A raindrop, dripping from a cloud.
Ashamed when it saw the sea.
‘Who am I ? ,
where is a sea’, it said.
As it saw itself, from the eyes of humility
A shell embraced him and makes him a pearl.
Shaykh Saadi Shirazi
( 1210- 1292 )
in a Rose garden,
in a Rose garden,
from a Mughal manuscript of his work Gulistan,
c. 1645
ram H singhal 