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Bowl of Saki for May 13
Bowl of Saki for May 13
OUR LIMITED SELF IS A WALL SEPARATING US FROM THE SELF OF GOD.-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
All spiritual training and discipline has no other purpose than this, to escape from this thought of self, to rise above the mind-mesh, to become free from limitation. It is our own thought of self which confines us to limitation. Laying this aside, we lay all burdens aside. Do not cease to think of self, think of God and let that thought draw all other thoughts. This is the way to liberation.
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Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
In order to reach spiritual perfection the first thing is to destroy this false self. First this delusion must be destroyed. And this is done by the ways taught
by the great teachers, ways of concentration and meditation, by the power of which one forgets oneself and removes one's consciousness from oneself, in other
words rises from one's limited being. In this way a person effaces himself from his own consciousness, and places God in his consciousness instead of his limited self. And it is in this way that he arrives at that perfection which every soul is seeking.
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Real justice cannot be perceived until the veil of selfishness has been removed from his eyes. The least spark of selfishness will prevent man from being just;
he will continue to have a partial interest, because he will be looking after his own interest. Whatever furthers his own interests, he will call his right and his justice.
The prophets and the holy ones have all recognized the justice of God as the only real justice. What is the nature of the justice of God? It cannot be read in scripture; it cannot be learned from a book; it can only be learned from the Self within after selfishness has been removed. Our limited self is like a wall separating us from the Self of God. God is as far away from us as that wall is thick.
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OUR LIMITED SELF IS A WALL SEPARATING US FROM THE SELF OF GOD.-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
All spiritual training and discipline has no other purpose than this, to escape from this thought of self, to rise above the mind-mesh, to become free from limitation. It is our own thought of self which confines us to limitation. Laying this aside, we lay all burdens aside. Do not cease to think of self, think of God and let that thought draw all other thoughts. This is the way to liberation.
--
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
In order to reach spiritual perfection the first thing is to destroy this false self. First this delusion must be destroyed. And this is done by the ways taught
by the great teachers, ways of concentration and meditation, by the power of which one forgets oneself and removes one's consciousness from oneself, in other
words rises from one's limited being. In this way a person effaces himself from his own consciousness, and places God in his consciousness instead of his limited self. And it is in this way that he arrives at that perfection which every soul is seeking.
--
Real justice cannot be perceived until the veil of selfishness has been removed from his eyes. The least spark of selfishness will prevent man from being just;
he will continue to have a partial interest, because he will be looking after his own interest. Whatever furthers his own interests, he will call his right and his justice.
The prophets and the holy ones have all recognized the justice of God as the only real justice. What is the nature of the justice of God? It cannot be read in scripture; it cannot be learned from a book; it can only be learned from the Self within after selfishness has been removed. Our limited self is like a wall separating us from the Self of God. God is as far away from us as that wall is thick.
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