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Bowl of Saqi for November 26
THE HEART MUST BE EMPTY IN ORDER TO
RECEIVE THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
When personality is intrigued by the world it becomes
intoxicated by name and form. This produces pleasure and pain.
This produces rise and fall and all duality. God is beyond
duality, therefore Scripture teaches that every valley must be
exalted and every mountain brought low. To reach this state,
Sufis cultivate indifference -- which is really the highest
kind of love. When love for one means not-love for another,
then the first is passion, not love. The true love, even when
thrown upon one (be that personality or God) will also ****ne
upon others.
Man's love for man, no matter how great it is, is always
marred by thoughts which cast shadows upon it. Man's love for
God, which necessitates his ego-sacrifice, permits the light
which has always been there to ****ne through the heart and
flood the mind with all knowledge. While it may appear wrong
to seek Allah for the sake of knowledge, it is actually
impossible to do this, for if one loves knowledge the heart is
not empty and so God cannot be the ideal. But when there is no
other ideal or love than God, all knowledge and all other
desires are attained.
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