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Bowl of Saki for July 13, 2007
Bowl of Saki for July 13
PRAISE CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT BLAME; IT HAS NO EXISTENCE WITHOUT ITS OPPOSITE.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
Praise from another may or may not affect us. If it affects us, if it buoys us up, it raises us. In Saum, saying "Praise be to God," the hands are raised, the thoughts are raised, the heart is raised, the voice is raised. This means a change of condition, and if there is a possible change of condition -- a change upward -- there can also be a change downward. The one who allows the words of others to raise him up, to intoxicate him, will also permit the words and thoughts of others to deject him, to intoxicate him in another manner. Either
of these conditions is an intoxication; the person in a state of sobriety is one affected neither by praise nor by blame.
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PRAISE CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT BLAME; IT HAS NO EXISTENCE WITHOUT ITS OPPOSITE.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
Praise from another may or may not affect us. If it affects us, if it buoys us up, it raises us. In Saum, saying "Praise be to God," the hands are raised, the thoughts are raised, the heart is raised, the voice is raised. This means a change of condition, and if there is a possible change of condition -- a change upward -- there can also be a change downward. The one who allows the words of others to raise him up, to intoxicate him, will also permit the words and thoughts of others to deject him, to intoxicate him in another manner. Either
of these conditions is an intoxication; the person in a state of sobriety is one affected neither by praise nor by blame.
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