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love would continue, without any aggravation of the heart being created. The real meaning of passion (Jazb) is attachment. The amount of attachment can be said to increase in proportion to the intensity of the relationship or conjointment (Nisbat).”
4. Good conduct on the way to God-Realisation (Sulook): In the first (superb) form of it, everything, I mean concerning one’s own condition, appears to be in a sleeping state. Then there are second-rate forms of it. The first rate conduct on the way to God-Realisation is rare to find.
5. Faith/Conviction (Atiqad): Firmness of faith is there when one’s link with Him (God) is established so as to be never diverted, even to the extent of finding oneself beyond control with respect to do that (diverting of faith). Achieving such conviction/faith should be attempted.
6. Dependence / Faith (Bharosa): Briefly it is having / finding at any time nobody except He (God), nor having/finding any help other than His to depend on.
7. Thankfulness/Gratitude (Shukr): To remain happy under all circumstances is called thankfulness.
8. Gratitude/obligation (Ehsaan): This is the condition where in one is never oblivious of His remembrance, and considers Him alone every moment as one’s own. He means God: worldly obligation is not meant (here).
9. Contentment /Patience (Sabr): To be contented under all conditions, without the thought of something better occurring to one’s mind.
10. Craving (Talab): Nothing except God is to be craved for.
11. Longing/Pining (Tadap): This means restlessness; and it reaches up to the reality of love. This remains ( verbal) meaning; and now listen to its definition : real longing is there when no current except that would arise in the heart.
12. World (Duniya): It is that wherein everybody desires one’s recompense.
13. Transcendence/Hereafter (Uqba): It is where nobody has to do anything with anybody else, i.e. no attachment is felt (with others). Swami Vivekananda Ji explained: “Interdependence is the idea of our Lord as regards the world. The