{"id":2835,"date":"2018-09-16T00:15:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T07:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2018-09-10T11:18:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T18:18:30","slug":"bowl-of-saki-for-september-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becomingclear.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/16\/bowl-of-saki-for-september-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowl of Saki for September 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

God alone deserves all love, and the freedom of love is in giving it to God.<\/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 one thing to rely upon is God’s favor. Do not build either on your study or on your meditation, although they both help you. But you are dependent on God, not even on your murshid. Seek God, trust God. In God lies your life’s purpose, and (in) God is hidden the rest of your soul.<\/p>\n

( from The Supplementary Papers: Chapter 41 – Class for Mureeds (I), Section 1 – Mureedship [ unpublished ]<\/a> )<\/p>\n

Whom should one love, how should one love? Whatever one loves — whether duty, human beings, art, friends, an ideal, or one’s fellow-creatures — one has certainly opened that door through which to pass in order to reach that love which is God. The beginning of love is an excuse; it leads to that ideal of love which is God alone.<\/p>\n

( from Enquirers’ Gathekas: Paper 17 – Sufi Mysticism III: Preparing the Heart for the Path of Love [ unpublished ]] )<\/p>\n

We must remember the teaching of Christ, how He says, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that belong to God.” In other words, give to the world that which belongs to the world, and give to God what belongs to God, namely: love, worship, reverence, devotion, trust, confidence. All those are due to God; so give them to God.<\/p>\n

( from The Supplementary Papers: Chapter 14 – Metaphysics II, Section 1 – The Mysticism of Color and Sound [ unpublished ]<\/a> )<\/p>\n

For life has the power to open the door of Eternal Life. … By contemplation how far can we pierce through life? One, two, or three planes, then we must stop, but the nearest way of all is by Love and Devotion, for it is God’s way, and God is Love. God cannot be deceived — God will not be deceived. When anyone has taken this way it is by the God in them. And as we give all things they come back to us through Love. The more we give, the more comes back. Love has its limitations when it is directed to limited beings, but love that is directed to God has no limitations, God alone deserves all love, and the freedom of Love is in giving it to God.<\/p>\n

( from Sangatha, Series III: Ta’lim [ unpublished ] )<\/p>\n

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

The idea of \u201cI love\u201d or \u201cshe loves\u201d is good but not complete. Until it is complete, life is not complete. Possession in love is desecration of love; there is no property in love, there is surrender in love. Yet this very surrender is no loss; one becomes like a magnet which imparts its magnetism to all things yet loses no power thereby. So the freedom and surrender come together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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