The Heart of God..

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Dear Friends,

 

Here is an excerpt from a book entitled, "The Heart of Sufism,

Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan":

 

"Destiny is that aspect of God which emanates from God and forms

itself into the Spirit of Guidance. The Spirit of Guidance may thus

be called the heart of God, a heart which is the accumulator of all

feelings, impressions, thoughts, memories, and of all knowledge and

experience. It is like putting a man at the head of a factory who

has been in that factory from the beginning; he has had experiences

of all kinds, of the pioneer work and of how things have changed, of

the new methods and of the right or wrong results which have come out

of them. All such impressions have thus been collected in that one

person.

 

In this mechanism of the world, all that happens, all that is

experienced in the way of thought and feeling, is accumulated.

Where? In the heart of God. Divinity is that heart which contains

all wisdom and to which all wisdom belongs. The heart of God is the

intelligence and the current of guidance in the heart of every man,

and therefore it is not disconnected from the heart of man. Indeed,

the heart of man is one of the atoms which form the heart of God.

 

If people have called Christ divine that is right, too. The heart of

the Master which fully reflected the divine heart naturally showed

the sign of divinity. Not understanding this, people made this idea

exclusive and incomprehensible, and by this they have taken away the

ground from under the feet of the Master. And by this, too, further

harm has been done, taking away the worthiness of man who was made to

be the representative of God. The Hebrew scriptures say that man was

made in the image of God, and the Muslim scripture says that man was

made the Khalif of God, which means His representative.

 

When one says that man was born in sin, that man is on earth and that

God is in heaven, one separates man from God; and this takes away the

possibility of perfection, of which Christ as said, "Be ye therefore

perfect, as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." That

possibility of human perfection is taken away by making the idea of

divinity exclusive and remote, and thus depriving man of the bliss of

God which was meant for him. That is why disputes have arisen among

the followers of different religions, each of them thinking their

teacher to be the only teacher. For that reason wars have taken

place in all ages, and people have disagreed with one another;

peeople from one community have called the others heathen, depriving

themselves of the bliss which constantly is, which was, and which

always will be.

 

In reality the Spirit of Guidance may be pictured as one thread; and

all the great masters of humanity are like the beads on that thread.

One spirit and many individualities; one soul and many personalities;

one wisdom and many teachers who have expounded wisdom according to

their own personality. But at the same time, wisdom always being

one, they cannot be compared with different scientists. For

scientists, when they have discovered something new, say they have

made a new discovery; but the prophets have never said that they had

made a new discovery. They have always said, "What those who came

before me perceived I perceive, and those who come after thousands of

years will perceive the same." Yet in spite of that it is always

new, for every moment has its new joy. As Hafiz says, "Sing, my

soul, a new song that every new moment inspires in you."

 

Once the soul awakens, it begins to see that truth is always new and

renews the soul, giving it perpetual youth. When on finds

differences beetween the teachers of humanity, these are only in the

lives they lived. But no matter what their life was, whether they

were kings or faqirs, whether they walked or rode on an elephant's

back, whether they were on a throne or in mountain caves or in

deserts, they all had the same experience: realization. They might

appear to be comfortable and rejoicing, but they heard the same note

which others heard in tortures. Those who were kings such as Solomon

and David, and those who were sage such as Krishna and Buddha, all

these different souls had the same realization, the same philosophy.

There could never be an argument if they were all to meet. But they

are not meant to meet because they are all one. It was the Spirit of

Guidance which manifested through all these different names and

forms."

(p. 69-7l, from the section entitled "The Spirit of Guidance".,

Hazrat Inayat Khan

 

 

Blessings,

 

Kathy

 

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