Between The Lines!

Article Number Two
Dayaray Hasti (In Farsi Language)
The Circle of Being

In the previous Article, we reviewed, the seven doors or stages for arriving to
"Unconditional Love". Now we are going one step further in our search, and opening up
The Step No. (5)-Tohid a bit more. To remove the many veils, we will see only
introspection, self-realization will lead us to know the concept of God who is no where
out there! but, is within us.

To connote the secret, symbolically, Rumi is referring to "Four Circles Of Being",
They are:

   1. The Circle of desires, and sensations (5 senses).
   2. The Circle of Thinking and Imagination.
   3. The Circle of Material or physical life.
   4. The Circle of Void, or Nothingness.

The Spheres of One through Three are the obstacles preventing us to arrive at the Circle
or Stage Number Four. If we look at these stages closely, we will notice, Stage one, has
put tall barriers around us to even have an inclination of what is waiting for us just out
of our immediate wants! Stage Number Two, is The Sphere of thoughts and logic where
most of us are stuck, thinking our knowing is one and only mode of knowing that exists.
Stage Three, is where we have created another logical boundaries around ourselves. This is
where we have relied so heavily on our physical world, and the incomplete interpretations
of physical sciences for all the answers.

Rumi says, in order to free ourselves and have the opportunity to fly in the Universe without
being bond in one of the above three circles, we have to be able to remove these shackles
and see who we are, a true God. So, the more we move away from "Existence" as we know
it, which is limited in the first three circles noted above, the more we have the chance to
realize "Tohid" or the only God, within our being.

In our time, even Physicist are slowly arriving at the same conclusion Rumi arrived eight
centuries ago, that is all the activities which happens in Circles one through Three,
as noted above, are based on "Time, and space", we have to move to the third dimension
of life where sciences has been there.

   The Secrets are hidden between the lines
   If I reveal them steadfastly to you,
   The world's fabric will be unraveled.
		Rumi


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