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Petama Forum December Pulse of the Universe - Love your Enemies 1 from Hazrat Inayat Khan: 'The Smiling Forehead' |
When we look closely at the nature of this diverse life, we realise that behind the world of diversity there is a single life that is the origin and goal of all things. It is this life that could be called the blood of the universe, flowing through the veins of the universe. It is substance or spirit or life: something from which everything visible and all intelligence is formed, kept alive and kept functioning. It is this life that forms, so to speak, the veins of the universe, and we know it as what we call intelligence. Undoubtedly, we often confuse intelligence with intellect, but intelligence is something that can even be found in lower creations. It can be detected in plant life and even felt in the heart of a rock. The difference between modern psychology and ancient thinking is that, according to the former, intellect is a development that manifests itself in a person's life as reason, but animals do not have reason, that reason is a development of matter, the work of the brain. The idea of the mystics of all times, the prophets and all meditative souls is different. They say: 'What was, is and will be; if it is the same substance or the same life, it is neither subject to change nor does it evolve.' However, another level that we can comprehend gives us the feeling that it is an evolution that emerges from matter. The great ones, the meditative souls who sat in the wilderness and in the forests and communicated with the life around them, recognised this truth and very often experienced greater harmony, peace and elevation where there was no visible life. Life is intelligence, even in the rock, and the more we communicate with life, the more we feel that even the rock is not without life, that the blood of the universe pulsates through it. The trust of someone who trusts another but does not trust himself has no roots.
Gayan - Boulas (these E-book are free of all charge - use their treasures well!) |
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