DISCOURSES & TALKS BY MEHER BABA

SPIRITUAL  ANNIHILATION

23 January, 1928

Chhota Baba was then caressed by the Master and moved to his adjoining portion of the room. Turning to the mandali, Baba remarked, "He has no feeling whatsoever of these movements from here [Baba's seat] to there in the next room. This is fana — spiritual annihilation. In short, he is not the body; he is not the mind. He sees the Soul of souls."

Baba elaborated:

There are two states of fana: one unconscious as in the case of Rajaram, to whom all is nothing but the divine sight. He sees nothing but me. He is unconscious of his body, the world and all, except that sight. This is the state of the seeing majzoob, seeing God everywhere (as opposed to the Realized majzoob who sees the Self everywhere).

Rajaram is in a different state than Abdulla [Chhota Baba]: When Rajaram sees, he is conscious of his body and the world. He does not see that sight simultaneously, for he has the mind. Mind is not gone in him. And though mostly absorbed in the noor [divine light] that it sees, the mind sometimes is brought down, while talking, seeing other things of the world, and at that time he does not see the Light. But he can immediately take the mind out of the world and see the Light at will.

The second state of fana is that of Abdulla, to whom the mind is completely destroyed, and the Sight is always visible in all; but with the difference that it, the Seer-soul, recognizes the object seen as such.

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