Abstract
Abstract In his sāqīnāmah, Muḥīṭ-i aʿẓam (“The Greatest Ocean”), Bedil describes the cosmogonic unfolding of the universe from the One as the gradual overflowing of wine, and the spiritual return of the soul as transcending the boundaries of the self in intoxication. This paper examines Bedil’s adaptation of the story of King Lavaṇa, a tale originally from the Yogavāsiṣṭha, showing that within the conceptual framework of the Muḥīṭ-i aʿẓam the story of King Lavaṇa serves to underscore the necessity of transforming the heart from its imagined separateness into a state of awareness of its essential unity with the one Reality.
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