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          Likewise the ocean takes itself to be the Creator and Master of the drops _______. It’s upto ocean whether it sets drops on a journey of parting or calls them back to bestow a reunion. Anyhow this is the affair of a drop and the ocean _______. Who is the real and the prime? The one which tastes no death _______ the one which is not transformed with time, _______ which stays since ever and for all the times to come _______ that which is impossible to be grabbed, attained, acclaimed and conquered _______. In its solitude and rapture ocean is all living and stable but a drop cannot be eternal in its own entity. It can only persist if it is in the refuge of ocean otherwise it can’t survive independently. If the drop unites no ocean then it is relegated to the death. Parting from the ocean is death for a drop and its isolation from ocean is its annihilation. The ocean is origin of its life and life can’t persist devoid of its origin. A drop may become a dew drop, a tear, a tear of reprimand or a drop dancing on the tip of a thorn but it can’t persist in its personal embodiment. The dew is nearly evaporated even before eyeing the sun so a drop separate from the ocean cannot remain a drop _______. The drop can only sustain due to ocean due to which does it exist, if not so, it can’t! It is amazing to know that if the drop gets a union with the ocean, even then it can’t retain its entity. The drop will no more be a drop, rather will become an ocean itself. May it be an ocean a thousand times but it will not remain a drop _______. It did not remain what it was _______ and what has it become now? _______ The ocean embraced the drop, took it in its lap of blessing, graced it a limitless vastness _______ And revealed its reality to its ownself, put such a state on it that now its past is not only its present but also future. It’s amazing to unite with the reality after departing from its origin. The drop which was intact in partness disintegrated after the union _______ got split and scattered ________ so became an ocean _______ and after annihilating itself it got eternity in another Being.

          In both the cases, the drop cannot live as a drop and cannot retain its entity forever _______. It is the bestowal of the ocean _______. If ocean separates the drop, the drop departs burning in fire of partness and if the ocean bestows togetherness even then the drop looses its identity and vanishes in the being of its Beloved. To be vanished is the ultimate fate of the drop _______ why must not it vanish in the journey or in the destination _______. Those lost in aimless journey were in debt in both the worlds _______. What is their debt?  What is the gain? _______ What is the loss? It is a long issue. In this life of limited span it is hard to understand what is it all about. What is gain? What is loss? What is being and what is non-being? And can a being become non-being? Are we really that, what we are? _______ Since when we are here? Upto when we will be? And why we are here?  Is the drop trying to escape annihilation or it is in the pursuit of it? Excluding mortals what is the fate of immortal? Can immortals persist without those who got union with the immortal. If something can survive without other then what is this all about?

          So this is the question, in quest of which a man becomes aware with new questions and then the journey of finding new answers reveals another reality to that man _______. The discovery of new dimensions of infinity in this finite  life is amazing ________. To study and observe the beautiful pages of  this vast and broad, pretty and great, overt and occult Universe in such a short time _______ What to do ________ the vision is limited and scenes are limitless _______!

          The people of thought and insight come and depart narrating and the universe remains as such.  Even the narration of a single segment of a corner of this universe remains incomplete ________. And the universe has a lot more ________ to be written _______.

          If all the oceans be ink and the trees pens, even then they cannot illustrate His glory and exaltation who is the Crux of Universe, the Owner of the Universe and the Creator of the Universe ______. This illustration is but impossible ______. Even if power of expression is bestowed, brevity of expression is next to impossible. Whether the drop feels reflection of ocean in itself or sees its image in the ocean _______ it can never express the real matter _______. If each drop becomes ocean, even then this cannot be described _______. One may write thousand articles but reality is hard to be described _____. Thousands of libraries ______ beacons of knowledge _______ columns of news papers _______ thoughts of preachers _______ the ways and methodologies of  Saints _______ speeches, writings and acts of politicians and what not _______ And then rules of rulers _______ sheer commands _______ All these efforts are the methods of knowing the reality _______ and even then the reality is out of expression, forever! Even if one gets vastness of expression, vastness itself cannot be expressed _______. It’s only the splendour _______ Only the Manifestation ________ A sight to be seen _______ Point   to ponder ________ The quintessence is that possession is mortal,  only and only mortality ______.

