A rich feudal lord with vast lands had a beautiful, majestic, white horse. One day the king invited all the lords to a hunting party. The owner of the beautiful horse was also there for this hunting party. Soon the king realized the beauty and charm of the horse. He had never seen such a magnificent horse and he wanted it for himself. As soon as he returned to the palace, he ordered his men to bring the horse immediately. In return, they could give him whatever he wanted.

The king's men went to the lord, told him what had happened and asked for the horse. The lord was very sad. He did not want to give the horse. It had been given to him by his father, who had died when he was very young, and it was very precious to him. He was willing to give everything, his property, his land, but he could not lose him.

One of the king's men was a little wiser and wiser. He told the gentleman not to worry and promised to bring his horse back to him.

They took the horse to the king. After the king rode the horse around for a while, he asked the wise man who met him, "Isn't that a beautiful and magnificent horse?"

The wise man said, "You are right, my king, it is a very beautiful horse, but its head looks like an ox's head, I wish it were more beautiful."

When the king looked more carefully, he saw that this was true and all his interest and love disappeared. He demanded that the horse be returned to its owner.

This story from the Masnavi not only gives information about the structure and character of the people of the times in which Mevlana lived, but also tells us that even kings are human beings, that they have weaknesses like us ordinary people on the street, and that other people's opinions are more effective than our eyes and feelings. The senses are not capable of grasping the truth, in fact, in my opinion, all perceptions are misleading and incapable of reporting the truth. Even when people look at the same thing, the difference in their perceptions and the fact that they think different things, that they have different opinions, is proof of this. That's why the way things are perceived is important to us, not the way they look or the way they are. They are states of the senses. In addition to what and how we perceive things, how others perceive things affects and changes our senses. This is a dead end, in my opinion, and it is our biggest trap and condemnation. In this situation we live in a world that does not belong to us and is born in the imaginations of others. There is only one way to leap out of this vortex and get out of this bondage, and that way is through the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF SELF. The more we read, the more we fill our soul with deep knowledge, then awareness and finally FREEDOM will come.

Maybe we will be aware of all the games being played on our country, the intrigues and schemes of a tiny population, which is not even 1% of the world, on us ordinary people, who are 99% of the world, all the terrible barbarism, violence, pain, humiliation, and we can learn to see from a distance and as a whole. Please, let us read, let us learn and let us calm down and start all over again by creating a collective consciousness in reverse, in reverse and again. Let us observe that the whole consciousness of humanity is within us. The things inside us are man-made things. Anxiety, fear... These are emotions that this group of 1% of human beings have created for us, virtual or real, but deliberately. They know that before we can grasp this big game, we will drown in emotion and get lost. We will produce more pain and fear, and we will be swept away and drown in this flood of negative emotions. The negative emotions that we generate will one day be manifested in another form in another place. We have to get rid of these negative burdens. We have to purify ourselves. We have to purify ourselves. Our intuition can liberate us from all this. The mind itself already has the power of purification, it is a divine gift given to us. We have to go beyond consciousness and the senses and start again... Let's do it... Let's start again.

Let's think good, think well, pray right...
Let's get out of this trap...

Mukaddes Pekin Başdil

Researcher-Author

Source: Denizli Haber