LECTURE – 23 : CORRELATION OF MEMORY

As stated earlier, basically, the knowledge is of two types: The Presented and the Acquired. The knowledge that is acquired by learning, it involves physical means and is a source of continuous renewal of fictional senses. The Acquired Knowledge does not let the conscious get a chance to be liberated from the suppositions upon which the foundations of the human conscious are established. When the human conscious is studied closely it is observed that it is based upon fictions. When we think about ourselves we end up nowhere in a state of helplessness. Our economic system is based upon statistics but we have no way to prove that two and two makes four, if these are four why these make four and not denominated as something else. Similarly, when a child is made to join school, he is told that this is the ‘A’ and that is the ‘B’. And, if the child ask us that why this ‘A’ is called an ‘A’ and not anything else, then we have no answer except to snub the child saying do as you are told and just repeat what is said to you, this is the way if you really want to learn.

It has been made mandatory for the child’s conscious to accept the fiction offered to him without giving it a thought and if he does not do so, he is denied education.

Other type of knowledge, opposite to the acquired knowledge, stresses that nothing should be believed unless it is observed personally.

God has centralized the four realms, namely the Nooric Realm, The Sub­conscious, the Realm of Behest and the Created Realm, in the nucleolus of the human self.

Description of the Realm of Behest is that our universe is a collection of the celestial bodies, living and non-living things and countless invisible creatures. There exists a correlation among all the individual creatures and the ingredients and components of the universe whether that could be witnessed by the physical eyes, or not but it exists all the same.

When we look at something that thing is witnessed. It is such an ordinary thing of our life that we seldom take the trouble of considering that why something is sighted?

In spiritual science it is necessary to explore the root-cause of everything, no matter how insignificant it may appear to ordinary conscious. When we look at something we perceive its characteristics properly, or in other words, when an observer witnesses something, cognition of that object transfers to our sight. That is to say, the observer transforms himself into the seen object and then cognizes it. We cannot see a rose unless the properties and characteristics, or to say, the attributes of the rose are not transferred to us and we do not let them absorb into our inner self.

Every individual of the Created Realm has the innate ability of transmuting its inner self into any other self and, in this way, can capture anything, into its comprehension, as many times as may deem appropriate, into its comprehension. All the attributes of the universe are collectively incorporated in the inner self of every person.

It is one of the characteristics of the Realm of Behest that when the name of something is heard, the words do not register but a representative picture of that word is witnessed. When, for instance, we hear the name of Tom, the spellings of word Tom do not come to our mind rather the personality of the individual named Tom comes to our mind. Tom, who is a combination of so many qualities and attributes pertaining to his appearance and the personality, will come to our mind, to the extent we know of him.

Another law of the Realm of behest is that the personality of Tom exists in the unconscious eternally and if a spiritual percipient desires to know about the entire personality of Tom, he has to focus his Conscious into the Unconscious to get the whole set of attributes of Tom’s personality transferred to his mind, which is only possible when one enjoys the cognition of one’s own self or the ego, because it is the movement of the ego that conceptualizes the unconscious data before the conscious mind. The august spiritual master Khwaja Bahaodin Naqshband names this very state as ‘Memory’.

It will not be out of place to mention few things about the religions of the world during the course of our discussion on the topic of the Realm of Behest. The people who happened to have knowledge about the metaphysical powers in the early ages, keeping certain beliefs in view developed a spiritual education system. World has seen many such systems so far. In the early ages when the population of the world and their needs were far less than today, these teachings could not take the form of a wide spread global movements.

In the primeval era many people used to observe unseen things pertaining to the Realm of Behest and they interpreted those things in the limited perspective of their tribal ways of life. Since the life of many segments of the society and the wide scenario of the world was not before them, their interpretations about the Realm of Behest were limited to their times only. Therefore, their followers and disciples were mislead to misconceived and vague thoughts after these mystic people were passed away. All the idolatrous and paganistic religions originated in this way.

