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The Sufi sanctuary is a place full of infinity and eternity, the more you will be in this place the more you will discover, the more you will be illuminated, it might as well be the melting point of ones spiritual journey.You will enter into another universe full of beauty, wisdom, and truth. It is here that wonderers of the wildest forests and dreamlands of strange and the fantastic will find their spiritual solace from a fountain of divine wine that will quench the thirst that you  come here with.

The real source of heavenly deeds and the colors divine will wash your soul with the glitters of a treasure such that you will find rarely elsewhere. Ask what you may and you will find the answer, request a wish and it will be fulfilled, sometimes even you will receive without asking , an unfolding of destiny that will cool your senses and smoothen your course of life.

 

ART

 

The word art has many interpretations, many different points of views, opinions. It comes of an ideology that gropes around the forever self opinioned individual, the objective inquiry being left in the corners of ignorance, resulting into general confusion and chaos. And the word Art thus made unnecessarily complicated and difficult to define.

Furthermore, the opinions, views and the defining interpretations are a always of the west, the heads of this globally dominant system of cultural and ideological imperialism disguised under the covers of freedom, liberal thought, intellectual and moral values.

The modern technological system has tried, hiding, stealing and by way of taking cover behind new word inventions, or giving new meanings them, to breathe superficial life into its nostrils of false pride.

Art, narrowed and cornered into a socio-commercial commodity is meant only for a limited purpose, and applied only to a gradually diminishing culture of human needs, being replaced more and more so by modern technological culture.

What then is the real meaning of Art, and why do definitions and meanings of certain significant words fall short of our quick grasp, and instead form a pattern of a hazy confusion. Once you get out of this grey zone of a cultural messed up space, a cowardice system of anti nature becomes as clear as day light.

The shrewd mind is always in the process of conquering, overpowering; to satisfy a childish ego, cheating, taking cover behind darkness, and becoming an incurable disease mentally explosive. Words are employed as hiding spots or rather as disguise to hide the real. For example the word Art and the word design if closely examined will give you a glimpse of the inner view of the system.

The design school has still difficulty in defining what ‘design’ is; it may just as well be another word substitution, to suit its patchwork of intellectualism that fools itself to be the modern evolved of all and everything so far. The attempt has been, therefore, to substitute, for the word Art, the word design, as, the whole system of a life culture that is being enforced by the ideological errors, resulting from a low intellect, or rather according to the upper-class ideology, that design is the cultural defines of a life style that is superior to that of anything otherwise. But this has hardly been acceptable, as artists being usually of a sensitive nature, realize soon that it’s all bogus this design bit, and art as such still remains at the highest of cultural values.

 

In the design schools of the modern technological system , painting turns into illustrations, sculpture turn into photography, the art of furniture becomes furniture design, textile as art becomes textile design, and visual and graphic art turn to graphic design, to mention the least, the most creative of all arts, the potter artist is transformed into ceramic designer! It is a curious happening here, as the whole art of pottery which includes the expertise and talents teaming up of the master potter and the fine artist or perhaps the two talents in one single artist, actually became a thing remote from the popular need, merely a specialized art collectors haunt. Finally neither the potter found himself in the design school, nor the fine art of pottery found its rightful place in the school of fine arts, the potter artist thus nearly vanished!

It would seem that the whole area under the subject truly belonging to Art has been stolen quietly by the modern technological system to put it up anew as school of design, while bracketing Art as simply the fine art of painting, sculpture and print making.

Art, furthermore, from what remains of it is defined by the cultural superiors of the western people, defining not just art, but the whole philosophy of a life style, and will record no artistic activities from the east.

Architecture too, falls into the trap or rather the prison of helplessness of surviving in this rudely anti-nature technological system and cultural defines.

The term fashion design, and interior design has became a hot selling produce of the modern day world ideology and practice, though no one knows what it’s all, about while there are fashion designers famous over night, and interiors being designed by people who have not the slightest clue about art!

So the word ‘design’ remains quite a vague term just as off the ground as the system that created it, stealing ideas from the original human culture and making attempts to putting it down or just bracketing it as something special and so only for the select few.

The modern technological implications have further produced a technological culture by replacing theater with cinema, electronic music for live music, all culture of human needs have been industrialized, and plastic/synthetic is made substitute for most products; including furniture, textiles, pottery, architecture. And the city-culture has been ravaged by an ideological invasion of all the negative life culture of crime and misery, of poverty, being dragged into along with all the other evils- social, psychological, medical, economical, to name only some of the major areas of disasters.

What remains of art then here is almost a dead body of a nostalgic past, being used for selfish interest of that which suits the culture definers of the modern technological system. Art, it would seem is present only in the capitalist west, for obvious reasons it would seem, as the west happens to have become the economic tyrant dominating force in this very short period of its fast growth, mainly through an unfair system of foolery and shrewdness. Art found here it’s patrons in the form of museums, galleries and art collectors, becoming thereby a member of the ideological psyche of the so called international world culture.

According to the subtle implications of the west, a declaration to the world at large, that the color white as it boils down to, is the best of the rest, so must its creative ability correspondingly reign the most supreme. But for how long can one fool oneself, and soon the people go off their heads and start living in an air of uncertainty, chaos and vagueness.

There is no further direction.

The thought definers will thus conclude life to be unknowable, mysterious, the labyrinths of a horrifying darkness, expressing the dead end of an unenlightened ignorant mind.

The moment you get out of the modern technological spell, Art will have a truly different picture than you ever imagined. The real contents of this word when properly examined are so wide and profoundly connected with life culture that we realize the word ART even as we may know it as genuine, is misleading to the real meaning of culture.

Art to begin with is a socio-spiritual activity. It has definite functions as it covers almost all the cultural needs of a human society. Art as painting, sculpture, and relief is used on various surfaces, as illustrative expression for poetry, drama, and literature.

The function of Art is also as representational art, recording knowledge, wisdom and all forms of human perception, from the basic to the most subtle concerns of the inner worlds. The other forms of Art are functionally employed for the purpose of creating a culture of human needs such as architecture, city planning, furniture, textiles, and pottery.

Art when expresses the intellectual culture on a holistic level takes up a spiritual form.

Then it comes in the form of Musical expressions, as dance as theater and finally in the form of poetry and literature. The most creative application will always be an inner expression of the human culture concerning the meaning and significance-the very essence of life in such a form as it may be a manifestation of the higher forces. But Art here becomes the whole of life culture, even religion and spirituality gets struck off, or become synonymous. Now it may be understood that the way the word Art is being employed is incorrect application of its real usefulness to humanity. All the forms of Art are taken to their heights only when a holistic, nature based culture of living, where the spirit, mind and the body are not fragmented but become one whole in total harmony, and define life as paradise.

Art is culture, the very backbone of human existence.

LOVE ART AND THE EAST

The east has developed its ideological sentiments, as regards the religious and the spiritual style of its culture, upon the concept of love being conceived and impregnated with, to a creativity which may be termed as purely divine. The whole cultural mode of the eastern lore seems to revolve around love as it embraces its beauty to form the cultural patterns it works on and therefore lives accordingly. Love as the central point of emanating rays of cultural traits in all humanly imagined directions becomes the silent life force and spiritual enlightenment.

THE ARTIST

The artist is one of the various cultural components of any existing human clans, an integral part of society very functional very active and also very responsible.

Words like Art, artists, architect etc, have been a recent coinage, referring mostly to an artist as defined by a modern school of art. Art here is specialized, individualized as a separate world of activity, and usually not meant to be part of normal society. Now more and more so a producer of art that is marketable.

Art, as it exists today is mostly a fancy supposedly of the white west; it does not as though exist here in the east. And it just might be so, as the whole culture of the east has been on the destructive side, thanks to the invasion of the hi-tech giants of cultural enforcement, through subtle, shrewd and cunning strategies designed to dominate and oppress, while we here are looked down upon ,as viewed by the system’s philosophy of affluence and material richness, conclusively, the east would hardly ever would produce art that would meet the standards issued by the west.

Art as defined by the west therefore can hardly ever be produced by artists from this side of the globe, although there might be a few who may try. What may still exist as art in the east will be put off as craft or traditional art or religious, but not the real thing?

Although the art of ‘madhubani paintings’ still alive as ‘folk art’, is a complete system of artistic creation, which gives bloom to an individual, his creative potential, a possibility of reaching to its ultimate heights, at the same time meeting all the cultural contexts, social and spiritual, of an artistic activity. Similar to these are known and many more unknown forms of art and creative culture that exist around the globe, ignored by the west, are very actively part of a well integrated rich culture of human activities

The rest of the usual world made of the psyche of the western modern technological system’s thoughts continues to dream a delirium of psychological illness of not seeing beyond its nose, thinks in the back of its childish minds, that it is superior in every way possible, including the fields of education, medicine, economy, and even such basic as food, fruits, shampoo, sunglasses and anything under the sun!

While the truth remains as clear as a blind man may be able to see, the west is better only as far as the high tech world is concerned. If for example it has boasted of better medical system, it’s only the technological aspects of the medical system that are superior, which actually though are mostly redundant, are only money making devices.

While the rest is simply a human oriented profession, as, the most important part of the medical system still remain to be, a performance of the dexterity of the hands of a surgeon, and the healing touch of his inner knowledge which gives him his individuality the credit.

The Field of psychiatry till today remains full of ignorance with theories and treatments based on a false system of ideological beliefs and scientific philosophy, turning it into a dangerously destructive form of medicine, perhaps more so than physical medicine.

At this point in blurred form of imagery we may perhaps see that this whole modern technological system is only turning into a very fine system of bewitchment, as it `tries to nearly come face to face with Truth, it will silent its lips, cowardly tell lies, cheat and become an evil of ignorance!.

Racism defines the subtleties of modern technological system’s stubbornness.

Whether it’s Art or medicine or star gazing [or bird watching!] it’s to impress that all is always better in the technological plastic west!

THE MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL MENACE

Modern technology has turned out to be a shock of deceit and disappointment, that so far what it had tried to promise and boast turned out to be nothing but an exploitation of values, culture and the whole of a natural heritage of human civilization. Gradually one after the other, pieces have started to fall together, to give a horrific picture of the real story of all that we have been subject to go through.

Modern technology is a complete system of human life culture being slyly forced upon the world, by way of cunningly devised ideologies that only puts up a cover of being the good and beneficial, while skin deep is its true face of a shallow existence. It is a system designed by those who were sharing the same ignorance and therefore the same ideals that continued to be pursued in order to keep their anti-nature system of a living culture going. Whether capitalist, socialist or communist, or the so called democratic, they all were an outcome of modern technological system. Therefore even if they were shouting some truth, it was hardly ever so, as it was only a style of opposing policies of its power strategies and not much else. And if the west tries to bring about a change by idealizing its so called liberal left oriented theories and philosophy, it just gets brushed off as – oh so that’s what you feel, so that’s your side of the truth, so what? Everyone’s got their side of viewpoint! That’s the end of the liberal truth being branded as the opposing left.

The left itself is miserably under clouds of grey darkness, some extremely vicious serpent blows poison into sending smokes of a general chaos among the people who get into anything that may be opposing the system and yet remain in a strange way part of it!

Therefore what remains is an overall ideological residue of all of them combined to form the modern technological system, whereby nature-based technologies and culture of living from the most basic to the most sophisticated are being mechanized by plastic material and petrochemical technologies. It is amazing how a system such as this one starting from a root error where nature is being replaced by a whole culture of artificial life style can have everything worked out so finely that it may seem like the best system so far that humanity has ever had!

It takes just one insight to break the spell and then the picture of a cowardice system comes alive, and the voice within wants to be loud and reach out to humanity and cry WAKE UP! Once this root problem has been straightened up then life may start to breathe its original air.

Among its many different traits, this modern technological system of ignorance is under a false belief that once a button is pressed it must go on forever, then you can sit and laze around! The Modern technological system is based on the childish undergrowth phenomenon of lethargy and escaping hardship and work. Everything’s at the press of a button. Sometimes at the point of ridicule to human dignity. A tooth brush that functions with the switch of a button!

The ignorant mind wants to have it all easy. But the nature of things may not quite be so, for all things part of a natural culture of living need maintenance involving hard work. In a nature based culture nothing goes waste; all is connected with each other and therefore has multi-utilities and functions. If errors have been sorted out and life is made to be perfect and paradise created in theory, there is no guarantee that it will automatically stay so forever. We have to work hard to keep it going. And that is part of its magic that you may soon realize how all things are connected in a positive way and what life has in store for you. Then you will realize the hell you were living in!

THE WEST AND THE EAST

The present day system works on the cowardly devised trick of dividing the world into black and white, this obvious difference is filtered through the rest of the ideological and philosophical thinking behind the ignorant mind, the perpetrator of this modern technological system. Every thing about the west, the white west to be precise, is the best, starting from the most obvious, the color of the skin, the eyes, the lips, the golden or brown hair, the slim wear, almost the whole of physical being from the most obviously visible, that is color to the finest physical details of the human body are superior to any other opponents.

Then almost immediately comes the intellect! The west is smarter with that too, it has the best brains, the best education system, the best art, and the best liberal thought. Mind you it’s all still coming from the trick of the color! Then it goes to the limits of self flattery and foolery, that in the west everything ‘is really the best’, that is, the nature is the best, the fruits and vegetables are the best, the milk of the cow and the butter is the best…! Nobody says this, but it is being implied.

