Hundred Questions - Human Reality
Human Reality
Q60 Why did we separate from God in the beginning? What was its cause and purpose?
A60 In this connection whatever has come to your knowledge belongs to the rudimentary teaching of religion. In fact, with respect to our real 'I' we have never separated from God, and this is the greatest secret of God, that man's highest reality, the "higher I" (ana-yi `ulwi) never comes down from its original place; rather, only a shadow of it (i.e. of the "higher I") has descended here. It is called the "lower I" (ana-yi sufli).
First of all it is important to see what man is: Man in the world of multiplicity is a body, in the world of spirits is a spirit, in the world of intellects is an intellect, in the world of realities is a reality. We can also call the world of realities the world of unity (`alam-i wahdat). This demonstrates that the highest reality of man is still the same as it was in pre-eternity (azal); for unity cannot be separated from the Unity, nor can reality be separated from the Reality.
This means that the concept of one reality or monoreality is correct. According to it the human 'I' is at least on two levels: one is on the lower level, which is the external and physical existence, and the other is on a higher level, which is the higher 'I' and monoreality (haqiqat-i wahidah), which always subsists in its original place. Thus man with respect to his external personality has come to this world, but with respect to his reality is in the world of unity.
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