10. The Journey to the Goal, Part 3
Beloved Brothers and Sisters,
Hazrat Inayat Khan asks us to consider what manner and method is necessary upon one’s journey to the goal, teaching that it “is a loving attitude, a charitable attitude, to such an extent that forgiveness leads every action of his life.”
May our journey be guided as we pray, “Give us Thy great goodness; Teach us Thy Loving forgiveness”.
With Loving Regards and Prayers for an enlightened world,
Nuria, KarimaGita, Kabriya
Social Gatheka no. 10, Part 3, The Journey to the Goal
by Hazrat Inayat Khan
No method has been successful and profitable other than the method of the prophets of all lands, who give man the first lesson of love for God. Of course, religious authorities of different times have kept humanity ignorant of the knowledge of God, and only given it the belief in God.
Absence of knowledge has made the man of reason rebel against that which he could not understand. There remained no link between the two, and that is how the reign of materialism came to the world, a reign which is still spreading around. In such times of materialism there comes chaos in the world; all is confusion, unrest. All wish to do good, but don't know how. Such times Sri Krishna has called the decay of Dharma, when spirit has gone, and form only remains. No doubt, warning comes in time as intuition, to the soul, but the intoxication of life, the mist, is so great, that the message is not heard, not understood, not received until the messenger has disappeared.
Now coming to the journey: What are the manner and the method of it? We see that when a person rises above all things of the world, as power, wealth, possessions, all that gives pride and vanity, there comes a desire in his heart, a remembrance of his origin, of the perfection of love and peace. No one in the world can pretend to have arrived at this stage, because every moment of his life speaks louder of what he really is than what he says. His first tendency towards humanity is a loving attitude, a charitable attitude, to such an extent that forgiveness leads every action of his life. He shows patience in his actions, tolerance to humanity and considers that each one has his own stage of evolution. He cannot expect a person to act in a way better than his point of evolution permits. He does not make his own law and want others to follow it; he follows the law for all.
When a man's attitude is a loving attitude, a tendency to serve, to forgive, to tolerate, a reverence for all (good and bad, young and old) then he begins his journey.
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