Slowly it starts to become a bit messy, so the relatively more clever ones, that are internally the more shrewd ones, put on their boxing gloves and arm with trickery and dive into the world of the non material human cultural values to tell you nothing else but that, the west is still the best! They steal on the ancient Greeks. As if the whole of the west originated from the Greeks, they pick them up as if it’s their property, their right to possess and make sermons from. Here they feel, once again a self deceit, of a typical act of a cowardice, quite safe for no one can be a greater philosopher than them the Greeks, greater scientists, greater artists, and the rest of the more reasons to support their under feelings of pseudo superiority. The Egyptians, the Africans, the great Americans, the Chinese, the Indians don’t exist!

By this time its been firmly established over the general psyche of the ignorant world that the west is the really the best .No one is now asking for any explanations or details but every thing is being gulped down most gullibly. While the simple fact remains that the only great thing about the west as the best, I repeat, is its modern technological system, not nature, nor the apples or tomatoes! And the colonization by the west continues over the whole world by its system of technological extravaganza.

It seems amazing to me that such a strong web of a technological spell has been woven around the rest of this human civilization that even the most delicate of a thinker with good intentions misses out the trap.

 

There is nothing of any personal or racial grudge against any west or east, to me there is no division of this sort, and neither is there any question of a blame game. At the moment we are all in the same mess and the effort should be to get out of it the sooner the better.

The only target people to whom this may reach out are the ones who may be able to let a little bit of fresh air into their life and who live on an objective reality based on the instincts and insights of the human spirit.

EROTIC ART AND PORNOGRAPHY

The other day I overlooked an observed question-

What’s the difference between erotic art and pornography?

The difference is merely a technological one. What erotic art is as a remain of a human-based technology as art of arousing the sexual instincts and entertaining by way of artistic expressions of the same energy in the form of dance music, love, poetry and a song , is part of one whole culture formation of the spiritual attainments of a human being. Pornography deals with the same subject matter but getting on to a different road, a road that comes to dead end of frustration and mental vacuum of vulgarity, that tries to replace the art of erotic painting illustrating this basic sexual instinct as beauty, while pornography turns into a commercial market of prostitution.

Prostitution as a market therefore is the vulgar culture creation of the modern technological system.

 

TIME

The Modern technological cultural psyche functions on the fuel of ignorance. It is a psychologically demented case of behavior, an extremely confused state of affairs, spiritually the unenlightened.

The psyche such as this one produces all kinds of negative, destructive reactions, comes up with the most absurd philosophical conclusions, at the point of declaring life as nothing but chaos, as it tries to bury its face in the sands of self deceits and conjure low quality psychological games.

In the modern technological culture of day to day life, all is divided into past present and the future. While actually there may not be such a thing as idea, belief, and its cultural derivations. Modern technology keeps maintaining the past as an inferior mode of existence. The latest, is the hot selling product of its economy and money making culture, whether it concerns ideas or simply basic needs for day to day survival. The past product, or a thought becomes stale, second hand, and therefore of least value. The present day sells like hot cakes, the tomorrow, the future of course is always the golden, elusive and the ideal of all times to come, that which though never comes!

This idea of time utilized to declare a product or an idea as the best is not always valid. This idea is true only with respect to the unnatural, synthetic, plastic-chemical products and the ideological supports of this system that remain fresh to the general belief in the sense of Time. When it comes to nature related culture, whether of human needs as materials and physical to the most subtle and fine culture of its spiritual existence, the idea of Time is changed to a completely different story. Day and night are the changes of time as are the movements of the planets and the stars, almost in a poetic sense, but not in numbers. Art, architecture, philosophy, science and products of human needs are not based on the ideas of the latest but meant as part of a one whole culture based on the essence of the natural and timeless elements.

Today’s world will label the existing traits of the past products of daily usages as antiques, therefore not meant for usage , and rather to be museumed, and gradually destroyed of its contextual existence, as it disturbs the psychic existence of the modern technological system.

All that confirms to the ideas of modern technology and adopts its cultural style will be quite successful in a way, while the rest if not, will be labeled as poor, backward, peasants or the working class. While in truth the real misery and poverty are simply side effects of the city capitalist or socialist culture to hunt after, which collects a whole fleet of people that will provide the slave class to the capitalist monsters. The socialist order of the day , a highly politicized structure although with seemingly good intentions, will try and do word games and rename slavery as working class or the labor class of society, for whom apparently the socialist order will ostentatiously fight for, in vain. The working class as such is the important fuel of survival for the power hungry socialist order very much a part of the modern technological system.

 

HISTORY

The idea of past makes up for the writing of history as factual records of the past, while most is conjectural, irrelevantly factual, or merely a political tool to maintain its ideological status.

The ideas of time and its psychological manipulations are carried out in such a way, particularly in the capitalist style of market ideology, that every thing latest is the best, the yesterdays are always inferior. That is, the latest news, the latest cinema, the latest book, the latest art, the latest model of a car, or a mobile tool of high tech repute, the latest product, material or non material is regarded as the best of value , while the older models are dead and gone. This implies the latest, the fastest; however redundant, technology becomes the trick of the trade for the capitalist style of business world, to fool the masses and rule the world in an oppressing way, its childish fancies thus fulfilled.

This idea of time is further distorted when History is being forced upon the people as cultural value of this system of an anti- nature technological life. Here too obviously it very easily becomes palpable to people’s gullibility and every thing about the past is rendered inferior, out of date- as society, as culture as Religion, as Spiritual.

Religion by some buffoon is stated and looked down upon as the sleeping dose of the masses, spirituality is replaced by psychology. Only the negative aspects of a past culture and the wars of destruction are given to be as facts of the past that make it usually a weaker, a savage people in every way possible, while nothing is mentioned of the positive civilizations of an entire humanity that has existed over ages unimaginable to our brainwashed minds. If our minds have been distorted with respect to the psychological aspects of the ideas of time then how the hell can we get a true picture even a vaguely true one, of say a hundred years back? The distortion multiplies as we further dig back.

In an absolute working culture of a human civilization, time does not really exist, but life is recorded in the form of mythologies and legends that come to get related to the subconscious world of dreams, therefore forming the real culture of the spirit that transforms it from one level to another whether by way of life or death.

Therefore, History is not a record of facts in words but a tradition based method of recording the past by forming folklore, Art, music, poetry and drama passed on from generations on.

Then there is no such history as we are lead to believe.

 

RELIGION AND CULTURE

The concept of religion in today’s context is being corrupted by those who in states of ignorance, abuse it for their petty ideals of worldly powers.

This Power politics comes from a psyche that reflects spiritual holocaust of a vacuum that unknowingly flutters in darkness only to grab hold of meaningless ideals of false power and glory.

This power politics is on the bases of evil against humanity, dominion for oppression of the people. When ignorance takes the lead role, it tries to create one whole web of a system, though a false one, as in ignorance it tries to destroy nature and its relationship with human culture and civilization.

Modern technological system is essentially a crafty socio-political and economical ideology designed to colonize and destroy, corrupt any other system or thought by its intellectual manipulations of its high tech-culture and pseudo-philosophy.

The English language is the official language of this new anti-nature religion in guise of what we may term modern technology. The words in use in the context of the present system are related to each other by the obvious fact that they must all play together the same game of trickery and debauch in order to keep the pillars of the establishment standing.

Once the insight has been gained into the nature of the problems things fall into their places like a puzzle- and certain words start to reveal the skin deep secrets of a cowardly system which becomes clear now as the oppressor. The words art, religion, culture, philosophy, education, medicine, psychology, etc are all being employed as means of interpretating and redefining life living cultures as to suit the modern pursuits of ideological supremacy. In a more direct way of examining this disclosure, the following words have turned out to be as though a substitution of words representing ideas that distort the meaning of culture simply to suit the modern technological system; Ideology for religion, psychology for spirituality, design for art, knowledge for wisdom, and a whole world of disclosure as we get along the way to recovery. This is not a simple rebellious/revolutionary adventure of some sort but rather a basic human instinct to strike out at and restore order in the world of human existence.

One of the greatest bewitchment that the present day system holds together is the distortion of the concept of time, once again, only to establish its superiority over all time, the past the present and the future.

Actually there may not be any past present or future .But then how will there be the latest model of a fast car, or a high tech communication device or fashion or art or even a thought?! According to the implied teachings of the giant Minotaur of technological extravaganza, everything past,[ including a human, there goes to prove the darwininian theory, a typical western point of distortion,] is inferior, thus antique for the museums.

The false hopes, like the carrot on the stick, given by its political agenda are the real utopian ideals never meant to be realized.

Truly speaking though, the great thinkers , the lesser known ones, have produced ideals perfectly designed to lead humanity on the right track of a living culture, have been slyly put aside as mystics hippies or utopians!

While the real culprits giving out the so called pipe dreams of development and human progress are themselves ideals only meant to lure people as the real opium of the masses, as the supposedly great mind, giant of mass foolery; Karl Marks laid down the religion of socialism , the most fanatic ,vicious and destructive of a life negative culture that more than anything, stabbed you on your face, while capitalism did it in your back, both, the two side of the same coin the major parts of modern technological system, at the moment of historical time in the flickering side of its trivial existence.

The word religion has slyly been put in, on the one hand bracketed as belonging to the fanatics and fundamentalists, thus branded as decaying evil and destructive and most of all, out of date, while at the same time the political nature of the day makes it useful in full abundance to the advantage of keeping the masses fooled.

Fools naturally are easier to rule over.

But which kind of religion is becoming the advantage point of the ‘politics of ignorance’, it is obviously the fanatic kind or the religion that is dry and without any meaning of a relationship with the actual life culture of the people, active only in the manipulating powers of the established order of the priests, part of the gang.

Thus along the side track of this culture another kind of phenomenon, the liberals are politicized and quickly manipulated in the mechanics of modern day magic of linguistic sorcery and other forms of trickeries

. The word, ‘ideology’ replaces the word religion, and becomes the superior form of religion in implication unstated or declared.

 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientific thought is, as propagated by the modern technological system, the ultimate truth, replacing the concept of God and therefore raising it above all forms of religions and spirituality.

Science and technology, sound like words that go very much together as some kind of great lovers!

Let’s hit the nail at the right spot and not beat around the bush anymore.

Let’s not spare a hair of this wild growth on this garden of paradise called earth.

To begin with, there is Darwin who comes up with the idea of man evolving from apes and monkeys, by some unexplained incomprehensible natural operation of magic; declares that man gradually evolved from the base animal form of wild to a civilized form of life form, meaning that it must quite naturally culminate into the white mans modern technological pure Aryan race of the most superior and the evolved of all time evolved races!

Since the race is superior it has to go to prove that its culture is the most superior too, and thus the whole of modern technological system as the most evolved of all cultures that man kind ever produced. You can almost be sure and certain now that the world is under the colonization of the world’s most superior races of the white man and is forced by modern sorcery, part of its culture, to believe that the modern technological culture is most progressive of all cultures, the ultimate will to powers of its kind!

With Darwin being on the side of the system’s foolery there’s much made easy now, the whole of Science as a subject matter, which is meant to replace ‘the’ Truth, which is meant to replace the concept of god, now is in the witch- hands of the modern technological man. He has a whole world of a following now and it does not matter as long as all the world remains under the oppressive hands of a few not only by might of the sword or the smoke of the gun but under clouds of all kinds of psychological entrapments and cultures of bewitchments such as high tech communication devices, as media as Historical records of false perspectives, as art going the way of ultra individualization…

Modern technology does not mean merely gadgets of house hold things or fast cars and flashy mobiles. It means a world more of many other implications indirectly connected with it such that the evil work of oppression goes on behind curtains.

Its all well organized secretly operating system of the devil in the dark.

The whole economics of modern technological system is designed to suit its ideological and racial superiority. The money system it dictates and enforces upon the world is all geared to function in a way lucrative to the systems business form of material existence. Money becomes therefore an integral part of the whole machinery of this modern technological system such that it may seem it’s another name for power, though that may only be a shadow of the true.

In its blind spurts of euphoria, modern science assumes its superiority as the ultimate truth, and quietly declares there’s no god. In doing so it embraces its own demise for it has now swirled itself into a false labyrinth of confusion and self deceit. The road now will lead it to simple cowardice and shallow waters. It will ridicule itself and shy away from reality truth and wisdom. Like all cowardice, to cover its failure to face the truth, or not having fulfilled its own ideals, it will use the usual tactics at its natural disposals, of anger, hatred, jealousy, lies and cheats only to name a few what may be stated as evil.

 

THE SPIRITUAL

The Spirit exists only in relation to its root existence as one whole together of the macroscopic to the microscopic. Science with its own narrow system of reason and logic rejects spirituality declaring it as old, out of date and blind faith god-stuff.

Spirituality does not exist at all; it’s looked down as a mystic cult of some sort. The rest which is nothing but an ‘organized form of religion’ is nothing but the darker side of the system, another kind of politics, and although the ruling system defies it in rejection as to keep up with its religious and scientific credibility reigning supreme over the psyche, it saps from the back alley its political benefits

Things do not happen as we seem to imagine they do.

There is a definite system of life forces operating, organizing, and taking care in the subtlest of details, independent of our being conscious of it. There is a part in us which we may not quite easily access, the so called ‘subconscious’,[or the soul!] which functions according to the dictates of nature as instincts, insights, as higher intelligence.

THE WAY OUT

The first thing would be to realize the nature of the problem, by becoming aware of it, which can happen only once the mind is an objective grey, an openness, a little free space of flexibility.

The system makes everything intellectually heavy and unnecessarily confusing. You can say anything and everybody seem to have a moral might of rejecting or supporting, as if objective truth did not exist at all. Here comes the classic error that may be identified as the root cause of all politicized division and the misuse and abuse of religious sentiments to a divide and rule policy.

