Here's an explanation:
- When you first go through a change in the perception of your reality, you become an orphan in several ways:
- In your internal qualities:
- Your internal quality of selflessness dies, and you enter into the quality of bestowal, meaning you leave the family of selfishness behind and you're adopted into the family of bestowal.
- In your perception of reality:
- You perceive that your corporeal family is no longer your family, your mother is no longer your mother, your father is no longer your father. You perceive a wider spiritual family, not based on bloodlines, but based on internal qualities.
- Also, you perceive that everyone around you - your family and even strangers - are a reflection of you, they're a mirror of you (known as The Mirror Effect), there's nobody else but you. You lose your family because they actually become you.
- As you grow in the quality of bestowal, you go through various states, your current state is called 'the parent' and the next state is called 'the son'. When you correct your current state from selfishness to bestowal, 'the parent' dies, your current state dies, you become orphaned and you enter into the next state, 'the son', drawing closer to The Creator each time.
The Bible and The Quran both speak about orphans, for example:
- "I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you." (John 14:18, NIV)
- "Did He not find you an orphan and give [you] refuge?" (Quran 93:6, Sahih)
One notable orphan is The Prophet Muhammad. He was orphaned at an early age [1]. His father Abdullah died before he was born and his mother Amina died when he was six years old. He was then under the care of his grandfather who died when Muhammad was eight years old. Ultimately he was raised by his uncle, Abu Talib
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