This may be a repeat but it is worth reading.

[Amin C]

This is an excerpt from the Book "Vigyan Bhairav Tantra", The book of Secret". Batuni (Esoteric) unerstanding of our Soul.

 

In this book Parvati is asking question to Shiva. Shiva explains her about Ibadat and understanding of  Mind and Self Awareness or Self consciousness or your Soul. You will find many of the Shiva's answers  similar to our Ginans and Farmans. One thing I've found interesting in this book is, it tries to elaborate or articulate more or differently in details about what Ginans and Farmans is telling us. Afterall, about 10,000 years back, Shiva was Mowla of their time.

 

As they say, Knowledge is a gift and wealth. As Mowla said in his Farman, "Intellect is another facet of our faith". Be open minded and try to absorb this knowledge.

 

Enjoy.

 

Best,

 

Amin

 

Awareness of your Center (Soul/Noor of Mowla)

(Excerpt from "The Book of secret.")

 

Man is born with a center,(Noor (Light of Allah). As once Mowlana sultan Mohammed Shah (S.A.S.) said in his Farman,  "Soul, Ishq (Love) and Noor are one and the same.")  but he remains completely oblivious of it. (lacking conscious awareness of) Man can live without knowing his center,(Soul - Noor -Light of Allah, Mowla) but man cannot be without a center.(Mowla. Mansoor Al-Hallaj uttered after he had an inner experience, "An Al Haq " I am the truth" ) The center(Mowla) is the link between man and existence; it is the root. You may not know it, knowledge is not essential for the center to be, but if you do not know it you will lead a life that is rootless – as if rootless. (Mowla says in his Farman, "Man without a faith is worth dust on a street.) You will not feel any ground, you will not feel yourself based; you will not feel at home in the universe. You will be homeless.

Of course, the center(Soul, Noor, Mowla) is there, but by not knowing it your life will be just a drifting – meaningless, empty, reaching nowhere. You will feel as if you are living without life, drifting, just waiting for death. You can go on postponing from one moment to another, but you know very well that that postponing will lead you nowhere. You are just passing time, and that feeling of deep frustration will follow you like a shadow. Man is born with a center,(Noor of Mowla) but not with the knowledge of the center.(Mowla) The knowledge has to be gained.

You have the center.(Soul, Noor of Mowla) The center(Soul, Noor of Mowla) is there; you cannot be without it. How can you exist without a center?(Soul, Noor of Mowla) How can you exist without a bridge between you and existence?…(Soul/Noor/Mowla) or if you like, the word God. You cannot exist without a deep link. You have roots in the divine. Every  moment you live through those roots, but those roots are underground. Just as with any tree, the roots are underground; the tree is unaware of its own roots. You also have roots. That rootedness is your center.(Soul/Noor/Mowla) When I say man is born with it, I mean it is a possibility that you can become aware of your rootedness. If you become aware, your life becomes actual; otherwise your life will be just like a deep sleep, a dream.

What Abraham Maslow has called “self-actualization” is really nothing but becoming aware of your inner center(inner Noor/Mowla) from where you are linked with the total universe, (Noor of Mowla) becoming aware of your roots: you are not alone, you are not atomic, you are part of this cosmic whole.(Noor of Mowla) This universe is not an alien world. You are not a stranger, this universe is your home. But unless you find your roots, your center,(Noor of Mowla) this universe remains something alien, something foreign.

Sartre says that man lives as if he has been thrown into the world. Of course, if you do not know your center (Noor of Mowla) you will feel a thrown-ness, as if you have been thrown into the world. You are an outsider; you do not belong to this world and this world doesn’t belong to you. Then fear, then anxiety, then anguish are bound to result. A man as an outsider in the universe is bound to feel deep anxiety, dread, fear, anguish. His whole life will be just a fight, a struggle, and a struggle which is destined to be a failure. Man cannot succeed because a part can never succeed against the whole.

You cannot succeed against existence. You can succeed with it, but never against it. And that is the difference between a religious man and a non-religious man. A non-religious man is against the universe; a religious man is with the universe. A religious man feels at home. (Because he always feel he is always with the Noor of Mowla. Remember the Farman, "In the time of difficulties you feel you are alone. But I want you to remember that I am always, always, a_l_w_a_y_s with you. Don't you forget that.) He doesn’t feel he has been thrown into the world, he feels he has grown in the world. Remember the difference between being thrown and being grown.

When Sartre says man is thrown into the world, the very word, the very formulation shows that you do not belong. And the word, the choice of the word thrown means that you have been forced without your consent. So this world appears inimical. Then anguish will be the result.

It can be otherwise only if you are not thrown into the world, but you have grown as a part, as an organic part.(Part and Parcel of Noorani Light.) Really, it would be better to say that you are the universe grown into a particular dimension which we call “human.” The universe grows in multi-dimensions – in trees, in hills, in stars, in planets… in multi-dimensions. Man is also a dimension of growth. The universe is realizing itself through many, many dimensions.(Avatars) Man is also a dimension along with the height and the peak. No tree can become aware of its roots; no animal can become aware of its roots. That is why there is no anxiety for them. (Only human being can become aware of Center/Noor of Mowla.)

If you are not aware of your roots, of your center,(Mowla) you can never be aware of your death. Death is only for man. It exists only for man because only man can become aware of his roots, aware of his center,(Mowla) aware of his totality and his rootedness in the universe.

If you live without a center,(Mowla) if you feel you are an outsider, then anguish will result. However, if you feel that you are at home, that you are a growth, a realization of the potentiality of the existence itself – as if existence itself has become aware in you, as if it has gained awareness in you – if you feel that way, if you really realize that way, the result will be

bliss.

 

   

 

Best Wishes, Kind Regards & Ya Ali Madad &

   السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ

(As-salāmu ʿalaykum)

 

Amin Chunara