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Bowl of Saqi for February 4
THE FIRE OF DEVOTION PURIFIES THE HEART OF THE DEVOTEE,
AND LEADS UNTO SPIRITUAL FREEDOM.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
Vibrations, which reach the heart, are of finer nature than
those that touch the mind sphere. They cannot be conveyed on
the breath ordinarily, but through Fikar, Zikar and Darood,
as well as through certain practices of refining the breath,
the Divine Thought enables the Cosmic Energy to pierce the
mind-mesh and return toward the source.
This is the first resurrection, this is the beginning of the
process of initiation. It has been explained, when man, in
adoration or supplication, turns toward God, the feeling is
of the nature of fire in that it rises. But also it gives
strength and courage and faculty to the devotee.
This puts back into the heart the life, which naturally
belongs there. The giving of this life to the heart is the
restoration of it to its normal condition, which is nothing
but freedom. Real freedom of the will does not consist of
catering to every desire; freedom of the will consists of
freeing it from all the excrescences of conditioned
existence (Samsara) so its actions will not be hampered.
This is only attained on the heart plane.
Fikar, Zikar, Darood, mind-mesh...
http://www.rosanna.com/sufiwritings/glossary/glossary.htm
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/feb/february4.htm
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