What is reality? What do we see? How can we see ‘Your form’ in this material world?
‘I saw your form in my eyes, I saw your form, you
came out of my midst and appeared to me…’
Who is he who comes out of himself? Some versions of this song by the 19th-century Bengali mystical poet Hasan Raja replace the word ‘middle’ with ‘bastav’, which in English is ‘real’. And the look you see smiling, is it looking for a look? Through the layers of how many billions of statements, the real or real can be seen. What actually matches?
French psycho-analyst Jacques Lakar’s ‘real’ is Hasan’s ‘real’? Trained in psychiatry, Laka succeeded Freud in psychoanalysis. He has always researched the human mind and its structure and tried to provide some kind of theoretical solution. But his ‘real’ does not mean reality.
What is reality? What do we see? See yourself in your own eyes and in the eyes of others. Darshan and Drishti—both words have dual meanings. In this world of philosophy, the way in which our thoughts are constantly taking shape, Laca calls the process ‘The Imaginary’ or ‘Imaginary’. At this stage of self-construction we learn to recognize. At the same time, learning is the source of isolation. Because the self is always isolated. The next stage in the Lacanian world is the ‘symbolic’. Because people learn to communicate with others through signs and symbols. Because, his access to the family, society and state structure is not created until he is immersed in the existential discourse. His socialization is a continuous process through ideological, legal and ritual adherence. Laca says, ‘The world of words constructs the world of objects—things that confuse the process of being aware of one’s own being with everything in the “now and present.”‘
What lies outside the sphere of this ‘now and present’ is the Lacanian ‘real’. which is not subject to any sign or symbol. whose existence is beyond all description. According to Laca, being in the material world we will never see this reality. But Hasan Raja got it. The form he saw of you, is this ‘absolute real’? Many would say that is God, whom Lalan Saiji finds in simple people.
In Rumi’s eyes, that is love, which tears the sheet of reality. When the Khalifa asked Laili, ‘What is your form, which makes Majnu Dewana?’
Then Laili replied
– ‘When you see Majnu’s eyes,
you get the vision of Do Jahan
. You are aware, Majnu is not inside you.
Diwana Majnu who sees Laili in everything, is actually disillusioned. No words could bind his spirit.
… Consciousness wears shackles
on the feet of the soul, eats the bugs of whimsical gain and loss, and fear of destruction. There is no purity, no dignity or light, no direction to attain the ultimate. The child who sleeps behind whims and talks in imagination.‘
That means the soul sleeping in worldly consciousness will never see the Supreme. But Diwana Majnu who sees Laili in everything, is actually disillusioned. No words could bind his spirit. Diwana Hasan achieved that bliss in what way? The handsome 19th century landlord’s son, who had all the means of enjoyment, suddenly realized what freed him from all worldly philosophies? In his own eyes he saw that form of himself, whose destiny is to remain suppressed. The answer to that question may have to be sought further.
