What Initiation Means |
sufism of hazrat inayat khan
A lion once saw a lion cub wandering through the wilderness with the sheep. The lion was very surprised. Instead of running after the sheep, he ran after this lion cub.
And the little lion was trembling and very frightened. The father lion said, ‘Come, my son, with me. You are a lion.’ ‘No,’ said the cub. ‘I tremble, I tremble, I am afraid of you. You are different from my playmates. I want to run with them, play with them. I want to be with them.’ ‘Come, my son, with me,’ said the lion, ‘you are a little lion.’ ‘No,’ said the cub, ‘no, I am not a lion. You are a lion. I am afraid of you.’ The lion said, ‘I will not let you go. You must come with me.’ The lion took him to the shore of the lake and said; ‘Now look in it and see with your own eyes if you are a lion or if you are a sheep.’
This explains what initiation means and what the initiator teaches to his disciple as meditation. Once the image is reflected in the lake of the heart, self-knowledge comes by itself.
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