Bowl of Saki for April 05

God speaks to the ears of every heart, but it is not every heart that hears it.

Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

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Spirituality has become far removed from material life, and so God is far removed from humanity. Therefore, one cannot any more conceive of God speaking through a person, through someone like oneself. Even religious people who read the Bible every day will have great difficulty in understanding the verse, ‘Be ye perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.’ The Sufi message and its mission are to bring this truth to the consciousness of the world: that we can dive so deep within ourselves that we can touch the depths where we are united with the Whole of Life, with all souls, and that we can derive from that Source Harmony, Beauty, Peace and Power.

God speaks to everyone, not only to the messengers and teachers. God speaks to the ears of every heart, but it is not every heart which hears it. God’s voice is louder than the thunder, and God’s light is clearer than the sun — if one could only see it, if one could only hear it. In order to see it and in order to hear it we should remove this wall, this barrier which we have made of the self. Then we become the flute upon which the Divine Player may play the music of Orpheus which can charm even the hearts of stone; then we rise from the cross into the life everlasting.

Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis

All vibrations, from the throne of God to the physical plane, bound and rebound through the Universe causing the music of the spheres. This is the Message of God, in that it can be regarded as the very Message which God is speaking eternally. The theme of this Message, if it can be said to have a theme, can be epitomized in the English words “love,” “harmony,” and “beauty.” That is to say, the perfected principle of all that is embodied in these words is emanated in and through these cosmic vibrations.

We generally do not consider light as anything but physical light, yet the plant feels that physical light not only as light but as life and love also. This can be seen both in its vertical growth and its daily horizontal movement in following the sun through the heavens. When the human heart is opened, it finds the spiritual light is also life and love, and while the human mind has created three words and may even regard these three words as representing three thoughts, this is because of its discriminating faculty which has the tendency to divide and define.

When one lays aside this discriminating faculty and begins to feel, after a while one finds that behind every word and thought there is a spirit, and this spirit is really what the Sufis call the Spirit of Guidance. In other words, God is taking on a name or form or feeling so that even an individuated person can receive the spiritual Guidance. This process proves that God is all-loving, all-merciful, all-sympathetic, all-tender-hearted.