Iqbal Bano, the subcontinent’s beloved ghazal singer, born in India and trained in the Dilli Gharana by the legendary Ustad Chand Khan, . In the hearts of all who knew and loved her music is the memory of that day: when, in protest against the jailing of the subcontinent’s foremost left poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz by Pakistan’s dictator General Zia-ul Haq, she sang Faiz’s immortal song “Hum Dekhenge” (We shall witness) at a Lahore stadium full of 50,000 people, wearing a black sari in defiance of Zia’s ban on the sari. As her liquid voice reached the crescendo — declaring “Certainly we, too, shall witness that day … When these high mountains/Of tyranny and oppression turn to fluff and evaporate/And we oppressed/Beneath our feet will this earth shiver, shake and beat/And heads of rulers will be struck/With crackling lightening and thunder roars/When crowns will be flung in the air — and thrones will be overturned …,” people joined with slogans of “Inquilab Zindabad” (Long live revolution!)
Hum dekhenge Lazim hai ke hum bhi dekhenge Woh din ke jis ka waada hai Jo loh-e-azl pe likha hai Hum dekhenge
Jab zulm-o-sitam ke koh-e-garaan Rui ki tarah ud jayenge Hum mehkumoon ke paun tale Yeh dharti dhad dhad dhadkagi Aur ehl-e-hukum ke sar upar Jab bijli kad kad kadkegi Hum dekhenge
Jab arz-e-khuda ke Kabe se Sab but uthwaye jayenge Hum ahl-e-safa mardood-e-haram Masnad pe bithaye jayenge Sab taaj uchale jayenge Sab takht giraye jayenga Bas naam rahega Allah ka Jo ghayab bhi hai hazir bhi Jo nazir bhi hai manzar bhi Uthega nalhaq ka naara Jomain bhi hoon aur tum bhi ho Aur raaj karegi khalq-e-khuda Jo main bhi hoon aur tum bhi ho Hum dekhenge Lazim hai ke hum bhi dekhenge Hum dekhenge
Idenics has had a wonderful influence in the development of KHTK (Mindfulness), and this should be acknowledged. Idenics helped set up the bridge of understanding between the influences that KHTK had from Buddhism and Scientology.
Like Buddhism, KHTK is a grass-roots movement that employs mindfulness. But it incorporates the modern technology of “directed mindfulness” as introduced in Scientology but finally rounded up in Idenics.
If a person is having difficulty with the self-application of KHTK exercises and processes, I shall certainly recommend that person to go to an Idenics practitioner for assistance.
NOTE (February 22, 2020): KHTK is an acronym formed from Knowing How To Know.
NOTE (February 12, 2021): I now prefer Subject Clearing under the Discipline of Mindfulness over Idenics. You handle such points of equilibrium (or shocks) on a gradient in your contemplations during subject clearing.
I saw this article on Facebook, and that is why I am here. I like Scientology too because I have been helped by it, but there are also aspects of Scientology that I don’t like, and which I try to understand. I hope you wouldn’t mind if I take up one of those aspects for discussion on your blog.
My earlier experiences in Scientology were wonderful; so much so that I documented them in My Introduction to America. Those early experiences gave me hope that I could get a grass-roots movement in education going in my country (India), through which people could improve themselves. The ancient movement of “meditation” had lost its steam long ago. But auditing as “directed meditation” could put life back in it.
But then I saw Scientology moving away from its early promise of creating a grass-roots movement in the field. I saw it becoming very sensitive to criticism even if that criticism were valid. I saw it declaring people as squirrels and suppressive if they thought on their own to make Scientology principles easier to apply at the grass-roots level. I saw an obsessive control to keep the technology out of general reach under the pretext of keeping it “pure.”
As we see in the field of science that the purity of knowledge would always be aspired for and any corruption of knowledge would just wash away over time. All one has to do is to make those basic principles easier to understand and apply. And that is what I have gone back to doing on my blog, which may not be appreciated by the “purists.”
Should or should not the Scientology research be continued by others, after Hubbard’s passing away? Shouldn’t the principles discovered by Hubbard be made easier to be applied at the grass-roots level?
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PS: It was 1969 when I first came across Dianetics and Scientology, and dreamed of a grass-roots movement going in India. But, today, my country is the United States of America. It is where I live. And now I dream of a grass-roots movement in education started throughout the world.
I hope to accomplish that dream with the help of KHTK (Knowing How To Know), which is inspired in part by Scientology.
