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Bowl of Saqi for January 6
THE TRUTH CANNOT BE SPOKEN;
THAT WHICH CAN BE SPOKEN IS NOT THE TRUTH.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
Truth is an Absolute, Transcendent Unity. Sounds are created
out of Sound by the Universal Sound (called Logos by the
Christians) which penetrates the mind-mesh giving rise to
all particular sounds. Particular sounds show the existence
of Universal Sound but do not explain it.
This Universal Truth is Universal Sound and not Silence. It
is active, it is Life, yet in a certain sense it is
changeless above and including all change. Human speech
comes into existence by the grasping of the rays of
Universal sound by the mind-mesh, but none of such
utterances can either be or describe the Universal Sound
which is Truth. A chicken cannot be described by the eggs
she hatches, yet it is natural for the chicken to lay eggs.
Yet human speech, through the praising of God, causes a
turning back to God. This is through the process of
renunciation (not abolition) of thought and speech. Through
such a process one becomes one with Truth, and Truth is
reflected in speech and is the cause of speech but of itself
it is not speech.
mind-mesh....
http://www.rosanna.com/sufiwritings/glossary/glossary.htmhttp://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/jan/january6.htm
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