Daughter of Fire by Tweedie Irina

Author:Tweedie, Irina [Tweedie, Irina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Soufism, Islam, Religion, India
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

21st January

LIKE FISH IN WATER so are we in Thee… nothing is mine. You have been kind to me, so Bhai Sahib said. And why to me? I will know one day. Like fish in water… and I was thinking how wonderful it is to reach this state of consciousness when all human beings are alike.

The same as for God. For God is with them, and for Him all creation is one.

The sheets of my bedding were so fragrant this morning. I kept smelling them. There must have been much fragrance in the air in the night. Nights are so sweet nowadays… the sky was of a transparent bottomless quality, and such a stillness at sunrise. Golden clouds stood motionless as if in wonder suspended in the blue.

He came out with his mala, so I knew that I can speak to him. I came to sit nearer to him as soon as Chowdrie had left. The others chatted with his brother.

“I want to ask you something in connection with the man who came yesterday,” I began, and he looked inquiringly at me with a smile. “Must watch you, how you do it with people; perhaps I will be doing it soon, very soon, maybe in May!” He listened, his head slightly sideways doing his mala slowly.

“Now, that man who came, you let him speak, and when you did not want to listen, you went in Samadhi. He is after the Shastras (sacred books); you did not correct him at all. For how long has he been your disciple?”

“He is not; he comes only for the last eight years.”

“But eight years are a long time!” I exclaimed.

“But he comes only occasionally; he respects me, that’s all.”

“When is the time to tell the people one’s own view?”

“I won’t be such a fool to tell everybody: I speak as I am directed.”

“This is a clue!” I was pleased with the explanation. One speaks only according to the inspiration.

“Here is another question: You said that the human being is the leader and the king; how is it that he is so ugly and full of sins? Surely God had created the human being pure and beautiful.”

“It is only you who see all men ugly,” he began, but I interrupted: “But he is full of sins! You cannot deny it! And I don’t exclude myself; we are full of sins! How did man become so full of sins?”

“Have you ever seen anything in nature that equals man?”

“No, I did not, and if I compared men with anything else, it was always to the advantage of man!”

“Men are completely free to do what they like—free to do good or evil, to do any Karmas they like.” I looked at him profoundly puzzled. He lowered his eyes and continued to pray.

“Yees,” I said slowly, “but you criticized one of the women who came to you; you said that she is full of sins, so you don’t approve, and still you say that men are free to do as they like?”…

“Free, yes, quite free.

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