The Bowl of Saki (for every one)

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Tuesday, October 8, 2019

The whole purpose of life is to make God a reality. Bowl of Saki, October

The whole purpose of life is to make God a reality. Bowl of Saki, October 9, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Hazrat 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 https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XI/XI_III_2.htm The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 7, 2019

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

Love alone is the fountain from which all virtues fall as drops of sparkling water. Bowl of Saki, October 8, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Hazrat 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, October 7, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Hazrat 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... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 6, 2019

Wisdom can only be learned gradually, and every soul is not ready to ...

Wisdom can only be learned gradually, and every soul is not ready to receive or to understand the complexity of the purpose of life. Bowl of Saki, October 6, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan: Man likes complexity. He does not want to take only one step; it is more interesting to look forward to millions of steps. The man who is seeking the truth gets into a maze, and that maze interests him. He wants to go through it a thousand times more. It is just like children. Their... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 4, 2019

There are those who are like a lighted candle: they can light other candles

There are those who are like a lighted candle: they can light other candles, but the other candles must be of wax - if they are of steel, they cannot be lighted. Bowl of Saki, October 4, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan: The voice of God is speaking all the time, but no one listens; therefore God has manifested as man, that He might speak with a yet louder voice. But even then man does not listen. In the time of Christ the inspiration was there, the voice was there and the... Sign in to see full entry.

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