CD “sixth valley”
In the Name of God. We start the meeting by getting strength from the Almighty God. Hello friends, I am Hossein, the master of the ceremony.
Audience: Hi, Hossein
Please keep silent for 14 seconds and resort to God as our refuge in order to free ourselves from our strongest enemy, which is our own ignorance. (14 seconds of silence). Thank you friends, I would like to ask the honorable secretary Ms. Neda to announce the summary of the previous session and the agenda of today's session, which is the sixth valley.
Hello friends, I am Neda, a traveler. In the name of the Almighty God. Today is the fourth meeting of the 20th session with the agenda of “the sixth valley” that was administered by Mr. Dezhakam as the guest speaker and master of the ceremony on October, 23, 2012 at 09:00 a.m.
Hello friends, I am Hossein, a traveler. I correct the secretary's statement, we said one group of theologians are those researchers who work on [divine] words and actually deal with religion, like our own heavenly book, the Holy Qur'an, and they move based on those words, or Christians act based on the words of the Bible, or the Judish work based on the words of the Torah or other religions based on their divine words. The divine sources are the reference and source of everything, whether it is logically correct or not. They are called “Discourse Theologians”, meaning those who deal with the words.
Well, today's lesson is the sixth valley that says, we have to fully accept the ruling of wisdom as a perfect or just ruler. (The sixth valley reads: Wisdom's command, as the commander in chief, should be carried out accordingly).
In the previous session, I provided an introduction to Wisdom, which is not mentioned in the valley. The topic that we discussed in the previous session in the introduction of the wisdom was that, as far as I researched, I found very few people who really know where the wisdom is and where the place of the wisdom is, if they exist, they are very few. An obvious contradiction that we all have in our minds is that we are all sure and have full faith that wisdom is in our brain and the brain is the decision-maker.
Of course, the brain is the ruler of the entire body organism and the physical body, but it is considered a translator or a part of the wisdom system. The contradiction that we are involved in is that we all think that the wisdom is in the brain.
We all follow our religious leaders or our relatives, even when they pass away; we either ask them for help, share secrets with them or visit their tombs. In the previous session, we said that if the wisdom is supposed to be in the brain, the people who have died and left this world are all without wisdom, without memory, and without everything.
Therefore, it is a wrong idea to expect or talk to a person who lacks wisdom and memory, etc., but we believe that the wisdomis not destroyed with death, even memories, memory and such things don’t disappear with death. Some of them may be stopped or may be in the archive that we do not have access to.
When you sleep and dream, you have the information of your waking time inside you, but you don’t have access to it in your dreams, or on the contrary, when you are awake, you don’t remember the information that has happened to you in your dream, but it is stored in you, and everyone can access this information one day.
In general, it is said in the sixth valley, we have to fully implement the order of the wisdom as our a commander." [The sixth valley reads, Wisdom's command, as the commander in chief, should be carried out accordingly.]
In the previous valleys, we talked about contemplation, then we mentioned that contemplation can be positive or negative. You may contemplate discovering a disease or a positive issue, or you may contemplate robbing a bank or killing a person, so contemplation can be positive or negative. Therefore, we call what is logical and correct “rationality” and what is done with rationality is called “rational work”.
We call the contemplation that ends in a good and positive path, rationality and we call the contemplation that ends in a negative way, satanic contemplation or demonic contemplation or negative contemplation or anti-human and animal contemplation, we will talk about different categories of thinking.
Since contemplation can be negative or positive, there must be a system inside us that recognizes whether contemplaton or thinking is positive or negative. We want a criterion or a scale that tells us whether this work is positive or negative.
Therefore, we see when we contemplate or think, a higher authority or a higher monitoring system must monitor this thinking and tell us whether this thinking is right or wrong, and that the way I am going to end up in is a road or a well. This higher authority is called “Aql” (Wisdom).
Why is it called Aql (wisdom)? Some of our words have Arabic roots. A rope is passed through the nose of the camel [to control it], whose name is Eqal in Arabic. When a camel rider gets on the camel, he can guide the camel to the left or right by pulling the rope inside the camel's nose, which is like a horse's bridle. If the camel wants to disobey, the rider pulls the rope and stops it. That rope is called Eqal, which means guide. The word 'Aql' is derived from the Arabic word 'Eqal'.
Now, this system (wisdom) must be able to check [and control], so if we look [carefully], we realize when we claim a human being is like a country or a city or something very big, it really is.
Until now, we haven’t investigated what monitoring, control and planning systems are in our cogitation, of which we ourselves are not aware, at all. We think [everything is done easily], we go very easily, we come easily, we make decisions or we do not.
However, that Surveillance System is called wisdom (Aql). In order to understand whether something is right or wrong, the Wisdom needs a series of information and knowledge, it wants a series of documents and files.
If you look at many things shallowly, it is not important, but when you go to the depth of a matter, you see that right now there are all kinds of sounds in the hall, but you don't hear any of them, or your eyes see many sights and many things during the day, but you don't record everything, only the part you need, will be provided for you.
So where should this source of information be? We all know the things that are called basic concepts or first concepts. Last time, we said that we all know that a part is smaller than the whole, this table drawer is smaller than the whole table, or suppose we all know that now it is night or daytime or the seasons are changing.
