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Everyone
is an indivisible entity and a perception in himself. When we want to understand
it in terms of its activity, we would call it sight.
Man is sight, rest is flesh apiece,
Sight is only sighting of the Friend.
(Roomi)
Man, who is perception in unity and sight in plurality,
has been mention in this stanza by Maulana Roomi.
We are
looking at our reflection formed in a mirror and we say that we are looking at ourselves.
This is, in fact, indirect narration. The direct narration would be that the mirror
is looking at us. Or, we are viewing that thing which is being observed by the mirror.
This is the direct approach. Its explanation would be that when we look at something
initially, the image of that thing is there in our mind. In the second stage that
thing is sighted through our eyesight. If, we have never had an idea, never thought
about that thing or never had any prior knowledge about that particular thing then
that thing cannot be sighted at all.
A person
has a paralyzed hand which has lost its sensation. When stealthily pricked and asked
what has been done to his paralyzed limb. His reply would certainly be, “I do not
know".
Why has he responded in the negative?
Simply
because he could not feel the pin-prick, that is, he did not have the knowledge
of pin-pricking would have been the first stage of perception. If his eyes had been
open he would have seen the act of Pin-pricking. In this case his sight could have
given him the knowledge of Pin-pricking. Therefore, in any case, this Knowledge
would have been the first stage of sight.
First of all, knowledge about something is acquired
by man and this is the first stage of Perception. Then he sees it. This is the second
stage of perception. Then he hears it. This is the third stage of perception. Then
he smells it. This is the fourth stage of perception. Lastly, he touches it. This
is the fifth stage of perception.
The right
name, in fact, for perception is the sight and it has five stages in all. In the
first stage its name is idea. In the second stage, the sight. In the third, the
hearing. In the fourth, it is smelling. And, in the fifth stage it is touch.
Every
stage is an additional form of knowledge. Idea, in its own stage is a primary knowledge.
Sight in its own stage becomes an additional knowledge. Hearing in its own stage
becomes a detailed knowledge. Smelling becomes an extended knowledge. And, in the
final stage touch becomes a sensual knowledge. Only knowledge has priority which
in actuality is the sight, and every sense is a classification of the same only.
Meanings
of sight have been explained comprehensively and now we shall dwell on its angles
and reality.
Qalandar Baba Auliay (R.A)
Alshaikh Khwaja
Shamsuddin Azeemi, Chief Editor of the monthly Roohani Digest, the renowned
spiritual scholar, founder of the chain of Muraqba Halls the world over has had
the honour of learning the spiritual sciences from his spiritual mentor, His
Divine Grace Qalander Baba Auliya, the sage of this age. In order to teach him
the spiritual sciences Qalander Baba Auliya made Alshaikh Azeemi to pen down
the words that he used to narrate. Alshaikh Azeemi being a devoted disciple not
only noted the contents but also did his best to understand what he was taught.
The eventual out come of his dedicated work took the form of the ‘Loh-o-Qalum’,
the first ever book that comprises the whole syllabus of the spiritual science.
Who else was more suitable to explain the contents of this document but
Alshaikh Azeemi, the very able student of Qalander Baba Auliya. Dissemination
of that knowledge, which is the legacy of prophets and had reached him in
disciplic succession, has become an obsession for Alshaikh Azeemi because, according
to him, this knowledge is the only elixir and the antidote for the ailing
humanity in present times.
