Life of Light

Purity In Youth, & Gratefulness

light writer — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:34:58 +0000

“To lead a good pure, moral life in youth needs the courage, bravery and resolve of a prophet.” ~Maharaj Jagat Singh

“If we live in His will and if we are grateful to Him for whatever He has given us, then we feel extremely happy and light.” ~Maharaj Charan Singh

Only You

light writer — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:33:05 +0000

“In all this world, there is only You. When all else ceases, there is only You.”

How To Be Happy

light writer — Mon, 27 May 2013 11:36:50 +0000

This is an excellent short story/lesson about how to be happy that I just received on email:

A man prayed to God: “I Want Happiness” God said: First remove ” I ” that’s ego, then remove “Want” that’s desire, and see you are left with only “Happiness”?

Isn’t that the simple truth of the matter. Drop ego/I. Drop desire. And we have happiness! That’s how to be happy.

Thoughts?

Never Speak Ill Of Others

light writer — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:26:59 +0000

“Never speak ill of others. It is a great sin. There may be some pleasure or enjoyment in other sins, but tell me what pleasure there is in ‘slander’? Sheikh saadi says, ‘if I were to speak ill of anybody, I would speak ill of my own mother, for if the merits of my good deeds are to go to any person, let them go to my own mother.’ Maharaj Ji (Baba Sawan Singh Ji) used to say that all the good deeds of one who talks ill of another are credited to the account of the slandered one. The slandered washes away our sins without charging us anything.”

Love In Its Various Forms

light writer — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:02:39 +0000

“Every kind of power lies in this one thing which we call by the simple name: love. Charity, generosity, kindness, affection, endurance, tolerance, and patience — all these words are different aspects of one; they are different names of only one thing: love. Whether it is said, ‘God is love,’ or whatever name is given to it, all the names are the names of God; and yet every form of love, every name for love, has its own peculiar scope, has a peculiarity of its own. Love as kindness is one thing, love as tolerance is another, love as generosity is another, love as patience another; and yet from beginning to end it is just love.”

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan (via wahiduddin)

Forgiveness & Love

light writer — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:14:48 +0000

“The great personalities who have descended on earth from time to time to awaken in man that love, which is his divine inheritance, have always found an echo in innocent souls rather than in great intellects. Man often confuses wisdom with cleverness, but a man can be clever and not wise, and by cleverness a person may strive and strive, and yet not reach God. It is a stream, the stream of love, which leads towards God. … Law has no power to stand before love; the stream of love sweeps it away. When the woman accused by everyone was brought before Christ, what arose from the heart of the master? The law? No, it was love in the form of mercy and compassion.”

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan (via wahiduddin)

“Forgiveness is a stream of love which washes away all impurities wherever it flows. By keeping this spring of love, which is in the heart of man, running, man is able to forgive, however great the fault of his fellow man may seem. One who cannot forgive closes his heart. The sign of spirituality is that there is nothing you cannot forgive, there is no fault you cannot forget.”

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan (via wahiduddin)

The Sleeping…

light writer — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:28:17 +0000

In India it is considered a great sin to awaken anyone who is asleep. If a man is asleep, do not wake him; let him sleep; it is the time for him to sleep; it will not do to wake him before his time. Thus a mystic understands also that a person who is taking his time to wake up must not be awakened to give him the mystic’s idea. It would be a sin, because he is not prepared to understand it, and his beliefs would be shaken. Let him go on thinking God is in Benares; let him think He is in the temple of Buddha; let him think He is in heaven; let him think He is in the seventh heaven above the sky. It is the beginning; he will evolve in time and arrive at the same stage. The rest he is having just now is good for him. The awakening comes, all in its good time.

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan (via wahiduddin)

Don’t Become Cold, Keep Your Love On The Rise

light writer — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:00:18 +0000

“The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.” ~Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Many seek protection from all hurting influences by building some wall around themselves. But the canopy over the earth is so high that a wall cannot be built high enough, and the only thing one can do is to live in the midst of all inharmonious influences, to strengthen his will power and to bear all things, yet keeping the fineness of character and a nobleness of manner together with an ever-living heart. To become cold with the coldness of the world is weakness, and to become broken by the hardness of the world is feebleness, but to live in the world and yet to keep above the world is like walking on the water. There are two essential duties for the man of wisdom and love; that is to keep the love in our nature ever increasing and expanding and to strengthen the will so that the heart may not be easily broken. Balance is ideal in life; man must be fine and yet strong, man must be loving and yet powerful.”

from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIII/XIII_14.htm

The Master Is Everyone

light writer — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:00:18 +0000

‘There is One Master, the Guiding Spirit of all Souls, Who constantly leads His followers towards the light.’

To the Sufi therefore there is only one Teacher, however differently He may be named at different periods of history, and He comes constantly to awaken humanity from the slumber of this life of illusion, and to guide man onwards towards divine perfection. As the Sufi progresses in this view he recognizes his Master not only in the holy ones, but in the wise, in the foolish, in the saint and in the sinner, and has never allowed the Master who is One alone, and the only One who can be and who ever will be, to disappear from his sight.

from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/I/I_I_1.htm

Naturally, we are taught that the Master is everything. However, how much does that actually sink in? Do we treat everyone as if she or he is our Master? Do we take everything we receive from them as a gift from God? Do we try to learn from everything they send our way? Do we give them the reverence and respect that we give the Master? Do we take everything that happens to us in our lives as a spiritual gift?

I think most of us can wholeheartedly say that we don’t.

But we can always start today! Or at least start trying to do so. Each inch forward is an important inch. Each step is an important step. Each moment and action we take as a gift from God is an important one.

Treat everyone as if they are your Master. Take everything you receive as if it is sent directly from Him to you, for it is.

One Teacher

light writer — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:00:01 +0000

“According to the Sufi point of view there is only one teacher, and that teacher is God Himself. No man can teach another man. All one can do for another is to give him one’s own experience in order to help him to be successful. For instance if a person happens to know a road, he can tell another man that it is the road which leads to the place he wishes to find. The work of the spiritual teacher is like the work of Cupid. The work of Cupid is to bring two souls together. And so is the work of the spiritual teacher: to bring together the soul and God. But what is taught to the one who seeks after truth? Nothing is taught. He is only shown how he should learn from God. For no man can ever teach spirituality. It is God alone who teaches it. And how is it learned? When these ears which are open outwardly are closed to the outside world and focused upon the heart within, then instead of hearing all that comes from the outer life one begins to hear the words within.”

from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VI/VI_8.htm

“If truth is to be attained, it is only when truth itself has begun to speak, which happens in revelation. Truth reveals itself; therefore, the Persian word for both God and truth is Khuda, which means self-revealing, thus uniting God with truth. One cannot explain either of these words. The only help the mystic can give is by indicating how to arrive at this revelation. No one can teach or learn this, one has to learn it oneself. The teacher is only there to guide one towards this revelation. There is only one teacher, and that teacher is God. The great masters of the world were the greatest pupils, and they each knew how to become a pupil.”

from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/X/X_7.htm