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Bowl of Saqi for November 3
IN ONE'S SEARCH FOR TRUTH, THE FIRST LESSON AND THE LAST IS LOVE.
THERE MUST BE NO SEPARATION. NO "I AM" AND "THOU ART NOT".
UNTIL ONE HAS ARRIVED AT THAT SELFLESS CONSCIOUSNESS,
ONE CANNOT KNOW LIFE AND TRUTH.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
From the study of the heart in the body, we can observe that
it is the circulation of the blood which is the continuous
process of life. The blood touches every part of one's body
and keeps it functioning as a unit. We can tell something
about a person if we know the condition of his or her blood.
Heart in the body does not separate part from part but
considers the whole as a unit.
Such is the nature of love. It can think only in terms of
units. From one point of view, this is not thinking, but from
a deeper aspect it is the only real thinking. What one calls
thought -- by which one endeavors to know something of the
nature of things -- is really a process of analysis. Analysis
can only bring knowledge of analyzing; it sees parts but
cannot put them together because its nature is to divide. To
bring parts together one must be able to efface the nufs of
each part; by thinking of them as separate pieces one gives
each a nufs, which is the product of human thought.
In fact, the whole world as we consider its existence is
nothing but the external projection of this thought-power, and
the physical world itself is dependent upon thought-power to
some extent. But thought would itself disintegrate when there
is not feeling behind it. In fact, this occurs at all times,
yet not much attention is paid to it.
As mind analyzes, it cannot put parts together. Therefore it
can never apprehend truth, constantly looking at diversity.
The enlightened mind is not different from the unenlightened
mind except that it perceives unity, yet it is not
self-dependent, it is dependent upon heart -- in fact it is
one with heart.
Now heart expands and contracts, but there is no limit to its
expansiveness. Whatever it touches, it regards as itself; it
sees no self and does not think of others as separate. We
often find little infants looking upon each other as the same
person, calling each other by their own names. They have not
yet gained the habit of analyzing and separating. The
spiritual soul p***** again into a stage when one can see
above all the distinctions and differences which divide men,
when another does not appear to one as another but as
projection of self.
This type of love is wisdom itself. When the bounds of
limitation are removed, there is no end to wisdom, to
knowledge, to ability. However, the real lover does not place
the heart upon such things; one loves and it is this love that
makes one live. If there are any gains in it, one does not do
it for that reason: one loves because it is one's nature to
love. This shows the presence of heart which marks the
spiritual person. No other person is really spiritual, but all
-- even sinners -- possess this potentiality be it in a
smaller or greater degree. Pure thought, real thought, is
without any "I" and is the expression of an awakened soul.
Nufs....
http://www.rosanna.com/sufiwritings/glossary/glossary.htm
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