Mysticism in Gulzar’s poetry

Abstract

This paper explores Gulzar’s mystic poetry. Gulzar, who is known as a writer of songs by common masses as well as by literary circles, has also written outstanding poetry covering almost all areas including mysticism. Like other mystic poets, he is also of the opinion, that to get united with God, it is necessary to spend life which will be filled with pain. So, that one may remain apart from worldly desires. Mystics do not treat death as an end of life, but union of soul with original soul (God).