You Are the Ocean, Not the Wave — Mulla Sadra’s Shattering Vision of the Self | Ep 8

“What if you’re not a soul trapped in a body — but a body awakening into soul? Mulla Sadra’s vision erases the line between matter and meaning.”

In this transformative episode, Dr. Ebrahim Dinani and Dr. Esmail Mansouri Larijani illuminate three of Mulla Sadra’s most mind-bending ideas about the self, the soul, and the true meaning of existence.

Mulla Sadra’s philosophy dissolves one of the oldest puzzles in human thought — the divide between body and soul. He does not merely connect them; he unites them as one continuous movement of Being.

🌱 1. The Body Becomes the Soul
The soul isn’t a “bird in a cage.” It isn’t something trapped inside matter.
Through Transubstantial Motion (Harakat al-Jawhariyyah), the body itself evolves into spirit.
The soul is bodily in its origin and spiritual in its subsistence — a living transformation from dust to consciousness.

🌊 2. You’re Mistaking the Waves for the Ocean
Sadra distinguishes between Existence itself (Wujūd) and existent things (mawjūdāt).
We spend our lives chasing the waves — roles, possessions, identities — forgetting the boundless ocean of Being that gives them life.
Existence isn’t “something” — it is the reality behind everything.

🔥 3. Self-Annihilation Isn’t Death — It’s Liberation
Fanā’, or annihilation, is not the destruction of awareness but the end of illusion — the dissolution of the false belief that the limited ego (qayd) is real.
The wave doesn’t die when it realizes it’s the ocean — it wakes up.

✨ This episode is an invitation to look within and see what “temporary limit” you mistake for your true self — and to awaken to the infinite Existence that has always been you.

“It’s not that you are a wave that will return to the ocean — you were never anything but the ocean itself.” — Mulla Sadra

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