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unsayable. It is a great kindness that innumerable enlightened ones have tried to say that which cannot be said. They have wanted us to lift our eyes where we have long forgotten to lift them. They have given us a little vision of the sky. We crawl and wriggle along on the ground, we have stopped raising our heads.
It is said that when Mansoor was captured and hung on the cross he began to laugh. A crowd of one hundred thousand had gathered and someone asked, "Mansoor, why are you laughing?"
Mansoor said, "I am laughing because, yes, it is good that I have been crucified, at least you have raised your eyes a little bit!"
He was hung on a cross so people had to turn their faces up to see. So Mansoor said, "At least -- even by this excuse -- you had to raise your eyes towards the sky. Hence I am happy -- this crucifixion was right. Perhaps looking up at me you will see what it is hidden within me. Perhaps in this moment of death, from the impact of this death, your thought processes will stop and for a moment the sky will open and you will have a vision of that one that I am."
LIGHT IS MY VERY NATURE. I AM NOT OTHER THAN LIGHT. I am not separate from light.
This inner source of light is achieved when the 'I' has gone. But how can one say it? When it is to be described then the 'I' has to be brought in again.
WHEN THE UNIVERSE IS ILLUMINATED IT IS ILLUMINATED BY MY LIGHT ONLY.
Certainly Janak is not talking here about the person named Janak. That person has disappeared, that individual wave is gone -- only the ocean remains. This ocean is everyone's. This declaration of Janak's is not only about himself, it is also about you. It is about everyone who has ever been, it as about everyone who will ever be. This proclamation is for the whole existence.
Learn to be obliterated, then the taste of this will start coming. And when the taste comes declarations like this will arise from you too. It is difficult to stop them.
Mansoor knew that if he makes this sort of statement -- "Anal Haq -- I am the truth, I am the divine existence" -- then he will be crucified. The Muslim crowd will not be able to tolerate him.
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