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Bowl of Saki for November 26, 2006
Bowl of Saki for November 26
THE HEART MUST BE EMPTY IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
When personality is intrigued by the world it becomes intoxicated by name and form. This produces pleasure and pain. This produces rise and fall and all duality. God is beyond duality, therefore Scripture teaches that every valley must be exalted and every mountain brought low. To reach this state, Sufis cultivate indifference -- which is really the highest kind of love. When love for one means not-love for another, then the first is passion, not love. The true love, even when thrown upon one (be that personality or God) will also
shine upon others.
Man's love for man, no matter how great it is, is always marred by thoughts which cast shadows upon it. Man's love for God, which necessitates his ego-sacrifice, permits the light which has always been there to shine through the heart and flood the mind with all knowledge. While it may appear wrong to seek Allah for the sake of
knowledge, it is actually impossible to do this, for if one loves knowledge the heart is not empty and so God cannot be the ideal. But when there is no other ideal or love than God, all knowledge and all other desires are attained.
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THE HEART MUST BE EMPTY IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
When personality is intrigued by the world it becomes intoxicated by name and form. This produces pleasure and pain. This produces rise and fall and all duality. God is beyond duality, therefore Scripture teaches that every valley must be exalted and every mountain brought low. To reach this state, Sufis cultivate indifference -- which is really the highest kind of love. When love for one means not-love for another, then the first is passion, not love. The true love, even when thrown upon one (be that personality or God) will also
shine upon others.
Man's love for man, no matter how great it is, is always marred by thoughts which cast shadows upon it. Man's love for God, which necessitates his ego-sacrifice, permits the light which has always been there to shine through the heart and flood the mind with all knowledge. While it may appear wrong to seek Allah for the sake of
knowledge, it is actually impossible to do this, for if one loves knowledge the heart is not empty and so God cannot be the ideal. But when there is no other ideal or love than God, all knowledge and all other desires are attained.
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