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Bowl of Saki for March 15. 2007
Bowl of Saki for March 15
UNTIL MAN LOSES HIMSELF IN THE VISION OF GOD, HE CANNOT BE SAID TO LIVE REALLY. --Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
That is to say, the limited life is not life; mortality which says life and death are two, not one, is not life. From one point of view, we die not only daily but every minute. Attachment is birth and freedom from attachment is death. Therefore one must become free
from every sort of attachment or clinging; one must become *free*.
And how does one become free? It is through apprehension of God which comes through His Grace given to those who lose themselves in Him. His Grace is everywhere but we shut it out by our attachment.
Detachment brings Grace and Grace brings detachment; they are one, not two.
Baka is not something phenomenal or superphenomenal. It is living with open eye, with open consciousness, with understanding. It belongs neither to time nor space nor relativity. Until it is actually experienced, all consideration of it is vain. By shutting
out self, man discovers it automatically.
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UNTIL MAN LOSES HIMSELF IN THE VISION OF GOD, HE CANNOT BE SAID TO LIVE REALLY. --Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
That is to say, the limited life is not life; mortality which says life and death are two, not one, is not life. From one point of view, we die not only daily but every minute. Attachment is birth and freedom from attachment is death. Therefore one must become free
from every sort of attachment or clinging; one must become *free*.
And how does one become free? It is through apprehension of God which comes through His Grace given to those who lose themselves in Him. His Grace is everywhere but we shut it out by our attachment.
Detachment brings Grace and Grace brings detachment; they are one, not two.
Baka is not something phenomenal or superphenomenal. It is living with open eye, with open consciousness, with understanding. It belongs neither to time nor space nor relativity. Until it is actually experienced, all consideration of it is vain. By shutting
out self, man discovers it automatically.
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