Self-realization opens the doors of cognition of God and for acquiring self- realization, the first stage, which a Sufi has to pass, is that of negation. That is, first of all one has to negate one’s conscious  knowledge and traditional information. One who is steadfast on this path ultimately reaches a stage when his own reality is revealed upon him, that is, he manages to have the self-realization. A spiritual associate needs a teacher or the mentor to guide him through this particular path. With this viewpoint we wish to present Qalander Baba Auliya’s thoughts for the  discerning readers.

In order to comprehend a thing properly, we have to forget all that is pre- existing in our mind. Let’s take this thing, what the man is? Man is the name of accumulation of thought waves in an arranged form only, nothing else. One type of these thoughts is as if a river is flowing. Man does not realize what is flowing in its water as long as it flows in its two banks but becomes aware when it is flooded and water starts spilling over the banks. Now, the man feels that some thoughts that are disarrayed, almost meaningless are attacking him. Man does not try to understand the meanings of all those thoughts and lets them pass only because that he cannot put them in an arranged order.

There is another type of thoughts. It is like picking a few things from the flowing water of the river and arranges them into a particular pattern. He declares the meanings of that pattern a work of his authorship. This is what every intelligent and wise man names as knowledge or invention.

Purpose is not to discuss the types of thoughts so leaving the other types out we would delve into these two types of thoughts.