Question 2:
What kind of thought will lead us to the ultimate
Why some thoughts are considered Virtue and some Sin
Answer 2:
Thinking process can be used to analyze mundane things, to analyze the creation. But thinking cannot grasp the creator. Thinking about the source of creation is useless.
Rumi once said, “Don’t use thinking to figure out the creator of thinking!”
The creation is illuminated by the source, the source cannot be illuminated by the creation.
It is his light that illuminates the world, how can world illuminate him?
In that state that the divine light illuminates everything, and one sees everything through that light, what is the necessity for logic? What is the need for Angels to give you a message?
Logic is great for understanding the creation, but when you go beyond materialistic creation, logic is useless.
Although Angels are close to the source (God) but they are incapable of realizing God in their own nature as man is.
“If his light burns away the Angel’s wings
It will burn the intellect form head to toe”
The spiritual realm is in one way like absolute darkness, how can you see with mundane eyes in the spiritual realm? But that very same darkness, is light of God, to intellect it is darkness, because intellect cannot see anything in that dimension.
Again, this is related to that very famous concept of “Nothingness” which we discussed in the previous lessons. Since the spirit realm, Consciousness, or God is beyond definition and beyond anything that can be used to explain it, and neither human eyes can see it, it is like absolute darkness or nothingness to man.
Since it’s the source of creation, it’s called nothingness, because according to many spiritual traditions and religions only from nothing can all things come out, the manifested creation has come out of something that is not a thing! It’s zero, everything has come out of zero. Zero is not really nothing, it’s the most powerful, because it’s the absolute source of everything!
If you want to see the divine truth, you need another body!
As the eyes in your head doesn’t have the endurance to see the sun
If you want to see the source of light, you will need a different body
The eyes on your head can’t see the Sun, so you look at its reflection on the water
Clearly all great masters remind us that we cannot see the ultimate truth, in the same way that we see all the materialistic things, we cannot use our limited logic to realize the absolute.
It is important that everyone must understand the limitation of human intellect. Otherwise, people believe that because they don’t see something, or can’t find the proof they are looking for, it doesn’t exit.
If you are honest with yourself, just think about this:
With thousands of years of medicine, we are at a point that one person goes to medical school for years just to learn some basics about how human body work, and that one person only become an specialist in a certain part of human body, for example someone becomes an orthopedic doctor, then again in that category people become specialists in a specific part of skeleton, for example an spine expert, and with all these, still we don’t know how to fix major defects with human body!
Think about this: Hundreds of people are required to address issues of human body and still after thousands of years, we haven’t been able to prevent and fix a very large number health issue. I mean millions of people have strived during history to understand the physical body, and we decided hundreds of physicians are needed to address it and still what we know is less than 1% of it.
One person, couldn’t even understand a very small part of this 1%, millions of people worked together to create this 1%, millions of minds!
If something physical, needed millions of people, just to explain 1% of it, if it took millions of people and thousands of years just to explain less than 1% of physical body, isn’t it wrong to think we know how the universe works? And reject the things that we cannot explain?
We must come to terms with this, that intellect is a very limited tool for experiencing and understanding higher, subtler, aspects of universe. That’s what Shabestari means when he says
If you want to see the divine truth, you need another body!
As the eyes in your head doesn’t have the endurance to see the sun
If you want to see the source of light, you will need a different body
The eyes on your head can’t see the Sun, so you look at its reflection on the water
When he says eyes on the head can only see the reflection on the water, he means one’s limited intellect is only able to analyze and think about the qualities of divine, the things that masters and scriptures tried to explain in a very limited way.
In a more mystical way, he is saying that physical eyes are incapable of seeing spiritual dimension, in a way when he says you need another body, he might be also referring to third eye, also known as the sixth chakra, a very well-known concept described in many spiritual traditions, mostly Yoga and Buddhism. But please ignore most of what you read on internet about charkas and third eyes as most of them are majorly polluted information.
An open third eye doesn’t mean you can see ghosts! What it really means on the higher levels, is seeing and realizing the truth. Your two eyes can only see duality, to see things as one you need to use that one eye.
Now don’t go and start reading books on how to open third eye, most of these books are written by people who themselves have a very little understanding of chakra and many of them are only fairy tales for selling their writings. Opening the third eye really means achieving a higher perception.
A few more notes on my frustration about ridiculous teachings that exist about chakras:
The amount of misinformation that exist about Chakras, Yoga is insanely ridiculous, it only takes years of study and experience to understand how stupid are this information that you can find on bookstores and internet!
Some people say what you don’t know can hurt you the most, but I think what you know, and is wrong can hurt you more!
That’s why most of this misinformation about chakras, third eye and kundalini can be dangerous to your health, happiness and higher consciousness!
If you want to learn about such things in a more correct way, I highly recommend you study the original root texts and scriptures who have first talked about these concepts and study traditional teachings of great Gurus, not self-appointed new age spiritual teacher on the YouTube!
Ok I think that’s enough of me warning you about this, I don’t want to become too much distracted from the main subject so let’s continues with the Garden of the Chakras…….? ! Sorry I meant Garden of the Secret 😀
Shabestari goes on to say that universe is limitless, but everything is really a replication of “1” , the original source, only if you go beyond the superficial consciousness, you can see that all those numbers are actually one.
When you achieve higher consciousness, you’ll see that HE (the universal spirit, God) is actually The Seer, Seen, and Seeing!
Sufis want to experience nothingness, to lose the illusive consciousness of individual existence, because in that state only, you can awaken and realize that everything is HIM, the Universal Spirit, Call it God, Call it Him, Her, It, Buddha, call it Mickey Mouse! I don’t care, no body can explain it anyways!
And as the ancient Sanskrit scripter reminds us “Tat Tvam Asi” – Thou art That! So not only everything is HIM, but you are also HIM, me and you don’t really exist as an individual, but we are all one spirit, experiencing itself in many!
Shabestari puts this beautifully when he says:
The Universe became man and man became universe
There is not a purer explanation of this!
He also says that time doesn’t exist, everything is really now, from Adam to Jesus happening right at this moment!