Fana and Baqa

I belong to the beloved, [and] have seen the two worlds as one! ~Rumi

There are two Arabic words that refer to the play and intersection of the human spirit with the Divine: Fana and Baqa.

Poetry, especially Rumi's poetry, plays in that doorway. Fana describes the stream that moves from the human out into the mystery and Baqa is the attempt of describing God-becoming-human.

Many times I sat in mediation not wanting to get up and re-integrate myself back into this time and space continuum. Yet, it is the necessary return from the infinite into the individualized expression of the Divine, which is my life in this dimension. It is the place where peace lays between rest and effort, where love embraces pain and comedy alike, where the human dance truly occurs; the dance that all spiritual traditions know as the essence of Soul growth.

In this place we get to tend to our loved ones, friends, colleagues and acquaintances. We get to be of service to each other without wanting or needing anything in return. We bring our consciousness to all the situations and circumstances in our daily lives, knowing that we are much more than what we can experience with our physical senses and that we truly are sourced and supplied by that which is God.

And so we move again from Baqa to Fana. We get to open our spiritual wings through our daily mediation practice. We dive deep, fly high and dissolve into that which is pure Spirit.

This is the place where the drop of the individualized “I” dissolves into the ocean of the one “I.” There are no shores, no horizons and nothing to attain. God is expressing Itself in, as and through consciousness individualized and so I am aware that I have my beingness in God, because all the different dimensions are truly one!

Affirmation:

Love is the order of the day and I am one with Spirit! Today I allow myself to fly higher, dive deeper and go farther than ever before!