Sufism Exploration

Sufism Exploration

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Ramnath During child hood days used to go to house of his father’s friends who normally played Sufi music and sung Sufi songs .

His father explained to him that Sufi music is the devotional music of the Sufis, inspired by the works of Sufi poets, like Rumi, Hafiz, Bulleh Shah, Amir Khusrow and Khwaja Ghulam Farid. Sufi love songs are often performed as ghazals and Kafi, a solo genre accompanied by percussion and harmonium, using a repertoire of songs by Sufi poets.


His father enjoyed Sufi music and Sufi songs very much and he also enjoyed the same and found pleasant feelings while listening.

His father explained to him Sufism, known as tasawwuf in the Arabic-speaking world, is a form of mysticism that emphasizes introspection and spiritual closeness with God. While it is sometimes misunderstood as a sect of One religion only , it is actually a broader style of worship that transcends sects, directing followers' attention inward.


Whenever a religion is alive it is because of SufismSufism simply means a love affair with God, with the ultimate, a love affair with the whole. It means that one is ready to dissolve into the whole, that one is ready to invite the whole to come into one's heart. ... Christ is a Sufi, so is Mohammed.


The spiritual goal of a Sufi is to have a direct, personal experience of God. ... The original Sufis wore simple wool cloaks, and in Arabic, the word Sufi means "man of wool."


Ramnath grew from child to youth, school going to college going and then entered his professional career journey exploring Sufism .

During the exploration of his love towards Sufism he enjoyed listening to various Sufi singers specifically Ruina laila , Abida Parveen etc , got an opportunity to have live listening of Abida Parveen concert where she sung Kabir, marvellous soul-touching introduction was given by Gulzar.

Sufi saints have specific gesture in introducing their team members and description of story behind Sufi songs. Bule shah storey is worth listening as pre-introduction to song Tere Īshq nachaya——-.

Sufi song O Lal Meri Pat rakhiyo—/Is sung almost on all occasions and part of all singing competitions.

He learnt :

Lord Krishna is Sufi, Christ, so is Mohammed and so is Budha , kabir as a matter of fact all religious/spiritual leaders are Sufi.


Sufism informs The relationship is dangerous. It is dangerous because the closer you come to God, the more and more you evaporate. And when you have come really close you are no more. It is dangerous because it is suicidal…but the suicide is beautiful. To die in God is the only way to live really. Until you die, until you die voluntarily into love, you live an existence which is simply mediocre; you vegetate, you don’t have any meaning. No poetry arises in your heart, no dance, no celebration; you simply grope in the darkness. You live at the minimum, you don’t overflow with ecstasy.


A few more things about this word ‘Sufi’. An ancient Persian dictionary has this for the entry ‘Sufi’…the definition given goes in rhyme: Sufi chist—Sufi, Sufist. Who is a Sufi? A Sufi is a Sufi. This is a beautiful definition. The phenomenon is indefinable.‘A Sufi is a Sufi.’ It says nothing and yet it says well. It says that the Sufi cannot be defined; there is no other word to define it, there is no other synonym, there is no possibility of defining it linguistically, there is no other indefinable phenomenon. You can live it and you can know it, but through the mind, through the intellect, it is not possible. You can become a Sufi—that is the only way to know what it is. You can taste the reality yourself, it is available. You need not go into a dictionary, you can go into existence.

Sufism is a special kind of magic, a rare kind of magic. It can be transferred only from person to person, not from a book. It cannot be transferred by scriptures. It is also just like Zen—a transmission beyond words. The Sufis have a special word for it—they call it silsila. What Hindus call parampara they call silsila. Silsila means a transfer from one heart to another heart, from one person to another person It is a very, very personal religion.


Sufis have beautiful names for God; in all they have ninety-nine names for God. One wonders why not one hundred? It looks so incomplete. For a certain, subtle reason, the hundredth name has been kept silent. That is the true name of God which cannot be uttered. The tao that can be uttered is not the true tao and the God that can be spoken of is not the true God, because the word ‘God’ falsifies the reality of God. So the hundredth name is the true name—what Hindus call ‘satnam’, the true name—but it can’t be uttered. It will lose its beauty if it is uttered. It remains unuttered, at the deepest core of the heSufism is the art of removing the hindrance between you and you, between the self and the self, between the part and the whole.art. But ninety-nine names can be uttered just as a help to reach the hundredth. The hundredth name is almost a nothingness—what buddhas have called ‘nirvana’, nothingness.



Till now he has learnt that

Sufism is the art of removing the hindrance between you and you, between the self and the self, between the part and the whole.

Ramnath journey of exploration of sufisim continues——-.


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