What is included with this book?
Foreword | p. xi |
Preface | p. xvii |
Prologue | p. 1 |
Unveiling the Garden of Love | p. 3 |
The Issue at Hand | p. 3 |
Approach to the Issues | p. 7 |
Limits and Boundaries | p. 15 |
Towards a Contribution | p. 18 |
Colors of Love: Some Ideals of Traditional Persian and Indian Literature | p. 21 |
Milieu, Historicity, and Ahistoricity | p. 23 |
Literary Expression of the Mystical Experience | p. 41 |
The Stages of Unio Mystica | p. 47 |
Blooms of Love's Garden: Initial Union and Separation in Union | p. 51 |
The State of Initial Union | p. 52 |
Separation in Union | p. 87 |
Thorns of Love's Gardens: Longing and the Pain of Separation | p. 93 |
The State of Separation | p. 93 |
The Pain of Separation | p. 96 |
Thorns of Love's Gardens: Fusion and Confusion in Separation | p. 117 |
Fusion and Confusion | p. 118 |
Pleasure in Separation | p. 120 |
The Gardener and the Garden: Return and Union Regained | p. 155 |
Return and the End | p. 155 |
Death and Transition | p. 156 |
Prelude: At the Sill of the Door | p. 157 |
Reunion: Celestial and Sexual Encounter | p. 166 |
Core and Center: The Original State | p. 178 |
The Wheels Come Full Circle | p. 182 |
Where Gardens Congregate | p. 184 |
The Garden Unveiled: Preserving Diversity, Observing Unity | p. 189 |
Correspondence and Convergence | p. 190 |
The Way Forward | p. 193 |
Epilogue | p. 195 |
Glossary and Index of Persian/Arabic and Sanskrit Terms | p. 197 |
Bibliography | p. 201 |
Biographical Notes | p. 209 |
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