Blessings Of Disturbances

Woke up wondering how to have enough gratitude for touching this seemingly tranquil underpinning of my nature.  With the mind asking questions, the ego was off and running. Always interesting how one aspect of inquiry leads one deeper and another aspect leads one away.  It has taken a single-pointed focus to get to that "tranquil" zone, (along with grace), so staying in contact with it may need more of the same. On reflection, I have visited the zone a few times over the past 6 years (by "chance"), but this time has a lot more assembled pieces of the story and how I got "there" (stories are always fun.)

No, I am not giving up the connection, so now what?  The ego wanted to find a creative angle to self worth, qualifying, and the loop from the past, as I was inquiring into why my ego wanted to twist gratitude and humility into something with rough edges.  In my walk of examining Source, I always accepted there was some sort of power source (no name and abstraction was comforting), then I was introduced to Pahari Baba (not a "living" form but the frequency was life changing), and onto Gurudev (the living, breathing, walking form of a frequency inferno.) Part of the shift as been recognizing I am sensing it through my self and not just an outer manifestation of the senses, (thank you shakti experiences.)  A small section of the outer alter just got moved indoors--wow!

As I fall down and stand up on this path of understanding, the hole in my heart feels like a giant thorn stuck in it when my ego is acting up and a place of great expansiveness when it isn't. Maybe the thorn is a great reminder for keeping me on track with the single-pointed focus and never letting up?  With a fragment of the alter moving indoors, the bar for right action, service, and more has even struck a deeper cord. No escaping the self--twenty-four seven with or without the mind remembering and reflecting. The blessings of disturbances for leading me to a solution for abiding in the tranquility. Pranam to the inner alter. Every step continues to be astounding with the form/formless, inquiry/devotion, and outer/inner experiences.


Hazrat Inayat Khan - July 5, 1882 - February 5, 1927

Following a bout with pneumonia, Inayat Khan departed from this world on February 5, 1927, at the Tilak Lodge, located along the river Yamuna near Delhi, India. His burial tomb is in the Basti Nizamuddin neighborhood of Delhi. Inayat Khan described the essence of his spiritual message with the following words, which are offered here to commemorate his life and teachings:


Our sacred task is to awaken among those around us and among those whom we can reach in the first place the spirit of tolerance for the religion, scripture, and the ideal of devotion of one another; our next task is to make man understand people of different nations, races and communities, also of different classes.

By this we do not mean to say that all races and nations must become one, nor that all classes must become one; only what we have to say is that whatever be our religion, nation, race or class, our most sacred duty is to work for one another, in one another's interest, and to consider that as the service of God. ...

The central theme of the Sufi Message is one simple thing, and yet most difficult, and that is to bring about in the world the realization of the divinity of the human soul, which hitherto has been overlooked, for the reason that the time had not come.

The principal thing that the Message has to accomplish in this era is to create the realization of the divine spark in every soul, that every soul according to its progress may begin to realize for itself the spark of divinity within. This is the task that is before us.

Now you may ask, what is the Message? The Message is this: that the whole humanity is as one single body, and all nations and communities and races as the different organs, and the happiness and well-being of each of them is the happiness and well-being of the whole body. If there is one organ of the body in pain, the whole body has to sustain a share of the strain of it. That by this Message mankind may begin to think that his welfare and his well-being is not in looking after himself, but it is in looking after others, and when in all there will be reciprocity, love and goodness towards another, the better time will come.   ~~~ "Addresses to Cherags", "Our Sacred Task", Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)


The need of the world today is not learning, but how to become considerate towards one another. To try and find out in what way happiness can be brought about, and in this way to realize that peace which is the longing of every soul; and to impart it to others, thereby attaining our life's goal, the sublimity of life.   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/X/X_5_1.htm