तुम्हारी व्यवस्थाओं का केंद्र है अहंकार || आचार्य प्रशांत, सूफ़ीवाद पर (2013)

There was a certain ascetic who was one of the great saints of Bestam. He had his own followers and admirers, and at the same time, he was never absent from the circle of Bayazid al-Bistami (or Abu Yazid al-Bistami). He listened to all his discourses and sat with his companions.
One day he remarked to Abu Yazid, “Master, for thirty years I have been keeping a constant fast. By night too I pray so that I never sleep at all. Yet I discover no trace of this knowledge of which you speak. For all that I believe in this knowledge, and I love this preaching.”
“If for three hundred years,” said Abu Yazid, “you fast by day and pray by night, you will never realize one atom of this discourse.”
“Why?” asked the disciple.
“Because you are veiled by your own self,” Abu Yazid replied.
“What is the remedy for this?” the man asked.
“You will never accept it,” answered Abu Yazid.


