The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Explained: by Paramhansa Yogananda, edited by Swami Kriyananda

Unlock the Mystery of One of the Great Spiritual Treasures of the Ages

Omar Khayyam's famous poem, The Rubaiyat, is loved by Westerners as a hymn of praise to sensual delights. In the East, his quatrains enjoy a very different reputation: they are known as a deep allegory of the soul's romance with God. Even there, however, the knowing is based on who and what Omar Khayyam was: a sage and mystic.

As for what the quatrains actually mean, most of them have remained a mystery in the East as mu...