How to find your original Self ?

Assume we desire to know our origins, where are we from? One answer is that as one meditates, one may enter fana, state of gone, or what some call samadhi. I think they are referring to the same phenomena.

At this time one'e awareness is no more. The author says one has realized at this time one's original self. Nothing is going on at this time, thoughts have long ceased to occur, the same applies to everything else.

At some point this realized self comes to awareness, and thus one sees his own original self.

From the Islamic point view, fana represents travel in God, سير فى الله. This is possible because people are parts of God, for the original self, that which has been breathed into Adam, was part of God's self, ونفخ فيه من روح. The human psyche returns to its original home and then comes back, all this happens when one is alive here on earth.

When it is back, Sufis say it remains, بقا, eventually, however, It returns home. For everything, as Arabs say, return to their origin.

Generally speaking, Muslims don't believe in reincarnations, life after life, but there is some evidence to suggest it Islamically acceptable، يخلقكم في بطون أمهاتكم خلقا من بعد خلق. Translation: he will create you in the wombs of your mothers creation after creation. The beginning of the verse refers to the original self, نفس الوحدة، chapter 39, verse 6, Noble Quran.

Some people say the verse refers to embryological stages of fetus development, not to creation after creation, the verse does not say stages, it says creation after creation, and it comes after the discussion of the original self, and subsequent developments of types from the original self, suitable mates. Adam being the personification of the original self, or single self.

Rumi, great Muslim Scholar says this, before modem science:
'I died as mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was man.
Why should I fear?
When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die as man,
To soar with angels blest;
But even from angelhood I must pass on'
Source:
[1] Reincarnation in Islam
http://www.adishakti.org/_/reincarnation_in_islam.htm


From purely scientific point of view, the unconscious or whatever one becomes in the depth of samadhi or fana, represents a mystery in which we are not aware of, and perhaps it my give us some clues as to what our origin is, as we reflect in it or comes to our awareness.

The notion that samadhi is travel in God induces in me some sort of self-confirming feel, a sort of joy that leads one to think it is so. I lack rational evidence at this time to show this indeed is the case.


Source of the picture: rumibook.info
Rumi meditating