Transcending Words

Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 11:22

The mystics had gone beyond words, the ultimate state and taught the seekers to transcend words.

A short Sufi story reveals the truth.

Jalaluddin Rumi, the great Sufi mystic was the first to buy an old unlettered Sufi book which was over a thousand years old. He read it everyday in the absence of people and put it under his pillow after having read it.

The disciples were highly intrigued to know what their master read. They tried all possible ways to take a peep into the mysterious book. Some even resorted to climb on the roof, remove a tile and peer into the room to look at the book from above. However they could not figure out the content of the book.

On the day of Rumi shedding his mortal coil, the disciples were more concerned about the book, more than the Master himself. They dashed to his room and pulled out the book that was under the pillow and urgently peered into it!

It was just an empty book!

The close disciples of Rumi who had grasped the ultimate wisdom however could understand the import of the essence of the empty book!

Osho says, silence is the ultimate state where words cannot make way to!