Love is Sufi

“To be with her is meeting oneself,

To forget her is forgetting oneself,

To think her is thinking God,
To see her is seeing eternity,

To heed her is heeding God,

To believe her is believing in God,

To forgive her is being forgiven by God,

To Love her is being in Love with God…”

Am I really thinking of her, Or God? Well, now it doesn’t matter. Like every believer in Him, I also wish unite with ultimate. Doesn’t matter in whom I see him: myself or in her or in anything else. I wonder if these lines were said in Punjabi by great Sufi Poet & Saint Waaris Shah then the mere sound of it would have rendered the ultimate bliss to most souls. I struggle to define the boundaries of tale Heer-Ranjha. I wonder if that great tale was about two lovers or more than that. Perhaps, it’s about God in the form of humanly love or a way to see God more close to oneself. Such tales contain the treasure of spiritual wisdom and one can learn so much from them. And the things which I believe I have learnt from those greatest tales are ultimate selfless devotion and freedom.

Most lay claim about being in love but have never seen one who was stung and poisoned by the unrequited form of it. It is a simplest form of love yet comprises complexity of the entire universe. By nature humans are not selfless creature, however to meet the ultimate one has to become selfless. This seems like a test devised on a very simple principle of leaving ones basic nature, as though shading every piece of cloth and presenting oneself completely naked to the whole wide world. When one does achieve such state he enters into the realm of freedom where even the God itself can’t keep you in the boundaries of universe, if any, let alone this mortal world. You become the center of existence and everything starts revolving around you, like a dervish swirls in his own trance.

Somewhere I think the way we humans seek an honest believing selfless companion for oneself, similarly the God also seeks such companion. When we choose a companion we become careful and sometimes put that likely companion for test and hope they come out clean and worthy. Perhaps we have learnt this very routine from God itself since he also chooses his companions that way.

Doesn’t matter what we achieve God or lover, the thing we find at the end of this road is ultimate bliss and perhaps that’s what is God is: an ultimate bliss beyond which no desire shall remain, a freedom which allows oneself to jump off the edge life without fear, a peace far peaceful than the death, a pain as blissful as the dream of a new born child.

“Love lies in the letting go,

Devotion lies in the selfless hope,

Freedom lies in what you thought,

Pain lies in the heart of all,

And, God lives where there is all…”