Tone
This Month's Reflection on Healing
Dear friends,
On this very special day, the day our Master left India long ago to bring the Message to the West, I have the privilege to share with you the words of a passage from Volume IV of The Sufi Message concerning our tone:
“Every being has a different tone according to his particular evolution, and everyone feels in good health when his own tone is vibrating; but if that tone does not come to its proper pitch, then a person feels lack of comfort, and any illness can arise from it. Every expression of passion, joy, anger, fear, which breaks the continuity of this tone interferes with one’s health. Behind the thought there is feeling; and it is the feeling which sustains that tone; the thought is on the surface. In order to keep the continuity of that tone the mystics have special practices.
There used to be a custom in ancient times, that instead of using an organ in churches four or five persons with the lips closed used to keep one tone, humming that one tone together. I was most impressed by this, hearing it again in a church in Russia after coming from India. The secret of the continual ringing of the bell practised by the churches at all times and even up till now, is that it was not only a bell to call people; it was to tune them up to their tone, it was to suggest: “There is a tone going on in you, get yourself tuned to it!”
But if that tuning is not done, even if a person has recovered from his illness, weakness still remains. An external cure is no cure if a person is not cured mentally. If his spirit is not cured the mark of illness remains there and the rhythm of mind is broken”.
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Let us tune ourselves to our own tone, in harmony with the Universe!
With loving greetings from my heart,
Sattva.
