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Bowl of Saqi for January 1
AS WATER IN A FOUNTAIN FLOWS AS ONE STREAM,
BUT FALLS IN MANY DROPS DIVIDED BY TIME AND SPACE,
SO ARE THE REVELATIONS OF THE ONE STREAM OF TRUTH.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
Truth is the Universal Life which permeates and penetrates
all things. It is the same as Universal Light called "Amida"
by the Buddhists which should not be regarded as different
from Allah or God. This difference comes from the
intervention of the mind-weaving. The Universal Light
penetrating through the meshes of the mind reflects in forms
through the world of limitation -- that is to say, where
there is time and where there is space.
If by cognition one means mental grasping, this is not the
acquiring of truth. It can never be done by philosophy. It
is only when the consciousness arises above time and space,
it perceives the Grand Unity beyond the mental realm. It is
this Touch which may be called Revelation, and no one who
has ever experienced it will find its Essence contradictory
to anyone else who has ever experienced it.
Sometimes the spiritual evolution of personality reaches
such an exalted stage that the one is called "Avatar" or
"Rasul". This is the result of the tearing of mind-mesh so
that the Divine Light penetrates into the physical body, and
the life of body, mind and spirit is one. In such cases the
words of the speaker are termed "Revelation", but the real
revelation consists not of the words but of the personality
and atmosphere of the Divine Messenger. As the Universal
Light and Life are ever one and the same, and as the process
of revelation always consists of this tearing of the
mind-mesh and the pouring of spiritual abundance upon the
body, such experience can well be likened to the rising of a
geyser or fountain, only in this case the depths of the
spring are in the universal sphere.
mind-mesh, Rasul....
http://www.rosanna.com/sufiwritings/glossary/glossary.htm
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/jan/january1.htm
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