“Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find
all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.”
Rumi
I slept peacefully that night, feeling exultant and determined. Little did I know that I was making the most common mistake and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naively think that with their love they can change the man they love. – Kimya, The Forty Rules of Love
Where ever there is love, Shams says, there is heart break. Sitting in my bed, slightly under the weather with the beautiful sound of raindrops falling on my window pane; these words of Kimya made me pause and keep the book aside. In this world of duality it is true the stronger the love the worse the heartbreak. Repeating this to myself, I slowly start regressing into the past with memories flashing in front of my eyes.
Drawn to the silence in you, you said I am just like you – not just once.
Slowly I reached to uncover you layer by layer. I didn’t want you to change.
In you, I saw what no one else would see.
I loved you for you, not for someone I wanted to create.
I was happy then, I was complete.
Until, the words we are different appeared in front of me one morning.
Bewildered and baffled, reality suddenly shaken.
Whom did I fall in love with? Are we not the same?
Days past as the completeness crawled away, it was his birthday.
The words appeared again, I understand I am just like you.
I closed my eyes and smiled. They haven’t yet opened.
If this ever finds you, I am glad you took the safe route because in this world of duality it is true the stronger the love the worse the heartbreak.
It is a blessing to be born in a religion but a curse to die in one – Swami Vivekananda
While reading the 40 rules of love, A few things dawned on me today.
The passage went as follows:
The flood of noah lasted forty days, and while the waters destroyed life, they washed all impurity away and enabled human beings to make a fresh new start. In Islamic mysticism there are forty degrees between man and god. Likewise, there are four basic stages of consciousness and ten degrees in each, making forty degrees in total. Jesus went into wilderness for forty days and nights. Muhammad was forty years old when he received the call to become a prophet. Buddha meditated under a linden tree for forty days. Not to mention the forty rules of Shams.
The four stages of consciousness is what caught my attention.
These stages of consciousness is what determined the cast system, before it became so rigid.
If you were born with a high consciousness and wanted to find God, they called you a Brahmin.
If the fire in your was very strong, they called you a kshatriya.
If you had a slightly more materialistic consciousness and managed to materially manifest your thoughts and products, they called you a vaishya.
Lastly, if you were good at service, they called you a shudra.
None of these were higher or lower than the rest. All are equally need for the functioning of the world. If everyone sat in meditation all day long and merged back with the universe, how would the world function? We are all born with different roles, each life has different tasks, at the end the soul does merge back, but after how many lives? Well it’s different for each one, we are all on a different journey. We shouldn’t be too proud of the path we are on today, who knows, we could have been a murderer in one of our lives.
It was only in Kali Yuga when people lost their connection with the higher self and the caste system became what is wasn’t supposed to be.
The other thing that intrigued me in the book was when Shams talks about how different muslims and sufis are. He says, scholars who focus on sharia know the outer meanings. Sufis know the inner meaning. Saints know the inner of the inner. And as for the fourth level, that is only by prophets and those close to God.
This is true for every religion to think of it. They have the sufis, Hindus have the yogis and Christians have the Molokons. Then ofcourse there are Buddhists. They are all looking for the same thing in their own ways. How boring would it be to have everyone do the same thing?
To end this post I just want to add another quote from this book.
No matter who we are or where we live. deep inside we all feel incomplete. It’s like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what something is most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.
Love and Light.
I stand there in a corner,
Looking at you, eaten up by all the dust.
Are you scared that each step is going to change your view?
So cozy, in your comfort zone,
Stuck to the floor with all your toys.
Let go, hold on to me.
I will show you a new horizon,
Where the birds sing their song.
Where rainbows fill the sky,
and flowers dance along.
– Kriti B.
Across the ocean, she’s gone
In polka dots and gleaming eyes
A new season has begun.
Bags of laughter she took with her
Leaving behind a trail of blue
Across the ocean they were.
-Kriti B.
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