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I had written this text in the past, and never had the courage to post it. A dear friend told me to set it on a forum.... "it would give a few more people something beautiful"...even if some consider it just a

LOVE STORY!

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The floor-to-ceiling windows were open, letting the sunlight in and making the white sheer curtains dance inside and outside the room… a room filled with the fragrance of botanical essences and incense. Now, together with the sunlight and the gentle breeze drifting through the window, it had transformed into the very paradise we had been told about since childhood.

I filled the room with the soothing sound of rain to help me BE in silence. Sitting in the armchair, closing my eyes, listening to the rain, feeling the sun’s warmth and the cool breeze, I was left with a beautiful sense of disorientation… I could no longer distinguish between wakefulness and a dream… He was there, right in front of me, smiling at me like an archangel.

“Focus on YOUR light”, he said, as ever.

I remember seeing him place his hands on the sides of my head, and then his body was no longer there… it was just light. I could see nothing but light in front of me. Then I myself turned into light. We were both THE LIGHT, and then, these lights merged…

In a few seconds, every contrast and duality dissolved into unity: the coolness of the breeze and the warmth of the sun, the natural sound of birds singing outside and the rain sound playing from the man-made record player inside, the view of natural trees and flowers through the windows and the sight of the human-crafted furniture, physical bodies and the “LIGHT” … all were ONE now.

All of this lasted a very short time… but still, I am there. I can’t get it out of my mind. I had learned theoretically that such a phenomenon is possible and, in fact, is something the human spirit is meant to believe in, experience, and live as truth, but I had never experienced it before.

Does it matter whether we are in touch with our beloved ones or not? Does it matter if a love rival is happy when thinking of your broken heart? Does it matter if you feel you are not good enough to be "wanted"?

We are all together there in THE LIGHT…

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I had written this text in the past, and never had the courage to post it.....

Each new JOURNEY starts with a very first step, Ayda
Such a beautiful POEM-to-LOVE 🙂

THANK YOU

There is always a first step, hoping for the next ones, and then after many years, you realize that all the steps taken weren't "the first step" yet...

You get disappointed, and decide to leave THE PATH, but THE LIGHT doesn't let you give up... It sends its waves to nudge you by their awakening "faults"!

And you, unintentionally, see yourself on the path again... hoping this time you reach somewhere... something...

Thank you, Michael

Ayda

“Just because you want it doesn't mean you deserve it”.

Reading this statement, my mind stopped working for some moments. I couldn’t make a harmony between this and the fact that if you want something, the universe- or better said, THE LIGHT, wants you to want it. As it is said, if something is not meant to be yours, you won’t want it.

Also, we have this poem from the famous mystic, Rumi, saying: “you ARE what you SEEK”.

After some moments of thinking, I realized where the apparent conflict lies. The quote I mentioned first above, implies for those who haven’t found their LIGHT yet.

We may want a car, a job, a person, etc. that is “higher” than us according to the standards we have in this world. as far as we are this body and our wishes are earthly, of course we may not deserve what we want. It is undoubtedly extremely sad, especially if our “wish” is a beloved person. But what if we become the LIGHT that is inside us?

At the level of LIGHT, there is no such thing as "deserving. You deserve everything. In fact, when you become THE light, you won’t wish for anything anymore. You won’t chase “that special person” anymore, because you unintentionally were chasing them to find yourself in them. When you find YOU, the LIGHT, you no more need to chase anyone else. In fact, there won’t be “anyone else” anymore, either. Because everything, everywhere, everyone will be THE LIGHT.

Well, it seems so beautiful when being talked about. But how much should we try and how long should we wait until we find THE LIGHT inside us?

It is said that there is no need to try. In fact, the only way is to “stop trying”. Practicing Silence is enough.

And about the second question, it is said “time” is an illusion. There is no past, present or future. Well, I hope someday this theoretical knowledge of mine shows itself in reality so that I don’t suffer from the word “WHEN” anymore.

In the meantime, the only thing I can do is to obey the masters and stay in Silence, in hope of finding ME, so that I won’t tell myself that “I don’t deserve it”…

“Die before you die…”

-Rumi

When I heard this spiritual teaching many years ago for the first time, I had no idea what it meant. After some years, I was able to understand it so some extent, and after another few years, a little more…

But recently, in one of my Silence sessions, this tenet showed a brand-new expression in my mind/ soul.

