A Human Stream

(Thank you for the beautiful photos!)

Cheering for the Saki Bowl as a continued source of teaching.  Maybe what I am experiencing is the Divine's process to becoming a two-legged stream?  The point isn't to become a great teacher, but to keep unearthing the debris that is blocking the flow of The Divine through this small vessel.  I am beginning to understand more deeply how the pain blocks this ever present flow.  There is a longing for being submerged in the stream while in touch with myself and with others.  I am constantly examining the points of debris and where it is preventing the flow.  So simple but yet so profound. I now want to just sit in the river of the Divine Source, but the outer world requires action, so I am learning how to take action while not leaving the Source.

The great teachers of humanity become streams of love.                         Bowl of Saki, April 15, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: Forgiveness is a stream of love which washes away all impurities wherever it flows. By keeping this spring of love, which is in the heart of man, running, man is able to forgive, however great the fault of his fellow man may seem. One who cannot forgive closes his heart. The sign of spirituality is that there is nothing you cannot forgive, there is no fault you cannot forget.    from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIII/XIII_20.htm The great personalities who have descended on earth from time to time to awaken in man that love, which is his divine inheritance, have always found an echo in innocent souls rather than in great intellects. Man often confuses wisdom with cleverness, but a man can be clever and not wise, and by cleverness a person may strive and strive, and yet not reach God. It is a stream, the stream of love, which leads towards God. ... Law has no power to stand before love; the stream of love sweeps it away. When the woman accused by everyone was brought before Christ, what arose from the heart of the master? The law? No, it was love in the form of mercy and compassion.    from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/IX/IX_9.htm In correcting a mureed of his faults it is not the intellect that is of much use. It is the pouring out of the stream of love which can wash away the stains; closing one's eyes to their faults, forgiving them, and yet correcting them with all tolerance, gentleness, and humility; making before them all things natural, nothing too horrible, but showing them the picture of a better life and thus drawing them toward that which is ideal and beautiful. When the teacher finds that the mureed is wrong he will not tell him that he is wrong, but will show him what is right.    ~~~ "Sangita I, Ta'lim", by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished) The great teachers and prophets, and the inspirers of humanity of all times have not become what they were by their miracles or wonder-workings; these belong to other people. The main thing that could be seen in them was their loving manner. ... One may ask: How to cultivate the heart quality? There is only one way: to become selfless at each step one takes forward on this path, for what prevents one from cultivating the loving quality is the thought of self. The more we think of our self the less we think of others.    from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/XIV/XIV_2.htm There is no greater magnetic power than love. Its magnetic power is very great. It changes a person's voice, his heart, his manner, his form, his movement, his activity, everything becomes changed. What a difference between water and rock; that smoothness and that liquid state of being, the rise and fall of the surface of the water compared with the rigidity of the rock! The great teachers of humanity become streams of love. It is the first sign of the sage or holy man that he himself becomes love. His voice, his feeling, his presence, everything makes one realize that there is something open in him which we do not find in everybody; this something is his deep love.    from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VII/VII_9.htm