The Journey of Ascension (From Rizwaan to IshRiz)

I had promised Sohu and Payal that I will be making a post on the "oneness" of IshRiz because according to me it is nearly impossible to find a solid dissociation between Ishaan and Rizwaan except for the nefarious purpose attached with the latter...

By oneness, I do not mean non-duality here because non-duality is more like the absence of separation than to the realization of unity. Also, I promised them that I will try to talk about a phrase from one of my favorite book Atlas Shrugged - "Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification" wrt to Rizwaan. So here is that post but I am not sure if I will be able to explain my point clearly.

I have said before on this forum that I personally feel that even IshRiz cannot dissociate between Ishaan and Rizwaan at emotional level. However, there is just a psychologically existing thin and unstable wall that differentiates the two but it also needs constant reminders in order to stay intact.

When we look out onto the world, we all experience life in dual aspects: day and night, hot and cold, pleasure and pain, positive and negative, good and evil etc. And, this separation that someone experiences depends on the wounding he or she is carrying. It is how the mind perceives the realities and unfolding of life but as we develop subtle inner capacities we see the shaded of gray in between the polar extremes. As we rise in consciousness, we begin to see the entire spectrum of possibilities from one pole too another, but we begin to lose the entire sense of polarity. When we rise to our penultimate selves, we only see and experience oneness.

This is what IshRiz has been going through in the last four years from the moment he has come in contact with the Hooda's and Preet. Before that Rizwaan's life was limited within a circle after his parent's death and he viewed the world as that circle taught him to. But now his eyes are opening to the worldly view around him and thus the line of differentiation with which he perceived the world as well as dissociated himself from Ishaan is vanishing. However, it still exists psychologically because he has not yet completely stepped out of that circle and its control.

In short, I prefer to see it as Rizwaan's journey of ascension to IshRiz where he is seen venturing forth from a judgmental, polarized and limited mind to the experience of being liberated from negativity and limitation into the expanded, universal mind. The journey where he became a being of heart, living in compassion, generosity and tremendous strength and wisdom. His is continuously diving into the mystery of eternal beingness, yet simultaneously becoming more practical, grounded and real as his consciousness is becoming more based on the truth that he is experiencing each day.

And, ascension does not mean leaving behind something, just walking out on, or abandoning the old (reality and identity of being Rizwaan in this case) but rather it means completing the old (identification) - i.e. achieving wholeness (oneness) (IshRiz).

Originally posted by: Fantasia.

Tum merey paas hotey ho goya ..

Jab koi doosra nahi hota .

You know nobody has yet undertood what the poet wanted to say in this. There are a thousand seperate critical interpretations of this shair but no one succeded to understand what it means. Is it for the lover? Or for God? Goya means .. in conversation, and goya means even though. Does this mean that you are in conversation with me when no one else is or you are near me even though no one else is.

I find this very relevant to ishaan and rizwaan.

Wo ik doosre k sath hotey hain goya .. jab koi doosra nahi hota.

Originally posted by: Fantasia.

It is a beautiful post Preeti. The oneness yet distinction of Ishaan and Rizwaan is what has granted the depth to his character. There are times when the boundries are very distinct and times when the amagmation is harmonious. Ishaan and Rizwaan are breathing inside a single body and they keep on fighting with each other to take domination .

I sometimes feel that there is a constant battle going on inside this physical body, as of which identity will win. It seems as the survival battle, bcz at this point of time, Rizwaan and Ishaan are co dependent on each other. His exterior body can no longer harbour a single entity but these two identities keep on fighting with each other, when one side is too tired too fight, we find a harmony among them, depeicting that there is no ishaan, and its rizwaan.

I do not agree with this reality that there is no ishaan. There is an ishaan. Its not only a name but a persona, a persona that breathes inside him. Rizwaan and Ishaan are similar, but they are NOT one, they are distinct and his fondness for becoming both Ishaan and Rizwaan is what arises his conflict. If there wouldnt have been an ishaan then there wouldnt have been a conflict.

I dont know if i made sense or not, but thank u for this wonderful post. Ishaan and Rizwaan exsist as two different people in the same physical body, and in the deepest silence of ones life, these two entities talk to each other. I will qoute one of the mot beautiful and famous pieces of urdu poetry ..

Tum merey paas hotey ho goya ..

Jab koi doosra nahi hota .

You know nobody has yet undertood what the poet wanted to say in this. There are a thousand seperate critical interpretations of this shair but no one succeded to understand what it means. Is it for the lover? Or for God? Goya means .. in conversation, and goya means even though. Does this mean that you are in conversation with me when no one else is or you are near me even though no one else is.

I find this very relevant to ishaan and rizwaan.

Wo ik doosre k sath hotey hain goya .. jab koi doosra nahi hota.

Originally posted by: Loveforlife

Very beautifully written.. Ishaan and Rizwan are two sides of the same coin.. One cannot be without the other. Ishaan means The Sun and Rizwaan means the Protector.. The Sun nurtures and the Protector is the guardian angel... Two most important virtues of the man IshRiz.. Then how can this man be called only Ishaan or only Rizwaan? The man who started as a Protector only slowly progressed to become a Nurturer...

Also "Hooda" comes originally from word "Huda" that means 'Right Guidance'... And it's so symbolic in the sense that the Hooda's have been a catalyst in this journey of IshRiz.

...and then of course 'Preet' means 'Love' who is a driving force behind this Rizwaan Ishaan amalgamation..

Right guidance... Love.. Two forces behind the identity fusion of IshRiz...

I thought for a long time as to what would be an appropriate reaction to your super amazing post... This I hope makes sense... 😊