I was in Silence. There was a feeling of missing someone. Then I remembered in fact, we fall in love with the LIGHT that radiates from people, not with their earthly human body. And that love is a way to the MAIN LIGHT, God’s LIGHT, our own LIGHT (Tat tvam asi, as I was recently told).

Then I saw myself in the MAIN LIGHT which includes everyone and everything. I knew I should leave my desire for that earthly love and turn my look to the divine one. I knew that my beloved person was only a part of the LIGHT, while the whole LIGHT was waiting for me. But I couldn’t leave the desire, I couldn’t leave their hand, I couldn’t bear the pain of this loss, even if I knew I will have something much bigger by leaving this hand. It was like dying; it was the death itself, I can tell…

For some of us, it is so hard to leave this world, so painful to leave our dear ones behind and go to the next level, the next “world” in which everyone is happy that we are born and celebrates our coming, where we will learn more, be more mature, and have more opportunities, but still we want this world, we prefer to suffer from the pains in this world than finding peace in the next level…. Exactly like this love/ light … we’d rather suffer from separations, from not being in touch with our loved ones, and sometimes from being humiliated by them than being free from all of this by just immersing in THE LIGHT.

No matter how hard it is, and no matter how long it will take, we have to learn this, we have to leave the hands we love to let our hands be free to be taken by THE LIGHT who loves us.

This is death before death...

"Die, die in this Love;
Die in this Love.
For when you die to this Love,
You shall receive the Spirit.

Die, die, and do not fear this death,
For from this dust you shall arise
And inherit the heavens.

Die, die, and cut yourself free
From this restless self.
The ego is but a chain,
And you are its captive.

Take up a pickaxe
And dig through the walls of your prison.
Once the prison is broken,
You shall all become kings and princes.

Die, die before the Beautiful King.
When you die before the King,
You shall become sovereigns yourselves.

Die, die, and rise above this cloud.
When you emerge beyond the cloud,
You shall shine like the full moon.

Be silent, be silent.
Silence is the breath of death.
Yet from this silence
A truer Life is born—
Do not flee from it."

- Rumi

LOVE, LIGHT, TRANSCENDENCE, (.....) is. Yes, it is great.

BUT ... if we want to 'experience' it, we need a creation or body.
If the nervous system is totally clean form the past, the reflection
will be more brilliant.

MEDITATION is THE TOOL to clean up the system... 🙂

Such a pleasure to see you active, Ayda



P.S. ... Im love Rumi for many years.

Thank you for visiting this forum.🙂

Well... I see... I never paid attention to the fact that meditation can help us cleaning the past... A womderful new insight for me!

I knew Rumi since I started searching for "life, him, and me" as a teenager. I used to memorise his poems and live with them. Although there are "greater" men, like Attar, in our history, Rumi was the one who showed me the waves of real light and love, for the first time.

Oh, I m so happy and so thankful to the person who stablished this website.

THANK TOU, Michael

Ayda

Be Melting Snow (Rumi)

"He came as my guest suddenly,

My heart said: ‘Who has come?’

My soul said, ‘The moon-faced Beloved.’

He entered our house,

But we, like madmen,

searched for the moon in nearby streets.

He was shouting from the house, ‘I am here’

But we didn’t hear,

We were screaming in every direction, searching for him.

Our drunk nightingale was singing in our garden,

and we were flying like the cuckoo, crying ‘Where? Where?’

At midnight, neighbours came shouting, ‘There’s a thief!’

The thief himself said, ‘Yes, there’s a thief,’

and started looking for the thief!

He was drowned out by all the others

looking for the thief, and so, no one found him.

The one you seek is with you when you seek Him,

As you walk towards Him, he keeps you company.

He is closer to you than yourself: why do you go outwards?

Melt like snow, and wash yourself of yourself.

Let love be your tongue,

and be silent like the lily!"

Today I read a text by our dear master here, Lir_Elhan, on the forum "PATH into SILENCE" which exactly says what Rumi said (the previois post):

"You wander through the world -- with open senses. You count the shades ... but you are searching for the light. In the light, you suspect you will find beauty.

But when you finally see it you look into the depths, into the purest water."

