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Persian · noun · Mind & Knowledge
Gulshan-e-Khayaal
गुलशन-ए-ख़याल
Meaning
The garden of imagination blossoming in the mind.
Literally: garden of thought
See it in the verse
Gulshan-e-Khayaal in Iqbal’s couplets
Hayat kya hai khayal o nazar ki majzubi
Khudi ki maut hai andesha-ha-e-guna-gun
What is life? The absorbed focus of thought and vision; and scattered, many-coloured doubts are the death of selfhood.
Selfhood · Action · Self-Knowledge
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