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Bowl of Saqi for December 9
THE SEEMING DEATH OF THE BODY IS THE REAL BIRTH OF THE SOUL.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
By death of the body is meant dissolution, of course. For
when this physical body is disintegrated, the soul is no
longer a captive to time and space and its life becomes
much more real.
In another sense, body means much more than just the
physical body; any body -- earth-body, mind-body or even
heart-body -- seems to exact something from soul so that it
does not fully realize its complete union and unity with God.
Again, death of body may mean death of influence of body.
This is a most wonderful process. When one has completely
realized God while in the physical body, when one has
attained to liberation, the form of the body remains --
one still has a chemical body but there is a marvelous
change in it.
The old physical atoms fall away and are displaced by finer
particles. These are more attenuated and are filled with the
life-force which flows forth from the heart -- not with the
blood so much as around the blood like magnetism flows
around an electric wire. This living magnetism produces a
living light and sometimes this light can manifest. Thus
Jesus Christ has said, "Let your light ****ne before men."
This light was also seen in Moses when the Glory of God
shone upon him and it is called "Kevod" by the Hebrews. This
is the living breath and life of God. It is also manifested
in Mohammed whose inner light was so great that sometimes he
cast no shadow. It was this attainment that gave him the
right to be called Mohammed. By Sufis this light is called
"Nuri Mohammed".
This spiritual physical body is called by the Buddhists
"Nirma****aya" or body of transformation. It can be dissolved
instantly at so-called death, which certainly was true in
the historical cases of Moses, Elijah, Jesus Christ, Kabir
and many others. There is not always instantaneous
dissolution because if the body is kept whole or parts
remain, they help to sanctify the earth. So Mohammed was
placed in a tomb and the remains of Buddha placed in stupas.
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