QSI: The Science and Truth of Life Within and Without the Body (Class #19)

"In the wide world beyond itself nothing is alien to it. [i.e., from the first emission of thought in consciousness thought is “free”, non-specific and can’t and won’t be stopped] It is in its progressive participation in the life of the apparently alien [i.e., life of society] that thought demolishes the walls of its finitude and enjoys its potential infinitude [In society, where does thought stop? Thought is as extensive as consciousness. It’s like the relationship between the water and the ocean. All oceans are water but all water is not the ocean.  Thoughts are like waves on the ocean. Oceans can exist without waves but waves can’t exist without the ocean. And just as a note, the same relationship exists between thoughts and ideas. Thoughts can exist without ideas but ideas can’t exist without thought] Its movement becomes possible only because of the implicit presence in its finite individuality of the infinite, which keeps alive within it the flame of aspiration and sustains it in its endless pursuit. [i.e., Thinking persists because it is the medium through which the source of creation seeks its destiny. From the foundation of creation at the beginning of time before there was human mind, consciousness, thought and ideas as potential have been moving toward their “infinitude of destinies”.  It is a mistake to regard thought as inconclusive, for it too, in its own way, is a greeting of the finite with the infinite.”[H.Q. 30:30] Iqbal “Reconstruction of Religious Thought”