Earthly knowledge is as clouds dimming the sight, and it is the breaking of these clouds - in other words, purity of heart - that gives the capacity for the knowledge of God to rise.
Posted by Kathleen McGinty on October 31, 2010 at 9:34am
Bowl of Saki, October 31, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by
Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
We all are pupils, and what we can do in life
is to qualify ourselves to become true pupils. It is the receptivity of our
heart and the passivity of our mind, it is the eagerness, the thirst and hunger
after truth, it is the direction of our whole life to that Ideal from who all
light and truth come, that alone can bring us truth and the knowledge of God.
All knowledge of the earth is as clouds covering the sun. It is the breaking of
these clouds and clearness of the sky, or in other words the purity of heart,
which give the capacity for the knowledge of God.
from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VIII/VIII_2_7.htm
How many
things there are in life that we should be grateful for, but in our troubles and
in the miseries around us the things for which we should be grateful are
forgotten, and instead of thankfulness we develop an ungrateful nature. The more
complaining a person, the less gratitude he shows in his nature, and the more
his gratitude develops, the more he will begin to understand. Sa'di says, 'the
sun, the moon, the planets, the air, the water and the earth are all serving
you, aiding life's purpose and preparing for your food. Yet you regard all this
unthankfully, absorbed in your own little troubles which are as nothing before
the great forces of nature, always working, night and day'. Our little troubles
overwhelm and disorder our life, and by our absorption we are robbed of the
knowledge of God's perfection and greatness.
from http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VIII/VIII_2_1.htm
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Earthly knowledge is as clouds dimming the sight, and it is the breaking of
these clouds -- in other words, purity of heart -- that gives the capacity for
the knowledge of God to rise.