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Bowl of Saki for November 11


Bowl of Saki for November 11

OUR THOUGHTS HAVE PREPARED FOR US THE HAPPINESS OR UNHAPPINESS WE EXPERIENCE.--Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):

The average person under the influence of ego casts shadow thoughts over the heart so that the heart does not experience bliss. Happiness is not to be confused with momentary pleasure. One way to distinguish them is this: any act, speech or thought which, while
bringing some pleasant result also affects one at some point in an unpleasant manner -- that is to say, the result is alloyed -- is not of the nature of happiness. A happy condition is one unalloyed, when there is nothing to mar it, when it is one whole, complete and consistent experience of joy.

By repeating "Toward the One" it is possible to get one complete effect from every cause, and this makes possible later -- when a happy result is either desirable or given one by Divine Grace -- that it is a pure state, unaffected by mental shadows or thought forces. Purification of heart helps more than anything else in this
direction.

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Login to find out (November 11, 2007 at 6:58am)
A person thinks, 'Some day I should like to build a factory.' At this time he has no money, no knowledge, no capability; but a thought came, 'Some day I should like to build a factory.' Then he thinks of something else. Perhaps years pass, but that thought has been working constantly through a thousand minds, and a thousand sources prepare for him that which he once desired. If we could look back to all we have thought of at different times, we would find that the line of fate or destiny, Kismet as it is called in the East, is formed by our thought. Thoughts have prepared for us that happiness or unhappiness which we experience. The whole of mysticism is founded on this.
 
Login to find out (November 11, 2007 at 6:54am)
'The present is the reflection of the past, and the future is the re-echo of the present.' Destiny is not what is already made; destiny is what we are making. Very often fatalists think that we are in the hands of destiny, driven in whatever direction in life destiny wills; but in point of fact we are the masters of our destiny, especially from the moment we begin to realize this fact. ... Man is responsible for his success and failure, for his rise and fall. And it is man who brings these about either knowingly or unknowingly.
 
Login to find out (November 11, 2007 at 6:54am)
In point of fact, whatever one makes of oneself, one becomes that. The source of happiness or unhappiness is all in man, himself. When he is unaware of this, he is not able to arrange his life. As he becomes more acquainted with this secret, he gains mastery. The process by which this mastery is attained is the only fulfillment of the purpose of this life.