The wave realizes “I am the sea”, and by falling into the sea prostrates itself before its God.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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Prayer has been taught by all religions in different forms: by bowing, by prostrations, by recitation or chant. As soon as we begin to feel the Immanence of God in nature, we begin to prostrate ourselves before that Being, calling our limited self helpless before God, bowing before God, worshipping God. … There are many virtues, but there is one Principal Virtue. Every moment passed outside the Presence of God is sin, and every moment in God’s Presence is virtue. The whole object of the Sufis, after learning this way of communicating is to arrive at a stage where every moment of our life passes in communion with God, and where our every action is done as if God were before us. Is that within everyone’s reach? We are meant to be so. Just think of those who are in love: when they eat or drink, whatever they do, the image of the Beloved is there. In the same way, when the love of God has come, it is natural to think of God in everything we do.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume IX – The Unity of Religious Ideals, Part I: Prayer )
The Sufis do not need to follow a particular belief or faith, to restrict themselves to a particular path. They can follow the Hindu way, the Muslim way, the way of any Church or faith, provided they tread this royal road: that the whole universe is but an Immanence of Beauty. … How is the perfection of mind reached that we have to touch? It is reached through contemplation, through realization and understanding of the One Current running through the whole of Life. We begin to contemplate on that. The Mind which we call in religious language the Almighty, and in mystical terms the Divine Mind, is the depth of Life, the depth of activity, with which all activity and every activity is connected.
Therein lies the whole of religion. The mystics’ prayers are to that Beauty, and their work is to forget the self, to lose themselves like a bubble in the water. The wave realizes, ‘I am the sea’, and by falling into the sea prostrates itself before its God. As it is said, ‘Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect’.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VII – In an Eastern Rose Garden: Mind, Human and Divine )
The Sufis recognize the Knowledge of Self as the essence of all religions; they trace it in every religion, they see the same Truth in each, and therefore they regard all as One. Hence they can realize the saying of Jesus; ‘I and my Father are one.’ The difference between creature and Creator remains on their lips, not in their soul. This is what is meant by Union with God. It is in Reality the dissolving of the false self in the Knowledge of the True Self, which is Divine, Eternal, and All Pervading. ‘They who attain union with God, their very self must lose,’ said Amir.
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
This is the Nirvana of the wave. Yet all vibrations have their Nirvana when they reunite with their source, and all that has name finds its Nirvana when it is reunited with its source — which can only properly be termed the Nameless, although humans have been pleased to call it God, Allah, Brahma, and given it other terms. This is good so long as the Reality is not confused with the concept of Reality.