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Bowl of Saqi for January 17
THOUGHT DRAWS THE LINE OF FATE.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
This is true not only in prayer but in all things. Every
exhalation sends something out, and every inhalation draws
something in. That which is expelled carries a message, as a
flying dove going upward. As soon as another thought is
received into the mind, it impedes the upward journey of
that breath-message. When any act, thought, speech or desire
strikes the mind-mesh, it is propelled downward toward the
earth plane and brings with it the results of a movement
which is at the same time personal and individual, and also
cosmic, in the sense that the whole sphere endeavors to keep
its balance and sends back the compensatory vibrations to
those sent out by man.
To overcome this action, Fikar is practiced in some form. In
daily Fikar or Darood, when a thought is accompanied by a
Divine Breath it can automatically arise through the meshes
of the mental net and pass through Djabrut to the Arsh, the
throne of God. That is to say, the automatic wish of the
average person can rise no higher than the thought or will
behind it, but for the spiritual person, the initiate, whose
thought and desire are accompanied by Darood, these
automatically rise above the mental world into the empyrean
unless another thought deliberately interferes. Practice of
Concentration with Fikar perfects this process.
mind-mesh, Fikar (Fikr), Darood, Djabrut (Jabarut)....
http://www.rosanna.com/sufiwritings/glossary/glossary.htm
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/jan/january17.htm
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