I am neither a mullah nor a Brahmin;
nor even a page of the Koran .
not for me the scripture of Gita ,
I am neither east nor west, neither earth nor sky .
I am a Jogi
we are , what are we?
we do not know what we are,
sometimes we are blessed,
sometimes we are accursed,
sometimes we fast and pray,
sometimes we become light hearted,
sometimes we say only I exist,
sometimes we say we do not exist,
sometimes our hearts are calm,
sometimes we weep,
sometimes we say we are realized,
sometimes we say who are we,
"Sachoo" we are that eternally ,
what other contract can we make .
Sachal Sarmast [1739- 1829]
Do I hide my nature, and show myself as another ?
Sinful it is to know others, all form is God .- Sachal Sarmast
An addition:
What i wanted to convey with this quote was that Sufism is not as close to Advaita vedanta as one may think at first sight, rather to siddha mata or nath panth. Sachal sarmast is describing the sahaja (natural, inborn or spontaneous) state of the Siddha mata - the return to stainless innocence (Niranjan) achieved by attending to ones own funeral, he is therefore in the state of amritva, where form (shakti/prakriti) is perceived entwined in a state of union with god (shiva/purusha), called samarasya (union in similarity of parts) not advaita moksha where form does not equal god.
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