When a person really wants to find the way, it is not very far from him. It depends on the sincerity of the desire to find it whether it is far or not. What is necessary for finding it is not much reading, or discussion or argument, but a practical study of self. One questions ones own self: what am I? Am I a material body, or a mind, or something behind a mind? Am I myself or my coat? Is this object me, or something different? Is this body my cover, or myself? There is One Truth, the true knowledge of our being, within and without, which is the essence of all wisdom. Hazrat Ali says, Know thyself, and thou shalt know God. ... The Sufi recognizes the knowledge of self as the essence of all religions; he traces it in every religion, he sees the same truth in each, and therefore he regards all as one. Hence he can realize the saying of Jesus; I and my Father are one. The difference between creature and Creator remains on his lips, not in his soul. This is what is meant by union with God. It is in reality the dissolving of the false self in the knowledge of the true self, which is divine, eternal, and all pervading. He who attaineth union with God, his very self must lose, said Amir. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan~
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:06:25 +0000
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