Spirit and Matter |
sufism of hazrat inayat khan
Man constitutes in himself spirit and matter. What is matter? Crystallized spirit. What is spirit? The original substance.
Spirit may be likened to running water; matter to ice. But if there is water and ice, the water will run, the ice will stay where it is. It does not mean that ice will not return to its original condition. It will. But its time has not yet come. Therefore, the water will proceed first, and the ice will stay where it is. The substance stays where it is, but the life, the spirit, passes away.
What is necessary, before, for a person, is to make the spirit independent of the mortal covering, even if it be for a moment. By that the fear of death naturally vanishes, because then one begins to see the condition after death here on earth. It is this physical cover which has imprisoned, so to speak, the soul in it. And the soul finds itself in a prison and cannot see itself. What it can see is the cover.
Rumi explains it most beautifully in a poem, which he has written on sleep, because it is in sleep that the soul naturally becomes independent of this mortal garb. He says:
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