The very sea of eternity. Fire is always terrified by water. Know that while the eyes of the egoless Shaykh are asleep, his heart is awake. While he dwells with us in some place on the earth, he is traversing over the seventh sphere of heaven like Saturn. Immediate intuition or intuitive knowledge in relation to the egoless Shaykh is what thought is to us.
Thought is of the past and future.
When it is emancipated from these two, the difficulty is solved. It beholds every conditioned thing as unconditioned. The spirit beholds the genuine coin and the alloyed before it is discovered in the mine. In the heart of the grape he sees the wine. In his egoless state, he sees the object.