Lessons from ‘The Sufi Path of Annihilation: In the Tradition of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi & Hasan Lutfi Shushud’ by Nevit O. Ergin

Ergin is the translator of the complete Divan-i Kebir of Rumi’s opus. He is a Turkish-born surgeon. He was initiated into Itlak Sufism under Sufi master Hasan Lutfi Shushud.

‘The Sufi Path of Annihilation’ examines three main parts of the Sufi path of annihilation through zikr, fasting, and mental suffering.

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Shownotes:

00:00 - Introduction

00:00 - Excerpt from ‘The Sufi Path of Annihilation’

09:10 - What is Itlak Sufism, and what is the true and greatest Jihad?

13:40 - Non-dualism is the true state of being, but don’t become a bird without wings

18:33 - The path of annihilation is the essence of all religion

22:22 - The three that leads to annihilation: breath work, fasting, suffering

26:30 - Why anyone can become a Saint

29:25 - The intellectual and experiencer

32:25 - Going to Nothingness and Absence

37:40 - Attaining and experiencing non-dualism, why you shouldn’t belong to religions

43:55 - Is annihilation only for monks?

46:00 - Suffering, death, and remaining unattached to this world

52:30 - The three stages of annihilation

56:00 - Love is the only way towards Absence and immortality