The Only Power of the Mystic, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

योगी की एकमात्र शक्ति
- हजरत इनायत खान (७ अप्रैल, २०१३ )

योगी के पास केवल एकमात्र शक्ति है - प्रेम शक्ति।

उस एक चीज़ में हर शक्ति छुपी है जिसे हम प्रेम के नाम से जानते हैं। दान, उदारता, दया, स्नेह, धैर्य, और सहनशक्ति - ये सब शब्द एक ही चीज़ के अलग अलग पहलू हैं; वे केवल एक ही चीज़ के अलग अलग नाम हैं: वो चीज़ है प्रेम। चाहे यह कहा जाए कि 'भगवान प्रेम है", या इसे कोई और नाम दिया जाए, सब नाम ईश्वर के ही नाम हैं; और फिर भी प्यार के हर रूप की, और प्यार के लिए इस्तेमाल किये जाने वाले हर नाम की, अपनी ही खासियत है और अपना कुछ अलग ही कार्य-क्षेत्र भी। दयाभाव में प्रेम एक चीज़ है, सहनशीलता से किया प्रेम कुछ और है, उदारभाव से किया प्रेम अलग, धैर्यभाव से किया प्रेम कुछ और; लेकिन फिर भी, शुरू से आखिर तक है प्रेम ही। इसलिए यह याद रहे कि आध्यात्मिक पथ की ऊँचाई तक पहुँचने के लिए, ज्ञान का उतना महत्त्व नहीं है; तंत्र-मन्त्र, योग या सिद्धियों को प्राप्त करने का ज्ञान भी उतना महत्त्वपूर्ण नहीं है। पहला और सबसे महत्वपूर्ण सिद्धांत है - हृदय की गुणवत्ता को विकसित करना।

कोई पूछ सकता है: हृदय की गुणवत्ता को कैसे विकसित किया जा सकता है? उसका सिर्फ एक ही रास्ता है: इस राह पर बढ़ता हर कदम नि:स्वार्थ उठाया जाए, क्योंकि स्वार्थ ही एक ऐसी चीज़ है जो हमें अपने हृदय में प्रेम शक्ति को विकसित होने देने में रुकावट डालता है। हम जैसे-जैसे अपने बारे में अधिक सोचते हैं, वैसे-वैसे दूसरों के बारे में कम सोचने लगते हैं, और इस राह पर चलते-चलते हम बद से बदतर होते जाते है। अंत में हमारा अहम् एक विशालकाय रूप लेकर हमारे सामने आता है जिससे हम हमेशा से लड़ते रहे है; और अब इस सफ़र के अंत में यह विशाल अहम् बहुत बलवान हो जाता है। लेकिन अगर इस परिपूर्ण राह पर बढ़ते पहले कदम से ही हम इस विशाल अहम् से संघर्ष और लड़ाई करना, उस पर विजय प्राप्त करना चाहते हैं, तो यह केवल प्रेम शक्ति को बढाने से ही मुमकिन हो सकता है।

प्रेम से मेरा क्या तात्पर्य है? यह एक ऐसा शब्द है जिसे एक अर्थ नहीं दिया जा सकता। दया, नम्रता, अच्छाई, विनम्रता, दयालुता, सुंदरता, जैसे सब गुण उस एक ही चीज़ के नाम हैं। इसलिए प्रेम वो धारा है जो जब उठती है, तो वो एक फव्वारे के रूप में गिरती भी है, और हर नीचे गिरती धारा पुन्य है। किताबों या किसी धार्मिक व्यक्ति द्वारा सिखाये गुणों में वो शक्ति या जान नहीं है क्योंकि उन्हें केवल सीखा गया है; जिस गुण को सीखना पड़े उसमें शक्ति नहीं होती, न ही जान। जो गुण स्वाभाविक रूप से मन की गहराईयों से फूट कर निकलते हैं, जो गुण एक प्रेम के झरने में से उठते हैं, फिर कई अलग पहलुओं की तरह चारों ऒर गिरते हैं, वही गुण असल हैं। एक हिंदुस्तानी कहावत है, 'कि आप के पास कितना धन है, इससे कोई फर्क नहीं पड़ता, क्योंकि अगर आपके पास गुणों का खजाना नहीं है, तो वह धन किसी काम का नहीं है।" सच्चा धन वो है जो हरदम बढ़ते हुए प्रेम के झरने की तरह है जिसमें से सब सद्गुण बहते हैं।

- हजरत इनायत खान
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Seed Questions for Reflection

What do you understand by the "virtue that rises from the love-spring"? Can you share a personal story that brings out the heart quality? How do you reconcile selfless love with love (acceptance) for oneself?

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13 Past Reflections

Ganoba

Apr 11, 2013

Words are like a finger that is pointing out something.
By focusing on the finger we completely miss that which it is pointing at.
That is the problem with intellectual discussion.
Love is like and ocean. It sustains life in all its forms.

