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Bowl of Saki for September 17, 2007
Bowl of Saki for September 17
LOVE HAS THE POWER TO OPEN THE DOOR OF ETERNAL LIFE.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
Because love is life -- they are not two, they are one. The only force in animal passion is the life-force, and this life-force leads to propagation of species. The transmutation of love from the sphere of procreation to creation is a transmutation of life-force, which may then be directed at will. Yet all usages of this life-force
should be for the greatest satisfaction in order that beauty may increase and every deed becomes a work of art.
When one reaches this stage, one brings paradise to earth and one lives one's immortality. Immortality, being of the nature of the infinite, is therefore unqualified and knows no self. The true Atman, if the totality can so be called, is life, but life not in the sense that it is generally known. Rather it is Ishk, the Supreme
Love which bonds everything in creation and yet is bound by nothing.
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LOVE HAS THE POWER TO OPEN THE DOOR OF ETERNAL LIFE.--Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti):
Because love is life -- they are not two, they are one. The only force in animal passion is the life-force, and this life-force leads to propagation of species. The transmutation of love from the sphere of procreation to creation is a transmutation of life-force, which may then be directed at will. Yet all usages of this life-force
should be for the greatest satisfaction in order that beauty may increase and every deed becomes a work of art.
When one reaches this stage, one brings paradise to earth and one lives one's immortality. Immortality, being of the nature of the infinite, is therefore unqualified and knows no self. The true Atman, if the totality can so be called, is life, but life not in the sense that it is generally known. Rather it is Ishk, the Supreme
Love which bonds everything in creation and yet is bound by nothing.
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