“Bulha ki Jana Mein Kaun”: Who is Trying to Know Who We Are?

Speaker: Shri Kiran Rana, a practising sufi who has lived and worked with Fazal Inayat-Khan and is presently a guide or murshid in the tariqa (order) called the Sufi Way

 

Chair:   Dr. Anindita N. Balslev, Fouonder, Forum, Cross Cultural Conservation 

 

The question in this verse by Baba Bulhe Shah – which echoes an earlier poem of Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi- arises naturally for everyone who makes the turn toward the inner life. This inquiry into who - or what – we are, our relationship to others, our connection in and to the One, becomes a beautiful deconstruction of self into essence, a transpiring, a joyous awakening. And for hundreds, thousands, over the years, it has been launched by this haunting, dancing, evocative line: “Bulha ki jana…”