Message #39705

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My favorite... After writing to Steve- I was inclined to read todays Saki. To my surprise, the knowledge in todays wisdom is exactly aligned with my thoughts and feelings in responding to Steve's thread on friendship: http://spiritualportal.net/index.php/topic,7676.msg37169.html#msg37169 making it particularly auspicious.

I hope those here read these words and feel a similar depth of gratitude in their hearts.

The wise of all ages have taught that it is knowledge of the divine Being that is life, and the only reality.

     Bowl of Saki, September 29, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

If there is a kingdom of God to be found anywhere, it is within oneself. And it is, therefore, in the knowledge of self that there lies the fulfillment of life. The knowledge of self means the knowledge of one's body, the knowledge of one's mind, the knowledge of one's spirit; the knowledge of the spirit's relation to the body and the relation of the body to the spirit; the knowledge of one's wants and needs, the knowledge of one's virtues and faults; knowing what we desire and how to attain it, what to pursue and what to renounce. And when one dives deep into this, one finds before one a world of knowledge which never ends. And it is that knowledge which gives one insight into human nature and brings one to the knowledge of the whole of creation. And in the end one attains to the knowledge of the divine Being.

   from  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/I/I_IV_12.htm


Religion is the school that has developed man, and the ideals that religion presents form a path that leads upward to perfection, that innate and yearning desire of every soul. ... The wise of all ages have taught that it is the knowledge of the Divine Being that is life, and the only reality. Although a human activity may have a number of complicated motives, some of which are base and gross, it is the aspiration towards divinity, the desire towards beauty, which is its soul, its life, and its reality. And it is in proportion to the degree of strength or weakness of his aspiration towards beauty that man's ideal is great or small, and his religion is great or small.

   from  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/III/III_II_4.htm



   ~~~ The wise of all ages have taught that it is knowledge of the divine Being that is life, and the only reality.