After doing great works, marriage, sons (one, his sucessor, Pir Vilayat Khan, which I saw and listened in Paris in a congress), centers and books, he left many disciples, returned to India to choose his tomb near the beloved master of the Chisti order (silsila), Hazrat Nizamuddin, in Delhi (which shrine I also went in pilgrination and fiery meditation two times), and shortly after that he left his mortal body, in 3-IV-1927, only with 44 years of life, probably because so strong was his fiery aspiration to God. His books have been translated for many languages, and are full of love, beauty, poetry and spirituality...
The quotation was from his book The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Vol. 9: The Unity of Religious Ideals, and says:
«The only studies which are worth accomplishing are those which lead to the realization of God, and of unity first with God and then with the self, and so with all.»
Having read it, as I see that order of ascension in a different way, I made a commentary, may be a bit provocative, as the saying was from a master, or the master...
- «How can you be united first with God if you are not united with the self or spirit? It seems an error...«
Having writen that, I received two answers:
«We are *always* united with God, first, middle, and last. We are concretized out of God's substance, because nothing but God's Substance truly exists and we remain part of God always. The "spirit" is just a ripple on the infinite, ocean of God, and the "self" is only a bit of slowly-melting ice inside that ripple.What's missing is only awareness.»
And the second:
«Different paths have different approaches, some tariqas [fraternities or spiritual group] take you to Ma’rifa [divine union] then Haqiqa [truth], others to Haqiqa first then Ma’rifat»
After one day I decided to explain my understanding in face of the two very good replies. And as they are about higher levels of spiritual realization, they are valuable, even with our limitations of pilgrims on the path and not already in the higher stages, and so I will transcribe now my answers, with minor ortographic corrections. And maybe these two unknown sufi friends will answer or reply, and we will get more light, concentrated love and will to realize the path...
- «Graces by your contributions. So, I will share my vision or understanding: 1º We were united to God, we get separated from God, and most of the people, 99% may be, are in fact now separated from God. We don't have, as you say, awareness of Himself, we loose the vision of Him and the inner connection, even if we have strong aspiration and love, even if in the deepest core of ourselves, as spiritual beings, the Divinity is there. Mostly people have no awareness of the spiritual realm, some yes, but of the Divine realm, less still.
- Surely, we are sparks from the Divine essence and we are in a multidimensional Cosmos, coming out of Him but already so distant from the Primordial Divine center that if we can say that God's life is surely the foundation of everything, still on the physical world and in the physical or animal being most of the human beings are much far from that Source Being, realm and awareness. Only some blessed, mystics, initiates and masters keep that connection and awareness in their hearts and spiritual vision.
- The spirit is a tiny individual star or spark, or cintilla, emanating from the fire of God's Love, and the self is only a dancing transitoriness as an ego, and a mask of the real self, the perennial Spirit. Graces...»
- Indeed, as you say, just the awareness is missing and for recovering of that awareness there are the masters and there is the spiritual path, in its different forms, ways, traditions, leading to more or less awareness, reconnection, communion or even union.»
May we all achieve more and more that harmonious life and spiritual awareness, or even union with God, already on Earth...
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