Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that by exploring the vastness of space, we ultimately reach a transcendent realm that transcends all limitations.
Muhammad Iqbal's quote reflects on the profound journey through the complexities of existence and the universe. It insinuates that through the exploration of the infinite varieties found in the cosmos, we can arrive at a higher understanding or divine realm that is beyond the constraints of dimensions and physical realities, representing the ultimate meeting point of all that exists.
In practice
In a lecture about the universe and our place in it, this quote can inspire awe and reflection.
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.
Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.
When you say βyesβ to the βisnessβ of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.
Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix. Beware those who claim to know the mind of God and who are prepared to use force, if necessary, to make others conform. Beware those who cannot tell God's will from their own. Temple police are always a bad sign. When chaplains start wearing guns and hanging out at the sheriff's office, watch out. Someone is about to have no king but Caesar
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.
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