The methodology used for bringing about this awareness has to be of an artistic nature, because that’s how the unlearning will happen. Here no cunning has to be employed no lies no foolery. In order to fight an opposing problem it is best not to use the same elements that the problem was created from. The means chosen have to be of a surprisingly different order and quality so as to make a real and lasting effect.

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There is an old ‘style’ of story culture, in which there is an evil force that becomes a menace for the human dwelling and which must be captured and killed, otherwise it will kill you one after the other. The general view is the knowledge that the evil force is elusive and cannot be killed directly, as its breath of life lies secretly in another organic form. The hunt for that form begins, and usually it’s a secret that must be found, takes up the central space of the story, the adventure part of it, of fights and wars of magic. Once the secret object is found, the whole story will climax and the final showdown, now that the secret life source of the evil creature is found and destroyed will be buried forever. That’s the end of the stories.

The evil force in folklore is a huge evil giant or a ghost in horror or a villain of a thriller, usually his real being lies in another organic form that may not be known, that which cannot easily be suspected. This seems purely symbolic of ‘ignorance’, as turning into the evil force and sorcery to negate life and its continuity. And in our case the giant ghost of horrors of all horrors is nothing but the well disguised modern technological system! Of which general human psyche is the least suspicious! That’s where the source of all evil, all ignorance, and the breath of the evil forces of life is. The form has been identified and now its very breath which is secretly hidden in the form of energy and power, responsible for the fake human culture of modern technological life style, will have to be destroyed, wiped out, lest the story will continue to be haunted by this evil force destroying life culture one after the other.

The electric wire is therefore to be snapped off and petrochemical energies to be abandoned!

The immediate reaction to the general mind is a subconscious panic, as if the very air that it was breathing has been taken away. While actually what will happen is far from being panicky about. A whole world of wonderful culture will flow in instead, a culture of human life in existence for thousands of years in full glory, an eternity as which we cannot imagine will appear as if by magic.

The whole culture of material as well as psychological implications of the use of petro-chemical-electrical energies is redundant and extremely destructive as it takes away the nature based culture of human existence and makes life absolutely negative in the long run.

But then, the system has a lot of business to lose. There will be no radio T.V. or media or computer gadgets or telecommunication. The whole of Industrial revolution which saps the wealth of the people and keep them in turn dependent on the system will no longer have this power…!

But instead of examining the destructive elements, it may perhaps be more important and creatively constructive to make a positive awareness to those with an open mind, to realize what happens once the disease of this modern technology is removed.

Art and creativity will now begin to organize a different cultural meaning; will become an extremely important tool for communication, expressing all that may form a culture based need of a people. Now there will be a possibility of creating a whole culture which will maintain a relationship of interdependence and harmony with the natural environment from the local concerns to the stars above!

Music, theater, dance will assume a lead role as performing arts incorporating a strong background to poetry, literature and philosophy. Art as a combination effect of all the elements of a living culture will take a spiritual turn in its ultimate climax while at the same time will remain at the most basic level of performance and function, in perfect harmony in all its parts of variety and components.

All forms of artistic developments will be nature based in terms of materials as well as technologies and methods of skills and performance. The quality of art therefore produced will be altogether of a different kind, as real against the artificial. As live music with original sound unaltered by electronic amplification will have the quality of working directly on the senses and therefore the ecstatic feeling of emotional sensations or spiritual illumination will be happen more on a realistic side. When this is combined with the visual effects of an art and/or architectural elements, it would then take you on a beautiful journey of revelations, of life’s secrets, and the heart of the spirit will take the form of a dance and celebration will spell the moment.

This is just the beginning then, for no one has from the present time really been through a real paradise. Life without modern technology will once more organize itself to a culture which will evolve around the natural environment. Life will then be in harmony with nature, and a totally different kind of magic of life will take over. It’s impossible to imagine.

 

Why do we need bright lights in the night? Why should we try and make the night as if it were a day. Why, when there are no bright artificial lights, there is the whole cosmos come alive, a whole science of beautiful revelations in knowledge and wisdom. From the furthest you can get what you need for the closest. The stars will have a lot to tell you of the real science of life, of Time, of distance, of direction and dreams…!

The travel industry

What is all the modern transport system doing at the moment? Only making work a system whose economic needs make it forcible to use all that movement, rather than any human need, it’s more to do with senseless hoarding of extraordinary greed of wealth. Why do people need to travel so much? It is just another business venture for the holiday industry. Traveling ought to be for a learning purpose rather than anything else and that too not every body needs to do so, that only few people who have their destiny worked out, according to the work needed, must travel and that too not a quick fly but rather a take it easy journey absorbing each and every experience as wisdom and knowledge.

 

HISTORY OF ART

All forms of human cultures and civilization as far as remains of evidence have been found have used the various forms of artistic expression as its cultural formation. It would seem that Art as an activity, as culture is in fact a natural instinct.

History of art might as well be the history of human culture and civilizations over time.

The usual method of telling History of Art is kicks off with the cave-mans scribbling on the cave walls and almost immediately thereafter the focus is on the development of art, its evolution almost exclusively from the art of Europe, from the Da Vinci, Goya, Michel Angelo, Rembrandt, Picasso and to mention not the least; the urinal symbolizing the abject form of meaning and content representing the culture of nonsense.

That seems like the end of the historical briefings of the pseudo intellectual west version art history.

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And that may be history of art of Europe and modern America, though definitely not History of Art as far as the whole world history is concerned

 

THE TRUE HISTORY OF ART

One of the most fascinating Arts to have ever existed in the form of evidential history is from the great Egyptian civilization.

Here it’s not as much history of art as Art of history!

The very remains of the whole civilization are all in the form of paintings, sculpture, relief, and architecture. Does this not imply that culture, history and even religion are a form of art itself, that the energy that inspires this great form of art whether individuals or a community or both combine to formulate the higher intelligence of a living culture, is in the form of the so called fine Arts, here taken as spiritual?

The Egyptian culture has been completely distorted at the point of being destroyed or worse still, by the autocratic west or the socialist bending every leaf towards its own ideology of slavery and class struggle. None of these have had any artistic sense of culture to have examined the contents from the very solid and the visible. Their way of looking at history is only from the socio-political and economic context of how society functions. So quite naturally their interpretation is limited to only which king fought how many wars, while the socialist ideals keep shouting about some silly deal with peasants uprisings, and to mention the least is the ridiculously so called magical stupidity of the modern superstitious west that wants to point out that it was a culture of fantasy and black red or green magic!

And the insensitive artistic psyche does not even consider it as art, what we see as evidently present before us, a gigantic body of richness of beauty and eternal celebration of artistic extravaganza as perhaps never to be created again!

Although an Artist who through his experience has come to realize the true nature of art and the meaning of culture will surely be able to see the vast hidden treasure still alive from the Egyptian time of glory and grander, the real paradise of its kind.

The Egyptian art developed primarily as the expressionist quality of communication and linguistic usage of art, not just as a commercial tool but rather for a cultural usage as the most essential communication of, the basic to the most sophisticated culture of the mind body and the spirit all combined. Since it was used as expressing tool for an individual and the community at the same time it assumed a very important symbolic form that later developed as graphic symbols of sounds to express words. What remains in evidence is obviously the pictorial depiction of ideas rather than the sound, which obviously was either more significant as usage, as more effective in influencing the people. It was also more eternal to have it pictorially expressed as symbolism, as it preserved almost all the rest of the Arts, as poetry as drama as literature, as the most important philosophy of life to sustain its ever living culture of the great heritage of a human civilization. Strictly speaking the Egyptian culture and civilization has never been dead, it will be alive as long as its art will live, for within are the mysteries hidden forever, a treasure that may become alive every time someone comes into its magical sphere

.Indian Art

Along with the Persians, the Indian art of what is known as miniature paintings is the place where painting functioned more as a form of expression for the accompaniment of the art of poetry, literature and performing arts. Miniature painting being thus wrongly being categorizes as meant to be compared with the regular sense of what in our contemporary world has turned out to be to a general public thinking , a miniature painting having small significance because of its size! This is one of the many other ways in which the insecure and ignorant have kept itself self satisfied whenever it felt culturally weak because it could not ever imagine that anybody can be as good as them, the usual trait of a superiority complex.

The art of painting therefore of the east has been mainly in the form of the miniature as part of the illustrious book of knowledge wisdom and entertainment. While as the fine art of decorating the walls, its triumph can hardly be ignored as the interiors of the royalties to the highly spiritual spaces as also ranging from the most elite buildings and mansions to the most ordinary folks, if any ordinary folks did exist, there was sophisticated fine art not only as interiors but as also the exteriors of the architecture. This has nothing to do with, as on the other hand, the creative side of the folk art development, in the rural area, which is art from what is termed as tribal kind of human settlement, from India as also from other parts of the world, particularly Africa, and aboriginal Australia.

Apart from the fine art of painting, there was yet another form of art that expressed yet another dimension of human sensory perception, which is the art of sculpture and relief. The faculty of sculpture is a tool of expression that reproduced reality better than what photography can ever do, in three dimensions, which no modern technology can ever do, in a style that may add to the beauty of reality.

The Chinese art, African art, Islamic art, Native American art, Australian art of the aborigines, all of these as far as we can mention for the treasure within these and also other than this is so vast and extensive that no great volumes may capture them as documents, as information.

What can be said about them all bringing significance to what we are trying to shout here is that all these great human civilizations that happened for thousands of years were absolutely nature based cultures, as being the first and the last condition for any rich human culture to develop. Modern technology if now viewed under the knowledge of all these nature based cultures of art and human richness of living, it may be inferred how small it is as a system of life in terms of the real human potentials and energies prescribed to it by Nature.

 

Seeing in the light of the above mentioned insight and visions of a humanity and human culture it will perhaps pay more to invest our time in examining the nature the human pursuits of what is termed as spiritualism, mysticism or Sufism as one of the many culture traits which have existed in all rich human cultures and civilizations, that may seem as the climax of the richness of any cultural existence so far, whether human or otherwise.

Sufism is one of the many inner circles of the vast manifestations of cultures that has been created in a definite period of time, place and, situation. It has nothing to do with the ideas of claiming itself to be the greatest or the most superior of cultures, for the very nature of its being, realizes that it is a universal phenomenon, and the only difference is that of variety, that comes along naturally with change of outer environment, though it knows that the inner being remains the same.

Sufism therefore is the core aspect of the success of the Islamic culture and the human civilization that it has cultivated, cared and nurtured, as well as preserved the great heritage of a universal human value system. Sufism is not simplistically a saintly culture of blind faith of magic and miracles, but it is rather an inner force of real human intelligence and talents that are responsible for the creation of such beautiful forms of Arts as can ever be imagined in today’s world, the real force as we may better know in today’s terminology, as Art, behind the success of any great cultures and civilizations of human settlements. Sufism may be referred to as one form of culture of human intelligence of higher realms, but it could be a common ground of reference for any other similar forces of culture creation.

The door is open only to a select few. Here it’s no more of a will to power of an individual ego but more of a merging of human individuality as force for the positive cultures of life.

Sufism is not being viewed as the shadow of a particular religious ego for worldly power, that’s a politicized version being imposed upon by the psychology of the ignorant.

Sufism is absolute culture that comes alive only as and when in harmony with nature. Without nature as the basic condition of a positive life, there is nothing, the least any form of mysticism whether Sufism or any other.

 

SUFI AND ART

What is the significant point that may arouse suspicion of this word Art with reference to the whole subject of Sufi? Among the Sufi culture there is no such thing as any direct word translation of an existence of the word Art, artist or architect as we employ today. While we may occasionally hear of rumors that the Taj mehal was made by special people, who were talented in the subject of Art and architecture, were actually Sufis. It is also true that most Sufis as we know today were great poets, the fact that they were also great painters, calligraphers and other forms of artists, as architects, as furniture artists, as product artists in metal, glass and clay, is low-keyed, for after all who created all the so termed Islamic art in the form of the greatest monuments of architecture, geometry, and patterns of calligraphic designs, not to mention the least, the fine art creations of the book paintings as illustrations, as expressions. We are not yet mentioning the Sufi music and dance as the spiritual tools of mans highest attainments. Who else could have created all these great forms of Art refined and made to reach such great heights, if non other than the Sufi artist?! Sufi owing to sometimes its rebellious spirit as in times of a crises it becomes the saving life force as also when it triumphs, it rejoices in creativity and simple pleasures , will accordingly either remain public or play it low , while as a wise strategy will always be a soft and quite mover.

 

SUFI CULTURE

Sufi culture in India is a wonderful mélange, taking on the richness from the local regional cultures which culminate into a whirlpool of a creation, as art, as poetic explosion as human celebration of the body, mind and the spirit all entwined. This remained the strongest culture in the northern part of the country namely in the states of Rajasthan, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, though eventually it spread much further.

A Sufi is essentially a person who has attained a higher intelligence and become thereby an extremely sensitive and a creative human being. A genuine Sufi understands that real religion is the cultural conditions under which human society develops; not an instrument of exercising political power.

The word Sufi has by itself not much significance, but it’s the actual living culture that becomes of the real authentic value system to relate with in order to understand Sufism, by flowing together with it even if its only for a moment, instead of seeing it and examining it externally as a scholar.

Real culture in our context can be defined as a holistic way of life of a community/people which is based on a life- positive nature-based living, comprising all the fine needs and necessities of a complete human society, manifest in the form of art, architecture, music, song, dance, theater, poetry, philosophy, astronomy and science.

