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Bowl of Saqi for February 6
HE WHO STORES EVIL IN HIS HEART CANNOT SEE BEAUTY.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:
Evil, being of the nature of shadow or darkness, this
destroys spiritual vision, and so blinds one to the beauty
which was the purpose of creation. This condition should be
called "avidya", blindness or ignorance.
There is, however, a difference between one who has evil in
the mind and evil in the heart. The average person who does
not know or seek truth may be called evil in mind. This
person is under the sway of sin, as the Christians explain
and has been demonstrated. But there is another sort of
person called diabolical, who may be mentally alert but who
has deliberately turned the heart into a charnel house, a
hidden chamber where evil is planned, to be committed in the
world. These people can put wicked thoughts into the minds
of others, and can command evil elementals to influence
others so that they may never perform any particular vile
act directly.
This shows that all evil thought, desire or speech is
responsible for the wrong acts of others. In this there is
universal karma, which was the explanation of the Buddha. So
long as anybody sows karma, it prevents others from being
delivered from pain, disease, injury and death.
http://www.rosanna.com/saki/janjun/feb/february6.htm
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