Sujal Jeswal from Mumbai asks,
‘Who am I?
My body is made up of all the elements like fire,
water, air, soil and sky,
so where am I?’
That’s a wonderful question.
What is the Reality of Man?
If you truly search for yourself,
you will not find yourself anywhere.
It’s all God, everywhere.
We have our body - this body,
and indeed it is created from water, air, soil and fire.
It is not our reality.
So what is our reality?
God has placed seven souls inside us.
One of these souls is the lower self
which belongs to the Devil,
obviously, that cannot be our reality.
According to the Hindus,
[these souls] are chakras.
Hindus refer to them as indriyan
or chakras
and Muslims refer to them as lataif.
Lataif means [they are] light,
as compared to density.
Kaseef (dense), lateef (light).
Out of the seven souls in us,
one is the representative of the Devil
and one is the representative of God.
The representative of the Devil is situated at the navel point.
The lower self.
The representative of God is situated in our head.
The Latifa Ana.
What does ‘ana’ mean?
Me.
Ana means me/I.
So one is the representative of the Devil,
one is the representative of God
which leaves five souls,
out of which, the spiritual heart relates to the angels.
Then, the Sirri,
which also relates to the angels.
It has to do with the veil in Aalam e Wehdat.
It is the same for the Khafi.
The Akhfah has to do with what is behind [the veil].
These [souls] are archangels.
Then, finally, you have your main soul.
Your soul.
In regards to the soul,
when the companions asked the Prophet (s),
"What is the soul?",
God said, ‘Tell them:
the soul is the command of my Lord’.
So now, we consider the soul as ours,
but that too is the command of God.
So, where are you?
You are nowhere.
Now, this is only understood by those who traverse this path.
You will not understand this by reading the books.
And those who understand it, they then say,
‘I don’t know who I am, O Bulleh.
I don’t know who I am.
Neither am I the impure amongst the pure,
nor will you find me amongst the non-believers.
Neither am I Moses nor the Pharaoh.
I don’t know who I am’.
So what is God’s command for you?
Find out what that means for you through spirituality.
Your soul is the command of God.
Now, what is that command?
That’s what you need to find out
by awakening your soul.
Ask it, ‘Who are you?
Where do you come from?
What is your purpose?’
For instance, His Divine Eminence revealed it upon me.
The Lord said to me,
‘You were created for my love’.
So what is the command for my soul?
The love of the Lord.
I have found out who I am.
Now, what am I?
I am the love of the Lord.
I even wrote this in my poetry:
‘I am your love’.
So what is my own identity?
The love of the Lord.
Similarly, there is a command for the soul of every single human being.
What is the command? You must discover it.
Is your command to obtain the material luxuries?
Is your command to obtain the luxuries of paradise?
Is your command to obtain damsels and palaces in paradise?
What is your command?
The Lord has already revealed upon me the origin of my soul,
‘We have created you for the sake of our love’.
End of story.
I don’t need to go anywhere else now.