The Bowl of Saki (for every one)

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Saturday, October 14, 2006

The knowledge of God is beyond man's reason;

The knowledge of God is beyond man's reason; the secret of God is hidden in the knowledge of unity. Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: The knowledge of God is beyond man's reason. Man only perceives things he is capable of perceiving. He cannot raise his imagination above what he is used to, and he cannot reach beyond his imagination to where the being of God is. The secret of God is hidden in the knowledge of unity. Man thinks, 'What can unity give me?... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

If you seek the good in every soul, you will always find it, for God is ...

If you seek the good in every soul, you will always find it, for God is in all things; still more He is in all beings. Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: We must learn to see the beauty, it is not everyone who sees it, often the critical spirit is occupied in gazing at the object which lacks beauty, the more you look for beauty, the more you see it as a whole. It is seeing the vision in part that deludes, you look at the side of a man's nature that may... Sign in to see full entry.

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The whole purpose of life is to make God a reality.

The whole purpose of life is to make God a reality. Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: As to the religion and the moral of the mystic, the mystic has one moral and that is love. And he has one aim in his religion and that is to make a God a reality. Therefore, his God becomes a greater God than the God of millions of people who only imagine that there is a God somewhere. To him God is a reality. from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XI/XI_III_2.htm The work of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Love alone is the fountain from which all virtues fall as drops of ...

Love alone is the fountain from which all virtues fall as drops of sparkling water. Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: What do I mean by love? It is such a word that one cannot give one meaning. All attributes like kindness, gentleness, goodness, humbleness, mildness, fineness, are names of one and the same thing. Love therefore is that stream which when it rises, falls in the form of a fountain, and each stream coming down is a virtue. All virtues... Sign in to see full entry.

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It is a very high stage on the path of love when a man really learns to

It is a very high stage on the path of love when a man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return. Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: The nature of life on earth is illusory and in the Sanskrit tongue it is called Maya or illusion, and every soul having the spark of the divine love, forgets the use and the purpose of that spark and begins to love itself most. By a keen study of human life, man will find that as a rule, when he claims... Sign in to see full entry.

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