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Bowl of Saqi for January 4
WHEN YOU STAND WITH YOUR BACK TO THE SUN,
YOUR SHADOW IS BEFORE YOU; BUT
WHEN YOU TURN AND FACE THE SUN,
YOUR SHADOW FALLS BEHIND YOU.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
This describes the difference between the average man and
the illuminated soul. This is primarily a difference of
Will, not of capability. The average man, who is under the
sway of external influence, permits his will to be deceived
by the mind. He looks down from above, like the man leaning
over the wharf and gazing into the depths of the ocean. All
he sees are reflections and shadows. So he becomes caught in
this web, which is nothing but the shadow of the vibrations
interpenetrating in the mind-mesh.
When man turns to the path of God he begins to look upward.
Therefore spiritual education is called a turning and a
tuning. Then the shadow-thoughts and the shadow-words and
the shadow-interests fade into nescience, and the whole
attention is focused upon God and Unity. This is the meaning
of the Sufi Invocation, "Toward the One, the Perfection of
Love, Harmony and Beauty, the Only Being; United with All
the Illuminated Souls, Who form the Embodiment of the
Master, the Spirit of Guidance."
mind-mesh....
http://www.rosanna.com/sufiwritings/glossary/glossary.htm
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/jan/january4.htm
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