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Qalander Baba Auliya knew what others didn't. He stated the hidden
and obscure facts. Once in a sitting he said:
There are few things that one ignores considering them unreal,
whims, drea or just a passing thought whereas there is nothing in the universe
that is superfluous, extra or unreal. Each and every thought and fantasy has
one or the other cosmic fact in its background.
This is worth considering. What is Fantasy? From where does a
thought come? If these questions are ignored, many facts would remain obscure
and the chain of facts that entirely depend upon understanding these things
would remain incomplete. When a thought comes into our mind, it has to have
some cosmic reason. Inception of a thought is the proof of the fact that some movement
has taken place on the screen of the mind. This movement is not minds own movement,
it relates to those cosmic strings that move the cosmic system in a particular sequence.
For instance, a gust of air is the result of a change in atmospheric sphere. Similarly,
when something comes into the mind that means some movement has taken place in
the Unconscious: Understanding of this movement depends upon the human mind's
pursuit.
Human mind has two planes. One; that associates the movement of the individual's
mind with the cosmic movement i.e. this movement associates the intentions and
feelings of an individual mind with the overall cosmic intentions and feelings
and the other one brings the individual intentions and feelings to the mind of
an individual. Both these planes generate two types of senses; the positive
senses and the negative senses. The positive senses, in a way, are the division
of the senses that takes place in the state of wakefulness and the same is the Serial
Time. Regions of this division are organs of the physical body. Thus, our physical
functions are performed because of this division. Different organs and limbs performs
different functions simultaneously i.e. eyes are viewing something, ears are hearing
some sounds, hands are occupied with another thing and feet are having the realization
of yet another thing, the tongue is enjoying the taste of something and the
nose is busy in detecting the smells. All these ,things are done and handled
simultaneously and mind, at the same time, is occupied with thottghts of
altogether different things. This is the way of functioning of the positive senses.
The stimuli of the negative senses, in contrast to them, are not related to
with the human intentions. For instance; although all the senses referred above
actively participate in the state of dreaming, the static position of the limbs
and organs indicates accumulation of these senses in one single point of the
mind. The movement occurring in this point during dreaming is divided and
distributed in the body organs in the state of wakefulness. These senses before
their distribution in the organs and limbs could be named as Negative senses
but, after these are distributed, it would be appropriate to call them positive
senses. It demands careful consideration that both the positive and negative
senses cannot rally on the same one plane. We have to acknowledge their existence
in two different planes of the mind. In terms of Sufism, the plane of negative
senses is called Simple Nasma and the positive plane is known as Compound Nasma.
Compound Nasma is the name of such a movement, which is regular in
its occurrence i.e. the movement occurs moment by moment. Spatiality of this movement
is the moments of time that have such a sequence, which constructs Space.
Every moment is a Space, or
to say, the entire Space is in the grip of the moments. Moments surround the
Space in such a way that the Space finds itself confined among them and is
constrained to revolve in the cycle of moments to keep its presence available
in the Cosmic Conscious.
Original moments exist in the knowledge of God. The universe is the detailed
exhibition of that knowledge which is captioned by these moments. God has stated
in the holy Quran, "I created everything with two sides." Thus,
creation, too, is no exception. One aspect of the creation is the moments, that
is, the inner of the moments or their Conscious is monochromatic and the other
aspect of the moments is their manifestation or the Omni- chromatic Conscious.
On one hand, the universe is in the grip of the moments and, on the other,
individuals of the universe are the clutches of these moments. The moments move
simultaneously on two planes. Movement of one plane occurs in every object of
the universe separately. This movement constructs that Conscious which keeps
that object in the sphere of its individual entity. Movements from the second
plane flow through all the objects of the universe simultaneously, and
construct that conscious which keeps all the objects present in one single
circle. In one plane, individuals of the universe exist separately. that is,
the every individual has a distinct and separate Conscious. In the other plane
of the moments, conscious of all the individuals is concentric. Thus, both
these planes of moments are two Conscious, one that is Individual Conscious and
the other is Collective Conscious. This central Conscious, in general
terminology is known as the Unconscious.
Qalander Baba Auliya: An Introduction
Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi
Dedication
To that young generation that would 6ring an end to the dark shadows of grief and fear by acquainting mankind- with peace and tranquility after equipping itself with the teachings of Qalander Baba Auliya…. and man would-able to enter the heaven after reclaiming his eternal distinction.
