Soul Freedom |
sufism of hazrat inayat khan
The continual longing of the soul is for freedom from imprisonment.
But is it to free the soul by actual death, by suicide? No! No mystics have done it. It is not meant. It is by playing death that one arrives at the knowledge of life and death, and it is the secret of life, which will make the soul free. The different planes of existence, which are hidden behind the cover of this physical body, then begin to manifest to the person who plays death. All different ways of concentration, of meditation, which are prescribed by the teacher to the pupil, are all that process of playing. In themselves they are nothing; they are all a play. What is important, is what one finds out as an outcome of that play: what one discovers in the end.
Of course, the play begins with self-negation. And a person who likes to say twenty times a day, ‘I,’ does not like to say, ‘I am not, Thou art.’ But he does know that this claim of ‘I’ is the root of all his trouble. It is this claim that makes him feel hurt by every little insult, by every little disturbance.
The amount of pain that this illusion gives him is so great that it is just as well he got rid of it. But that is the last thing he would do. He would give up his last penny, but not the thought of ‘I.’ He would hold it; it is the dearest thing. That is the whole difficulty and the only hindrance on the spiritual path. hazrat inayat khan
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