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The
basic laws and formulae or the senses operative in the universe have
been explained by citing various examples. Man or mankind and all the others
species including jinn’s, angels, celestial bodies and the galaxial systems are
initiated from within the Conscious. When this commencement reaches its peak due
to changes and alterations that take place in the Conscious, a variety of names
are allocated to it. If the commencement is declared as the birth phase then
the final stage would be called the Death stage. But, when the stage of death
is take into account, remaining in the limits of the conscious senses, then it
is found that death is also a step of life, such a life which remains life at
every step. All the four conscious in which man and the universe is passing
through the various stages of life, in fact,
are different altering states. In the state of Fourth Conscious we are so
feeble, weak and witless that when comprehension of a thing is attempted, its
limitude stupefy us i.e. the conscious is so confined that if even a very thin
screen blocks the sight„ it renders the sight useless. When we enter the state
of limitlessness after emerging out from the limitations, the conscious is
charged with energy, which enables us to perceive what we see remaining in the
state of consciousness.
It has been mentioned earlier that
the various stages of life are determinants of the individual conscious, the
conscious of the species, the cosmic conscious and the Ultra-cosmic conscious.
The knowledge bestowed upon man by God, the Omniscient, provides this
information that the whole universe is composed of these four conscious. The
great spiritual scientist, His Divine Grace, Qalander Baba Auliya has termed
these four conscious as Compound Nasma. Simple Nasma, Compound Noor and the
Simple Noor. These four conscious in
fact are that reality of the universe, which is responsible for the management
of all the cosmic affairs. The reason behind this division of conscious into
four categories is to enable us to comprehend the universe with a clear
understanding of its constituents and the creative formulae operative at
different levels.
In
actuality there is only one conscious, which is circulating through
every object of the universe severally. Classification of the consciousness is
directly associated with the movement taking place in the conscious.
Teachings of the prophets of God
pertinently introduced man with the Command and Behest of the Lord Creator.
They emphasized that one should strive to understand that Being upon whose
Behest the universe is brought into being, because, for the simplest of all the
reasons, understanding of Command or the Behest of the Absolute Being is not
possible unless an understanding of the Absolute Being is not developed. There
are people who raise this objection that how is it possible to understand the
Behest of the Will of the Absolute Being of the Lord Creator of the Universe?
Because, according to them, understanding of the Command is not possible unless
the Command itself is not transformed into man's perception.
The great spiritual scientist
Qalander Baba Auliya confirming this statement says, it is true because Edict
of the Lord will never be able to cognize the Absolute Being of its Lord
Creator with whom it is associated, unless, the Edict of the Lord does not
attempt to cognize its own reality. For the understanding of the Edict man is
required to have an intimate understanding of that original root which, in
fact, is the Edict of the Lord in the form of man himself. In a nutshell man is
required, first of all, to cognize the Edict of the Lord Creator of the universe which is no other thing except man himself,
i.e. man himself is the Edict of the Lord Creator and when he succeeds in
recognizing himself, he becomes aware of the Edict of the Lord operative in him
and this awareness enables him to cognize the Absolute Being of the Lord of the
universe. Unless a spiritual person does not know the Edict, he can neither
have any knowledge about himself nor can he succeed in cognizing the Lord of
the Worlds.
When Moses, upon seeing a light on Mont Sinai, inquired,
"Who is there?"
"I am thy Lord, was the reply given to him by God: the
Lord of the worlds.
The light that was sighted by Moses was the Edict of the
Lord.
"Whose light was that?"
That was the Light of the
Absolute Being.
From
this incident the limits of the Absolute Being and the Being in the form of
Edict are both determined clearly. Moses is the Edict Being and the Lord God is
the Absolute Being. Moses, despite being an Edict himself, observed the Edict
in the form of Light and asked, who is there? That is, Edict felt the need of
recognizing the Absolute Being. Upon sighting the Light, Moses did not
recognize that it was his Lord God.
Moses
felt the need that the Light should be introducing itself to the Edict.
This signifies four things. An Absolute Being, the cherishing Lordship of the
Absolute Being. Moses being an Edict and the characteristics of Moses being a
creature.
On one side is the Absolute Being
and His Attributes and, on the other, is the Edict Being and his indigenous
urges. The Edict is indigent of the Absolute Being but the Absolute Being is
not indigent of anything. These are the very four things upon which the whole
edifice of the prophetic knowledge is based.
Few
people, in their own narrative style, have termed the Absolute Being as the
Absolute Reality and the Absolute Edict as the universe. This is the style of
the Scholars of Deity. Scholars of Deity are the people who have quest to
explore and are endowed with reason and thinking, and strive to comprehend the
universe after rising above the conscious level and entering into the
unconscious state of mind. Prophets have their own approach, which is different
from that of the Scholars of Deity_
The difference between
prophets and the scholars is that the prophets strive to reach the reality in
the light of Presented Knowledge; the knowledge of Revelation. And, the method
of the Scholars of Deity is to first identify the manifestation and then, try
to discover that innate reality upon which that manifestation is based. In this
way they attempt to reach a conclusion.
But, we know that in this universe, there are incalculable things, which are
not displayed as manifestations. In the modern era of science many things have
been explored which cannot be sighted through the physical eyes.
The
Scholars of Deity tend to ignore those things for which they do not find any
manifested sign Due to this attitude most of the secret facts pertaining to the
structural formation remain unknown. The approach of the prophets, in this
regard, is flawless. They search the Absolute Edict through the Absolute Being.
Thus, their thinking manages to have access, even to those ingredients, which
do not express themselves through manifestations. Prophets do not ignore the
manifestations but they are not lost in the flamboyancy and exuberance of the
manifestations declaring them reality, either. Manifestations and their
realities are equally important for them. According to the prophetic approach,
the Absolute Being Himself is the life, therefore they declare life as eternal
and immortal. Thus, the universe becomes of secondary importance to them. They
proclaim that first comes the life and then the universe. It is not so that the
universe could be placed before the life. Universe is there because of life.
Whereas, contrary to this, the scholars who assign preference to the
manifestations cannot make their way to the inner most recesses of the life
because they give priority to the manifested universe and then take life into
their considerations
It has been resolved by the
prophets of God that there exists such a light in the human thinking, through
which we can observe the inner of any manifestation and can see the Unseen
related with anything, which is present before our eyes. In other words, it
reveals upon human mind that from where the life is originating, and where lies
the final destination of life.
When
beginning and the final ending is mentioned, we are encountered with an
interesting situation. It is observed that every beginning, to reach its final
destination, is taking the course of annihilation. This is the reason that
prophets are so emphatic about the life in the hereafter. The Holy Prophet
(PBUH) states it, "Die before you actually die." It means, see the
death before you die, so that you could see the real life. In other words this
statement is suggesting that we should be exploring that inner life in this
worldly life, which is the original root of the life, only then we would
be able to grasp this fact that man, after passing through stages of
annihilation after annihilation, is reaching that point which is immortal and
imperishable. This is the very point, which is the Absolute Being; the final
destination of the Lord's Edict: the man.