{"id":2738,"date":"2018-08-08T00:15:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T07:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:34:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T17:34:03","slug":"bowl-of-saki-for-august-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/2018\/08\/08\/bowl-of-saki-for-august-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowl of Saki for August 08"},"content":{"rendered":"

The more you evolve spiritually, the further you pass from the understanding of the average person.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

<\/div>\n

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

The average person cannot understand the mystics; and therefore people are always at a loss when dealing with them. Their ‘yes’ is not the same ‘yes’ that everybody says; their ‘no’ has not the same meaning as that which everybody understands. In almost every phrase they say there is some symbolical meaning. Their every outward action has an inner significance. Those who do not understand the symbolical meaning may be bewildered by hearing a phrase, which is nothing but confusion to them.<\/p>\n

( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume I – The Way of Illumination: Section II – The Inner Life, Chapter X – The Five Different Kinds of Spiritual Souls<\/a> )<\/p>\n

I will tell you something about my own teacher. Once I met a learned man, a doctor of philosophy with a great many degrees. I spoke to him on the deeper side of life and he became so interested in me that he thought much of me. So I thought, ‘If I were to tell him about my teacher, how much more interesting that would be for him. If I make such an impression upon this man, how much more my teacher will be for him, and how much will he appreciate my teacher’, and I told him, ‘There is a wonderful man in this city, he has no comparison in the whole world’. ‘Yes?’, said he, ‘Are there such people? I would so much like to see him. Where does he live?’ I told him, in such and such a part of the city. He said, ‘I live there too. Where is his house. I know all the people there. What is his name?’ So I told him, and he said, ‘For twenty years I have known this man, and you are telling me about him!’ I thought, ‘In a hundred years you would not have been able to know him’. He was not ready to know him.<\/p>\n

If people are not evolved enough they cannot appreciate persons, they cannot understand them, they cannot understand the greatest souls. They sit with them, they talk with them, there is a contact of the whole life, but they do not see. Others in one moment, if they are ready to understand, make a benefit out of it<\/u><\/i>. Imagine, the learned man had known my teacher for twenty years and did not know him. I saw him once, and became his pupil forever. One might ask, ‘Was this man not learned, not intellectual?’ Yes, he was. Then what was lacking? He saw my teacher with his brain, I saw him with my heart. People pursue spirituality with their brain: that is where they are mistaken. Spirituality is attained through the heart<\/u><\/i>.<\/p>\n

( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume XIV – The Smiling Forehead: Part II – The Deeper Side of Life, Chapter VIII – Spirituality, the Tuning of the Heart, Section 1<\/a> )<\/p>\n

The more one evolves the more one will discover the different grades of people, just like the different keys on the piano. One is lower, another is higher. Every person has a different grade of evolution<\/u><\/i>. Also, the higher you evolve the more you will find that you cannot drive everyone with the same whip. You have to speak to everyone differently, in fact in their own language. If you speak a language they do not understand, it will be gibberish to them<\/u><\/i>. …<\/p>\n

[ This is the essence of the Sufi approach: meeting people where they are, by using vocabulary, examples and metaphors that connect with their own lived experience and understandings. Once a harmonious and sympathetic connection is established, then bridges to deeper, broader, and more profound understandings of life and Reality can be built, and more easily crossed. Rare are those who are able in a single step to move directly from the familiar and ordinary into the unfamiliar and even the unknown. And there are others who aren’t ready to have their understandings deepened, and their horizons expanded. They need to be left alone, rather than being pushed towards opening and expansion. Mystics historically have used earth plane metaphors from the processes of growing food, and cooking it (unripe and ripe, uncooked and cooked) to differentiate between the two conditions of being spiritually unready and ready.<\/i><\/p>\n

This Path is definitely not for everyone<\/u>, and we’re cautioned against giving in to the ego’s tendency, fired up with “righteous” zeal from having found something that works for us, of trying to convert everyone to our “religion”. The egoic impulse to push because “I know it would be good for you.” is a red flag that we need to heed, by backing off. To quote a statement Pir-o-Murshid made elsewhere: “The Message is a call to those whose hour has come to awake, and it is a lullaby to those who are still meant to sleep ( see also Bowl of Saki for 25 April<\/a> ).”  — Muiz ]<\/i><\/p>\n

Once when traveling I met a man of a very dense evolution, a soldier who always lived in military surroundings and who had very fixed ideas of his own. And when we were talking together and it appeared that we thought differently about something, I happened to say in order to preserve harmony, ‘Well, we are brothers!’ He looked at me with great anger, and said, ‘Brothers! How dare you say such a thing!’ I said, ‘I forgot. I am your servant, Sir.’ He was very pleased. I could have argued, but this would have created disharmony without reason. The foolishness of that man blazed up just like fire. I put water on it and extinguished it. I did not diminish myself. We are all servants of one another. And it pleased and satisfied him.<\/p>\n

( from the Sufi Message Series, Volume VI – The Alchemy of Happiness: Chapter 5 – The Art of Personality<\/a> )<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

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

Human beings are held within the change of limited experience or samsara<\/i>. At best they contact the manasic<\/i> stream in their mental sphere and rarely, if ever, trust to their intuitions. They coin their forms of logic and common sense, which mean nothing in eternity, often to justify their injustice and defend their iniquity. Their laws, being based neither upon Nature nor God, are subject to change, decay, and dissolution.<\/p>\n

The wise, seeking the eternal verities, are bound neither by such logic nor such law. They may stand alone in the midst of the ignorant, but they know how to stand; they know the limits of ignorance, and they possess that knowledge which all, consciously and unconsciously, yearn for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The more you evolve spiritually, the further you pass from the understanding of the average person.<\/em><\/strong> [ Read more …<\/a> ]<\/p>\n

Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bowl-of-saki","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3882,"href":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/3882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}