The Sleeping King

Man's situation in life resembles a sleeping king.  While sleeping, the king forgets his identity and his rank as a king and sovereign.  He dreams that he is not a king anymore; he has become weak and helpless, needy and poor.  There's not a trace of all that might and splendor left behind; he has to live like an underprivileged person.  In his dream, he wished he'd be a king and would have a royal life.  Yet his sleep and unawareness makes him forgetful that not only is he truly a king but he has also a royal life.   

Naturally, because of these dreams, sometimes delightful and sometimes irritating and disturbing, he is now happy and now in pain and distress.  It is even possible that in his dreams the king plans to regain his royal rank and identity- his divine nature.  In this case, he needs many years to reach his false and delusive sovereignty.  In his dreams, in a delusive world, he sets himself on his way to the kingship and wastes his opportunity and energy.  For if he supposedly regains his imaginary rank, he still has not succeeded for he has only reached an absurd and hallucinatory image.

In your opinion, what should this sleeping king - a man with a divine nature - do to regain his royal position and to live a royal life?

What should the king do to put an end to his unstable moments of pain and pleasure, of joy and sorrow and of inferiority and grandeur?...

The solution that many human schools offer seems as though this sleeping king has to work for and pass royal stages to reach his kingship yet in his dream.  Even if he supposedly can achieve all the necessary stages in his dream, does this kingship worth anything at all?  Is it but a great failure?  For death will soon tale hi out of this dream and the king will find out that he had spent in sleep all the time he had to be awake...

Those human schools just as those ignorant pretentious persons surely propose hundreds of solutions to human problems and to overcome pains, pressures and troubles that the king is facing in his illusory world and dream.

There's only one solution and that is to wake up from sleep.

Let's see what does the returning movement to the Lord suggest?  The simplest, shortest and the unique solution is "to wake up the king."  If the king wakes up for a moment, he'll travel in an instant the distance he has to travel many years in his dream.  As a matter of fact, there's no distance to travel at all.  As soon as the king wakes up, he'll realize that all those momentary pain and pleasures were only a dream and a delusion.  He'll find out that he does not need to become a king for he is virtually a king, nor does he need to solve any problem, for there is no problem in his royal life.

According to the divine movement, waking up the king is the only thing that matters...

Yet how does this awakening happens?  To this end, our eyes should be opened so we could see; our ears should be hearing so we could hear; our mind should become aware and get out of unawareness so we could comprehend our true being, identity and our real life.  We have to wake up either instantly or progressively.  The way to awakening is to pay attention to the person who wakes us up and give him/her a deserving answer.

When someone receives a stimulus or a shock, one may wake up at once from one's ordinary sleep.  But usually a person wakes up gradually, that is to say the process of awakening and awareness begins in some point and it increases in each moment.  The person is at the midst of sleep and awakening and as sleep decreases awakening increases gradually to a point where the person becomes completely awakened and conscious.  It is the same [with spiritual awakening] along the path of divine guidance.  Seldom, awakening happens instantly and immediately and sometimes it follows its usual and natural process and progressively increases until the person reaches finally the complete awakening...All prophets, godly men and great personages came to awaken people�The totality of divine decrees and principles point to this direction and divine guidance is a process of waking up people.

The majority of people just as the king are asleep.  Sleep refers to assumptions and delusions.  People have hundreds of problems and try to solve them one by one.  Therefore they cling to different alibis and solutions.  Sometimes they're successful in solving these fictitious problems and some other times they fail in resolving them. But they ignore that each problem is a mere dream and failure or success is absurd... 

Man enjoys a divine authority. The Lord Most High refers to this great and royal position with these words, "We gave to their subjection whatever is in heavens and on earth."

Man is the noblest creature, but alas he/she has forgotten this great position.  He/she does not know his/her name.  Otherwise, if he/she tells the world who he/she is, everything shall recognize him/her and will obey his/her command which is the Lord's command.

The true name of the king has been told to the whole universe.  If man finds out his/her true name - his/her true identity - he/she shall regain his/her great position and universal authority.  But if he/she does not remember it and remains in sleep and forgetfulness, he/she shall live eternally in degradation, pain and hardship.

He/she finding out about his/her grandeur and greatness before his/her death shall enjoy this identification in the worlds to come.  But he/she who lives his/her life in weakness and inferiority in this world shall continue this trend most intensively in other worlds too...

How does a sleeping person wake up?  He wakes up with a stroke.  This stroke is either internal - inflicted by one's inner master - or external.  Nevertheless, whatever is inside is in harmony with whatever is outside.

Some people wake up with few strokes and others with many more.  Very few people have a light sleep and wake up immediately with a light  stroke, a call or a shake.  But the majority of people are not like this; you have to call them many times and shake them so they may finally wake up.  Still when they wake up, they may possibly fall asleep again or be sleepy all day long.  Unfortunately a great many number of people are not asleep at all and shall never wake up, for they're dead.  Unless somebody endowed with Christ's breath of life comes and blows on them and bring them back to life...

A divine teacher tries to wake up people with teachings of truth.  Salvation and deliverance lie in awakening.  Teachings of truth work as a divine call that awakens us.

Practical guidance of a divine master functions as strokes to wake up the entire being of a person.  He/she who is completely awakened and vigilant shall live wakefulness with all his/her being.  His/her eyes, ears, mind and heart are all awakened...

You may wake up a person and he/she opens his/her eyes only, for his/her mind and heart are asleep and are not capable of comprehending and thinking.  It is also possible that man sleeps like a rabbit; some others may be asleep despite their wide open eyes.  Therefore be vigilant and do not be fool of momentary and temporary awakening.  All one's being should rise up from sleep.  As long as this full awakening does not happen, the union with the Lord, with joy and unbounded serenity shall remain inaccessible...

                                                                                        To be continued

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