The Sufi sanctuary is the center of the greatest Sufi culture still alive in all its beauty and richness hidden and preserved in a tradition-value based system.

The community of people who live off the divine grace of the Sufi cultural inheritance, of is of a compact and complete culture centered around the shrine of The Great Sufi Spirit, this is a culture that has been lived many a generation that consistently passes on its values- belief systems and thoughts by way of oral /written folklore music poetry festival celebration, etc.

The sanctuary has also becomes a magnetic point for who revere this cultural tradition and live by it and flock around in a unique spiritual communion. To the community resident, these people/pilgrims are honored and traditionally share a very important relationship of a cultural and spiritual importance. They receive the most hospitable occasion during their visits.

Therefore the Sufi culture that is alive here includes the combination of the culture of the community that lives here as well as those visitors who gather here in the annual uras festival as dervishes, fakirs, devotees and even ordinary people. The annual Uras festival therefore becomes the climax of the whole Sufi culture in all its glory and magnificence.

The khadims and the devotees here share a relationship of great understanding and interdependence that constitutes the soul of the cultural inheritance and spiritual wisdom.

In the present day society of everything being attempted to turn into a commercial activity an urgency of awareness of real cultural and spiritual values is being stressed here.

Our present day world is one of all time human lowness of ignorance and therefore foolishness. The root problem here may be identified in our deviation from a nature-based living culture to a Modern technological system. The entire socio-political and economic ideological system of the present day is such that, nature is being replaced by plastic, synthetic, artificial stuff. Religion here becomes a tool in the hand of the cunning to play their childish games of power.

The important insight here is that an action for a change must begin first from within. Once the spark lights up, the path for action becomes visible. From here onwards the journey becomes not simply an adventure in darkness but a love for life, in such an action as would take our entire energies flower in creativity and joy.

The rebellious spirit knows that it will never compromise in the path of truth. This real rebellious spirit is life-positive, essentially of an understanding that violence is basically a futile means to restore cultural values.

 

THE DREAM

 

Life is also to be seen as a science of dream technology. The west here again as always tries to in its usual autocratic way, define its own view as the final intellectual conclusion of any human faculty and brand it of relevance how it may have its contextual significance to their system of thought, rather than an objective realization of the truth of a particular subject matter, such as the dream phenomenon.

The human psyche in terms of all its mental and emotional going on may be regarded as a complexity of many different levels of inner activities as memory, as dream as, imagination and even hallucination.

What is it that makes a human being dream is a very curious question.

Modern technological system has, in the sly, tried to ignore many questions about human existence, simply because it does not have the guts to face its ignorance.

The whole subject matter related to the mind has of all but the least knowledge as scientific truth. Although some people may have tried to make individual attempts to delve into but remained only on surface, as the effort required is holistic, based on a nature based community of a life culture.

The most important science of the mind in this modern technological culture of living remains unchecked and unquestioned. Instead what feeds in the gap is a west dominated medicinal system that dictates its terms on the final verdicts of mental cures with inhuman recourses such as electric shock therapy and extremely harmful chemical drugs.

The whole medical lobby of the system feeds on human blood to stuff it of whatever inflates its lustful ambitions.

 

What is the subconscious really and how is it formed, is it merely formed of the present time while it has gathered all it did along the growing moments, or is it more than that. What is that happens when one is in the state of a sleep, how does the inner mind function, or to look at it in another way, what is that becomes a transformed phenomenon then.

Dreams, memory and the entire human psyche is influenced by the whole culture of living which includes every small detail of relevance that engages our senses in ways we may later recognize feel or experience without acknowledgement. Art takes the form of not only appeasing our knowable senses but also ones that are part of an inner mechanism. But this is not in isolation as some sort of modern day art therapy, its function happens only under the direct influence of nature.

Of course there is no exclusion of the usual messing up of things that may happen as we get along even to the point of an individual exasperation, but always in the eventual edge of the moment the triumphant self secretly smiling in joy.

Although most of it may be just like all the rest, but since the direction has been assumed differently in a life-positive instinct things may just as well be happening likewise very differently and the only place to witness this would be the laying bare of the soul on the space called art. It is perhaps here that we may be able to level ourselves up shoulder to shoulder, brothers and sisters in arm and lovers entwined, as humanity, as the living. It is here that we explode into a moment-less ecstasy that not only wipes out the dirt and mess that we may have accumulated along, but rejuvenates our ever thirsty souls for its secret pleasures. Perhaps this may be the lover’s cup full to the brim that we drink from the vines of heaven. The words like Art here get dissolved into dreams of fantasy…

The consistency of cultural value whether a new one or an old one or a further improvised one has the whole creation of artistic forms to emerge from this as background.

Sufi

The original wisdom of Sufi lore is some thing that comes from far away from the whole origin of life itself. Or that it comes from deep within. Sufi is another word for a sensible human being who exploits life in all its beauty, truth and abundance

And a real human being of intelligence is in the form of a Sufi, a complete human being that furthers the life culture of a living race.

 

The organization of the person is one of the most important works that may be undertaken in order to carry on further with life and its destined course.

Firstly the mind must struggle to reach an understanding of a problem, no matter how complex it may be, the difficulties must be overcome using ones whole energy system. Once the problem is recognized the assimilation of the given situation of the person must be worked out in order to catch up with the rest of the coordinating movements of the person’s holistic needs and awareness. This is one step moved up and a certain problematic situation has been crossed over. Any problem solved is no guarantee for another one not to pop in, so a system may exist in nature whereby this recurring nature of problem happening by which this tendency of life may have been resolved already. We may just be the vehicle destined and designed to assist the actual process of realizing this process. It may however not be as simple as it may seem, the struggle that we go through is a conscious one, along with that which are also unconscious stimuli that is constantly functioning in order that the final goal is attained. Thus not everything may have been so simply predestined in any way that we can imagine but rather it follows its own need based pattern, in that there is spontaneity in resolving problems that may arise side by side at the same time the general order of the destined line of fate. And action will take its own course.

Love

The whole idea of living and what goes together as culture is what creates misconstrued ideas of love and what may be called the act of sexual indulgence, which not only is healthy both physically as well as spiritually but also so normal and natural , that when society and culture are well organized and are worked out in perfect harmony with nature then there is no separate thing as sexual activity, as we have it today, but rather a part of life , well exposed and nothing to hide but along the culture of artistic expression it becomes a wonderful life, society and culture as a whole.

Modern technological culture is a culture of two words, Sex and Money. It is important to understand the incorrect magic that is being sprayed on the soul-less and brainless humanity which under this influence is only groping in darkness and selling its soul away.

 

 

 

SUFI BY DEFINATION

The Sufi may be any human form anywhere anytime almost something of a magical creation perfectly coursed its destiny its journey towards the not any longer a mysterious goal but something definite, creative and beautiful and divine. Therefore the human differences as regards the general capacity as a cultural being whether of an individual, group, community, society or a whole race may be wiped out all at once and forever as if it never really in truth existed.

 

DREAM ON…

In a dream there is no time and space element which may perhaps distinguish it from the non dream world of the mundane reality. What happens when either both the dream world and the mundane world are mixed together, as if to say that the world of dream presents itself in the world of reality? Or the other way round were it to be so that the reality of a being becomes alive in a dream world when eyes are closed.

Also when we are awake a whole lot of necessary activities may be carried on from the dream world, of which we may not be aware or could possibly become aware, and it may be said to be coming from a mysterious divine source.

 

 

ART PROJECTS

Art is an activity that maintains itself economically and contributes to the development of the cultural infrastructure of a society. The art sales are the core economic backbone of any community based establishment, and therefore becoming self reliant. One of the present day purposes of art must be a revival of all forms of art technique and materials that are essentially nature based and therefore restore a whole set of creative activities associated with it. We have therefore in front of us a whole lot of revival projects that may be brought alive from the extinction being imposed on them by the modern technological system; these include a creation of one whole township of culture related to artistic creativity revived to its nature based technologies. Therefore let your imagination run lose, anything under the sun as you can imagine, from Art to medicine to star gazing, to mathematic and philosophy to gardening, architecture to town planning and environmental sciences sans modern technological pseudo knowledge and wisdom, instead with a complete holistic culture of nature based life style and human culture from a to z or from scratch to infinite.

The educational situation, being one of the most important parts of a human culture of the world in this modern technological system is as worse in effect as other parts of society. The strategy of the system, which is nothing but an ignorant spirit, is that owing to its natural instinct, here being abused thoroughly, is its will to power as almost in a demonic uncivilized manner, as a human being may turn into if otherwise strayed from its main course of destiny, is to rule by creation of its own kind, that is: ignorance. Thus it suits the system to have a society under way, of ignorance and even destruction.

The educational system therefore unfolds into the same web knot string of an information filled high tech world oriented school churning out robot like humanoids to fit into the mechanisms of this west dominated system of an artificial plastic life culture.

The present day system is least bit bothered if there’s anything wrong with itself. It would be of no use to point out for the moment all the horrors of the present day schools, as far as this so called democratic country is concerned, of all the child abuse and destruction of its creative energies to mention the least. The missionary schools on a grander level thrive in this system, as they get to abound with all the frolics to satisfy the politics of its religious ideals, once again coming from the ignorant west.

The education of a child to begin with does not only have to do with sending it to an institutionalized school system that confirms to an ideology of the misrule of an existing system, but rather in truth, the child learns through a holistic system of a culture that supports a community living. This together with will only work as part of the whole system to provide for a special place whereby the child will go through a more specified space for creativity and an exploitation of all its fresh potentials of intellect and talents. The school therefore becomes a space for learning for the child and the young provided there is a background of a holistic correct culture of a human society.

It would imply that an educational system of a correct origin can never be found in the present day society. For it to be created, it will need to have a whole project of a community living life nature based culture to be reinitiated and established as a whole.

We have to move out of the fragments of the present day world fabricated culture of the modern technological system’s anti-nature life style. A whole new town ship will have to be envisioned that will function on an absolute nature based technology, designed to function without the electric wire!

Therefore a township has to be newly designed that functions on an absolute bases on a nature based technology. It would perhaps pay us a great deal to know of any villages that may still exist that have no electricity! Which will be a bit difficult as the colonizing ghost of modern technology, has tried to spread as far and interior as possible, which the ignorant mind calls human progress?

 

 

 

PROPOSAL FOR REVIVAL OF INDEGENOUS POTTERY

The indigenous Pottery Art is in a state of negligence and oblivion in most of the areas formally famous for these arts in Rajasthan. It has been observed that most of these centers were once famous for their creative handling of materials and production of objects of utility, spiritual worship, and entertainment. And the present generation of these artisans involved seems to have lost the esthetics and fineness of their predecessors.

As examples we can quote the toys, decorative objects and educative items for the young are pitifully below standards of quality from surviving examples of such products from the last 50 years. Most of the local artisans have even lost the knowledge of existence of local resource for raw materials such as clay, glazing, colors, and binder etc.

Aims and objectives

1 The revival of traditionally preserved knowledge in the complete art of pottery:

The knowledge of materials available in the arravalli geological milieu.

The knowledge of techniques of creating tintage and glazing effects.

2 The revival of decorative and expressive fine art on pottery surfaces.

3 The codification of knowledge and experience in an open space for cultural interaction, creativity and growth.

Project requirements

1. Setting up of a basic working space to accommodate various tools and utilities namely the most important, the potter’s wheel and a small and big kiln for firing.

2. Storage facilities for materials and objects involved

3. Transport as needed trips, supply and distribution of materials and products created.

4. Studio space for creative and expressive fine art work on pottery surfaces for glazing and color.

5. The complete art of creating pottery fine art would involve a fine artist, master potter, technician and helpers.

6. Basic materials such as clay, colors, and glazing ingredients.

Cost estimation for initial establishment of the project:

No Activity and utilities Cost in Indian rupees

1- Setting up of a potters wheel and two kilns for firing - 10,000

2- Basic materials; wood for firing, clay and glazing materials- 25,000

3- Storage facilities furniture etc- 90,000

4 - Local Transport vehicle- 50,000

Total initial cost for the basic workshop and studio 2, 20,000

 

Yearly expenses as salaries and payments

1- Director and artist 1, 20,000

2- Master Potter 60,000

3- 2 helpers 36,000

4- Technicians and/or craftsperson 60,000

Total recurring annual expenses are 1, 76,000

Conclusion

The indigenous pottery project will revive a dying or already extinct culture of a craft and fine art of expressing the cultural needs of society in its most basic needs of day to day living as also the most artistic and creative celebration of its rich cultural heritage and spiritual outline. It will also provide a training ground for the people left unemployed or who have as most migrated to other professions of a city culture, to make a possible comeback to its original work as they must needs strongly survive not just physically but also spiritually and culturally, which only the profession they belonged to as a family and a community that interdepended and worked together in a natural harmony.

The Arravalli ranges visibly end up to form an unexplored area of nature’s treasures, full of scenic undiscovered beauty in a raw form, still alive, the mysterious spirit of the wild and the wonderful. The hills of Rajasthan so magnificently stream their way through the otherwise desert region, to form the magnificent valleys that suddenly dip into the great spring wells and water hole formations, nature’s retreat lined with wonderful caves that spread the valleys interiors and the immediate surrounds. This must be the most precious enclaves of life’s primal dwellings which in its own way must have been a complete system of survival from the basic and gradually evolved to the utmost spiritual enlightenments of the living creature’s psyche.

 It is in one of the vastly spread out such a valley that the Sufi sanctuary is situated in.

