God-communication is the best communication that true spiritualism can teach us.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
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The most profound inspiration comes always from the Divine Mind, and to God alone the credit is due. Even if an inspiration comes through the mind of a person living on earth or through a soul who has passed on to the other side, it still has come from God, for all Knowledge and Wisdom belong to God. [ This another way of wording the Sufi perspective that it is always the One Spirit of Guidance working through all channels, all vehicles. — Muiz ]
It is a fault on the part of humanity to attribute inspiration to some limited being who is nothing but a shadow covering God. When people believe that an old Egyptian comes from the other side to inspire them or that an American Indian comes to lead them on their way, they build a wall between themselves and God. Instead of receiving directly from the Source that is Perfect and All Sufficient, they are picturing their limited ideas, making them screens between themselves and God. [ This and the word ‘spiritualism’ in today’s aphorism are references to psychic mediumship, spirit communication, and seances, which were still quite popular in the early 1900s. — Muiz ]
Is not God enough for our souls, and sufficient to inspire us and to illuminate our wills and guide our souls? Is God any less of a friend here or in the spirit life? God is the great well-wisher. In Whom mercy is complete. God is the Soul of all souls. When we devote ourselves to the thought of God, all illumination and revelation are ours. God-communication is the best communication that true spiritualism can teach us.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VII – In an Eastern Rose Garden: Spirits and Spiritism )
Thus the ultimate purpose, for which the soul is seeking every moment of our life, is our spiritual purpose. And you may ask how to attain to that purpose. The answer is that what you are seeking for is within yourself. Instead of looking outside, you must look within. The way to proceed to accomplish this is for some moments to suspend all your senses such as sight, hearing, smell, touch, in order to put a screen before the outside life. And by concentration and by developing that meditative quality you will sooner or later get in touch with the inner Self which is more communicative, which speaks more loudly than all the noises of this world. And this gives joy, creates peace, and produces in you a self-sufficient spirit, a spirit of independence, of true liberty. The moment you get in touch with your Self you are in communion with God. It is in this way, if God-communication is sought rightly, that spirituality is attained.
( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VI – The Alchemy of Happiness: The Purpose of Life, Part 2 )
Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
Samuel L. Lewis
Ordinary spirit communication does not take us beyond name and form. It may take us forward in time but it does not take us out of time; it may take us backward in space but it does not take us out of space. In fact, it attaches us even more to conditioned existence. Besides, it does not develop the personality. It may add to our store of knowledge, but this is “our” knowledge, not the Divine Knowledge, and this becomes an additional weight to the spirit which is further buried under debris just so long as we dwell in the realm of finitude.