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« on: Dec 14, 2016 05:51 pm »

Eric mamy of the sayings of Hazrat Khan are scattered throughout  Spiritual Portal. My hope by starting this heading was to bring some of his wisdom together so that we could find it more easily. This is one of my favorites. It was in the section about 'Living and Expereincing Love'. The link below is no longer valid so i wanted to be sure we could find this subject easily.

As the sunshine lights up the darkened sky, the light within lightens one’s view of others in
spite of all wrongs and limitations.
This is the key to happiness.
Reflections I, Hidayat Inayat-Khan
The key which opens the heart (Gatha’s)
Every atom of man's body expresses his past, present and future. The
reason is that, in the first place, every impulse creates its vibrations and takes a
particular direction of activity. This influences the heart, whence the blood is
circulated through the whole body. In this way the thought is, so to speak, written on
man's face. Man's continual agitation in regard to others, his satisfaction or
dissatisfaction, his love or hatred, all show in his appearance. Everyone can know it
more or less, but the seer can read more correctly. It is difficult to tell definitely the
marks of a person's thoughts and feelings that are shown in his appearance;
nevertheless, partly by intuition and partly by experience, man reads them. There
are some in whom self-control is developed, who are capable of hiding their thoughts
and emotions, and yet it is impossible to feel deeply and to hide one's feelings from
the eyes of others.
No doubt form and movement speak aloud of one's condition, but the
expression of man's face speaks louder still. There come distinct changes at every
impulse, at every change of emotion, making distinct marks which are an open book
to a seer. The word Kashf means "opening," and it is used by the Sufis with the
meaning that the human heart is as a rule a closed book and the one to whom it
becomes open can read it like an open book. No doubt reading man's condition of
mind from his appearance is not such a difficult thing. Even dogs and cats can know
this and sometimes they know better than man. What gives one insight into another
is, in the first place, his sympathy. The seer first develops the quality of love. He
whose heart is kindled with the love of God is capable of the love of humanity. The
heart thus kindled with love becomes a lighted lantern, which throws its light on every
person the seer meets, and, as this light falls upon the person he meets, all things
about that person, his body, heart and soul, become clear to him. Love is a torch that
illuminates all that comes within its light, but it is the knowledge of God which is the
key which opens the hearts of men.

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« Reply #1 on: Feb 06, 2018 04:00 am »


Following a bout with pneumonia, Inayat Khan departed from this world on February 5, 1927, at the Tilak Lodge, located along the river Yamuna near Delhi, India. His burial tomb is in the Basti Nizamuddin neighborhood of Delhi. Inayat Khan described the essence of his spiritual message with the following words, which are offered here to commemorate his life and teachings:


Our sacred task is to awaken among those around us and among those whom we can reach in the first place the spirit of tolerance for the religion, scripture, and the ideal of devotion of one another; our next task is to make man understand people of different nations, races and communities, also of different classes.

By this we do not mean to say that all races and nations must become one, nor that all classes must become one; only what we have to say is that whatever be our religion, nation, race or class, our most sacred duty is to work for one another, in one another's interest, and to consider that as the service of God. ...

The central theme of the Sufi Message is one simple thing, and yet most difficult, and that is to bring about in the world the realization of the divinity of the human soul, which hitherto has been overlooked, for the reason that the time had not come.

The principal thing that the Message has to accomplish in this era is to create the realization of the divine spark in every soul, that every soul according to its progress may begin to realize for itself the spark of divinity within. This is the task that is before us.

