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Mystical
ecstasy is the only closely guarded secret of nature and needs
dedication, sacrifice and labour far greater than what is
required to unravel the mysteries of the visible universe.
Nobody can sell the magic formula or manipulate society by
offering a short cut.
Khwaja says :
"They met the Sultan's brandished steel The
crocodile's gnashing teeth
They bowed their necks, the death to feel Who follows in their
train
They climbed the steep ascent of super consciousness Through
peril, toil and pain
Oh God, to us may grace be given To follow in their train"
That which intoxicates the consciousness without drinking,
smoking and eating, 'that which makes our consciousness experience
the climax of ecstasy of far greater magnitude than the sensual
pleasures, that because of which we experience weightlessness
and suspended animation of the physical body, it is nothing
else then the mystic's wine, some call her Kundalini and some
Ganga, some call her vidyut lata and some beloved.
The charlatans
prostitute her as a cool breeze in the palm of hand and a
tingling sensation at the back of the spine. Any misguided
effort or attempt to invoke Kundalini destroys the aspirant,
as when trillions of megawatts of energy is unleashed, it
can result in one of the most painful deaths known to humanity.
Murshid Omar
Khayyam said that
"Up
from the earth's centre through the seventh gate, I rose,
And
on the throne sate, and many knots urravelled by the road,
But
not the knot of human death and fate"
"While
the rose blows along the river brink, With old Khayyam the
Ruby vintage drink, And when the angel with his darker draught
Draws up to thee, Take that and do not shrink"
The esoteric
practice of Ashgal
is the key to Wehdat (final merger with the Divine beloved).
Through relentless spiritual conditioning of the consciousness,
magical powers to know the past , present and future and the
ability to understand the language of all creatures, to become
invisible at will, to leave one's body and enter other bodies
at will, to levitate, to become lighter than a proton and
heavier than a black hole, are some of the para normal powers
which the immortal God Realised Saints developed. The final
goal of Ashgal practices is Wehdat (merger with the
All Pervading Divine).
Murshid
Gurdial before his death sang sang :
"Is
a ray ever separate from the sun,
Will
a drop exist separate from the ocean, The light merges with
the light,
The
union is complete now, What a holy communion"
Murshid Shah
Abdul Latif said :
"Unlock
yourself and see HIM"
The six esoteric
astral centres of the Sufi's are :
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Akhfa
Khafi
Siri
Qalbi
Rohi
Nafsi
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Sahasrara
Chakra
Ajna Chakra
Visuddhi
Chakra
Anhata
Chakra
Manipura
Chakra
Svadhistana
Chakra
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Khwaja says that
through perfect Fikr (concentration on the Divine) and Perfect
Ashgal ( Meditation on the Divine ) that Marifat
(Union with the Divine Beloved ) is attained.
Kundalini's descent
from the Ahkfa to Khafi is an staggering encounter revealing
the All Pervading Divine Light, thus making the All Pervading
eternal Unmanifest God, manifested through the Khafi (Ajna
Chakra). The illuminating glory surrounding the vision of
God as seen by the disciples of Prophet Christ, the Noor I
Allah as seen by the disciples of Prophet Mohammad, the Circling
Light of the Taoists and the blazing radiance of a million
suns as described in the Holy Gita, bear testimony to the
sayings of All God Realised saints who have left their foot
prints in the sands of time to follow and realign our goals.
Khwaja says :
"They
who know God, know God, None else knows"
"God
Alone exists Rest is a dream"
"Wherever
you turn, there is the face of God"
Tasawwuf or the
Sufi way has been described as the creed of love, the dogma
of heart and religion of spirit. Sufi dynamics revolves around
Muhabbat. Here Muhabbat should not be misunderstood for any
thing less than love for the All Pervading Divine. Muhabbat
is Muhabbat , it can only be comprehended during Marifat (union
with the Cosmic Divine), before that it would be difficult
to understand it with the yardstick of human love.
Khwaja has stressed
that
yearning for
the All Pervading Divine has to be cultivated through relentless
practice of moral injunctions and fixed observances with perfection
in Fikr (concentration on the
Divine) and Zikr (remembrance on the
Divine) with Muraqaba (contemplation
on the Divine) which would result in illumination of the self.
