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By giving the example of
Abraham, in the Holy Scriptures. God has elucidated that for having
cognition and access to the Lord God, negation of the non-lords is necessary.
Besides negation of non-lords, it has been mentioned in the story of Abraham
that he contemplated after renouncing the conscious senses and entering the
unconscious senses.
"And, so also did We show Abraham the power and the
laws of the heavens and the earth that he might with understanding have
certitude. When the night covered him over he saw a star: he said, 'This is my
Lord!' But when the moon set, he said. 'Unless my Lord guide me, I shall surely
be among those who go astray'. When he saw the sun rising in splendor, he said,
This is my Lord, '0 my people! I am indeed free from giving partners.' He also
said. One that sets cannot be Lord and I turn my face towards the Lord who is
the Lord creator of the heavens and the earth".
The main point described
above is that anything that declines or decreases no matter how huge. bright or
powerful it is not worthy of worship, because there exists a still greater and
larger power that is responsible for its hiding and display. The act of
contemplation by Abraham also establishes that man enjoys this inborn faculty
of distinguishing between the Lord and non-lords. This very ability has been
termed as 'Self by the Holy Prophet and 'The Jugular Vein' by the Lord Creator,
in the Holy Scriptures. If a person loses the ability of recognizing his own
self then such a person cannot be introduced with his Lord God When man and
human life are analyzed critically, resources and means inevitably come under
discussion We see that life is reviving ceaselessly. Every minute of the hour
life is reviving God has produced material resources to maintain this revival.
These material means include gases, light, air, water, food et al. Despite the
availability of these material resources, there comes a time upon man when
food, air and water fail to revive his life and no change takes place in the
physical structure and formation In the material world of ours this state is
known as Death. When one dies physical organs and limbs like eyes, ears. nose,
mouth, hands and feet all remain there, the material resources for their
maintenance also remain existing but diet of any type, air or water of
any kind do not and cannot restore anyone to life. Had the life been depending
upon the diet, air and water then it would have been possible to restore the
dead to life with the help of these things This fact has been established that
the material resources cannot revive anything to life When the life is not
depending upon the air, water and food only then there must be one upon whom we
are constrained to depend. It is that being who has created all these means and
resources for man.
"Glory to him who created all things in pairs of
two." For understanding the duplicity referred to in this verse we have to
comprehend the conscious and unconscious senses operative in man. When the
conscious means and resources are discussed we encounter a non-lord at every
step and for living this life we establish our relationship with so many things
other than the Lord. Analytical study of life reveals that life is led in two
portions of conscious and unconscious senses or to be more precise, major
portion of life is spent under the influence of the unconscious senses.
Example: -
After .
one's birth one lives a life of unconsciousness in the first decade of one's
life. Major portion of the remaining life is also spent in an unconscious
state: especially when the duration of the sleeping hours is included in it.
If a man, living in the state of consciousness, could manage
to spend more time in the unconscious state of mind then he can enjoy the
spiritual awakening.
The period in which man
remains active with conscious senses is known as wakefulness. Time and Space remain
dominating in this state of wakefulness or the conscious senses, that is, we
find ourselves confined and incarcerated in the limiting senses on every step.
In the other phase of life, the state of unconscious senses known as dreaming,
the spatio-temporal restraints are relaxed. Relaxation of the restraints
enables us to enter that realm where the limiting restrictions of this worldly
spatiotemporal system do not exist.
Conscious negation of the
non-lords enables us to enjoy freedom from the limiting restraints of Time and
Space and we can enter the world of Unseen Realm after equipping ourselves with
spiritual potentialities. When the spiritual sciences are taken into
consideration we have to rely upon the scared books revealed upon prophets of
God The last revealed Book: the Holy Quran, on one hand is a spiritual heritage
for mankind and on the other it is such a document of the metaphysical sciences
in which everything has been described in detail. This thing has been explained
in the initial verses of the second Sura in
the following manner.
"This is the
Book; in it is guidance for sure, without any doubt, to those who are prudent
about God and in exercising prudence they believe in the Unseen."
Scholars, with enlightened mind and soul, explaining these
words of Quran have stated that if there is dubiety and uncertainty in a person
then this book is of no use to him. It only provides guidance to those who are
not hypocrites. According to the Holy Scripture, the quality of the people
having prudence is that they believe in the Unseen, which purports to all those
things, all those factors, all those situations and all those realms, which are
obscured from the physical eyes. Now, as a matter of law, for having
acquaintance with the Unseen, believing the unseen is necessary. This is an
established fact that one cannot have unmitigated certitude regarding the
things unseen unless these are not witnessed. And, one has to develop the
ability to see the unseen for having certitude. This law is not only valid for
the unseen realms but is equally valid for our day-to-day life in this material
world Every sphere of man's life comes within the purview of this law. When
life is analyzed in the light of this law or when our activities and character
is taken into account we conclude that if we are not attentive with certitude
towards something then we can neither see it nor comprehend it.
