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June 21
Read The Bowl of Saki Commentary for today

The soul is all light. Darkness is caused by the deadness of the heart; pain makes it alive.
-- Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):

Soul is the Nuri Mohammed, the Universal Love-Light-Life, which becomes individualized in the heart. The heart covers the soul as a globe and in a certain sense cannot hide the light. But the heart has a movement like the expansion and contraction of a sphere from a point to a universe. It can contract until it is very tiny and expand until it is immeasurable.

Contraction of heart may result from one’s outlook on life or one’s experience of life. When the consciousness is attracted to outer things and becomes intoxicated thereby, the heart ceases to expand in its natural manner and this interferes with the light of the soul which cannot then touch the surface.

But the heart cannot forever remain in that state, and if it is not moved naturally to expand, life’s experiences through the law of Karma sooner or later awaken it. In the physical body it is true that when a muscle has not been used for a long time any attempt to move it is accompanied by pain. This is a thousand times more true for any area or portion of mind, and also infinitely more true of the heart.

The Bowl of Saki Commentary, copyright © 1981, 2012
Sufi Ruhaniat International, 410 Precita Avenue, San Francisco CA 94110. All rights reserved.

HeartBeat, Summer 2010 (click to read it)

On Nature, by Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan.................................................................4
Commentary on The Inner Life, by Murshid Samuel L. Lewis ...............................................4
From the Editor, by Kyra Epstein.....................................................................................5
Ziraat: A Slender Thread, by Vakil Forest Shomer...............................................................5
Cosmology, by Pir Zia Inayat-Khan....................................................................................6
Nature’s Ensouling Intelligence: On God, Nature, and the Decision to Choose Love,
by Dorothy MacLean......................................................................................................8
Our Loving Relationship with Nature, by Carol Sill (Sufia).....................................................10
Attuning to the Wisdom of Nature: Sacred Sites, Stone Circles, Crop Circles
and Your Own Backyard, by Asha Lela.............................................................................11
Nature: Our Teacher, Our Lover, by Saladin Pelfrey...........................................................12
Nature Mysticism, by Aziza Riely-Twaddle..........................................................................13
Fundament Wonder: A Brief, Imagined Visit from the Deep, Dark, and Productive,
by Michael J. Furniss......................................................................................................13
From the Nature Meditations of Hazrat Inayat Khan............................................................20
Sufi Ruhaniat International Financial Report 2009................................................................21
Ruhaniat Publications......................................................................................................22

HeartBeat Summer 2009 (click to read it)

On Love, Sufi Thought Seven by Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan...................................................... 4
From Bestowing of Blessing—on love by Murshid Samuel L. Lewis ....................................................... 5
Excerpts from “The Bowl of Saki” by HIK with commentaries by Murshid Sam.................................. 6
Where Adam and Eve Made Love by Saadi Shakur Chishti..................................................................... 9
Love, Inward and Outward by multiple contributors.............................................................................. 11
Iran and The Feather of the Simorgh by Elias Amidon........................................................................... 15
Two poems: Initiation; Guide by Mirabai Wolf Willow........................................................................... 18
Forty Years with Jaman—Love on the Path of Commerce by Najat Roberts....................................... 19
The Holiest Shrine in Iran is in Mashad by Mansur Johnson................................................................. 21
The Inayati Family: Just How Big Are We? By Aslan Scott Sattler....................................................... 26
Morning Prayer by Mary Flowers............................................................................................................... 31
Remembrance by Khushi Tanveer............................................................................................................... 32
Sufi Ruhaniat International Financial Report 2008 by Boudewijn Boom............................................... 34
Sufi Ruhaniat International Board of Trustees Meeting........................................................................ 36
Theme for Winter 2009/2010 Issue.......................................................................................................... 39
Available Ruhaniat Publications.............................................................................................................. 40
Make a Donation of $1001, Support the Ruhaniat................................................................................. 41

HeartBeat Winter 2008-2009 (Click to read it)

Contents

Letter from our Pir..........................................................................................................................................4
Quotes from the Gathekas on Practice
by Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan.....................................................................................................5
Practice by Murshid Khabir Kitz.......................................................................................................................8
The Elements With—a poem by Jemila Spain...............................................................................................10
Making Friends with a Sitting Practice by Bodhi Be...................................................................................12
2009 Ruhaniat Jamiat Ahm Invitation.........................................................................................................14
The Value of Practices by Aatoon Nina Massey...........................................................................................15
Who Practices? by Munir Reynolds...............................................................................................................17
Dying as Spiritual Practice by Noor-un-Nisa Walsh....................................................................................21
If on Earth there be a Paradise of Bliss, This is It! by Quan Yin Lynne Williams....................................24
The Practice and Culture of Friendship by Rabia Cronin..........................................................................32
Sufi Ruhaniat International Board of Trustees Emergency Meeting......................................................34
Update Your Albertson’s Card to Continue Donating!............................................................................36
Theme for Summer 2009 Issue.....................................................................................................................36
Available Ruhaniat Publications.................................................................................................................37
OFFER: Make a Donation, Support the Ruhaniat, Receive an Original Painting of HIK...................38