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Bowl of Saqi for February 1
THE PAIN OF LOVE IS THE DYNAMITE THAT BREAKS
UP THE HEART, EVEN IF IT BE AS HARD AS A ROCK.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
The natural condition of the heart is to be soft, ever in a
state of living expansion and contraction. When the breath
is confined to the region of gross vibrations which are
beneath the mind-mesh, there are no finer vibrations which
can reach the heart, which slowly hardens like cooling rock.
Then it ceases to be pliable and may be brittle like
hardened rubber. Nevertheless it is never entirely dead.
If the heart is called into action after it has lost its
mobility, it will suffer pain even as a muscle long in
disuse will suffer pain when it resumes activity. But the
only energy that can touch the heart is love, and this often
comes in a shock, surprise or catastrophe. Be it ever so
hard, there is always the possibility of the heart
awakening, and sometimes people who have fallen very low
will be shocked into great activity by a disaster.
This would not be necessary if the person had lived a holy
life. The kindlier person sometimes suffers pain without
this deeper experience, but arrives much sooner at the state
when the ordinary disturbances of life no longer cause hurt.
The indifference of the sage, far from showing absence of
heart activity conceals his greatness of heart and his
wisdom.
mind-mesh...
http://www.rosanna.com/sufiwritings/glossary/glossary.htm
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/feb/february1.htm
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