Osho on Enlightened Sufi Mystic Hakim SanaiHakim sanai was the enlightened Sufi master and Osho has dedicated a whole discourse series “Unio Mystica” in his praise.Osho pours some light on the following lines of Hakim Sanai:THE PURE MAN UNITES TWO IN ONE…The observer and the observed. “The pure man” means the man of meditation. “The pure man” means one who has been trying the path of VIA PURGATIVA — who has been simply emptying himself of all that is foreign and who goes on eliminating all that is not his essential self. And then nothing is left in the hand. That’s what Zen people say, that man is like an onion: you go on peeling, layer upon layer, go on peeling, and finally nothing is left. But that’s what the search is. When the hands are empty, nothing is left, you have arrived. Now there can be no misery, because there is nobody to be miserable. Now there can be no pain, because there is nobody to feel pain. Now there is neither knowledge nor ignorance, because there is no knower. Now there is neither bondage nor liberation, because there is nobody to be bound or to be liberated. All is gone, all has disappeared. You have fallen back into the source.Osho further says:THE PURE MAN UNITES TWO IN ONE; THE LOVER UNITES THREE IN ONE.He says: But what about the lover? His unity is far richer, because he unites three in one: the lover, the beloved, and love. His unity is a kind of trinity. That is the second path — the path of the devotee, the BHAKTA, the Sufi, the lover. And Sanai says it is far richer than the path of purity. Because of the unity of three, it had richness and it is far more juicy. And because it is a path of love, it does not negate, it affirms.<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow not-prose">Truth is not a tradition. It cannot be, because truth is never old. It is eternally new, it is eternally fresh, as fresh as the dewdrops in the morning or the stars in the night. The claim of tradition is basically anti-truth. The word `tradition’ comes from a root `tradere’. It means `handed by someone to somebody else, transferred’. From `tradere’ also comes the word `trade’. Truth cannot be transferred from one person to another person. It is impossible to transfer it. It is not a thing, hence it is not transferable. It cannot be traded, nobody can give it, nobody can take it. It arises in each individual’s own being, it is a flowering of your own heart. Hence, Sufism is not a tradition. No true religion can ever be a tradition; every true religion is bound to be a revolution, a rebellion. Sufism is one of the most profound, most authentic experiments and inquiries into truth that has happened on this earth. And Hakim Sanai, into whose sutras we will be entering again today, is one of the three greatest Sufis in the whole history of human consciousness. He makes up the trio of the three great masters, Attar, Rumi and Sanai.</blockquote>For a few days, you will be moving again with one of the greatest souls. It is a pilgrimage, a holy pilgrimage; you will be walking on sacred ground. Be very alert, watchful, loving, open, vulnerable, then something can arise in you which can become a transformation; something can be triggered in you. But remember, it is not caused from the outside, it is not a question of cause and effect. Hence it is beyond the reach of science. Science can only understand the law of cause and effect. If something can be caused, it is bound to fall into the field of science. But truth cannot be caused. Still, in the presence of the master it can happen. It happens uncaused; it is a synchronicity. It is as if somebody is dancing and something is triggered in you — not caused, remember, because no dancer can cause a dance in you, but you start feeling something. You start swaying, you suddenly feel a rush of energy, you would like to dance yourself. This is synchronicity: something has happened in you, parallel but not caused.I will be here just like a hollow bamboo, available to Hakim Sanai so that he can sing his song and he can dance his dance. If you are open, something can start happening in you. It will not be transferred from me to you — it cannot be transferred; it will not be caused. I will not be the source of it; you will remain the source of it. But it can be triggered: I can function as a catalytic agent.<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow not-prose">These few days, walking with Hakim Sanai, can be life-transforming. You will be here with one of the greatest human beings ever — a human being of the caliber of Buddha, Jesus and Mohammed. But remember, the first thing, truth is not a tradition. If you believe in tradition, you will never come to know what truth is. Tradition is a belief, borrowed; it is knowledge but not experience.