Selections from the Writings of the Promised Messiah — Page 69
pertaining to the realm of the Unknown, whether He does it in response to His servant's prayer or on His own, He brings down upon him a sort of unconsciousness and all of a sudden he loses touch with his surroundings. In that state, he completely loses awareness of even his own existence. Like a diver who plunges down to the bottom of a pool, he is completely submerged and drowned in that state of selflessness, unawareness and unconsciousness. When, in the end, he breaks surface like a diver with whom he shares his experience to a large degree and is delivered from that state of unawareness, he becomes conscious of a resonance within him. As that resonance fades out, he becomes aware of the presence of a most pleasant, well balanced and exquisite communication within him. And this experience is so strange and sublime that it is beyond one's power to describe it in words. It is this experience which reveals to one the existence of a flowing river of inner wisdom. It is through this experience of near unconsciousness that a servant of God receives from God, answers to all his supplications in an extremely exquisite and pleasant tone. Then, in response to whatever question takes shape in that state of semi unconsciousness, God reveals to him such profound knowledge as is impossible for a man to discover otherwise. This in itself results in his gaining greater faith in God and a better understanding of His wondrous ways. Man's supplication and God's response to it by way of manifestation of His being the true object of worship is an experience which enables man to behold God, as if he were seeing Him in this very world; thus be begins to belong to both worlds simultaneously. (Braheen e Ahmadiyya: Roohani Khaza'in Vol. 1, footnote pp. 260 -262) 69