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Delusion of Wisdom, Deadly Sleep
We believe to know something; we believe our eyes can see, our ears can hear. We think we can correctly discern...
...We have to comprehend - and not to discern - that our eyes do not see or at least, neither our eyes nor our ears can see or hear correctly. That is why our thinking and discerning are also impaired and whatever may result from them shall be false and deceitful as well. Our mind is spoiled or is getting spoiled and accordingly its output - our thoughts and deductions - shall be wrong and incorrect. As long as the Lord's intelligence does not flow into man's being, he shall remain blind and deaf and shall not be capable of discerning for his mind is sick and spoiled...
If a computer's parts are defective, the resulting data shall also be wrong. Even if one's mind acts correctly but is lacking the right and true instructions, the result shall still be wrong and all his ideas shall reveal false.
Perhaps, if you say, "God exists," this may be a completely false statement. However if Mohammad - God's peace be upon him - or Christ the Spirit of God would say, "the Lord exists," their statement would be right and correct. These three statements are apparently identical; yet their essence and their core are in their meanings, in their level of awareness and intelligence. Maybe the meaning of their statements is totally different from yours.
An image of the sky is not the same as the sky itself...
As long as divine light has not enlightened our being, our every opinion, decision, act, deduction and our so-called knowledge are wrong and false...
Consequently, how should we discern and decide in order to be guided? The answer is we should give up such decision making even though we would attain few things. Yet No-Thing or God cannot be attained by means of decision. We should then think of a different power.
To enter the worlds of unknown and the realm of unknowable - the Lord, one should resort to God's will, to trust Him, to follow His path and give up any resistance.
We have to grasp at His laws and commands; in other words, His opinion, decision, will and desire should be our opinion, decision, will and desire. We have to see, discern and move according to the opinion of the Lord and the Divine Spirit, and with the insight of prophets and godly men.
We could reach the opinion and the word of the Lord as well as the divine guidance through the divine spirit that is common in every man...
As long as we believe to know something, we shall deprive ourselves from the divine guidance. We may assume that we practically know few things and our decisions are right. But are we aware of all the consequences and repercussions of these apparently right decisions and viewpoints, of the effects they leave on our mind...
There is only one who knows and who is aware, not two or more. That one is only the Peerless God. Therefore, there is only one way to think, decide and choose rightly; that is to communicate with God and to benefit from His divine intelligence...
Moses - God's peace be upon him - who personally spoke to God and was believed to be the most knowledgeable and the wisest man of his time, did not withstand Khidr's decisions and opinions*.Later, when he saw a bird filling his beak with a small gulp of sea water, he understood that was to meant to show him the scope of his knowledge in comparison with God's science - a drop against the unbounded ocean.
Despite Moses high status and the honor he had to speak directly with the Lord, yet his knowledge was like a tiny particle comparing to the divine science. Decidedly, man's knowledge is not even a fraction of that insignificant particle...
When we recognize that we know nothing and whatever we supposedly know is wrong and incorrect, the divine guidance begins to flow through our being and our life. The right movement begins...
As long as I believe I know, I shall neither try to acquire science nor to know about mysteries, for I do not feel any need to go after them. Likewise when I think to know the way, I believe I do not need a guide or the treasure map. When I believe my opinions and decisions to be right, or relatively right, I shall not feel the necessity for Gods opinion, divine intelligence and the Divine Spirit.
As long as I have a peaceful mind, I shall not be interested in knowing about mysteries. This peace of mind rises from delusion of knowing and presumption of having a rightful sight...
If we wish to be released from such a delusive situation, we have to let the Lord to decide and discern for us. He who believes to know something or to be able to make the right decision is similar to a caterpillar that has cocooned about itself and lives in the delusion that the world and the whole existence are limited to the dark and shabby atmosphere of its cocoon...
To be continued
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