The Sufi sanctuary to which most is being referred to here is the center of the Sufi order that sowed the seed of its cultural magic in the spiritually fertile land of India, then a vastly spread out patchwork of human culture. Over a period of time it has become the climax and a magnetic force to all who may seek the truth, of the sophisticated traditions  inherited from the living being of such a higher form of a human spirit, that the effects, it is felt are there forever for all who may be attached to it.

 

The cultural impact inspired from the Sufi order thereby issued is something to recon with, as it is still vibrant with all its raw energy and magic such that, to the person who may go through the experience, the element of time comes to a stand-still and you may be engulfed in the eternity of the place.

 

The beauty of this place is such that it needs a certain preparedness of the spirit of those who come in touch with it, it may be in the form of knowledge and wisdom accumulated over generations, preserving and passing it on as was to form a cultural pattern in the form of society and its socio-spiritual creations. The people, community, group or an individual representing the psyche of an intellectual spirit,  its values and cultural quality, and most particularly that extreme form of sensitivity which may seem almost divinely inherited,  to these the doors of this great Sufi spiritual energy that will welcome and take in its fold for an endless spiritual-mystical journey and fulfillment of its destiny.

HISTORY

The historical art of preserving the energy of a great spirit may be found not necessarily through the conventional treatise of the court scholar, but rather through the artistic creations of traditional folk lore, music, poetry, and the creative performing arts, as also the Art-illustrated book form as literature of poetical wisdom fused with mythologies and legends, that leave the people struck with over-all impressions that become food for their spiritual growth and evolution.

 The greatest Sufi lore became, as may have been reinforced by the Persian cultural creativity when it formulated a mélange with ‘the greatest Indian artistic element’; the Great Musical heritage of this country.

The rest was the spiritual master-creativity and cultural manipulations of the Sufi Spirit that with its wisdom and tradition, full of sensitivity, brought along a permanent transformation of human conditions and culture, became an eternal fountain, an undercurrent force that goes on forever as the inner fabrics of Indian Sufi culture and society with its great progressive tradition–based value system.

 

 The Indian people, as have been rightly observed by some of the most precious spiritual creations of that time, were almost childlike and ‘angelic’. Depending upon the people who colonized, the Indians in all innocence were either oppressed for physical and political enslavement, or as otherwise, under the guidance of the Great Sufi cultural design, who took up responsibility as leadership based on the concepts of humanitarian love and a holistic spirituality. The exploitation of the Indian cultural potentials brought out the very best of their talents and their intellectual contributions to one whole of a cultural celebration and rejuvenation of the spirit, which was, it may be stated, the final goal of the Sufi mission in this great country.

 

The Sufis as we can see if deeply examined, did really exploit the Indian people to a life-positive creative system, as they developed a wonderful cultural infrastructure that not only produced a cultural color of its own kind but also influenced the general psyche of the Indian people energizing the positive instinct of the human spirit, that no matter what cultural pattern it may have followed, still remained in the mainstream of one co-existing humanity.

And this is the real manner under which the finest of Indian creativity may be accredited to all those who laid their souls bare to the spirit of the Sufi spiritual culture; it may be a coincidence that it was Islamic in its outer-cultural face.

Or if looked at from another perspective, more truly so, the religious aspect as we are made to psychologically formulate, as a general psyche, may not have been so then, as in truth it may be the cultural element that was truly the meaning of religion, which the ignorant clergy may have corrupted and made it a political tool to control and rule by oppressing the innocent. This remains till today the dominant ‘trick of the trade’ of the present day system of world controlling ideologies.

 

One of the greatest creative arts of this country with the deeply rich past was its magical powers as contained in its musical traditions and folklore. The Sufis could not have found a better system of cultural creation elsewhere, perhaps not in the same flavor and color for sure as it found here in this country, and what more could its mission have aimed at but to exploit the spiritual riches of this land, not only to catch up with its glorious past, but to take it along with it on a cultural tide of such beauty and strength that it would rhyme with the primal song and poetry of creation itself.

 

 It is this poetry that flows out from the eternal spring of the mystical lore of Sufi inspirations, that it at once enrolls the cream of humanity to an everlasting cultural meaning and value that will live as long as the human spirit exists, no matter how it may deviate in errors of darkness, straying away, from its main course of destiny.

The Sufi culture of India takes music as its main source of poetical expressions, fills it with Sufi spiritual richness which only the sensitive psyche can absorb, as the creative geniuses of these two arts combined will finally lead to the path of self realization and illumination.

 The sensitive spirit needs a ‘wink of a gesture’ a useful Indian expression,- ‘to get it’, and the rest will follow suit by its own creative impetus.

 The Sufi is well equipped with all the timeless wisdom and the talents that go with it, that the cultural design which it brought along was hardly an effort to the thinking mind, as it simply flowed into the heart like natural spring, as if from the eternal resources of life itself, filled with a song, a poetry and a dance divine.

 This was to match the magic beauty and creativity, and the joys of celebrations that make life not just palpable and tolerable but enlighten the spirit with the truth and beauty of existence and to revere it back within gratefulness and prayer.

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What then is this great Sufi secret cultural system that works wonders on the human psyche and is reflected through individual beings as well?

 It is very simple, but may not necessarily be available to anybody and everybody, for it is protected by the very nature of its formal existence, as its origins remain in the purity of the human spirit and the sensitivity of a highly developed system of creating order of the mind body and the spirit, preparing the living species to the paradisiacal joys of existence.

You may be born of a certain cultural background, call it human or animal; but that may not necessarily be all that you need. It would be rather virtuous to work upon the realization of the truth that all human cultural patterns follow the secret in its original spiritual or intellectual wisdom.

 After which, it’s a natural creative phenomenon of an individual transformation, which may translate into a whole community of a people and will organize around this particular individual .That is the how different orders and schools of mystical thought are created, and influence one whole society of  people.

 This is the true reason for the success of all human civilizations, including the Islamic spirituality, that have existed so far as we can see them through the greatest of all the creative residue they left behind in the cultural visibility of an eternal truth that no one can crush out, while to the sensitive psyche this is the eternal treasure it thrives on, and knows the secret source of its strength.

 It is precisely for these very patterns of primal wisdom absorbed by the Sufis that Islam was more of a cultural success, and did correctly exploit the human potentials around the globe then did any other of its contemporaries. In order to check out the authenticity of this historical fact you need only to examine objectively the Great Art creations produced by the Sufi inspired culture and wisdom, to give us a globally distributed rich culture of architectural monuments and cities, fine art, crafts and some of the greatest spiritual wisdom of poetic beauty, not to mention least, the performing arts coupled with the rest to create one whole of a magical spell that makes life simply a pleasure to float away.

 

THE SUFI CULTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT

 

It would be rather erroneous, as may have been done by those who felt the need that the whole Sufi cultural pattern was to be pious and holy all the time, no casual time to relax and while away. The actual truth may be quite the opposite and the esoteric seriousness may have been all in perfect balance with say a culture in humour as also the indulgence in the passions of the senses, a total extravagant life style, but all in harmony of a holistic system of a living cultures.

 

This is not in the least to get nostalgic, as may be termed, of the glory of the past age and be accused of moving out of the so called ‘present reality’, but it is rather to see the cultural pattern of human existence with a different frame of reference, that is the historic elements of time, as we are made to believe, and examine the human truth itself in the realization of a culture with a different sense of historical time-perspective. This again is nothing to do with recounting what was historically factual but rather to point out what has been brushed aside by old make-believe excuses, as a study of culture of the underlying forces, as the actual content of as must be the ‘human history of living times’, suppressed for some reason, not merely a past, dead and gone by.

 

Thus the culture of entertainment that exploited the other side of the human talent to polish it with passion’s delight, the cultural refinement reached such heights that the whole circle of spiritual harmony of the human culture as a whole was now complete.

The cultural entertainment may visibly be there no more but the centric power of the germ of creativity in the form of a core culture is still alive as undercurrent.

 

The Sufi sanctuary is a complex of this very cultural pattern created by one of the greatest Sufi legends of its time, which has become a commemoration of this school of Sufi culture that continued in growth and strength as a whole people, spread far and wide, full of positive creativity and enhancement of the human spirit.

 The complex came to develop in a cultural existence by a succession of a whole fleet of socio cultural dimensions that formed a place of a complete system of human development, sustenance and celebration, enforced by a living community of a Sufi tradition and cultural values, permanently resident here and is part of a people which gathers around the complex and the holy campus in communion.

 

ARCHITECTUR

The architectural complex that defines the physical as well as cultural space of the Sufi sanctuary has been created in the spiritual atmosphere and of architectural elements, as may be defined by the fineness and sensitivity that will encompass the human activities inside its spatial complex.

 The sanctuary is spatially well defined, and is proportionately designed according to the basic services it primarily provides, plus as a creative spatial-exploitation, to influence the senses, by the elements of geometry and design. Therefore, to anyone who comes within the sanctuary’s campus, the very entrance to the space produces, consciously or otherwise, a fine effect upon the person’s spirit, mind and his physical well-being. This phenomenon, strictly confirming to the techno-spiritual aspects of the art of architecture, implies that the architecture here was profoundly influenced by the Sufi cultural intellect. An architect therefore would quite necessarily have been ‘culturally’ a ‘Sufi’ in this case.

 

To the traditionally faithful, as his spirit is free and open due to such a revered traditional system inherited from generation on, will get unconsciously influenced, together with the rest of the culture, as an effect which will feed his spirit, leaves the premises with inner satisfaction, his/her spiritually washed clean, pure and shining, after having ‘experienced’ being in the place. This goes to observe the fact that architecture, though by itself of not much importance, that is when it seen as merely a cultural component, individualized and separated, having  therefore no contextual significance but will make a meaningful contribution in harmonious relationship as a whole, inclusive of all the spirituality in sum total of the sanctuary.

Architecture here includes the landscape gardening that may well be imagined with a few remnants of the environmental city landscaping, a separate genius of the Sufi culture of the time, of creations of some of the most wonderful garden designs along the lakes of the city.

 Also attached to the immediate side of the sanctuary a valley of an orchard, of a regional variety and a special breed of juicy mangoes was in full abundance. Finally the landscaping within the sanctuary’s complex was well planned out according to the spatial elements of architecture as aesthetics as well as functionality. For the truly Sufi architect, or a genuine architect, the whole sanctuary will constitute part of architecture as a holistic living culture.

 

 Different architectural complexes may adopt its cultural fillings or interiors according to the cultural environment it may happen to exist in. In this particular case, it is the elements of music and poetry that fill up the cultural interiors as the element of sound and the intellectual expression of poetical richness, which coupled with the rest of the Sufi magic, will deliver the spirit to illuminated colors of paradise. Architecture here strongly though subtly, resounds the predominant musical element of the sanctuary.

 

 In other places of the architectural complexes spiritual poetry in the form of visual patterns and decorative imageries, as in Islamic art, are well imbibed through the highly evolved art of calligraphy and geometric patterns, having reached such heights that can be compared only to the greatest civilizations of human dwellings ever to have existed.

 

MUSIC

 

The forms of music that strongly exist in this Sufi culture, with its musical bases being the classical music of India, are both instrumental and vocal, and as wide in its innovation, variety, and creativity, as you will find of the diverse cultural quality of Indian ness, as much the more variety of music. Almost endless stream of continuous different kinds of musical creations as there are people with talents, churned out from bases of a rich creative quality of Indian classical music itself.

 

It would be appropriate perhaps to relate to this sanctuary to the eventual climax in the form of the annual celebration of its festival. During this cultural culmination of Sufi spiritual force, resulting in the coming together of all the elements that form the whole cultural diversity of Indian Sufi culture, the whole complex becomes one pool of vibrant energy as if caught in some totally divine form of mysterious vision that leaves the participant in a state of total spiritual delight.

 

It is during this period of celebration and meditation that the real spirit of life in the positive form of the Sufi lore may become visibly felt through, and no one may be left untouched by this spiritual happening and emotional excitement.

 

 To give further boost there are all kinds of spiritual entertainments to each ones likes. Each Sufi group or individual or a whole community may bring together with it its own cultural celebrations in the form of its own manner of rituals, music, poetry, movements and performances.

 

 Among the most significantly popular forms of music as revered by the popular form of Sufi mysticism is the Great hall of music’s ‘qawwalli’ music. The other being the instrumental music in the form of, the Indian equivalent of a western clarinet, ‘the shehnai’, set along with a whole band of musicians comprising the windpipe instrument, the drums, and other instruments of accompaniment. Although theses are the form of two main, relatively, popular kinds of music that fill the air of the whole celebration, there exist other forms of equally significant music, some wholly instrumental, abstract in some sense, while some are almost recitals with no musical instruments at all, yet musically very sophisticated and in a strict sense based on the classical music of India.

 

 The Sufi cultural festivities and celebrations will not be limited to the complex alone but will be spread around in the streets and the whole resident communities which now will turn into one whole vibrant phenomenon with a festive mood, and spiritual activities will dominate the socio-cultural atmosphere.

THE GREAT HALL OF MUSIC

 

The visibly elaborate and popular among the now each and every corner of the campus and the adjoining streets, is the great musical hall, where for six consecutive nights will be the performance of the highly revered Music of qawwallis, by some of the finest musical groups of this kind, from all over India, and the neighboring countries, which were once culturally comprising the great country of India. The performance of this music by itself is of not much significance, nor in the least, the performers here.

 

 The Sufis who assemble in the Great hall who under the divine inspiration of the great Sufi Spirit, the spiritual backbone of this whole cultural complexity, become then the whole experience and expression of the inherent spiritual phenomenon that erupts and reaches, as divinely destined, into such ecstatic climax that it reflects the inner depth of the whole Sufi cultural complex.