It is through Marifat that Muhabbat is felt permeating our
entire being. Divine love is an ecstasy permeating our consciousness,
not even the joys of our love to our spouses or to our children
is as selfless as the Divine love.
Wehdat, should
be then our only goal in life. For a human being who has developed
the urge for the Divine would understand the wonders of love
permeating the entire universe. Only on attainment of Marifat
that Wahdat ul wajud (oneness of being) is perceived, before
that we are indulging in intellectual delusion by using the
terms such as brotherhood of man etc. The key to God Realisation
is Muhabbat. It is this intensity of the urge that decides
whether an aspirant will remain an amalgamation of chemicals
or realise that the aspirant is a drop of consciousness in
the Universal All Pervading Super Consciousness of the Unity
understood as the Divine Light. Sometimes the aspirant finds
that when they have developed the urge for the Divine, the
Unmanifest All Pervading does not manifest itself, this could
be for a variety of reasons including our lack of consistency
or pre spiritual puberty level. We must understand that spiritual
pleasures can be felt only when we have stilled the desire
for gratification of the senses.
Spiritual conditioning
through practice of instructions of the Murshid (Spiritual
mentor) with renunciation of our wants which do not serve
any purpose other that gratification of the physical body
would aid our efforts in seeking the nectar of Immortality.
The tendencies such as Haivania
- carnal desires, Ammarah - desires
enhancing our greed, Mulhama - the
inspired motivated self, all these make up a human personality.
We are forever bound by the cause effect of these desires
unless we make a serious effort to improve our evolutionary
positioning in the universal ladder of perfection. When an
aspirant ventures for this transition, they should only make
an effort under the guidance of the Murshid (spiritual
mentor) for without the able guidance of the Murshid it would
be very difficult for us to attain freedom from the slavery
of senses. The subtle difference between Mind, Ego and Intelligence
collectively making our consciousness cannot be understood
by mere book knowledge. Experience is one of the gates to
teachers and without experiencing it ourselves it would be
difficult for us to even comprehend the realm of esoteric
science and its hidden treasures. If we accidentally mistake
the imagination of our thought processes or the voice of ego
as the voice of the soul, we must immediately seek spiritual
help for attunement otherwise we would start speaking to ourselves
and be termed as a loony. It is very important to understand
that without the able guidance of the Murshid (Spiritual mentor)
it is next to impossible to identify the voice of the soul
in the haystack of ego and intelligence lying with each other
to categorise thoughts emerging in our brain.
Khwaja
once said that :
"Only
when the foundation is strong that a legend stands"
Marifat, the
spiritual ecstasy, climax of paranormal communion cannot be
possesed of as non existent for the God Realised Saints of
all the religions of the world bear testimony to its Truth.
Attainment of Mutminnah - tranquil self is a platform from
which we can dive deep into the esoteric realm of superconsciousness.
When we activate the tranquil self through relentless practice
that we enter the esoteric dimensions of the hidden siddhis,
unavailable to the ordinary human being in the life span of
125 years. How is this purity attained and what are we to
understand by the nexus of Muhabbat and Purity. We should
appreciate that the efforts of the God Realised Saints was
to free us from the misery of human bondage which no amount
of material comfort can justify. Are we nct scared to die
and knowing that tomorrow it may be our turn, we still justify
our greed as savings for the rainy day. Very true indeed,
the rainy day is the day of the death of our physical bodies
but unfortunately we would not be able to carry any wee bit
of our accumulations. No amount of coaxing by the saints can
ever make us understand the truth behind renunciation of desires.
With the goal of Marifat (Union with the Divine) as our only
purpose in life would enable us to have a very successful
innings of 125 years if not more. The aspirant under the influence
of Haivania, Ammarah and Mulhama, ensnared by the gratification
urges is a slave to the desires binding the consciousness
to the physical body. Therefore when we dry the juice of sense
gratification that we enable our consciousness to attune with
the cosmic properties of the soul,
That which is
beyond the reach of the most powerful microscope and that
which is beyond the realm of inter galaxy travel can be attained
by the grace of the Murshid.
I
was asleep in a slumber of ignorance, the jogi woke me up;
He
cleansed my mind of the dirt and showed me the essence
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