Those who prepared the outlines of religions of those eras themselves were not familiar with the facts of Realm of Behest. And, thus, they laid the foundations of the wrong beliefs, sorcery, witchcraft and monkism during the course of passing over them to others things that they learnt from their leaders. They used to declare the manifestations a source of original lights. Examples of such religions are the religions originating in the Babylon, Jainism and in the Aryan Religions Hindu Vedantism influenced many of them. Buddhism, too, finally ended up in taking the form of monkism because of the similar attitude of the followers of Buddha. Mongoloid religions are also devoid of the shades of monotheism because of the same factors. Almost the same factors caused the Taoism associated with witchcraft and delusions.

The Mongoloid religions like Heliolaters, the Moon-worshippers and the believers of Zoroastrianism either considered the Realm of Behest based upon the principles of good (divine) and bad (evil) or they declared the manifestation having a central position in the Realm of Behest. These trends and attitudes gradually established and developed the Fetishism, Idolatry and Paganistic beliefs.

This fact cannot be ignored that the material life constitutes the half portion of the total life. If any religious system ignores half of the life, the whole set up of the values gets upset and confusion and straying in the beliefs are inevitable. Ensuing the derangement of the beliefs so many religions remained oblivious of the facts of the Realm of Behest and the Created Realm. It all resulted in a reactionary attitude of the multitudes and such religions came into being which aimed only for the state, its government and the material life. Ever-new philosophies were the eventual out come of this situation and new religions kept on emerging. Confucianism, Shintoism and other similar religions of past and present ages are significant examples of such religions. Thousands of such religions have annihilated, yet many are still surviving. None of them provides any facility for the Realm of Behest, that is, the life hereafter; rather they create such complications of perception and experience that eventually result in eternal sufferings of the soul.

All of these were founded because the prevailing religions had ignored the wants and demands of the Created Realm and it resulted in atheism and general irreligiousness. The basic reason of this disorder and disarray is the involvement of the human intellect in materialism and the other side that makes the realities to come into light remains dormant. The fact is that the materialism does not provide any facility or ease in our life. We can say this from our experience that all the new inventions and means of comfort have their side effects. And, every means of comfort is a perpetual source of so many discomforts and difficulties. The more we are trapped in the labyrinths of materialism, tighter and tighter become the clutches of difficulties and worries.

The focal point of the teachings of the prophets of God is that they introduced the mankind with the concept of good and evil. This very concept of good and evil determined the two aspects of our reason and intellect; one of them is responsible for all the human sufferings and the other helps in overcoming them.

One of the sciences that have been transferred to mankind through Revelation (wahi) is the Knowledge of the Self, which deals with the Realm of Behest. The most popular and established religions that originated under the influence of Revelation and practiced in Middle East are the Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Last of them is the Islam.

 Islam is the last religion because all the information about the Realm of Behest and the Presented Knowledge that the mankind was required to know, were revealed upon the most gifted child of the mankind, Mohammad(PBUH) and, for the very reason the prophethood has also been concluded once for all.

In the Realm of Behest a species exists in Time and in the Created Realm it expresses itself in Space. A spiritual person who is versed with the Presented Knowledge and knows the laws dealing with the features of species, or in other words, he is familiar with the creative formulae, knows that a rose and he are two different entities with respect to their features and they both are different from each other because of the amount of colors in them. This depends upon the creative ability of his Self to color the features as and when he may wish to do so.

In the Real of Behest, he and the rose both are parts of one single Self. The commonness of the properties causes the rose to enter into his imagination. And, after including colors of his choice and using the will power, he can bring that rose into the limits of the cosmos as solid and concrete reality, tangible to our touch, sight and smell.

Nobody enjoys monopoly over the psychic potentials of the Realm of Behest; every person enjoys them in general by the grace of God, the Most Beneficent. If a person could acquaint himself with this ability, he can bring out the rose from the Realm of Behest into this world according to his will.

Reflection of the Beatific Vision

The human body, in actual fact, is an empty shell that has two aspects. The material shell dominates one of the aspects and the features have solidness in them. A current of noor flows from the nucleus of the self towards nasma and from nasma to the physical body. Another current flows from the manifestation; the body, towards the nasma and from nasma to the nucleus of the self. The current flowing from the nucleus of the self towards the manifestation carries the stores of the Insinuated Knowledge. Whereas, the light that flows from the manifestation towards the nucleus of the self contains the worldly knowledge pertaining to the physical needs, desires, urges and demands. If the conscious is more interested in that flow of the current, which is coming from the nucleus of the Self, the nasma of such a person gets toned up in the shades of pure and delicate lights of noor. This creates an atmosphere of enlightenment in the Subtlety of Self and this causes a flow of delicate lights from the body towards the Nucleus of the Self and it gets richer and richer with the brilliances of noor. This results in such a sagacity, which is typical for the believers and about which the Holy Prophet (PBUH) has stated, “Be cautious of the sagacity and prudence of a believer as he sees through the Noor of God.”