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The qawwalli ‘kalams’ as they are traditionally referred, are works of poetry written by some of the greatest Sufi Poets and are as well integrated as creation of this particular form of music, that the whole system of this Sufi school designs a very definite methodology for an absolute spiritual illumination through it.

 Though this does not happen that obviously and superficially but is part of one whole study within the confines of a given Sufi culture, going into the very depths of the mysteries of life, and must be part of a whole life time full of study including travel, explorations, plus an elderly-wise person’s guidance, or a Sufi school of a community which traditionally practices a culture keeping in line with Sufi traditions.

 

The Great hall of music that comes alive only during the festive celebrations, becomes a unique place where a concentrated spiritual event is in the happening, where Sufis in their mystical variety form together a spiritual gathering, sharing the sacred moments of spiritual joy that they lend themselves to, of a spiritual ecstasy they work out , ostentatiously a very emotional discharge , but within they hold together a very organized and strong energy that takes them to a spiritual height that they are so confident and almost drenched in from within.

Here there is no place for any gimmicks or fake dramatic performance, but genuine Sufi action taking up, almost uncapsizable by the ordinary untrained psyche. The moments are concentrated and just right enough to each individual as also to the people on the whole, as though the whole phenomenon was like a deep river ,turbulent and strong, is moving with such gush towards its goal as if divinely predestined it were, towards its destined goal, always attained and yet never ending?

 

The mood of the place is so influenced by the magic of the music’s total effect that there is a subtle air of an overlapping grip of order in a seeming whirlpool of emotional celebration and ecstatic joy. This may at times culminate into a moment of an absolute spiritual high which when felt by the whole gathering gets summed up through the genuine outbreak of a trance manifest through a Sufi elderly person, which should be noted, is not a happening on an individual level, as the whole happening is bound in one thread of a spirit that acts its part in a divinely order.

These may be precious spiritual moments to be cherished, as it all together forms one whole happening that may be eternal and will lead finally to a maturity and development an inner consciousness to contribute in this world of living, and the next.

 

This is an event on its own of great importance to one particular mood or kind of Sufi variety and it is also connected with the celebration of spirituality as a whole. But there are other spiritual happenings in different forms extending perhaps on a different frame of mind, but deeply connected to the magnetic point, the central aura of a great form of energy that spiritually is a power of inner transmutation and wonder, which everyone

THE SHEHNAI

  

The second most significant musical form to band the festive mood and celebrations of this Sufi culture is in the form of the ‘shehnai’, coupled with drums and the wind pipe instrument, as its main accompaniment, giving out a musical melody purely instrumental though sometime as a popular indirect demand, will flow out with a thematic tune.

This music is purely classical in taste, but it has to have a listening audience especially sensitive, to take it up as well for a spiritual enhancement, as real entertainment of the spirits. As a result requires an order of spiritual formation of a Sufi-group that is well trained for it. It is definitely of rich musical purity and strength, if properly applied will lead to and assist in a higher form of a spiritual stage.   

Even so this music has a subtler effect, as a part of the festival as it becomes a background of sound expressing the joyfully celebrating spirit of the moment. The sound quality is purer and hits the esoteric points directly and strongly here as there are no electronic amplifications modifying the raw sounds and vibrations.

Since the campus is large and spacey there are many different musical performances, rituals and chanting in chorus happening, at times in a timely order, while sometimes overlapping each other.

 The qawwalli music needs some explanation as it is composed of innovative elements such as the combination of poetry and music, unmixable according to the puritan’s point of view.. But here the blending of the two is done most successfully, though, not without the  initiator, master genius, Sufi poet and music innovator, to accomplish such a task, it consequently became one of the most creative music of all times.

 The musical elements are extracted from the classical music treasures available in abundance in India, while poetry is a constant, on going creation of the various Sufi creations divinely inspired and geared to spark the fire in the sensitive heart of those who come in touch with it.

There are a few points not to be missed out here, which is, that any kind of linguistic facts are a reality that needs to be made aware of. To master a language is to be able to read its poetry, which takes not only almost a whole life time but also much that may be the cultural associations that go together with it. Therefore to be able to get a gist of the poetical kalams being recited or classically sung in the qawwalli form of music, you have to be either be born into that culture and language or if an outsider, must master the language and absorb the culture, which although may not be done overnight, is not impossible to attain. This is needful only if you must take this style of Sufi reference for spiritual rejuvenations.

 There are many doors and many different spaces to suit the mood and the situation which the seeker is welcome to attain its goal of the higher. Thus may the symbolism contain in the architectural elements of the Sufi sanctuaries in general. As part of this symbolism fulfilling a very practical purpose is the Door of heaven, which ritualistically enables you to perform a pilgrimage compared as equivalent to the traditional pilgrimage of the holy Mecca.

 

The above are the two major popular forms of music during the festival, while there are other kinds equally significant in their own context, and just as musically rich, that is, have divine energy to illuminate, that is when the rest of the methodology is applied and a whole Sufi culture is absorbed. The climax of spiritual heights are attained only by a holistic system where all the parts are activated in relation to each other and the final outcome reached, each part is significant only in  that  sense, there should be no hierarchy of spiritual elements. Some music and ritualistic dance performance will have no entertainment value but is aimed at its own inner meaning and purpose which is well defined and in perfect order.

 THE GREAT DOOR OF WELCOME

 

The sanctuary is spatially divided in almost definite purposeful events, spiritually functional space elements. There are different spaces for different purposes for different activities, and functions, whether, sacred, mundane, social, health-related, and educational or devotional, space for the mentally touched, for the Sufis who play it different, as varying from the mind set up of the others.

 

 All this variety is tied together in an invisible unity of the spiritual bondage and deep reverence of the Great Sufi Spirit.

 

 The most beautiful symbolic element of spiritualism and architecture is the Great Door, which is a gigantic doorway purely symbolic of welcoming you to the space and spirituality of this great Sufi abode. It is not meant for the purpose of a functional door.

 

And quite truly so you may enter through it and are inside almost suddenly into the beauty of the whole campus, to start with the two huge caldrons on either sides, and almost after it is the grand kitchen. These are spaces for the most significant social activity of this Sufi sanctuary, which is one whole institution, with a complete culture of a functions meant to sustain a community of resident as well as a moving people, starting  with the social service, the most successful of its kind, of the basic provision of nutritional and fiber diet, the whole year around, of a cooked cereal made from barley grains, mostly salted but at times sweet and enriched with dry fruits.

 

. This is nothing to do with feeding the starving beggars of the poor country, it is actually a social service related to spiritual functioning of a system.

The real reason of distribution of this cereal complete meal twice a day all year around must need be actually meant for a free dietary supply to all those who may be seekers of spirituality and wisdom, as also visitors and travelers who come to share their treasures of knowledge wisdom in the tradition of Sufi mystic lore, or anyone who may be devoting himself or herself towards a non worldly commitment of temporary devotion and meditation. An observation which otherwise may escape my notes here is that there are no modern sanitation facilities, within the inner premises of the sanctuary, for obvious reasons of maintaining its spiritual puritan value system. This may well have something to do with the kind of nature based system of sanitation that must have existed then, with abundance of a space available outside the premises which now may seem as though vanished.

Therefore the Sufi sanctuary becomes a holistic ground and space for the seeker and the shower of higher knowledge and wisdom, inclusive of an infrastructure meant to act as a mechanism for the continuation of a progressive human culture as propagated by the Sufi inner philosophy.

 

 There are therefore these great caldrons which cook food on special occasions when there are more people, especially during the festivities. In this space defined by the Great Door, are also included the Great Hall of music, which will host the musical performance during special occasions. Situated around nearly the same space is a small traditional medicinal system based on the ancient Egyptian and the Greek schools of healing.

 

THE DOORS TO THE SACRED SPACE

 

The space leads you to through two separate doorways to yet another huge space coverage which grounds the main sacred mausoleum and a huge prayer and meditation hall. This further ends towards the spring-well water body of a natural reservoir descending into the valley, in the corner on the top is now a green graveyard full of cats, originally meant for other casual purposes. This space where the sacred point is situated is the largest space where people surround to meditate in communion focusing their energies towards the Great Sufi revered and loved by all.

 

The architectural elements are simple in design and decorated with  simple motifs, this is to keep up with the simplicity of the Sufi lifestyle, which believes in a more sophisticated spirituality and wisdom, rather than a materially rich and physical life culture. The Sufi will usually not reveal his secrets by extravagantly flouting his outer show of glitters, and will remain quite and soft when his inner life is fulfilled and the treasure found. However although the decorative extravaganza is omitted, a sophisticated architectural space and its elements of doorways facades and others mark the basic cultural elements of the sanctuary.

TOLERANCS AND LOVE

 

The Sufi sanctuary is a place open to all people and its tolerance is reflection of the Sufi philosophy of real liberal as well as progressive human values, which remain still inherent within the traditions and the frameworks of its inner socio-spiritual fabrics.

Sufi energy is to do with the ultimate spiritual advancement of a human being that happens only in a holistic chain relationship of an individual and the community together, which finally culminates into a culture of great human advancement. In here therefore you will find anyone that comes from as diverse cultural background as to the nature and purpose of its visit which may be the most casual to the most meditatively spiritual.

 There are different zones of spaces divided among which some are more relaxed, some are more intense while some are sacred, others purely functional like the grand kitchen and the caldrons.

The liberal views are neither underplayed nor overlooked and quite astonishingly are in one perfect balance it would seem, and such is the reflection of the general trend as the cultural feature of the whole fleet of a people who have been touched with the light of the liberal values of this great Sufi influence. This goes to say as an observation that a community and a people can be very similar in its basic cultural organization, as the truth wherever you may wonder will remain one and the same, while the color and the outer appearance of culture will vary. The only problem is when a people and a human society if is of a growth lacking of an authentic spiritual base would become a breeding ground for all kinds of maladies human and alien.

THE COMMUNITY

 

The community resident around the sanctuary are a people of a very defined cultural pattern but of a higher maturity that takes up all the possibility of time and its sometime moments of historical distress, only to give back a recourse to sort out the disturbance. How this happens is whether understandable or not, the expression of it may however take on creative wings of an artistic expression and will enroll itself as part of dream extracted as though lore of magical fantastic tales which turn into mythologies, legends, folk and cultural literature of times gone by, yet timeless as it may all seem in a dream.

 

The community of people is seemingly on their own but in fact they are part of a whole people who are waves in the ocean of this Sufi cultural melody and celebration. They may not be the resident ones, who belong to different cultural and moods of human expressions of nature, will still be part of one whole system of the cultural spirit.

The diversity of the cultural traits will be as many as there may  be different kinds of people each mutually respecting and on a more mature level moving along in the same stream.

 

The real secret of the success of this kind of a community is the use of life’s most powerful energies of Love. It is this love that binds the whole community not only to itself but makes it a significant unwritten law of its cultural dictum of humanitarian values and a deeper sense of tolerance. It is felt that owing to this particular value that is being treasured secretly as the highest ideal of respect and traditional practice that the community gets its energy rejuvenated even in times of the most low and acute famines droughts of human values and moments of darkness and distress.

If you will get into the cultural pool of this community and its spirituality you will be moved with inner tears and will either not ever leave it or take with some, from the eternal spring of love that has its source in emotional psyche of the people here. It is a miraculous wonder to have this fire of love still unextinguished, by natures own forces it may have a character as we may be able to say, is too strong for a temporary calamity however great, to shake it off.

 

 It may now be  understood rightly how a particular cultural influence can spread not by the force of mans political trickery but rather  as human nature guides it towards the truth as its rightful destiny rather than anything else, and there is no false pride and ego of a genuinely successful culture community and a whole people, save except the minor insignificant germ of ignorance, which in the eternity of a life time may be a passing straw that no one will ever remember and will disappear as soon as it had appeared.

 

The rebellious nature of this spirit is very subtle and never as a rule violent, although it is not fearful of any eventuality when it comes to the test of its own self credibility, when its own values are put on test by situations such as may make the individual a point of triumph even if it goes deep under and never comes back ever again but becomes an eternally living legends in the eternity of life’s dream formations and unconscious world of fantastic tales as the treasure of the human psyche.

 

 Love therefore is always the winner in the end and the negative are the ones who will simply be annihilated into oblivions of the dark spaces, holes of recycling space matter.

 

 The Sufi sanctuary becomes a great place for spiritual rejuvenation, many a journeys may terminate here as the whirlpool of a gigantic form of invisible spiritual beauty is welcoming to the thirsty wonderer and there is all to take in great abundance here.

 

Once again the community is a complete system of cultural sustenance that maintains itself in the cycles of timely order, that is, the whole year around each and every day and moments are utilized for cultural fillings and spiritual works. Music and poetry as always forms the bases of the main cultural course here and its foundation is rooted to the Indian classical music.

 

 One of the greatest forms of musical cultures is in the purely vocal poetical recitals of the tragic lore, as the human need of sustaining itself of the tragic element. Music and poetical recital form in the classical mood does the magic of healing the spirit’s wound of a tragedy that may have been emotionally felt by an entire community, is relived through great emotional drama of intellectual recounting of a heroic tale only to be taken up by the musical food of tragic sound that will bring you fresh energy of living another day.

 

HISTORY IN LEGENDS

The usual trend of being related about the past is filled the political nature of historical records and nothing really significant culturally speaking. There is no history as such of all the positive aspects of human civilizations, but modern history is rather filled with sicker side of its negative life destructive view of at times deliberate intentions of demoralizing all of the past or merely terming some vaguely expressed notions of a glorious age, without specifying what the greatness of that age really was.

