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Bowl of Saki for April 6, 2007
Bowl of Saki for April 6
AS ONE CAN SEE WHEN THE EYES ARE OPEN, SO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND WHEN THE HEART IS OPEN.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
This opening of the heart is not physiological, but even in the physical body the heart is affected. When *rigor mortis* sets in as at death, the blood does not flow, the cells are not fed; in other words, the heart is closed and does not show any love to the body. Heart must love body that body live; heart must love mind that mind
live. When body and mind keep heart closed, it is body and mind that suffer.
Now this spiritual condition comes when the will is no longer dominated by body and mind. Then the will-power, which is in reality love-power, can properly express itself through the heart. When it is in the heart it is at home, and when it is at home it is most powerful and yet most natural.
Sympathy and love expand the heart, enable the blood to flow freely, enable the thought to function actively and clearly, and by removing the conception of self, there is nothing in the Universe which cannot be apprehended.
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AS ONE CAN SEE WHEN THE EYES ARE OPEN, SO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND WHEN THE HEART IS OPEN.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
This opening of the heart is not physiological, but even in the physical body the heart is affected. When *rigor mortis* sets in as at death, the blood does not flow, the cells are not fed; in other words, the heart is closed and does not show any love to the body. Heart must love body that body live; heart must love mind that mind
live. When body and mind keep heart closed, it is body and mind that suffer.
Now this spiritual condition comes when the will is no longer dominated by body and mind. Then the will-power, which is in reality love-power, can properly express itself through the heart. When it is in the heart it is at home, and when it is at home it is most powerful and yet most natural.
Sympathy and love expand the heart, enable the blood to flow freely, enable the thought to function actively and clearly, and by removing the conception of self, there is nothing in the Universe which cannot be apprehended.
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