When these lights of sagacity and prudence are stored in the mind of a spiritual associate, the General Realm of Behest is revealed upon him. And, when the subtleties are further toned up from the luminance of the General Realm of Behest, he acquaints with the Specified Realm of Behest.

The human conscious is like a mirror in which the lights of Insinuated Knowledge continue to reflect and if the mind of a person is like a polished and clear mirror then the scenes pertaining to the happenings to take place are sighted with closed or open eyes easily. Whereas, if the lights flowing from the Subtlety of the Self contain impurities and the flow is of a darkness rather than that of the light then the mirror of the conscious becomes darkened and blind and all the reflections of Divine Knowledge become obliterated from the sight. The reflection of the Insinuated Knowledge upon the Conscious in religious terms is known as the Conscience.

God has stated, “God has placed a seal upon their hearts and the ears and heavy veils have fallen upon their eyes.”

If the polluted lights continue to store in the Subtlety of the Self, an ulcerous boil is produced in there and this boil putrefies. With the increase of this putrefaction the man suffers from diseases, distresses and difficulties, which causes him to remain restless and anxious. A person who is not at peace and has an ulcerous boil in his Subtlety of the Self, cannot befriend with God. For the prevention of having such a disease and to familiarize the Self with the flow of noor, learning the spiritual sciences is necessary.

Ladies and gentlemen, by now you have come to know that this physical body is a shell, which is controlled by the lights. We also know that man is the collection of mind and body. The root of a person, in actual effect, is the reflection of the Beatific Vision, from which a current of lights flows towards the nasma and from there it flows towards the physical body. The actual person resides in both these places and the very same flow becomes urges after becoming the thoughts, concepts and feelings.

Man ascends towards the Realm of Behest and a current of noor continues to descend and this chain of ascent and descent is the life of the universe. The knowledge of mysteries hidden in this ascent and descent is known as the insinuated knowledge, which deals with all the realms of ascent and descent.

Muraqba is such a process that can enable a person to learn the Insinuated Knowledge. If a person is desirous of looking into the mirror of his Conscious, which is the Unconscious and wants to know about the ascending and descending movements then the sure shot and easy to practice method is to perform muraqba regularly. Muraqba helps in liberating from the Spatio-temporal constraints and no one can enter into the unseen realm unless one is liberated from the clutches of Time and Space.

Liberating from the space or the body needs does not means that one should dissociate oneself from the life altogether. It only means that the physical urges must be considered of secondary nature and attention must be made to remain focused upon that light, which is responsible for the creation of the urges.

The technique of performing muraqba is quite simple. Adopting a relaxed sitting posture, sit in a dark place where the temperature is moderate. Relax the body and let there be a state whence the mind is taken off from the presence of physical body. Breathe deeply. Deep breathing helps in having a control over the breath and thoughts. Close your eyes and attempt to focus your attention towards the inner self, that means, to observe all that is going through your mind in that state of muraqba without involving into it.

If the deeds and thoughts of the person who is performing muraqba are chaste, that is, he must not be considering anyone bad or evil, have no grudges against anyone, is forgiving even if feels hurt and is not revengeful, strives to earn his livelihood diligently, after doing his part of the job leaves the results to God, if anyone is hurt because of his behavior, he is not reluctant for asking pardon, likes for other what he wants for himself, is not infatuated by the love of worldly riches, uses the God given resources with pleasure, the worldly gains are not his ambitions and serves the fellow human beings and the creatures of God as much as possible, then the subtleties of such a person will tone up very fast. When the Subtlety of the Self is toned up, the conscious becomes more and more resplendent and the mirror of the conscious becomes clearer and clearer.

