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44 THE PATH OF LOVE
be likened to a mustard seed; and on the other, it contains and
covers everything in existence, including the “nothing” or “ignorance
of Maya.” This Dnyan, which in Sufism is termed Marefat,
lies in the certainty of “becoming.” There are three stages of this
certainty. First is the certainty by intellectual conviction called
Illmul-Yakeen. Second is the certainty of Anicol-Yakeen through
actual “Seeing”; and the third, the certainty of certainties, is by
“Becoming” or Hukkal-Yakeen.
What the Vedantists say about our being one with God, –
even that is not the intellectual conviction of Illmul-Yakeen,
because when we hear that we are one with God, we imagine
only what the intellect grasps temporarily. The temporary
understanding can check the conviction, and nothing can upset
the holder of that conviction, and when one actually begins to
see what one has grasped permanently, than the Yakeen or
certainty of conviction can be said to be spiritually firm for all
time. It is only after one becomes united with what one IS that
the certainty of conviction is Dnyan or Hakul-Yakeen.
Now, you all are ordinary men. This knowledge of manhood
on your part does not depend upon intellect or reasoning
whatsoever. You just know that you are men. None of you ever
thinks, “I am a man, I am stone,” etc. That is because your knowledge
that you are men is self-knowledge of your manhood, and is
not the outcome of a mere belief based on what you hear about
the feelings and experience of others. Similarly, when you actually
feel and find that you have become God, you are then really God;
and this “becoming” is the Knowledge which the Master can and
does impart at the right moment in literally no time at all.
True mahatmas and walis can and may give the shadow of