There are many things that we know; we know that we shouldn’t eat some things, we are afraid of many things, we know what’s the height, we don't jump down from a height, even a child who has grown a little and can walk a little; from a height like a mountain or a building doesn’t jump down the street. If the child has grown up a little, s/he does not do these things. So we already know many things.
The issue is how this information has been collected and how there exists so much information. We have to make comparisons. Whatever we want to do should be immediately sent into our thinking system. The system of Aql (wisdom) should check it and find its records and similar cases to say whether this is right or this is wrong, just like a judge who has to investigate all the cases, read them, study them, listen to the plaintiff, listen to the defendant and then make a decision.
When a judge is examining and issuing a verdict, he must listen to the two parties (the plaintiff and the defendant), this process is just like a human being’s Aql (wisdom) system. These two parties [in our mind] start arguing, defending themselves and saying different things, but in the end the judge issues the verdict. So the judge should be fully aware of everything and his knowledge should be more than them.
Even if you read the following sentence for 500 years, I think few people will understand its meaning unless they are very astute; “In the evolution process, Aql (wisdom) operates on its own like a machine whereas the spirit with its unique and gentle characteristics is led by wisdom’s will.”
All of you might have a question, “what does it mean “to be led by Aql’s (wisdom) will”?” It means that the Aql is higher than spirit. Spirit should be led by wisdom. Well, I’ve told you in the play “Edmond and Helga” that there exists an ego [Nafs] which is a character, and two other angels or characters called jinni and spirit.
Consider the Spirit as an angel who constantly guides you to the goodness, virtue and the right path. The jinni is also a symbol of the one who guides you to vice and evil and the judge is the the wisdom which is the leader of Nafs (ego). It has to make decisions, so you can see here that if the Spirit speaks or says something, whatever it says, the decision maker is the Aql (wisdom). The Aql (wisdom) can accept the Spirit’s words (its wants) or not.
Therefore, for this reason, it’s said here that “whereas the spirit has unique and gentle characteristics, it is still led by Aql, that is, the spirit inside us is given its orders by Aql (wisdom). Now the Aql is in Nafs (ego) and at the top of it, that is, Aql which is the centre of decision making process is located in Nafs.
In order to come to a conclusion, let's start reading the sixth valley (from the book Love: 14 Valleys for Recovery), of course, I didn't change its primary text too much. So the important point is how the wisdom can lead the spirit and it works as a function of itself and the wisdom increases itself gradually.
How does the wisdom increase itself? For example, you fell into the hole [by accident], so next time you won't pass that place again. When you don't know something, you will experience it, for the next time it’s been recorded in the process of the wisdom and you won't repeat it again, unless someone is very stupid. There are people who step into a hole a hundred times and still go through the same path. It’s said “once bitten, twice shy” [If you are bitten by a snake, you will be extra careful the next time]. However, some people are bitten by the same hole a hundred times [they do not learn from a mistake].
In this valley, we reach one of the most basic and main components of the hidden aspects of a human being, which is the wisdom that is really the most sensitive and important thing. The Wisdom is one of the most significant landmarks [in our life] which has neither a beginning nor an end and we must attain wisdom’s command in our revolution path.”
It is said that it is one of the most important things, and it is really one of the most important and one of the most decisive issues. It is really one of the main components of our existence that guides us. The more accurately the wisdom works, the more a human being lives in peace and tranquility.
The less human being’s wisdom is, the more miserable a person is. We said that the wisdom exists in all creatures that have thinking. I believe that even a stone has thinking and wisdom, but its amount is different. A plant also has wisdom, which means it can make a decision, but its amount may be low. For example, you can see that if we plant a tree here and build a 5-meter wall next to it, or if there is another tree behind it, the tree will bend itself to reach the light.
This tree that bends its own path, bends its trunk, bends its branch to reach the light, has a thought, it has a cogitation, it has a way, it knows something that does this. So its thought and cogitation is in accordance with itself. The roots that only absorb and draw water in themselves and pump for the tree with a system and perform some [specialized] operations, have thought and contemplation, but their wisdom is not like human beings’.
Plants and animals have thoughts and cogitations. Sometimes their thoughts are even more than ours. For example, termites build the buildings, towers, houses and skyscrapers that we can't [imagine and] keep up with them at all, so they have thought and contemplation, but their thinking and thoughts are different from ours, which has no beginning and no end.
We can’t say when our wisdom has started. It is true that we have a Whole wisdom that belongs to the entire system of existence and universe, but we individually also have [these types of] wisdom. We don't know when our wisdom started. we think that its mechanism is from the moment of birth, but no, the brain mechanism is from the moment of birth, but the wisdom is not from the birth.
Therefore, you see that every person who is born is different from another person. We want to reach the wisdom’s command in our entire evolutionary path, in fact, we want to approach it because we cannot reach it absolutely. In my opinion, to attain the wisdom’s command means to get close to it. Is this issue this much important? Yes, it is so important.
We, all human beings, know all bad and good deeds, we mostly know which act is bad and which is good, but we cannot implement it. Our misfortune is that we do not know how to perform it, but we know that this act is bad and this act is good. In any situation and at any age we are in, we need a series of good issues, and we know this very well.
Translated by Sepideh, Sheikhbahaei Branch of Congress 60
Revised and edited by Elahe
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Translated by Sepideh
Revised and edited by Elahe