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Bowl of Saki for January 29
SELF-PITY IS THE WORST POVERTY; IT OVERWHELMS ONE UNTIL
NOTHING IS SEEN BUT ILLNESS, TROUBLE AND PAIN.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
This is a concentration upon nufs, the cause of all
disharmony. When one concentrates upon God, nothing but love
will be found, but when the attention is centered around the
thought of self, all ugliness, pain and illness will rise.
Of course in a certain sense they were always there, but
this concentration gives them more life. It deprives the
body and mind of the usual life which is naturally bestowed
upon them by the Grace of God. It feeds the elementals who
derive their potency from the excrescences of man, and these
elementals in turn increase his trouble. Concentration upon
darkness does not increase the darkness, but it does impede
the op****tunity for light and health to reach the place of
sickness.
nufs....
http://www.rosanna.com/sufiwritings/glossary/glossary.htm
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/jan/january29.htm
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