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Human beings use two minds to lead their lives.
We experience one of these minds during day, when we are awake while the other
during night when we are asleep. One of them is present on the right side while
the other is found on the left side in the head.
Right-sided mind is concerned with unconscious
senses and the left-sided one is concerned with conscious senses. Right-sided
mind is intuitive mind while the left-sided is reasoning and critical mind. There
is infinite store of knowledge in the right sided mind while the left-sided
mind contains limited store of knowledge.
According to the experts if we record eight
thousand bits of memory every second in our mind, it has such a large capacity
that we can keep on recording for 85 years without interval.
Famous scientist Einstein's brain is preserved
in an American laboratory. Great researchers have conducted their research on
his brain simply to find the special features of Einstein's brain which made
him genius. But till now they have not found anything which could distinguish
the mind of a genius from that of a common person.
Einstein is called the great and genius
scientist of this century. He himself said that he did not think about theories
but those were all revealed to him. Remember this was the same Einstein who was
considered to be the dullest student in his school days. The question arises
how a dull student became a genius?
The research conducted in Sleep Laboratories
all over the world has shown that when a person (genius and common man) sleeps,
his mind starts data processing. If the electric wave in the human brain works
to a specific limit when he is awake, the conscious works properly. On the
other hand if these waves increase their function, the man becomes restless. He
suffers from the fits of unconsciousness if the electric waves increase
further.
Usually most of the people live under the
influence of left-sided brain. Forgetfulness is more concerned with the left
brain. It means that the human beings face problems and difficulties if they
are unaware about the worldly knowledge.
The brain is used relentlessly during day time
while the intuitive mind is not used. That is why man remains unaware of the
real knowledge of the universe. To remedy this unawareness man should remain
constantly in touch with his intuitive mind. By keeping a contact with
intuitive, the conscious mind becomes strong enough that the man understands
the workings of intuitive mind. In this situation the mind works as a complete
unit, not as a half one. As a result the possibilities of errors, pains, unrest
and complicated diseases decrease surprisingly. The purpose of all types of
research conducted in the developed countries to maximize the utilization of
human faculties is to create a link between the right and the left side of the
brain. The mystics tell that if man becomes aware of the part of his life
sleep, then a link will be created between right and left side of the brain. By
creating this link man becomes aware of the hidden knowledge and the secret
world.
Life and all the life related emotions and
feelings, occurrences and conditions, imaginations and thoughts, and all
interests about life are there as long as man breathes. Inhaling and exhaling -
both are important: inhaling creates a link with the secret world while
exhaling with the senses. Closing our eyes, when we inhale with deep
concentration, the conscious self is attracted towards the secret world, and when
we exhale our attention is drawn towards the outer world. As a result we move
away from the world of peace and comfort by shifting to the world of doubt,
avarice, lie and hypocrisy.
The Concealed world is like a pond if we look
into the stagnant water we see our own reflection. In the same way all the
people in the world are linked with one another in the hidden world. The
universe is like a factory of Nature. The sky, the earth, heavenly bodies,
trees, mountains, birds and animals, worms, jinns, angels and human beings all
are the parts and bits of this factory of the world. Every bit is linked with
other bits. If the function of a single part of the machine leaves normalcy,
the machine stops working or starts to jerk. Every small part is aware only of
its own working, but is unaware of the mechanism of the machine.
Movement is a hidden scheme which works under
the guise of natural phenomenon. In the depth of darkness and light, this
hidden scheme creates such marks as are perceived and felt by our senses. For
example, look at your wrist watch, the hands for hour, minute and seconds are
present in the dial. The hand of seconds moves quickly so the eye can see its
movement. The minute hand and hour hand are also moving but our eye does not see
their movement. When we look at these hands after some I time, we perceive their movement. One movement is the less or more
speed of the hands and the other movement is the working of the whole machine
which is not visible to the eye. There are springs, lever and a pulley in the
watch and their mutual share in the work produces an unending movement: one
moves ahead while the other in a circle, one is increasing and the other is
decreasing its size every moment. It is beyond understanding why this movement
is not the same. But one can understand all this with meditation.
Experimentation of months and years reveal that life is like a machine built up
of millions and billions of parts and bits. Like a small or large machine made
by man needs energy {mobil oil), same way the machine inside human cage needs
energy (fats) for work.
Heart, brain, kidneys, lungs, stomach, and
intestines all function with help of invisible energy. About twelve hundred
thousand million cells function automatically with preliminary organs. It is
the ignorance of a human being that he can neither perceive the machine within
him that works with sound, jerks, fast and slow speed, listen to its sound, nor
can repair it if there occurs a shortage in the continuous supply of energy.
Energy burns itself to keep the machine
working. If the energy is kept moderate, the life span increases, if the energy
is wasted, the life ends.
Breathing practice and meditation increase the
stock of energy inside man.... and fewer calories are consumed because of which
the energy level goes up.
The person who meditates, remains calm and
enjoys comfortable sleep, his face gets wrinkle- free. All and sundry start
liking him because of his attractive face. He is librated from doubts and
suspicions.
A suspicious person gets tense according to the
intensity of the suspicion, and tension creates various problems. The easiest
way to save oneself from suspicions and mental stress is to: read the life
('seerat-e-tayyaba') of Hazrat Muhammad (S.A.W); serve the God's creatures;
consider God to be the surety for needs; and meditate regularly.
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
Many a scholar has written a lot about
spiritualism and pantheism. One school of thought is of the view that as saints
often used to wear wooly dresses therefore people would call them sufis. Wool
is called sauf in Arabic. They used to wear such a dress, for it had been the
habit of many a prophet, saints and pious people. According to some people, as
they have been associated with the Ashaab-e-suffa that is why they are called sufis;
whereas according to yet another school of thought the word sufi is linked with
suf a.... but all these explanations are not satisfactory.
In fact, the terminological meaning of Sufi'ism
(tasawaf) is self cleansing. It is the name of a true spirit that is related
to conscience and the light of conscience is always inherent. A sufi always
thinks in the context of Allah. His talk moves around Allah. He lives with
Allah and dies in the name of Allah. He recites His words and always praises
Him and remains enmeshed in His love. He sacrifices everything in order to see
and meet Allah.