 

History and the concept of psychological perception of time is a tricky business which the modern world tried to exploit to its own advantage to suit its life negative attitudes, by simply dividing everything into the past present and the future. While in reality there may exist another sense of historical record of time and different frame of reference with respect to the sense of the psychology of Time.

 

The source of most historical records actually  about  some of the greatest periods of human existence as culture and civilizations has existed through  Art in the expressive form of folklore, paintings and sculpture, mythologies, tales of fantasies and enchantments, music and poetical literature , and the world of performing arts including street culture.

Therefore the only real and most genuine sources of historical evidence of some of the greatest Sufis, as with the particular reference of our concern, here may be found in the myths and legends passed on by way of folklore, music and poetry and perhaps even the fantastic tales related by words of mouth by some freaks, may be undeciphered or mistranslated as pure fiction of fantasy. Most particularly in our case what best remains for us here in the most direct and uncorrupt-able form of historical evidence undestructively passed on by the oral traditions of folklore and music.

 

The first most popular legend of the great Sufi of our concern here is his famous folktale relating his encounter with the local establishment of the seated herd of camel. The general trend of the story is taking up the historical personalities of concern, the main protagonist, as the head character of the tale and the background as insignificant or relatively diffused, with a twist of enchanting fascination that gives it a quality of suspense and awe inspiring creativity with which the artist of folklore strike the human psyche that it will stick on forever.

At the same time serving multiple purposes, the psychology behind a tale of enchantment in this case concerned may have to do with the subtleties of magical happening as can never be understood by the common mundane working of the mind and the psyche, may only be understood as folktale analogies of wonder and amazements. That this may further have to do with the psychology of dreams is another subject matter of concern that we need not go into here.

It is mostly with Christ or The great ones walking on water or changing water into wine that brings us to a certain mystery that is being imprisoned by modern history as unscientific fiction and therefore of no relevance to truth.

The real truth however remains outside the shallow thinking capabilities of modern day cultural psyche and scientific psychology.

The folktales of the Great Sufi here are a creative cultural embalming of the highest spiritual attainments of an individual soul that became such a perfected symbolism of human values and creative abilities, that its presence is now eternal by way of  folklore here as in our case, undamaged or distorted with the passage of time.

Therefore the best form of writing even as higher forms of  wisdom may be passed down as historical recordings but only seen from the higher interpreting psyche of a highly developed human culture, unlike the present day modern world of cut and dry shallow scientific materialism.

 

The word miracle seems to be more concerned with a rather shallow way of viewing the actual potential of a folklore phenomenon and the secret factual contents behind. To try and explain by and during the genuine relationship of an authentic Sufi living master or the transmission of an ever living legend and spiritual energy of a great Sufi spirit , will give us an insight into the required moments quest of wisdom and knowledge.

THE GREAT SUFI SPIRIT

 

The Great Sufi Spirit blessed the world with, as destined and required by its culture and age, a whole life-system of working and philosophy of such a kind that is carried on from generation on as tradition value-based system of a creative-Art and culture in our sanctuary as music and poetry.

The meditative aspects climax into its inbuilt system brought through the rich heritage of being witness to great traditions of musical performance inclusive of the great Sufi poetical treasure, the Sufi elements, and its core philosophy contained within it.

 The holistic Sufi culture would respect with great understanding and wisdom the different aspects of the sanctuary, in its physical forms, presently visibly as also literature, as much as the spiritually invisible forces that transmute through the unconscious, whether in a wakeful or a dream state, of insights and wonders of wisdom of divine treasure. This then defines the emotional and personal contact with The Great Sufi Spirit which is as alive as a living source of a Transpiring Sufi Master, though not directly in a physical living form, may fulfill the necessity of contextual human need, whether for the most basic need of survival or for a higher state of spiritual attainment. Thus becomes a whole psyche of a people intoxicated with the divine energy for the quest of which many a seeker float across in the sanctuary from every culture around the world.

THE CULTURE OF THE SUFI COMMUNITY

 

The traditional Sufi community that is resident around the sanctuary living from the graceful blessings of The Great Spirit may appear like any other community or people but if examined will revel a system of cultural web of a perfectly organized society absorbing all the shockwaves of errors and even alien invasion of cultural corruption. All those who may see from an externalist view will attribute the most juvenile faults, not in the least trying to understand the actual backgrounds and cultural roots from which all seem to have emanated.

The culture of this community is deeply rooted in the inspiration and energy of the Great Spirit that laid the foundation of such a secret treasure full of cultural traditions, and such that it was destined to enlighten the world of life eternally to come no matter what periods of darkness may befall us.

 The present day darkness and cultural holocaust will be drowned in oblivion and the secrets will be reveled in time appropriate.

 

The community that lives here ever since the time of the Great Spirit has a beautiful cultural richness from all over the east based on the powerful energy of love. Much that may be the culture of the place, of the community it all remains a natural secret and no one can ever suspect anything of such a nature and be negative about it, for it is reveled to only those who may be engulfed in it The cultural context that may be elaborated here will perhaps not do justice to the real beauty of it as there is shortage of space but  the expression of emotions may take form through the guise of Art.

 

One of the basic forms of the cultural components of this place are in the form of music and poetry, and yet again this takes the nucleus of the cultural celebration whether in times of happiness, which is the time of union of love-marriage, or the tragic time of death. and tragedy.

Among the many sacred traditions of this Sufi community that has evolved its own unique system of creative celebration is the way it observes the holy month of ‘Ramadan’ the days of fasting, a month of meditative observance where the methodology of physically getting hold of the inner movements of the spirit towards a refinement of its senses as also the soul, are carried out on a community bases.

Then again the vital form of interchange happens through the expressive medium of poetical recitals in the form of music that touches the listener’s emotions and moves the spirit. Here groups of performers of this sacred recitation will move around the whole community before dawn to awaken the people for making their meals before the day of fasting begins.

 

During the love celebration, the central point of celebration is energized through the two main forms of music, one is the shehnai, the Indian form of clarinet, though may be quite different in content, and the other form of music that the community itself partakes comprising wedding songs of folklore, with one single musical instrument, a traditional kind of drum. This may seem as a woman dominated musical celebration. But the element of a healthy competitiveness always brings both the sexes to put up their creative spirits to the best of their talents. In truth, and it just might as well be so, a natural thing after all, that both the sexes on a community-culture bases have naturally gifted equal potentials of creativity whether it be a song, a dance, or poetry, or the visual arts or architecture.

It must for sure be the politics of ignorance that put one or the other of the sexes as better or weaker.

 

 The cultural bases of gender equality are regulated through traditional norms that may not at all be fixed and as usual all is centrally focused around the nucleus of the Great Spirit. The feminine culture is dominant in its own part culturally; while the men are well organized in their own cultural venture and so finally, it may be stated that in truth there is no ideas of competitions here, instead the culture of mutual respect based on the quality of love will combine the effects and rejoice the general spirit of the community as a whole.

The west has developed the concept that only its society has the ideal culture of gender equality, lacking any subtleties, equality in a childish way, demanding an equal right to do a moral act of evil, as would the male counter part happen to indulge…

 

Therefore the mutual exchange that may happen between the two genders will happen under the guise of and in the form of humor and casual exchanges. Thus in this sub-community with a very distinct  culture, compact and complete by itself even so having been formed from the influences of varied kinds, as must be the nature of any culture around the world may truly be termed as human. Nothing remains as powerful a thread that binds all and such cultures around the whole world even of other forms of natural existence, to the extend, a tree; a rose bush, is the essential power of Love.

 Even so it might seem that as in all times the way it all functions eternally is, that after all it has to continuously be maintained, and the high tech world has no room for that, it’s a use and throw away culture. While a real sustainable culture will quite necessarily maintain itself continuously and work hard to strive to restore order through its intellect when things may go wrong

. Perhaps it may be so that a disease called ignorance may infect a certain part of the people and a community, and before it cancerously becomes a deadly kind the healing has to begin.

 There is no disease that may not find a cure. The knowledge of healing from the basest maladies to the most mysterious as well as obscure ones will require an expertise that only a medicine man of a holistic wisdom will be able to create.

Sufis usually heal on various level, have the secret remedies for any given sickness and their knowledge is not superficial but authenticated and strictly scientific after careful examination of the wisdom from the most classic and ancient civilizations such as the Greek, the Egyptian and the Indian and Chinese systems of medicine. Sufis may happen to be practicing medicine-people as any other professionals, although the basic healing knowledge is more part of the over all knowledge and wisdom as accumulated over time and validated by spiritual developments as a holistic cultural attainment.

 

Life is eternal and there is no evolution of the species as according to Darwin’s theory of man coming from the ape, all there is for our present moment is to work on our consciousness and as for the theory of evolution, it is very simple as man is just as much of a living form as any other living organic being, only as far we may be able to see , as we are human, to look for an organized system of social cultural existence, just so as other animals and being work out theirs.

 The quality of love, creativity and intelligence is equally present in animals and birds and their spirituality can also take up as high a dimension as can any human great spirit can. Animals within their own system have the strong quality of love and produce magical Art forms to lure the lover for love, pure and simply for procreation. In their architectural and technical dexterity, is perhaps the same divinity and creation as any human as ever achieved. There is no aspect under which a human organizes his life and society that the animal or other living system cannot as well do. Human kind so far has never lived a savage life, as per our knowledge even when he lived in the caves, not necessarily that may be termed as the typical beginning of human creation as species, how do we know human settlement  did not exist in another form of culture other than the cave style?

The point here is that human development can become a complete system beyond its own savagery, just as must the animal kingdom reach its own. They too have societies, spirituality of their own kind, perhaps totally different from our own in form and color, but just as organized, as ordered and systematic as humans. The animal world also maintains itself as it continues its cultural development and reaches great heights as the same Spirit exists in all living forms.

All except the byproducts in the form of negative that we call disease will happen, whether in human society or as micro-organisms and this has to cure and the microbes wiped out.

The Sufi element is the natural instinct of life preservation and making it reach its final destined goal with regards the system as developed by nature in other organic existence, only then would the human civilization be complete and the world will be a paradise of Love, Art, and joyful creation- celebration of life in its ultimate height.

This is neither a very ambitious venture nor a utopian dream, but rather it pronounces a destiny that is prophesied as the mysteries of all mystery.

MEDITATION

The sanctuary is originally also quite significantly meant as a place for meditation under the divine guidance of the Great Sufi spirit as also an accompanying Sufi master or teacher. The main course of event would entail therefore a total background of study in the tradition of the Sufi lore, and a practical travel learning experience, as also the development of a talent. The Sufi school being inspired here is deliberate and compulsive in human endeavor to bring about a systematic learning in a seeker connecting to a holistic thought of the Sufi order.

The Sufi will go to an isolated space in the wilderness of nature’s retreat, quite possibly in a nearby valley, for a definite predetermined period of time for a moment of intense form of meditation. The kind of meditation is flexible and the methodology may be quite irrelevant, it’s the isolation is the most important.

 The school therefore would comprise of a totally different cultural orientation such that the focus is mainly upon the development of the personal talent, as according to the intellectual quality of the pupil. The first year therefore would be spend totally in the company of the teacher to formulate the linguistic bases of the Sufi culture, which is Arabic, Persian and Hindi.

The linguistic foundation seems like the basic foundation for any real educational system, as the talent here for the expressive quality for cultural integration of the fresh pupil is the starting point of any school of thought.

The coming of the Sufi Culture in India was to coincide with the absorption of the Hindi language , from the classic sweetness of the original ‘brjj bhasaha’, the real Hindi ,unlike the much propagated and politicized Hindi version as utilized by the culturally dry official outlets of linguistic exercises. The result was the improvised Urdu language that became an undeclared colloquial Indian language in the contemporary world. Symbolizing the cultural synthesis of the three great languages of Hindi, Persian and Arabic. Thus it becomes imperative for the Sufi novice to begin first the mastery of the linguistic talent, spoken as well as written and the ability to read.

 This being the foundation of most Sufi literature would enable the pupil to devour the vast Sufic lore available.

Sufi study must necessarily be based upon the practical working knowledge of everyday life with the extensive exploitations of ones own personal talents and dexterity of ones own well being.

THE MESSAGE OF LOVE

The greatest message, as may be inferred from the cultural observations, of the Great Sufi Spirit is that of Love, and its declaration and defining interpretation of the word Islam as divine humanity.

Truth is the same for all, and so is the lord of creation and destruction, the all knowing power the all mighty and the eternal Great Spirit. It may all depend upon the person’s heart and his genuineness as a human being and the rest is all culture.

Our main concern here therefore is culture awareness and education, although the universal humanitarian quality may be inherent in the core philosophy, the essential character of culture tradition are basic, and become the educative bases of the whole mystery of Sufi lore. Which is why the cultural adaptation by people was readily accepted by the general psyche, and hence the change of religion. Although it may be inferred that the Sufi concept of religion, no matter which one it might be is different from the orthodoxy.

It is a shame that the major political forces in today’s time have taken cover behind the trickery of manipulating the people by pulling up the religious sentiments abusing faith beliefs and traditions.

The Sufi inheritance is the basic human intellectual power, an undercurrent of cultural enforcement that runs through the fabric of human society eternally, activated as though from the inner forces of nature. No matter how clever the outer culture of human abuse may result into, it will ultimately be out smartened by the power of cultural authenticity and spiritual courage of nature. The Sufi Spirit is in the light of this insight is the cultural shield under which the basic human values are protected and preserved, and the seed is sown once again to create the garden of paradise.

