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Bowl of Saki for April 28, 2007
Bowl of Saki for April 28
EVERY PASSION, EVERY EMOTION HAS ITS EFFECT UPON THE MIND, AND EVERY CHANGE OF MIND, HOWEVER SLIGHT, HAS ITS EFFECT UPON ONE'S BODY. ? Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
Now passions and emotions come from two sources -- the breath and the ego.The breath is as the mother, for when the breath is spiritualized there can be no emotion unless indifference be regarded as such. But according to the elements dominant in the breath and according to the state of thought or feeling, there are emotions. And without the thought of self, there would be no passions or emotions for all arise from the attempt of the nufs "to be something".
Every emotion has its seat in some organ of the body, and under their stress either the fluid of these organs is thrown into the blood or the blood enters the organs. So the natural rhythm is affected and the body suffers accordingly. But the mind also suffers, for every
activity of any organ enervates the nerves, the mental magnetism is drawn in that direction and so thought as a whole is affected and perhaps impeded.
Likewise every thought, by drawing more nervous energy and mental magnetism, by attracting more blood and by directing the will-power, naturally takes the forces away from other parts of the body and mind. Thus, in deep thinking, physical exercise may be impossible, while one engaged in athletic pursuits is generally unable to carry on simultaneously intellectual tasks.
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nafs-nufs identification with the limited self
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EVERY PASSION, EVERY EMOTION HAS ITS EFFECT UPON THE MIND, AND EVERY CHANGE OF MIND, HOWEVER SLIGHT, HAS ITS EFFECT UPON ONE'S BODY. ? Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
Now passions and emotions come from two sources -- the breath and the ego.The breath is as the mother, for when the breath is spiritualized there can be no emotion unless indifference be regarded as such. But according to the elements dominant in the breath and according to the state of thought or feeling, there are emotions. And without the thought of self, there would be no passions or emotions for all arise from the attempt of the nufs "to be something".
Every emotion has its seat in some organ of the body, and under their stress either the fluid of these organs is thrown into the blood or the blood enters the organs. So the natural rhythm is affected and the body suffers accordingly. But the mind also suffers, for every
activity of any organ enervates the nerves, the mental magnetism is drawn in that direction and so thought as a whole is affected and perhaps impeded.
Likewise every thought, by drawing more nervous energy and mental magnetism, by attracting more blood and by directing the will-power, naturally takes the forces away from other parts of the body and mind. Thus, in deep thinking, physical exercise may be impossible, while one engaged in athletic pursuits is generally unable to carry on simultaneously intellectual tasks.
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nafs-nufs identification with the limited self
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