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Petama Topic December Pulse of the Universe - Love your Enemies 3 from Hazrat Inayat Khan: 'The Smiling Forehead' |
We can teach a person to do good and learn justice, but this is a virtue that is imposed on them as a result of a particular teaching. True virtue arises only through understanding the unity of life that connects us humans with friends and enemies. Jesus Christ teaches: 'Love your enemies'. It is often difficult to love our friends, but we are not capable of loving our enemies unless we recognise the secret of the one life behind everything – despite the world of diversity that constantly creates illusions. When we gain this insight through religion, philosophy or mysticism, we touch the mystery of life and gain a powerful force without any miracles. This lesson is easy to learn intellectually, but that is not enough. This truth can be absorbed in an instant, like food, but a whole lifetime is not enough to digest it, because truth is mixed with facts, and when truth becomes fact, it loses its meaning. Immersed in the world of diversity, we tend to forget the truth because we are always immersed in facts. That is why meditative people who spend a lot of time meditating try to think about the unity of being, to meditate on the ultimate truth of being. It works like winding a clock: winding it takes only a minute, and it keeps running all day long. So in meditation, the same thought continues, and in everything we do or say, we use the same truth. What are the consequences of not understanding this truth? All disasters such as wars, floods, earthquakes, famines, all the things that humans are powerless to counteract, arise from disturbances in the body, the only body that exists. When the blood is in disorder, everything goes wrong, and although it sometimes seems that what is detrimental to one part is beneficial to another, in the long run we see that everyone suffers; the after-effects are felt by the whole world as tension and pain and all kinds of suffering. The soul of all creation is one, the life behind all these constantly moving phantoms is one. Meditating on this and awakening to this truth will harmonise the state of the world. The prophets and great mystics have come into the world from time to time, just as a doctor comes to help a patient whose health is impaired. And every time the great ones have come, they have brought a different life to the world, a new life that has been brought to the entire organism of the universe to help it function smoothly. The Sufis, who have existed throughout the ages as mystics whose lives were devoted to meditation and the practices of inner culture – what did they learn from these meditations? They learned the essence of everything, unity or oneness, and in unity – by thinking, realising and living it – we fulfil the meaning of life. I consider myself superior to no one, since I have realised the One within myself.
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