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Bowl of Saki for November 28, 2006
Bowl of Saki for November 28
ONCE YOU HAVE GIVEN UP YOUR LIMITED SELF WILLINGLY TO THE UNLIMITED, YOU WILL REJOICE SO MUCH IN THAT CONSCIOUSNESS THAT YOU WILL NOT CARE TO BE SMALL AGAIN.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
When this is understood, really understood, all smallness will disappear; there will be no war nor pain nor suffering. It is idea of self -- any idea which man attaches to his mind -- which stabs the very essence of mind and begins that process from which all sorrow arises. Voluntary surrender of self does not destroy mind, does not harm body, does not annihilate self. Rather it annihilates that thought of self which is given erroneously the name of self.
No one can pretend to the cosmic state. Thought of Sufism or of being a Sufi -- even of submitting to the disciplines and practices - - does not make one a Sufi. Attainment and only attainment makes one a Sufi. It is wrong ever to call one a Sufi, but there are souls who
have lost all consciousness and feeling of distinction and
separation and through them the Spirit of Guidance pours blessings upon the world.
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ONCE YOU HAVE GIVEN UP YOUR LIMITED SELF WILLINGLY TO THE UNLIMITED, YOU WILL REJOICE SO MUCH IN THAT CONSCIOUSNESS THAT YOU WILL NOT CARE TO BE SMALL AGAIN.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
When this is understood, really understood, all smallness will disappear; there will be no war nor pain nor suffering. It is idea of self -- any idea which man attaches to his mind -- which stabs the very essence of mind and begins that process from which all sorrow arises. Voluntary surrender of self does not destroy mind, does not harm body, does not annihilate self. Rather it annihilates that thought of self which is given erroneously the name of self.
No one can pretend to the cosmic state. Thought of Sufism or of being a Sufi -- even of submitting to the disciplines and practices - - does not make one a Sufi. Attainment and only attainment makes one a Sufi. It is wrong ever to call one a Sufi, but there are souls who
have lost all consciousness and feeling of distinction and
separation and through them the Spirit of Guidance pours blessings upon the world.
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