Lal Shehbaz Qalander and his powers of meditation By Muhammad Hussain Damsaz

Lal Shehbaz Qalander and his powers of meditation

Muhammad Hussain Damsaz

Sind as there is no doubt is one of, among the spiritual places, that sufis and saints had discovered. I personally don't know; may be it's because of its environment or the place that has attracted such highly pious people to this land; and likely the same way Hazrat Lal Saeen counts in them.

Lal saeen was a Qalandar, a darvesh, a sufi, who came from a very long way, and wondered through; the whole middle east, though I may or might be lacking a reference or evidence regarding his spiritual journey to sehwan sharief. But, some of them can be spotted from the history.

The thing that I am pretty sure about, that his spiritual guidance perhaps led him over to sehwan sharief, and thus he decided to stay over here and spread the light of his knowledge among the people.

I don't know of which aspect of Lal Saeen should I talk about, his life style, the places he resided, his poetry or philosophy.

After thinking and giving it a thought I've decided that, I must talk on one tiny aspect and would try to dig it harder and harder and present my opinion regarding that little aspect.

It has been said and still it's saying that during his spiritual journey from Balochistn to Sindh, he made a stopover at a place for meditation, now is called the mangopir area. He practiced his meditation over the top of the hill, there; and from, nearby or there a creek started to flow, from that very precisely hill, where he meditated and it counts in one of the karama of Lal Saeen.

Besides that stream has got a sort of healing ability, but I would not talk about it, I will talk upon the relation of that stream with Lal Saeen's meditation.

Meditation perhaps you all know about; and most of you may be aware of it, that how its like to be in meditation, it's a sort of mental practice, mental concentration, contemplation, exercised for spiritual development.

Now in real meditation, as far as I know one suspends himself, and let his thoughts flow, in a relax manner, like presuming having and inner water creek, in shape of thoughts. The more we meditate the greater the concentration of thoughts develop, and at the end that flow connects itself with the divine source; hence in such state one forget himself, and becomes the part of the whole as far as the connection retains.

So what I am trying to say that perhaps Lal Saeen's meditation had gone so strong, so powerful, that it emerged a spring upon that hill and its still flowing because that connection still persists, and it has not been broken. We find his love for almighty in the form of energy and we witness everyday there at mangopir's hill.

Above all perhaps, for most of you, it doesn't make any sense but the thing that I have learnt from Lal Saeen's philosophy to words life, that we live in the world of greatest illusions and one of it; is the illusion of separation, you think you are different and unattached, but you are attached, one and same.

I, Thank you all.