Bowl of Saki for February 14

We form our futures by our actions; our every good or bad action spreads its vibrations and becomes known throughout the universe.

Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan


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According to the ideas of the mystics, the world in which we make our life is an Akasha, and Akasha means capacity. It is pictured by them as a dome; and whatever is spoken in it has its echo. Therefore no one can do, say, or think anything for one moment which will become non-existent. It is recorded; and that record is creative. It is not only what one does, says, or thinks that is recorded in the memory or in the atmosphere, but that record [itself] also creates at every moment, so that every line and letter of it becomes the seed or the germ that produces a similar effect.

The law of cause and effect is as definite in its results in the realm of speech and thought as in the physical world. … We form our future by our actions. Our every good or bad action spreads its vibrations and becomes known throughout the universe. The more spiritual we are, the stronger and clearer are the vibrations of our actions, which spread over the world and weave our futures.

Wherever a person goes there one takes one’s influence, thereby creating harmony or inharmony in the atmosphere. As those people who are drunken feel most delighted to see others also drunken in the same way as they, and enjoy their company and offer them a drink, so the inharmonious people create inharmony, and the harmonious people spread the vibrations of harmony, tuning the whole atmosphere to the pitch of their souls.


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

The physical and mental creation may be considered as one personality. Humanity forms the Grand Human, sometimes known as Adam [ in truth, Adam is beyond/before gender ]. This includes all the Life beneath the mind-mesh. The world above the mind-mesh, called by the Sufis Djabrut, is identical with Eden [ ‘gan eden’ in Hebrew, garden of bliss, so not a physical outer world location, but an inner state of Awareness — Muiz ]. Adam expelled from Eden is all of the humanity functioning in the worlds of limitation. Whatever any personality does affects this whole kingdom of humanity as well as self.

Of course each one’s actions affect oneself most of all. One’s every word, speech and thought strike the dome of Malakut and fall back again to their natural place. This return of energy not only touches the individual but touches the whole of humanity. Thus if a person spreads germs or disease, everyone might be liable. This show the inclusive nature of Karma. Likewise kindness spreads abroad and the tales of good deeds often bear fruit in faraway places.