Mian Muhammad Bakhsh (ca. 1830-1907 CE) was a Kashmiri Sufi saint of the Qadri lineage, and his poems are today sung at shrines throughout Kashmir.  The following  excerpt refers to one of the ‘valleys’ through which the spiritual seeker travels, most well known from The Conference of the Birds by Fariduddin Attar.  There are said to be seven valleys, of which Unity or Oneness is the fifth, where the traveller realises that all is connected, and that the Beloved is beyond all, including multiplicity and eternity.

He that has not drowned in the river of Unity
May look human, but is not a man.

He who reaches Oneness goes beyond good and bad;
Good and bad are just ways of seeing.

As man reaches into himself and makes a place,
Sometimes in happiness he laughs, at others cries in misery.

Once he comes out to of himself, he’s neither happy nor sad,
From both hell’s sorrow and heaven’s delight he’s free.

Each man has in his ego
hell’s snakes and scorpions

Each man has in his ego hell’s snakes and scorpions,
But as he leaves his Self behind, he’s free of all dangers.

Come out of Self, else carry that hell with you,
And be bitten by the snakes and scorpions of pain.

When the searcher reaches here, he dies and lives again;
He disappears and appears again as deaf and dumb and blind.

Reason roams outside this city and cannot enter;
Anyone who discovers this mystery is free of care.

He leaves all reason behind and dances wildly
And says he does not know who he is and where he goes.

If you leave your ego behind and forget your Self,
That is the place of Oneness!

O Muhammad Bakhsh, who can describe it in mere words?

Tr. Mahmood Jamal