Audio file (corrected technical issues): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-I-... -------------------- -------------------------------------------- My head is not far from my moaning The eyes and ears are not that light. Basically, you can consider mysticism to be the same as mystery and mysticism. Those who have spoken about mysticism generally say that mysticism comes from the word knowledge, the special knowledge that mystics have, the immediate and direct knowledge they find with the nature of things. But there is another saying which says that the word ``arif'' comes from custom, which means smell. In the past, there were people who used to call these customs in the old Hijaz, and they smelled the ground and said that a certain caravan was on its way and would arrive in a few hours. They had a special sense of smell and a special understanding. Bari ``araf'' means smell, and ``arif'' is someone who can smell the truth, and his sword is sharp to find the truth, and it is sharper than others, which is what Rumi has in his verses: A hunter who hunts a deer first finds the deer's footprints. He does, and the closer he gets, the smell of deer reaches his nose, and from now on, he has nothing to do with the footprints. The mystics could smell the smell and that's why they were called mystics. ... a mystic and an insatiable lover. Rumi says that contentment is good everywhere except in love. Because greed wants me to be the king of religion, over contentment, after this Rumi, the ethics that he defines here are not Aristotelian ethics. Aristotelian ethics believes in the middle limit. Rumi sees this limit in the relationships between current and honest people, as well as in romantic relationships. This is one of these secrets that an older one follows a younger one and a master needs his student. Ah, there is a secret here, so that Musa could be a rational Khazari... Another thing that Rumi gives as an example in another place is the ascension of the Prophet, which is one of the mysterious things that Rumi understood very well. Rumi's main point is that the Prophet took Gabriel to Ascension and Gabriel followed the Prophet. Another thing that Rumi tells about as a secret is the issue of unity. We live in a world of plurality and we really do not see unity in this world. Any small object that you consider is divisible. To talk about unity is to talk about a secret and this is one of those secrets that we do not understand unless we experience unity. This is the main saying of Rumi and I have secrets about the fact that it is basically impossible for us to understand things mentally. It is experimental and practical. Thinking does not reveal the secrets to us, but we have to immerse ourselves in these secrets and make them our own and become the same sex and secret with them in order to understand them. ... the essence of love according to Rumi was the unity between the lover and the beloved and their becoming one and insider with each other, which can only be understood by striving with the soul. Mansoor Hallaj was quoted as saying that everyone's lover is cute, not a secret. God is beautiful, just as you take away the beauty of a loved one, just as you should kill God's beauty and get in touch with him. I wish you had a language to remove the curtains from your existence. You have to listen to what others are saying to you to hear its voice. The more you talk about yourself, the more you cover him. ... Here, Rumi introduces God as a sweet secret that must be opened in order to show you a part of himself, otherwise this secret will remain unsolved. ... but the truth is that the most mysterious phenomena are where the supernatural meets nature. For example, the soul that comes into contact with the body, the angels that carry revelation, and the faceless God that creates form. For Rumi, this world is made up of spirit, soul, and consciousness, and matter is like a foam on this water. Thomas Nickel believes that evolution cannot be analyzed from a materialistic point of view. In fact, he does not believe in the existence of God, but he says that we must accept that matter has life and consciousness, and that it has a subtle and weak life and consciousness, otherwise the story of evolution is different. can be analyzed. ----------------------------------------------------- ----------------- Source: Maulana Jalaluddin School of Rumi Commentary on Masnavi - First Book - 9th Session of Abdul Karim Soroush