Now you may ask, what is the Message? The Message is this: that the whole humanity is as one single body, and all nations and communities and races as the different organs, and the happiness and well-being of each of them is the happiness and well-being of the whole body. If there is one organ of the body in pain, the whole body has to sustain a share of the strain of it. That by this Message mankind may begin to think that his welfare and his well-being is not in looking after himself, but it is in looking after others, and when in all there will be reciprocity, love and goodness towards another, the better time will come.

~~~ "Addresses to Cherags", "Our Sacred Task", Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)


The need of the world today is not learning, but how to become considerate towards one another. To try and find out in what way happiness can be brought about, and in this way to realize that peace which is the longing of every soul; and to impart it to others, thereby attaining our life's goal, the sublimity of life.
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« Reply #2 on: Aug 01, 2018 07:53 pm »

What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him. The closest friend in life is the one who understands most. It is not your wife, brother or sister, it is the one who understands you most who is your greatest friend in the world. You can be the greatest friend of God if you can understand God. Imagine how man lives in the world -- with closed eyes and closed ears! Every name and every form speaks constantly, constantly makes signs for you to hear, for you to respond to, for you to interpret, that you may become a friend of God. The whole purpose of your life is to make yourself ready to understand what God is, what your fellow man is, what the nature of man is, what life is.

Now coming to a still greater secret of life I want to answer the question: how can we grow to read and understand the message that life speaks through all its names and forms? The answer is that, as by the opening of the eyes you can see things, so by the opening of the heart you can understand things. As long as the heart is closed you cannot understand things. The secret is that when the ears and eyes of the heart are open, all planes of the world are open, all names are open, all secrets, all mysteries are unfolded.


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« Reply #3 on: Nov 05, 2018 08:27 pm »

The Mystical Heart
In these days, people attribute less importance to sentiment, and rely more upon the intellect. The reason for this is that when they meet two kinds of people, the intellectual and the sentimental, they find greater balance in an intellectual man than in one with much sentiment. This is no doubt true; but the very reason for the lack of balance is that there is a greater power than the intellect, and this power is sentiment. The earth is fruitful, but not as powerful as the water. The intellect is creative, yet not as powerful as the heart and the sentiment. In reality, the intellectual man will also prove unbalanced in the end if he has no sentimental side to his being.

Are there not many people of whom one can say, 'I like him, love him, admire him, but he closes his heart?' The one who closes his heart neither loves others completely, nor allows others to love him fully. Besides, a man who is only intellectual, in time, becomes skeptical, doubting, unbelieving, and destructive, since there is no power of the heart to balance it. The Sufi considers the devotion of the heart to be the best thing to cultivate for spiritual realization. Many people may not agree; but it is a fact that the one who closes his heart to his fellow man closes his heart to God. Jesus Christ did not say, 'God is the intellect.' He said, 'God is love', and therefore, if the peace of God can be found anywhere, it is not in any church on earth, nor in Heaven above, but in the heart of man. The place where one is most certain to find God is in the loving heart of a kind man.


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« Reply #4 on: Jan 31, 2019 06:12 pm »

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

The heart of man, as the Sufis say, is a mirror. All that is reflected in this mirror is projected upon other mirrors. When man has doubt in his heart that doubt is reflected upon every heart with which he comes in contact. When he has faith that faith is reflected in every heart. Can there be a more interesting study and a greater wonder than to observe this keenly?

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« Reply #5 on: Jun 06, 2019 05:07 am »

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Patience, sacrifice, resignation, strength, and steadfastness are needed in love, and ultimately nothing but hope, until one is united with the beloved. Sacrifice is needed in love to give all there is, wealth, possessions, body, heart, and soul. There remains no 'I', only 'you', until the 'you' becomes the 'I'. Where there is love there is patience, where there is no patience there is no love. The lover takes hope as the extract of love's religion, for hope is the only thing that keeps the flame of life alight. Hope to the lover is the rope of safety in the sea. 'Brahma collected honey from all things in life, and it was hope.'
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« Reply #6 on: Aug 01, 2019 02:54 am »

What is not spirituality?
It is not clairvoyance, it is not to be a monk, a hermit, to fast or to practice other disciplines- it is not performing miracles, it is not reading doctrines.

So what is spirituality?
To be conscious of Spirit. To be ourselves. Spirituality is natural.

In this lengthy read, we learn that every soul is at its own stage of evolution. That spirituality is natural, even the birds at some point experience exaltation, it is better to help one wherever they are than to try and bring about a desired pitch.