Roberto

Apr 10, 2013

Humility unbinds the love that we already are. Humility is not thinking less of ourselves. It is thinking of ourselves less.

rube Apr 10, 2013

Amen to love!
I believe this is our only function here on earth, to be that. And I just love the Hazrat Khan's way of explaining how to attain this, check out the other book of his, "The Art of Being and Become" It is my guide to being or I will say, to remembering what I am, LOVE

someone

Apr 9, 2013

It is beautiful to realize that love is not only expressed as love , goodness or kindness but also as tolerance, patience, humbleness etc. Loving enough can do wonders, hope we all increase our capacity to love day on day. Amen.

Rekha

Apr 9, 2013

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Sis Asha

Apr 9, 2013

True love (selfless love) is possible when there is recognition that we are souls. Originally, the soul has peaceful and loving qualities. This loving quality springs from our recognition of the Supreme Soul that is the ocean of divine love. This divine love allows us to accept all souls despite any defects or weaknesses. In reality, this divine love actually does not see the weaknesses in another soul . Divine love teaches us to appreciate only the specialties of each soul. Om shanti !

Apr 9, 2013

Amen to previous reflections! It's all about Love!

Steven Curtis Chapman's, " When Love Takes You In" (just played on my Pandora station) so beautifully supports this theme.
"When Love (God) takes you home,
Everything changes . . .
The beat of a heart,
Says you belong here . . .
Loneliness ends . . .
A new life begins . . .
When Love takes you in."

Love this . . . Love you!

Edit Lak

Apr 9, 2013

Yehh, I get it. Well I understand this more now than when I was younger. I understand it more, but the complexity of aging in life has made it more difficult to love, or so some people would believe and truly want to believe that, some think they need someone else, some, want something else, some require a stimulant to feel the love, but, some also know that love doesn’t need, want or require anything, because love flows in many colours and in many directions from one heart centre of self. I feared the word Mystic when I was young, Oh, If I only know then what I know now :-) Isn’t it the case! If I only knew what love meant, If I only took the time to see and feel the love; I + love = You When I look at you, I see ME, so love is the continuum, We are the love, and we are the ones that chose to open up to love and give love or even just revile in love, but ultimately, it is ‘US’ and that love is as individual as we are. This reading was e... View full comment

Apr 7, 2013

I am drawn again and again to the question, How to cultivate the heart quality? In teaching math, we often use a box shaped illustration, with two openings carved out. The "what goes in" opening is at the top of the box and the "what comes out" opening is at the bottom. If I were to place one marble through the "in" port, what would come out? The answer would depend on what happens inside the box. In matters related to Love (God), I could use a "heart shape" with a similar space for input and output. For me to properly Love anyone (my God, husband, son, friend, enemy, anything, anyone) #1 the Spring from which my heart is fed, has to come from Heaven . . . #2 the "input valve" has to be patent for His Love to enter . . . #3 the first chamber has to openly receive it #4 the second chamber has to feed it to the "lungs" Prayer, Study, Spiritual fitness, Eucharist, Relationship, Oxygen, Life, Getting rid of waste, Bec... View full comment

Thierry

Apr 7, 2013

I understand the author to say that, for as much as we have not experienced the full flow of the river, we all have some access to at least some of its tributaries. We are not completely deprived of patience, endurance, honesty, etc. We are not disconnected from the source as long as we don't give up effort. Not the selfish effort to improve ourselves but the effort to open up and live from the heart. This has to be the axis of our conscious effort. Just about what I needed to hear. Thank you.

david doane

Apr 6, 2013

Being differentiates into a zillion forms, each of us being a unique expression of Being. Being is the source, the love-spring. Virtue also rises from the love-spring and expresses through us. Being is good, and each of us and virtue is good. Virtue that rises from the love-spring flows naturally through us until it is hindered and misdirected by obstacles that we and society create. Such virtue is allowed, not learned. Learning can be important in helping us learn how to not create obstacles and eliminate obstacles, and it can be helpful in learning how to express virtue wisely, but the virtue itself is not learned, it 'rises from the love-spring." In my understanding, selfless love and love for oneself don't need reconciling. They are one. Selfless love including of one's self is love that accepts and allows the self because it is. It is being one's self, being who and what one is, and allowing the self to express.&nb... View full comment

Conrad P Pritscher

Apr 5, 2013

Paraphrasing Inayat Khan when asked what is the virtue that rises from the love spring?, he might say something like he said when asked what is Zen,Khan would tell the story of a young fish going to the Queen fish and saying something like: "I hear there is a sea. What is it and where is it? Love is everyone and everything. when one gets rid of his or her ego, one notices they are one with everyone and everything. That is the reconciliation of selfless love with love – – acceptance for oneself.. I must admit that it is easy to say difficult to do since I do not approach that very often. Thank you for the opportunity to respond. Warm and kind regards to everyone and that is like love to and for you all with myself being included in us all.

David Reddy Apr 9, 2013

It is interesting that the topic of love has come up for us all to read and think about especially at this time, soon after Easter.

Good Friday and Easter Monday continues to remind us all -the depth of love God had,has and will have for us-the seven billion odd people of this earth, whom he has created in love and for us to love Him and one another. It was the sacrificial love that drove Jesus Christ willingly to the horrible death and shame of the cross.The Christian concept of God epitomizes the Real Love and we can all say that "God is Love indeed"

Please read in the Bible 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 verses 1-13 for fuller definition of the Christian concept of LOVE.
God bless
David