</blockquote>Tradition is scripture, philosophy, words and words — words and words about words. It is a great jungle of theories, and you can be deceived by it very easily. The mind is ready to fall into the trap of it.Because truth is not a tradition, it cannot be approached through the mind. The mind is a tradition, the mind lives out of the past. The mind is always old; the mind is never original, it is never new, it is never fresh, it is never young, it is never alive. The mind is nothing but the accumulated past; all that you have known in the past has become a tape inside you. It is not the reality of this moment. The mind is a tradition. Hence if somebody says he is a Hindu or a Christian or a Jaina or a Mohammedan is not religious. He is saying he belongs to the past, not to the present. He is saying he belongs to the mind and not to consciousness. Consciousness is always of the here and now: it knows no past, it knows no future. And that is the beauty of consciousness — it is meditative. The mind is a thought process, a procession of memories, imaginations, dreams, projections. Consciousness is a purity, a mirror, that simply reflects the reality as it is. All belief systems have to be dropped, only then can you be a Sufi. And to be a Sufi is the greatest thing that can happen to anybody. Nobody else except man can be deceived by words; nobody except man can be deceived at all…Only man can be deceived. You cannot deceive even a parrot, but pundits can be deceived and ARE deceived. Pundits are greater parrots than parrots themselves. Beware, your mind is ready to fall into any trap of words. It can create beautiful theories, philosophies; it can go on manufacturing great systems of thought — all imaginary.<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow not-prose">Truth has nothing to do with your imagination. Neither has truth anything to do with your inference, your guesswork. Truth is already here: truth is. All that is needed on your part is not to seek and search for it but to be available, open and empty like a mirror, so that you can reflect that which is. Truth surrounds you; truth is within and without. Only truth is. You need not go anywhere, to Kaaba or to Kashi. You need not even go outside your room, you need not even go outside your body, you need not go anywhere. Sitting silently, doing nothing, the spring comes and the grass grows by itself. Just sitting silently in your own room, when you are empty, it is revealed. It was revealed to Mohammed when he was utterly silent and empty, it was revealed to Sanai when he was silent and empty, it was revealed to Mahavira when he was silent and empty. To be empty is to be religious.</blockquote>But you are so full of knowledge, you are so full of unnecessary luggage, your mind is so much in a constant chattering. You may call it the Veda or you may call it the Koran, it doesn’t matter. Unless you are empty, the Veda is not going to happen to you, the Koran is not going to flow through you. Unless you are empty, you will not contact truth — and truth is another name for God. I am using the word `truth’ so that even atheists are not offended, but truth and God are synonymous, interchangeable, they mean the same thing. Then what is truth if it is not a tradition? It is a revolution, it is a turning-in. Tradition looks backwards, tradition looks at others, tradition wants something to be given to you. Revolution looks inwards. Nothing has to be given to you from any source; you have already got it, it is already the case. Just turning in, just looking inside, waiting, watching, going inwards to the core of your being — and it is there.<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow not-prose">Sufism is an inner journey. By revolution I don’t mean a political revolution. Political revolutions are not revolutions at all; they only substitute one slavery for another slavery. The only revolution there is, is religious. The only revolution there is, is turning away from tradition and turning inwards to the source of your being. Knowing “Who am I?” is the only revolutionary step — the first and the last, the alpha and the omega.</blockquote><blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow not-prose">That’s the meaning of becoming a Sufi, or becoming a sannyasin. `Sannyasin’ is my name for the Sufi: one who is fed up with the outside world, who has known its frustrations, who has known its utter futility, who has known all the anxiety and anguish of it and is ready to dive deep within oneself to know “Who am I?” Because unless one knows oneself, all knowledge is useless. The foremost, the most fundamental thing, is to become aware at the core of your being. And it is a miracle to become aware of it, because at the core of your being you are always pure, always innocent, always virgin, always celibate.</blockquote>At the very core of your being, you have never left the Garden of Eden, you are still in paradise. That is the name of Hakim Sanai’s book: THE HADIQA. It means `the Garden’ — the Garden of God, paradise. Where is this paradise? There are foolish people who have been searching for the Garden of Eden. A few think it was in Babylon, a few think it was on the continent of Atlantis which has gone down under the ocean — there has been a search. This is complete stupidity. The Garden exists in YOU, Adam has not been expelled from the Garden of Eden, he has fallen asleep. `The original fall’ simply means you have forgotten who you are. Adam has become knowledgeable and has lost his purity of consciousness.That’s the meaning of the parable of the Tree of Knowledge. Adam has eaten from the Tree of Knowledge — that is the original sin. See the beauty of the parable: knowledge is the original sin, to become knowledgeable is to fall from grace. Then how to attain it again? Drop your knowledge, become innocent again. Be a child again, and you will be able to enter into the Garden of Eden. Adam becomes knowledgeable, Christ becomes innocent. Becoming knowledgeable, Adam starts moving outwards, falls victim to philosophies, belief systems, theories, words. Jesus dropped all