In a lecture delivered during the years 1918-1920, Murshid exclaimed,,
“How beautiful are the words of the Prophet: 'The shrine of God is the heart of man.'How true that is! … When man has come to know the real beauty of God, he will find that it dwells only in one place: in the heart of man. God is love, and He is found in the heart of man.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan, Vol. 7, In an Eastern Rose Garden – Love,Harmony and Beauty
Then, from this understanding, Murshid drew a lesson in sympathy for the troubles and despair of our fellow humans; a lesson for healing.
"For whoever really experiences this joy of life, finds that it becomes so great that it fills his heart and his soul. It does not matter if he has fewer comforts or an inferior position than many in this world, because the light of his kindness of his sympathy, of the love that is growing, the virtue that is springing up in his heart, all fill the soul with light. There is nothing now that he lacks in life, for he has become the king of it.
Such a person becomes a healer, a real healer. He heals a person with his glance, with a kind word, with his hand, by his comfort, by his nature. What a healing that is! Unpretentious, unassuming; the real healing is when a man is in sympathy with another's trouble and gives him a helping hand. He is the possessor of the true wine. He who can send from his eye the glance that proves the sympathy and help he is anxious to give, what a healing power he has! Is it not like a young bird being taken in beneath the brooding wings? There cannot be a more beautiful process of healing than this among all the different methods by which people have endeavoured to heal.”
Hazrat Inayat Khan, Vol. 7, In an Eastern Rose Garden – Love,Harmony and Beauty
With Loving Greetings from Shakti and Shamsher
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