{"id":2395,"date":"2018-05-09T00:15:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T08:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2021-05-08T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T14:36:12","slug":"bowl-of-saki-for-may-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/09\/bowl-of-saki-for-may-09\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowl of Saki for May 09"},"content":{"rendered":"

We cover our spirit under our body, our light under a bushel; we never allow the spirit to become conscious of itself.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan<\/em><\/p>\n

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Related Material by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Compiled by Wahiduddin Richard Shelquist – wahiduddin.net<\/a><\/h5>\n

The life one recognizes is only the mortal aspect of Life. Very few have ever seen or been conscious of the immortal aspect at all. Once one has realized Life, that which one has hitherto called life is found to be only a glimpse or shadow of the real Life that is beyond comprehension. To understand it one will have to raise one’s light high from under the cover that is hiding it like a bushel. This cover is our mind and body; it is a cover that keeps the light active on the world of things and beings. ‘Do not keep your light under a bushel’ means that we are not to keep the consciousness absorbed in the study of the external world, and in its pleasures and enjoyments.<\/p>\n

( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VII – In an Eastern Rose Garden: Silent Life<\/a> )<\/p>\n

We cover our spirit under our body. We cover our light under a bushel. We never allow the spirit to become conscious of itself. … when the soul is illuminated it will desire to find some other soul illuminated in like manner, and will find great joy and bliss in its society. Such a one will surely find others who are on the verge of illumination. Even a drunkard will find others to drink with. And so it is mystically. A very little light can be turned into a flame, and that flame into a very big flame.<\/p>\n

Why is it better to become a mystic than to remain a drunkard? As a matter of fact a drunkard will never be satisfied. The mystics will look for what Omar Khayyam calls wine, the wine of the Christ, after drinking which no one will ever thirst. They will always seek the wine whose intoxication never wears off. It is the only wine: the intoxication of the Divine Love.<\/p>\n

( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VII – In an Eastern Rose Garden: Spirits and Spiritism<\/a> )<\/p>\n

According to the belief of the Sufis the heart is the shrine of God, and when the doors of the shrine are closed it is just like a light being hidden under a bushel… God is Love. If God is Love God does not stay in the heavens. God’s earthly body is the heart of humanity.<\/p>\n

( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VIII – The Art of Being: The Privilege of Being Human, Chapter VII – Truth<\/a> )<\/p>\n

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Commentary by Murshid S.A.M. (Sufi Ahmed Murad)
\nSamuel L. Lewis<\/strong><\/h4>\n

That is to say, so long as the spirit is considered \u201cour spirit,\u201d so long as body is considered \u201cour body,\u201d so long as light is considered as our possession, our attribute, this continual thought of self, prevents the Divine Spirit — the<\/i> spirit, not our<\/i> spirit — from becoming conscious of itself. We are afraid that if we let go this thought of self, we have completed our destiny; yes, we have completed \u201cour\u201d destiny, but that completion is the very thing which makes it possible for the Divine Spirit to manifest through us. This is the beginning of Life, not the end of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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