Example: -
If a person standing
under a tree, inspite of having his eyes open is not attentive towards the tree
then he would remain oblivious of the existence of the tree_ Although the tree,
in such a case, definitely exists there, his mind remains ignorant of the tree_
He neither sees the structure of the tree nor the leaves or flowers attract his
attention. But contrary to this is the case when one looks attentively towards
a tree. Details of the structural formation of the tree, its genus, its
circumference, its height, its colour, leaves and flowers all come to one's
notice when it is believed with certitude that there exists a tree before our
eyes. We know that a tree exists. It is our perceptual awareness that there are
thousand of trees existing in the world but we cannot see the tree if the tree
is not observed after acknowledging its reality in terms of the above stated
law. For sighting the tree we have to have an idea of its existence before
looking at it. And, for acquainting with the tree we have to observe it after
stepping out of our self-oriented perception. The same is the case of the
observations of the unseen realms.
Example:
We travel from one city towards the other. We undertake this
journey because we are sure of the existence of that city. When we advance in
the light of our certitude we manage to see the city. Basis of the certitude,
about the existence of a city yet to be seen, is that we have already seen one
or the other city. It is in our knowledge that there are streets and lanes in a
city It has houses inhabited by human beings. There are trees around its
buildings. Similar is the case of the Unseen world. Just as there are thousands
of cities and towns in this world similarly there are millions of worlds
existing beyond the space. This number could exceed billions and trillions. If there
does not already exist any record of the observation of any unseen world in us
then we cannot enter any realm of the unseen nor can we reach that Supreme
Being who is beyond the limits of the invisible limits of the unseen. This is
the law, which is valid for both the worlds of matter and spirit.
Example:
Every child makes use of the things told to him by his
parents, after acknowledging them as factual reality. Training of children is
based upon this very thing that the children believe what their parents tell
them to believe. Students of parapsychology and the spiritual associates know
that flow of life is based upon certitude. The laws of cosmic Administration
are valid for both material and spiritual worlds.
It is our observation that every child has this inborn
ability to get his dietary requirements fulfilled. He expresses his needs by
crying for food. After this. this ability is produced in a baby that he starts
recognizing the person closest to him, which normally is his mother. The main
source of a child's recognition is the smelling power, i.e. he recognizes his
mother because of her aroma. With the growth of age his conscious also
develops. The state that establishes after making its room in the conscious of
a child, with continuous growth of the conscious, is known as certitude.
If parents call water as
water the child also pronounces it water. And, the child accepts the names and
properties of all that exists in the ambience of the child exactly as they are
found in the minds of his parents. When the child enters that stage of the
conscious life, which is known as the time of learning knowledge, certitude
plays the most vital role. Teacher tells him to call a particular letter 'aye' and the child because of the
belief transferred to him from his society, following his teacher. calls it
'aye'. And, this belief encompasses his whole life in such a way that no one,
even in his last age. can dare to negate that 'aye'
is not an 'aye'
So the law would be that
just as for entering the world of consciousness certitude is important
similarly for having the acquaintance of the unconscious world, certitude plays
the basic role.
Where can this certitude be found? Wherever it is. that
place is termed as Internal Ego. Basis of the Ego, Self of Internal Ego are the
Attributes of the Lord Creator. All the individuals of the universe and their
senses enjoy a mutual relationship because of the Attributes of the Lord
Creator.
Example:
There is a pond. If a
pebble is thrown in this pond. ripples would be formed in the pond. These
rippling circles, starting from a point, enlarge and spread up to the banks of
the pond. These circles of ripples are countless in numbers.
Each wave produced in the pond represents a species in its
structural form, which, on one hand, is called the species, and, on the other,
it is the individual. When the pebble was thrown in the pond countless waves
got activated in the circular form, that is, the waves always existed
intrinsically in the pond. This existence surfaced when the pebble struck the
water of the pond. Display of a wave, from within the pond, is the conscious of
the individual. As long as the wave is in the water of the pond, it is the
unconscious of the individual. The pond in this example is representing the
collective conscious of the cosmos. After acknowledging the emerging waves on
the surface of the pond as the individuals of universe, we have to admit, that
the whole universe is associated in a hidden relationship and in this case
water of the pond is the hidden
relationship.
Example:
When man sights sun it is felt by him that he is familiar
with the sun and he knows it. This also comes to his mind that the sun is also
the member of the cosmic family just like himself. Apparently there appears no
immediate relationship of the sun with man but when man looks at the sun he
experiences a sense of closeness or association with the sun. it does not come
to his mind that there is no relation of the sun with him. This very
relationship or mutual association is that latent feeling which is found in
every individual of the universe. And, because of the very same affinity every
particle of the universe is aware of the existence of the other.
When the system of reproduction is taken into consideration
it is found that all the species of flora and fauna of every epoch, animals and
in-animates closely resemble human beings. In the light of such observations
and experiences, it becomes inevitable to acknowledge that there is some one
who is encompassing everything and. all the members of the universe remain
active and kinetic just as is the wish and command of that Encompassing Being.
Since that actual base and the root cause of man is the fathomless ocean of
light therefore, after acquainting with his root-cause, he manages to see the
universe. When any activity takes place in the ocean of the.