tradition; that’s why the Jews were so angry with him. The Jews are a very traditional people, they were angry because he was a revolutionary. He was a drop-out — he simply dropped all the knowledge of all the ancient rabbis and he became innocent. But in becoming innocent he again entered that original state of Adam before he had eaten the fruit of knowledge…This is something very basic to be remembered, that Sufism is a practical science, it is pragmatic. It does not depend on philosophizing, speculating and guesswork; it points directly to existential experience. You can know much about love. You can go and look in the libraries, you can look in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and you will know much about love. But it will be ABOUT love — it will not be love. To know love, you will have to fall in love; there is no other way, there is no shortcut…Sometimes your guess may even work, but still it is never the truth. Truth has to be experienced. You are guessing about God, you are arguing about God, speculating about God, fighting about God. And no time is left for experiencing him. Being here with me, remember it always: we are not interested in any guesswork, we are interested in going to the real experience of it. And when the experience is possible, why bother arguing about it? Why go round and round? Why not penetrate to the very core? You can go round and round for centuries and you will never arrive anywhere. And you can arrive right now, this very moment, if you go inwards.All these sutras of THE HADIQA are just preparing you to take the inner leap, the inner jump.<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow not-prose">Sufism is an attempt to unfreeze habits of thinking, to replace them with less stiff and restricting ones. Sufism is criticizing, dissolving and stepping over all prejudices, loosening all rigid and constricting moulds of thought. Sufism is relaxing into your own self; it is a let-go. When all prejudices have been dropped, all concepts rejected, all scriptures, burnt, the whole tradition dropped, then you are innocent, you are unpolluted. In that purity of the present moment, the sun rises. And that is from where one starts growing into a real human being. It is from there that one starts growing even beyond humanity; one starts surpassing, one starts transcending ordinary human limits. Real growth knows no limit. You contain something infinite in you, something oceanic, and unless you have known it, don’t be satisfied, don’t be contented. That contentment will be suicide.</blockquote>I see millions of people: they are all dead, they have committed suicide, because they have become contented — and contented with futile things, contented with nothing.<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow not-prose">Never be contented unless you have known your inner being, unless you have come to the innermost shrine. Remain discontented. Sufis call it “the divine discontentment.”</blockquote>Source:This is an excerpt from the transcript of a public discourse by Osho in Buddha Hall, Shree Rajneesh Ashram, Pune.&nbsp;Discourse Series: Unio Mystica, Vol 2Chapter #1Chapter title: On the Road of Sighs11 December 1978 am in Buddha HallReferences:Osho has spoken on Sufi Masters and Mystics Al-Hillaj-Mansoor, Farid, Junnaid, Rabiya Al Adabiya, Lai-Khur, Hakim Sanai, Jalaladdin Rumi, Sarmad and many more in His discourses. Some of these can be referred to in the following books/discourses:<ol type="1"><li>The Perfect Master, Vol 1, 2</li><li><a href="https://oshoworldgalleria.com/the-royal-way-sufis-the-people-of-the-path#.YNlx5kzhWM8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="not-prose">Sufis: The People of the Path, Vol 1, 2</a></li><li><a href="https://oshoworldgalleria.com/the-secret-of-secrets-1#.YNlyXkzhWM8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="not-prose">The Secret</a></li><li>Until You Die</li><li><a href="https://oshoworldgalleria.com/just-like-that#.YNlykEzhWM8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="not-prose">Just Like That</a></li><li>The Wisdom of the Sands, Vol 1, 2</li><li>The Razor’s Edge</li><li><a href="https://oshoworldgalleria.com/the-revolution-talks-on-kabir#.YNlyx0zhWM8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="not-prose">The Revolution</a></li><li>Socrates Poisoned Again After 25 Centuries</li><li><a href="https://oshoworldgalleria.com/the-hidden-splendor#.YNly50zhWM8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="not-prose">The Hidden Splendor</a></li><li><a href="https://oshoworldgalleria.com/beyond-enlightenment#.YNlzEEzhWM8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="not-prose">Beyond Enlightenment</a></li><li><a href="https://oshoworldgalleria.com/the-new-dawn-1#.YNlzMkzhWM8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="not-prose">The New Dawn</a></li><li><a href="https://oshoworldgalleria.com/be-still-and-know-discourse-1-to-10-in-pen-drive#.YNlzSEzhWM8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="not-prose">Be Still and Know</a></li><li><a href="https://oshoworldgalleria.com/the-sword-and-the-lotus-discourse-1-to-24-in-pen-drive#.YNlzbEzhWM8" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="not-prose">The Sword and the Lotus</a></li><li>And the Flowers Showered</li></ol><style>.footer-ad{display: none !important;}</style><link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Quicksand:wght@300..700&amp;display=swap">