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BEFORE SPEAKING of spirituality I must first explain what I mean by it. There are people who consider spirituality as orthodoxy or piety: to be religious, to be a priest, a monk, a hermit, to fast, or to live a life of a certain discipline, to adopt a certain form of worship. A person may have all these outer forms without being spiritual, and a person may have nothing of these and be spiritual. Those who seek spirituality in such outer forms are mistaken, for it is more than that: real spirituality is spirit-consciousness. To be spiritual means to be conscious of spirit, just as a material person means a person who is conscious of matter. So it is not religion, orthodoxy, outer forms, or a certain kind of life which means spiritual life: it is to be conscious of the spirit that makes one spiritual.

There are others who think that those who perform phenomena, miracles, who work wonders are spiritual. It is not so. Many who are capable of performing phenomena are not different from a magician. Then others say that to be spiritual means to tell fortunes, or to be clairvoyant, to see wonderful things. It is not necessary to do or to see wonderful things in order to be spiritual. Others imagine that to be spiritual means sitting in the caves of mountains, or roaming about in forests, or to appear and disappear. All these things are but fancies of the imaginative. To be spiritual means to be one's self, to be one's natural self.

How many of us are our self? If we were our self we would all be spiritual. We are not our self, we are far from it!
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« Reply #7 on: Aug 01, 2019 05:02 am »

What is not spirituality?
It is not clairvoyance, it is not to be a monk, a hermit, to fast or to practice other disciplines- it is not performing miracles, it is not reading doctrines.

So what is spirituality?
To be conscious of Spirit. To be ourselves. Spirituality is natural.

In this lengthy read, we learn that every soul is at its own stage of evolution. That spirituality is natural, even the birds at some point experience exaltation, it is better to help one wherever they are than to try and bring about a desired pitch.

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There are others who think that those who perform phenomena, miracles, who work wonders are spiritual. It is not so. Many who are capable of performing phenomena are not different from a magician. Then others say that to be spiritual means to tell fortunes, or to be clairvoyant, to see wonderful things. It is not necessary to do or to see wonderful things in order to be spiritual. Others imagine that to be spiritual means sitting in the caves of mountains, or roaming about in forests, or to appear and disappear. All these things are but fancies of the imaginative. To be spiritual means to be one's self, to be one's natural self.

How many of us are our self? If we were our self we would all be spiritual. We are not our self, we are far from it!
https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIV/XIV_2_8.htm

Many could say the same about being musical or being a painter as examples. No I do not think any such talents make one spiritual. It can be spiritual however to use such talents as clairvoyance to help others. Someone asked Paramahansa Yogananda once if he was a fortune teller and his response was. ‘No. I tell people of their fortunes.’


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« Reply #8 on: Oct 08, 2019 11:30 pm »

How to Purify the Mind
   "Purity of mind is the principal thing upon which the health of both body and mind depend. The process of purifying the mind is not much different from the process of cleaning or washing any object. Water poured upon any object washes it, and if there is a spot which cannot be washed away by the water, some substance which can take that spot is applied, to wash it thoroughly. The water which washes the heart is the continual running of the love-stream. When that stream is stopped, when its way is blocked by some object which closes the heart, and when the love-stream is no longer running, then the mind cannot keep pure. ...  True happiness is in love, which is the stream that springs from one's soul. He who will allow this stream to run continually in all conditions of life, in all situations, however difficult, will have a happiness which truly belongs to him."
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« Reply #9 on: Oct 09, 2019 07:17 am »

I hope to keep my mind and 💜 heart open to that stream and ask always to be receptive to the influences of love that we often miss if not receptive.
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« Reply #10 on: Feb 27, 2020 06:44 pm »

How to Open the Heart

Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan

The question arises: what is the manner of opening the heart? The way to it is a natural life, the life of the child, smiling with the smiling one, praying with the praying one, ready to learn from everyone, ready to love. The child has enmity against no one, he has no hatred, no malice, his heart is open. It is in the child that you can see the smiles of angels; he can see through life.

When the grown-up person is made ready, when he has acquired the attributes of the child, then he creates heaven within himself, he understands. The child with his innocence does not understand, but when a person with understanding develops the childlike loving tendency, the purity of heart of the child with the desire to be friendly to all -- that is the opening of the heart, and it is by that blessing that he can receive all the privileges of human life.


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