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Bowl of Saqi for January 12
PEACE IS PERFECTED ACTIVITY;
THAT IS PERFECT WHICH IS COMPLETE IN ALL ITS ASPECTS,
BALANCED IN EACH DIRECTION AND
UNDER COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE WILL.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
Until the soul has found itself far above the mind-mesh,
there cannot be peace. Peace is found at the center, at the
hub of things, nevertheless it cannot be separated from
activity. Cessation of activity may be called non-activity,
not peace; cessation of war may be called non-war, but peace
is a very inappropriate term for it.
Whenever there is a change of feeling, thought or action,
there is some rearrangement; and every type of change,
arrangement or rearrangement causes or accompanies a
dis-equilibrium. Any change of equilibrium is necessarily of
the nature of war. Only when equilibrium can be maintained
without change is there peace. This is only found when the
will has entire control of the mind.
All vibrations and atoms below the mind-mesh are constantly
in motion, changing themselves and causing changes to others
and being changed except where they are held in place by a
stronger force. It is love or will that stand above law,
which can fix these atoms and vibrations. This fixation is
symbolically studied in alchemy and directly studied in the
inward mystical process.
It is the Divine Will, which can control all wills and all
minds, and it is the Divinity that is the perfected
activity. Therefore what the Buddhists call Nirvana is
nothing but the natural state of God above all distinctions
and differences, thus Pure Peace.
mind-mesh....
http://www.rosanna.com/sufiwritings/glossary/glossary.htm
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/jan/january12.htm
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