the core to all Hindu yagna

The yagna is a way to meditate – however the technique is lost thankfully a few know if it

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