The story of Hakim Sanai, the 12th Century Persian court poet, begins like a political thriller. He’s moving with the Sultan of Persia and his military forces on an expedition to conquer India. But as they pass a certain walled garden they come across a drunken singer, who is really a great Sufi mystic, an enlightened man named Lai-Kur.
Sanai is transformed, enlightened by this chance meeting. He leaves the king to his meaningless war games and goes off alone to absorb what has happened to him. From this process comes a book of poems, the Hadiqatu’l Haqiqat, The Walled Garden of Truth.

This is a two volume series on Sanai’s Hadiqa, about which Osho observes: "Such books are not written, they are born. These words are saturated with satori."

In his introduction to this book, Coleman Barks includes a new translation of a startling and beautiful poem by Sanai. Further he says:
"Some planetary collective awareness is continually building, along with the tribal, personal, familial, national, and neighborhood consciousnesses. They trickle, pour, drip-drop, and thunder down through each other, altering the consistency and intensity of who we are and what we know and feel. Soul is the usual hapless word we throw at the process.
"I contend that Osho will come to be seen as a germane, yeasty presence in our soul fermentation. The history of soulmakers is our most significant history. They are the moving indices of how we say our truth."

Coleman Barks is a poet and translator.
His 16 volumes of Rumi translations have made Rumi the best selling poet in the US today.

The first volume features ten discourses in which Osho speaks on these exquisite verses. In alternate discourses Osho answers questions from seekers including: Why is it so difficult to be silent? In what way would there be a need for a master? How to move from sexuality to love? What is creativity?

The story around Hakim Sanai, the 12th Century intrigue of a pointless military expedition, a poet and a mystic, continues from Unio Mystica 1. Osho presents his views on war and the political mind. He offers a fresh outlook: a blueprint for cutting the roots of the destructive political mind of man, and creating a human being who wants to love and celebrate life. "I am trying to create a space for the future to happen." Reading it today, there is a taste of history repeating itself. This time there is an opportunity to listen to and to welcome the aerial viewpoint of a modern mystic.

Osho holds Sanai in high esteem, saying if he were to save only two books from the world of the mystics, one would be from the world of Zen, the path of awareness, Sosan’s Hsin Hsin Ming and the other would be Hakim Sanai’s Hadiqa because "it is the essential fragrance of the path of love. No other Sufi has been able to reach to such heights of expression and such depths of penetration."

In alternate chapters, Osho responds to questions about asceticism, love, intelligence, aloneness and living in a community, and the theory of relativity.

Truth is not a tradition. It cannot be, because truth is never old
The whirling world of Sufis
Sufis the People on the path
The Wisdom in the Sands