          What will be after  me _______ what was before you?

          I don’t acknowledge it _______ who acknowledges you?

          I reached upto the knowledge _______ When did you depart from the ignorance?

          I will conquer all _______ conquer the wish of conquering.

          I will be forever _______ For whom _______? For whom you want to be, he will not live forever.

          I know the secret of success _______

Where have they gone who knew this secret of success before you?

Anyhow this is an endless tale _______ no criterion is ultimate, nor any style of expression is final _______ knowledge also exists in outskirts of libraries _______ knowledge is even beyond the knowledge ________ A knower can be unaware of another knower. We make ourselves standards and go on assessing others and discover their pros and cons. But we are also in the assessment of others ________ Others have their own criteria _______ No standard is final _______ No secret is the final secret _______ And this whole scene is due to the existing sight_______ Today’s man owns today’s universe _______ Universe is yet to come within range of man but man has already come in the grip of Universe ________ Drop not only faces the ocean but also is in an encounter with it and what will be the outcome except that the drop will be no more a drop. It is compulsion of a drop to keep in touch with its Benefactor and the Creator ________ to contact its very loving, compassionate and considerate Owner _______. And try to know the universe and its Creator. The drop should remain in pursuit of its real and be- loved Ocean because this is the base of its existence.

If the part gets self recognition, it takes no time to recognize the Whole _______ The difficulty is that man refrains from self-recognition. He sets off in exploring the universe and remains unaware, aloof, unconcerned and indifferent from his ownself. That is the reason that amid abundance of knowledge the ignorance still prevails. We know all, recognize all, but don’t know who we are? ________ Who has sent us to these errands of unknown and strange world? _______ Moreover we are called back during and in the middle of this journey ________ If we are to go back then what was it to come here?

          This is the strange phenomenon _______ that the mortal is the mirror of immortal. Without the rays what is radiance of Sun? The Eternal was heard about by narration from ephermal. Man is mortal but is in the pursuit of the immortal. Allah only is the immortal, yet He creates the mortal. He loves this mortal _______ He keeps thinking about it _______. The Creator and the creature are in pursuit of each other. If the veil of reason is removed, then the real manifestation is altogether different. How can love of immortal be mortal. The Beloved of immortal will also be immortal!

          Anyhow the glimpses of the Ocean are the glimpses of drops _______ The plurality of imprints and patterns are actually the glimpses of The Oneness.

          The thought is a vast ocean, the creation of a man of thought are like the drops _______ Even after being divided into drops, ocean still remains same ocean _______ There is no alteration in its vastness _______ An idea even after it has been described  remains undescribed.

          Let ten rivers be taken off the ocean, the ocean will remain as such _______ and if ten rivers are added into the ocean even then it remains the same. It is only a matter of feeling ______ Submission _______ Otherwise what to say about the ocean and the drop _______ The existence of drop is due to a bestowal of Ocean while formation of ocean beyond depends not on the drop.

          The author thinks his writings to be his creations. He thinks that he himself is the creator of his writings. In fact the creator of the thoughts is the same who is the Creator of man. The  idea can flash across a mind whenever and from wherever it wants to ______ it can be orated from any tongue it wishes to ______ may be written down from whichever pen it selects ______.

          Therefore considering them as the endowment of the Creator of the thought, the author presents these essays to you _______ If He wills, fountains may spring out of deserts, barren land may be satiated, darkness may glow, man may be granted the wealth of narration _______ sins may be transformed into pardonship and salvation ________ Downtrodden may become prominent if He wishes. This book may be dedicated to Him if He grants so ________ what can a drop present to the ocean other than worth-lessness of its life and its life in toto _______ And his creative work ________ to its own Creator!