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104 THE PATH OF LOVE
panorama of the earth and its seasons! Your nature is the nature
created by you and nurtured by you. It is one’s own nature that
is responsible for the body one takes on – the shape, the complexion,
the health, sickness, appetite, temperament, etc. In
short, anything and everything connected with one’s own self –
physical, subtle and mental.
Now to return to the difficulties on the Path. I say that it is
impossible even for one on the Path to fathom my real state: why
is it impossible Hafiz said that unless one steps out of the limitations
of one’s own nature (routine of life), one cannot step on to the
Path of reality. Here realization of reality is obviously not meant.
What Hafiz means is that it is impossible to realize your real self as
long as you are bound within the limitations of your own nature.
This means that you should go against your very nature, against the
very nature of your physical, subtle and mental bodies!
Thus, if you are hungry, you should not eat; if you are not
hungry, you should eat! When you feel like sleeping, you should
not sleep; when you do not feel like sleeping, you should sleep!
This is what Hafiz means by going against one’s own nature –
stepping out of the boundary of your nature. Again, if you wish
to see anything, you should not; and if you do not wish to see,
you should see. When you exert yourself, you pant; but you
should not pant, you should feel normal. Your breathing should
be normal breathing, just when you are out of breath. You are
sitting, silently listening to this discourse and your breathing is
normal; it must not be so – according to the couplet of Hafiz.
From all this you will understand how impossible it is to go
against your own nature and realize me as I really am.
But, here, Hafiz himself comes to your rescue and says that