The Bowl of Saki (for every one)

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

No one has seen God and lived. To see God we must be non-existent.

Bowl of Saki for January 5 No one has seen God and lived. To see God we must be non-existent. Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan There is a [Hadith] which says: Mutu kubla anta mutu, which means, 'Die before death.' A poet says, 'Only he attains to the peace of the Lord who loses himself.' God said to Moses, 'No man shall see me and live.' To see God we must be non-existent. What does all this mean? It means that when we see our being with open eyes, we... Sign in to see full entry.

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When you stand with your back to the sun, your shadow is before you; ...

Bowl of Saki for January 4 When you stand with your back to the sun, your shadow is before you; but when you turn and face the sun, then your shadow falls behind you. Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan Plato wrote that we live in a shadow world, where we confuse the shadow of ourselves with reality. This is the Nafs, the false ego, which stands in the light before God, causing, so to speak, a spiritual eclipse.... The Nafs turns us from the One to the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Truth without a veil is always uninteresting to the human mind.

Bowl of Saki for January 3 Truth without a veil is always uninteresting to the human mind. Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan Can there be any truth which the human soul has not known? If the soul had not known it, it could not be truth; for truth is not a knowledge, it is the very self of man. The truth is not a newly invented theory, not a dogma, not an idea; it is reality itself. At the back of it is the self of man; therefore it is simple. But it is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 5, 2009

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is...

Bowl of Saki for January 2 All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden. Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan The real understanding of religion is not in disputing over the diversity of the forms, saying. 'Your religion is worse and my religion is better.' The true religion is in recognizing the one life in all. ~~~ "Religious Gatheka 35", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished) The divisions of one into many are caused by... Sign in to see full entry.

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As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops ...

Bowl of Saki for January 1 As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth. Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan In a fountain there is a big stream which flows up and then breaks into many drops. The stream is like the divine will, and the different drops like the wills in us. One drop goes higher, another lower, one falls to the left, another to the right, one... Sign in to see full entry.

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