In spiritualism, total submission on the part of the spiritual associate for the mentor is very important. If there is any hesitation in carrying out the instructions of the spiritual teacher then the performance of muraqba would not be completed. For the success and right results of muraqba the associate has to submit himself completely to his mentor.

The body is directly related to with breathing. If the breathing stops the body also perishes but for learning the knowledge about the Unseen, breathing is not to be dissociated with. Relaxation of body muscles and low rate of breathing is essential for producing the state in which one is least aware of his physical body. When the physical body becomes imperceptible and is no longer being realized as such, the body of lights that surrounds the physical body starts ascending towards the Beatific Vision. We all know that during sleep our mind is temporarily dissociated from the physical body but the physical body system remains in operation, in the same way, if we could temporarily dissociate ourselves from the physical body during wakefulness, the Unseen world comes before us even in our awakening. When the nucleus of the Self is liberated from the worldly thoughts it starts perambulating in the Realm of Behest. It not only becomes ambulant but also enjoys eating and drinking and performs all those activities, which it may deem necessary to perform in that nooric realm. Performance of activities within the limits of Realm of Behest is the liberation from time and space. When it happens, one can cover any length of time, from the very beginning to its final ending, and continuation of muraqba enables a spiritual associate to see both the ends of Time, simultaneously and he can see the incidents and events of thousands of years ago or hence. When a person manages to reach this stage and is fully versed with the ascents and descents of life, he can witness the universe as and when and where he may desire. This state, in the spiritual terminology, is called perambulation.

It is the holy proclamation of God Almighty, “O’ ye; the assembly of jinns and men, if you have the power, get out of the boundaries of the earth and haven! You cannot, but if you have the Authority.” Here the authority means to be equipped with the reflection of the Beatific Vision.

A Dot In The Heart

This world gradually, stage after stage, becomes a life of experience for us after our birth into this world. Similarly when the inner eye of a spiritual associate starts functioning, gradually, the observations of the unseen realms start coming into the experience. The more one gets involved into the observations of the unseen realm the more familiar he becomes with the creatures of the unseen worlds and their routines of life.

A child, after his birth, gradually gets the consciousness and awareness of his surroundings. Initially, he senses the aroma of his mother, and then he starts recognizing her. And, then he acquaints with the other relatives like father, brothers and sisters. Gradually, his vision broadens and he starts learning the worldly sciences. In the very similar way, a spiritual associate, who is aware of the Unseen World existing in the Nucleus of his Self, or is entered into the Unseen World, or that, he has started witnessing the unseen, gradually, develops that sight, which enables him to see at any length of distance and time, he witnesses all that exists in the Unseen World, can touch them even, if he wants to do so. It becomes possible for him to journey between the stars and planets, visit the heavens to see the heavenly creatures and to have conversations with them.

The Facts and Realities that are the basis of the Creation of the universe are revealed upon him. He also observes what types of lights are being used in the formation of the universe, what is the actual source of these lights, how these are being produced and divided among the creatures of the universe and how the features of the universe are formed from the varying quantities of these lights. He also witnesses that the source of these lights is the Beatific Visions of God, the Most High.

Qalander Baba Auliya says, “If fireworks are displayed in the the moonlight night, the white lights of the fireworks that appears in the atmosphere do not encompasses the moonlight but the moonlight still encompasses them. It appears that various patterns and designs made from the scintillations and fireworks are spreading all over the atmosphere filled with moonlight. Similarly, when the lights become activated in the body of lights (nasma) these are manifested just like the designs and patterns formed from the scintillations of fireworks.

Let me share this secret with you that the entrance in the Unseen World or the perambulation in the Inner Realms is not made from the outside rather one enters in the Unseen Realm after he manages to enter into his own nucleus of the Self. No one can acquaint with the spiritual norms unless he recognizes his true self or the nucleus of his self and when one manages to know his Self, understands the Nucleus of his Self and enters into it after opening the doors of his heart, the universe emerges before him as is never seen by him. He understands that he is also one of the travelers of the caravan of the manifestations in the universe.

A small dot of light that is situated in the fathomless depths of the center of the heart is the microfilm containing the true pictures of the universe. When traveler of the paths of spiritual associability is acquainted with the dot located in the center of his heart, the traces of reality are found in the depths of that dot where all the realities exist in an embodied form and figure.