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Language: EnglishPages: 399 (10 B/W Illustrations)About the BookOmar Khayyam’s famous poem, the Rubaiyat of omar Khayyam is loved by westerners as a hymn of praise to sensual delight. In the east his quatrains enjoy a very different reputation: they are known as a deep allegory of the soul romance with God. Even there however the knowing is based on who and what omar Khayyam was: a sage and mystic. As for what his quatrains actually mean most of them have remained a mystery in the east as much as in the west.Now after more than eight centuries paramhansa yogananda one of the great mystics of our time a master of yoga and the author of the spiritual classic Autobiography of a yogi explains the mystery behind omar famous poem. In Yogananda introduction he wrote:I suddenly beheld the walls of its outer meaning crumble away. The vast inner fortress of golden spiritual treasures stood open to y gaze.This boo