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Bowl of Saqi for January 11
WHERE THE FLAME OF LOVE RISES,
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD UNFOLDS OF ITSELF.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
As it is evident that human intellect cannot grasp Deity and
as it is said that God created the world to become known,
there must be some other means of attaining to Divine
Knowledge. As has been explained, this means is through
love, through the casting away of self. Love has two
aspects, the love of the greater for the lesser called
'compassion', and the love of the lesser for the greater
called 'adoration'. These are pictured in the six-pointed
star.
Compassion is the love which seems to fall like water, or as
Shakespeare has beautifully described it, "The quality of
Mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from
Heaven." The use of the word 'strained' is excellent for it
describes the passing of the Divine Light-Love down into the
sphere of sentient beings. The idea of the god Avalokita or
Avalokiteshvara came from that source.
But in man love is like a flame, and in adoration it rises
and raises the whole personality. It is the rising flame of
love which turns man around to face God, to begin the upward
journey until he gets above the mind-mesh and karmic
activity. Then the knowledge of God unfolds of itself, no
effort is needed once man has discarded his lower self.
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/jan/january11.htm
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