 

THE SANCTUARY AS A PLACE OF LEARNING

  

The Sufi sanctuary as a school or a place of learning for all ages is perhaps the only place of its kind that still holds a system inherited over the years of learning through all the different levels imparting the fruits of knowledge and wisdom from every small details of life The basic linguistic essentials, once mastered, you move to higher forms of spiritual inner forms of knowledge that be transpired through a living master as well as the energy of the Great Spiritual energy eternally present here.

 What remains in between these two basic and the final stages will be the cultural aspect of the whole sanctuaries active treasure full of rituals, traditions and celebrations, not excluding the vast literature of poetical wisdom through the decorative power of music, together when applied works wonder not just in educating as in conventional modern day school but a joyful source of treasure to explore and rejoice in the attainment of it.

 

This sanctuary though remains a basic centric point of spiritual influence and a learning place for the thirsty, and its extension may spread into other specialized schools of Art and Architecture, medicinal science, as well as the performing Arts, and basic knowledge needed for the working of any society human, in the Spirit of The Great Sufi tradition.

 

The tradition holds that the relationship established between the resident community, with a very distinct and definite set of cultural establishment, with the people also a part of this same community but with different cultural background, still finds an interaction, of cultural exchange that may be truly termed as part of the spiritual excitement, and reaches very subtle form of traditional creations that remain within the flexibility of the eternal system of human life.

Thus we see if we examine, that a whole group, families or an individual will as part of this spiritual cultural sharing come to the sanctuary as a visiting guest and live in the family of the resident Sufi Community here, only to be immersed in the colors of spiritual exchanges and share with all there is to share from the most basic physical needs to the most higher forms of spiritual knowledge and wisdom. Therefore the visiting people are the guest and the resident community the host, and exchange physical, material and socio-spiritual-cultural energies.

 

 THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE PEOPLE AND THE COMMUNITY

 

The relationship shared between the guest and the host traditionally in India, is such that the guest is like a divine presence for the host, and is held in the highest esteem, and since the resident community is well within the spiritual aura of The Great Sufi Spirit, it  is under the divine shadow of cultural and spiritual blessings. This is not just a matter of claiming any spiritual or castes superiority, but if closely examined in the cultural and spiritual strength of the people that adopts The Great Sufi Spirit’s cultural and spiritual values to such finesse and purity of the spirit that it become metaphorically colored in the same spiritual colors as The Spirit, that everyone traditionally longs for. The resident community allows the flow of its energy, which it has in abundance, to the host, and the host in deep reverence, is only waiting to be merely touched by this energy as he comes thirsty from afar looking for this divine enrichment. In turn the guest will shower his/her own form of potentials in the form of an exchange of equally compensating  the energy received, by the physical, material, cultural and spiritual gains in exchange for the hospitability he/she has received as also the spiritual ritual he has had the privilege of being washed his soul with.

 This relationship sacred as may be revered by those who have the knowledge of, may be continued from generations on , not simply on an individual level but rather on a community level, each respecting in deep its own traditional culture of their relationship to The Great Sufi Spirit.

 Here the relationship of the whole community of the Sufi culture of India is thus defined, not just from this centers point of view but by and large from the vastly spread Sufi culture of the whole country of India, and its adjoining neighbors.

 

THE DIFFERRENT CULTURES VISITING THE SANCTUARY

 

The hosts of different cultures of people, with their graceful and eternally beloved Sufi Spirit, are such that no one can possibly record the number of its kind. Certain mysterious groups do not wish to get any attention as they will rather work in the quite, dedicating their life to one single spiritual purpose of either having already reached the goal or on their way still, and therefore demand discretion. With due respect to each ones spiritual privacy and secrecy it will be best not to reveal too much of these great cultures that aggregate here more so particularly during the annual festivities, performing their rituals, and leaving, or rather vanishing back in the mysteries of life itself…

Though in general the different cultures that visit here are the most elaborately dressed Sufis along with their masters leading them, it could be very low key, simple folks also along with their own spiritual guides and the whole fleets of followers or fellow compatriots, family and friends, who all gather here and carry out their traditional or innovated, created rituals and performances.

 These above mentioned are not specified in any definite space of the sanctuary, they have no fixed place visibly. While the cultures that are fixed as according to the spaces that they occupy traditionally are as per the performances that are taking place, so reflects their expressions in the form of musical poetry of divine quality, as also sometimes strange performances and rituals from the psychically more intense, the freaks, who are either soft or can be extremely hard beings culturally. Not much else may be said or expressed about them, it may be now be better to be coupled with the real experiencing of the whole phenomenon so as to effectively acknowledge the Truth and participate in it, perhaps become one with it.

This place is not for the simply curious or the ones interested with picture cameras,  you may just as well be wasting your time here and occupying unnecessary space and time. Drink deep or taste not the Castilian spring…

The above mentioned people and their culture is what makes the true face which is composed of the diverse cultural and spiritual colors of this magnificent land called India comprising the Hindi, the Muslims , the Sikhs , etc, that flock together under the shadow of this Great Sufi Spirit, the eternally blissful place, the sanctuary of peace love and  eternal truth.

 

 HILLS AND VALLEYS OF MYSTERY

 

The sanctuary is situated at near bottom part of the most primal spot: the spring well-water reservoir that provided drinking water to the whole community of residents around the sanctuary, even today the drinking water supply for the sanctuary is from this naturally formed water resource.

 As you walk along the path that leads to left part of the valleys, you may half way up, if continued straight, instead of climbing further to turn left, you can instead continue straight and descend into a huge valley formation, the garden valley, lush green as the entrance to the wild ahead. There is a track division as you by-pass the valley, you can either continue straight or you may take a right. If you continue on straight you descend further into the now narrowly descending rocky path. In between you will pass through the palace of the` ‘queen in sorrow,’ magnificent it must have been to drive her sorrows away as it was on the foot of the most mysteriously beautiful and magical valley. There is a flight of stairs, part of the palace, that you must use as the final descent into the steep valley, which otherwise would have been impossible. Now you skip your way between rocks to finally come the first cave from which drips the literally eternal spring water, one of the very sources of physical life. This is though not the real bottom end of the valley as it further descends and dips into a deep naturally formed spring-well, the source believed to contain mysteries unfathomable to the normal mind. On the left side are two cave formations that have often been used to carry out an intense meditation exercise in total isolation which can last for up to forty days more or less, but a definite figure as predetermined.

 This being one of the most rare a beauty of nature so powerfully energiesed that no wonder the Sufis must have hardly missed the place for their meditation exercises

In the valley there are physically found a magical energetic substances which is certain kind of a mineral formations from the internal reactions of the geological magic that trickle in some mysterious material form, is goody much sought after, though almost unprocurable by humans. The reason is simple; this very precious natural treasure is to be searched for, in one of the billions of cracks and crevices in places most remote and unreachably steep part of the rocky formation, straight rock-walls in one long stretch. If reached by some way there is every possibility that before you can get there a whole lot of other living creatures, that abides in the valley  will have devoured it in the first place, These are the scorpions, the snakes, the ‘langoors’- the wild monkeys, that abide there in a whole tribe. Conclusively it means that humans need to have that naturally inborn instinct alive or livened to find that magical treasure.

Certainly it implies that the Sufi when comes here for his meditation exercise he will through a natural gush of energetic need  revive his instinct to find that mysterious energy material fro consuming. This is what will provide him/her with that Great Spiritual energy that will bring him the success of his  meditation exercise to lead on to higher attainments.

 

The Indian cultural richness is for the present context a Sufi dominated culture, what with the crafts, music and literature particularly so spiritual. To try and say otherwise is expression of ignorance and demonstration of an incorrect subjective unenlightened, politically motivated point of view. The Most significant adaptation of the Indian cultural element is the classical form of music by the Sufi intellect, and therefore you may objectively dig out historical facts to realize that the real backbone of the richness of Indian culture of the recent historical past is absolutely dominated by the Sufi, whether belonging to any particular cast color creed or the so called religions. India secretly belong to this Sufi culture and the ruling spirit over this great kingdom is non other than this Great Sufi Spirit

THE GREAT SUFI SPIRIT

 

The Great Sufi Spirit was divinely destined to come and establish the Sufi culture of India. This it did by bringing in the Sufi order using the element of music and healing, as its main course of activities. The place became as it went through the periods of transitions from one historical time to another, itself as a timeless island of spirituality where the thirsty can come to quench their dry souls from all directions and all cultures.

 

Thus it is primarily a place for the exercises meditative of the Sufi rituals and discipline to restore its own personal momentum and inner order. There is all that may be available to immerse yourself into endless well of spirituality with the guidance of the Sufi masters and the divine grace of the transpiration from the Great Sufi Spirit that is really the focal point of inspiration. The whole campus is available here, there are no fees to register, there are no favors to be done, no work to be exchanged, but only to the need of the seeker’s development, the required services then are miraculously made available here. It only depends on your inner condition as to what you really want and how awake is the state of you being, the rest is all in offer, in such great abundance that you will not perhaps be able to brim full the cup of your heart.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SENCES

One of the most important qualities of a human personality is the sensitivity as progressed by the channeling of the energies in a certain direction meant to be utilized in a definite purposeful body of sharpness and refinement that may be induced by a teaching system and culture of a group, community or a school. These are specialty of a teaching ability and knowledge that only a few teachers may accomplish. Each school or an individual master will design its own methodology and make the pupil go through very specific exercises that will lead to the unconscious polishing of its senses, that will make the person susceptible to the various unknown stimuli that otherwise go unnoticed in an insensitive person. The sum total of the effects of all that the person may then recollect as he/she may gain experiences and insights in his life will depend and act mutually to the inner sensitivity he/she may have developed when born as a fresh energy.

The development of the sensitivity will in effect start from the time since the manner of being conceived in the love union of the parenting spirits, and it continues ever till old age even after the heights of spiritual attainments have been reached. The quality of sensitivity will therefore make the spirit derive the maximum from what life has to offer as the most subtle forms of energies, as pleasure, as ecstasy, as wisdom, as joy and as creative celebration. After a certain point the human person has reached such an intensity of sensitivity that it will now be part of a very subtle system operating directly with the higher forces of Nature, in accordance with the unseen human destiny of perfection and some divine goal of a golden age of life under the stars…

Such an age is when human civilizations of such beauty and heights of spirituality are born that they may as if last forever.

The Sufi sanctuary is one of the rare places, as islands of energies that live on forever providing fuel for the existence of not only the basic human values but its intense and higher needs of spiritual living and sensitivity, as if perpetuating it through some unknowable ultra inner mechanisms of life functioning devise, that will recall the golden ages again and again from the sometime downfall or deterioration of the humanity’s destined path.

 

MUSIC, POETRY, ART AND ARCHITECTURE

 

It may be inferred from the magical insight such as the one that the sanctuary has as in effect to offer is that the primal or the inner forces of human expressions have and still are preserved in the form of music, poetry, art and architecture. Ultimately these may be the final combining forces that produce the eternal wisdom of the spirit divine.

 The artist, strictly speaking as the word in English may be derivate with the actual meaning, as the poet-singer-musician, as the artist; the painter, architect, the sculpture and relief worker as artist; the dancer, the performer as the artist must necessarily translate into the word Sufi, provided, the artist has reached his ultimate spiritual heights and enlightenment. The other way round may just as well be true, therefore it be concluded that start from which way ever that you may, or as may be destined to be, you will as finality have to complete the whole circle whether in one life or many, to reach the perfection of a human being, and consequently the whole of human consciousness.

 

DAYS OF MOURNING

 

The community has yet another unique way of expressing its traditionally inherited culture of passing the days of the holy tragedy symbolizing the martyrs who protected the spiritual essence of the true spirit of Islam as a correct and human culture of the existing world. Presented here under the inspiration of the Great Sufi transpirations, once again as the most balanced observation of this traditional mourning, as it nether get into one of the extreme forms of emotionalism of the tragedy nor does it remain in the skeptic peoples refrain of the observation of this tradition. Once again the tragedy is transformed from its morbidity of a life negative reaction to a positive transformation magical by the art of musical poetical recital, here which works wonders on the senses as the tragic sense may find its potentials best explored in the form of emotional excitement of the tragic.

 

Fate and destiny

What ever happens, happens because, as we may discover in what we call a retrospect that there was after all as though a secret plot under way which we could not have foreseen, that lead to the sequence of the events fatal or destined as the case may be, did so as what must necessarily be have been the needful.

Therefore what happens as a strong event whether tragic or happy will foreshadow what must become the eternal drama of human pathos meant quite significant as what may trigger certain reactions almost unknowable to the human psyche. Thus unfold the mysteries of life that will now dig deeper for inspiration from what may seem as a point of survival to the point of the highest spiritual enlightenments of the human kind.

There is nothing however that may be pinpointed out, as the general psyche is conditioned to think in the so called scientific terms that may be the real reason for any fatality or destiny to happen.

We have to go back here again and keep on tracking up and the valleys of life to find out the secret  which is hidden deep within our very selves, it is only then the mysteries of life, its puzzles thus be answered, its destiny discovered.

All this will have to be done by us all together with lots of sweat blood, and tears and laughter. No one will come and do this for us, no secret darling is going to come to our help and spell magic and solve all our problems and create a paradise. This might be the most disturbing truth about life that it’s always in our own hands the destiny that we must bring forth and as also that which will eventually all happen as predestined. In order to understand this we have to do what we have to do, so get your shit together and for once put all your guts in and dive into the ocean of life, to swim across the tide,  reach the stars and beyond and finally to rest when you are in the space where the world of dreams and the world that we are in passing may all together become one eternal truth of a beauty and a song and a celebration forever.