We don't have Rumi to talk to in this world, but THE LIGHT never lets the world go on without its massengers...

If you wish to get some LIGHT, here is the link to THE LIGHT:

https://penpal-gate.net/forum/12-everyday-life-and-customs/12181-path-into-silence

باید که جمله جان شوی تا لایق جانان شوی...

Diwan-i Shams...? (Mawlana)

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LOVE and BE WHOLE, AYDA

ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ

🙂

Diwan-i Shams...? (Mawlana)

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LOVE and BE WHOLE, AYDA

ٱلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ

🙂

Guten Tag,

That's right, Michael. It's Rumi again.

LOVE and BE WHOLE??

.... I m not that mature yet to be the whole by love. I am an ordinary human who still suffers from the pain of love. I wish love was HEALING for everyone ...

P.S.

السلام علیکم is Arabic. We, Iranians, are not Arabs. We are Persians, of Aryan heritage. In our language, hello is درود. (/dorud/).

Unfortunately, Arabic has been mixed with our language and many people say سلام (and not السلام علیکم) for hello.

“I miss myself”, I replied to a classmate who was trying to comfort me when she saw I was sad.

“Is it possible that someone miss themselves?", she asked with surprise.

It seemed I woke up by her question! We were freshmen at university, and I remember that for a few seconds I gazed at her without any thoughts in my mind. I was shocked by the fact that she questions this sentence, and then, after a short time, I came back to the “real” world and remembered that people think and feel differently. Not everyone necessarily understands this sentence.

She was there to help me, but by her question, I felt ever lonelier! She was a good friend, though.

I remembered this dialogue a couple of days ago, after many years. At that time, I was so young, and now I am a middle aged (I can’t believe it, though) and still “I miss myself”.

So, what was the point and use of searching and trying to find “me” all of these years? I decided to stop searching and live an ordinary life like many other people, trying to earn more and more money “at any cost”, having a partner “at any cost”, having a job “at any cost”…, but I couldn’t. It seems I am cursed. Something inside me shouts for freedom. Free from all of these.

It’s good to have standards and beliefs, but is it healthy that they prevent you from “living earthly”? I am sure I am cursed. I'm suspended between the ground and the sky. I cannot live either earthly or spiritually. I cannot have the benefits of a normal human life on the Earth, and I cannot have benefits of spirituality. This is absolute curse!

Every time I decided to stop searching the LIGHT, it pulled me back on the path. I mean what’s wrong with you man? You are God/ light/ whatever… just stop playing with me. If you want me inside the house, just let me in. If not, stop inviting! I am tired of this loop.

I need a break now… I don’t want to think…

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If you really live a spiritual life, then life here on Earth is no different.
It is a realm in which we gain experience and, through the intensely
physical nature of existence with its limitations, a very special part
of our development... 🙂

SO, ... IT IS ALL ABOUT EXPERIENCE

Thank You

پیر من و مراد من، درد من و دوای من
فاش بگویم این سخن، شمس من و خدای من

از تو به‌حق رسیده‌ام ای حقِ حق‌گزار من
شکر تو را ستاده‌ام، شمس من و خدای من

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Translation.... 🙂

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My love and my desire, my pain and my remedy
Let me speak these words openly: my sun and my God

I have truly come to you, O my true Judge
I have placed my thanks in you, my sun and my God

Thank You

📸️

Translation.... 🙂

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My love and my desire, my pain and my remedy
Let me speak these words openly: my sun and my God

I have truly come to you, O my true Judge
I have placed my thanks in you, my sun and my God

Thank You

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Thank you 💓💓🙏🙏🌷🌷

Will I be able to learn from this?!!!

عارفان را شمع و شاهد نیست از بیرون خویش

خون انگوری نخورده باده شان هم خون خویش

هر کسی اندر جهان مجنون لیلیّی شدند

عارفان لیلیِّ خویش و دم به دم مجنون خویش

ساعتی میزان آنی ساعتی موزون این

بعد از این میزان خود شو تا شوی موزون خویش

Mystics seek no light or beloved outside themselves

They do not drink the blood of grapes

Their wine is their own blood

Everyone in this world becomes crazed for a lover

Mystics are their own lover, and their own beloved

At one moment, you measure so-and-so

At another moment, you are measured by so-and-so

From now on, measure yourself

and be measured by yourself