The Heart of Sufism by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Author:Hazrat Inayat Khan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2017-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

The soul, which functions on its way to manifestation in different bodies, covering itself in this manner with one body over another, has a power which it uses to a smaller or greater degree in the renewing of the tissues of the body and in healing it. The child born into a family in which there are physical infirmities is often born already healed from hereditary conditions, and with its tissues renewed. The reason is that, because the soul is the divine breath, it purifies, revivifies, and heals the instrument in which it functions.

On its return journey the soul shows the same phenomenon in a different way. Freeing itself from all the impressions of illness, of sadness, of misery which the soul has experienced while on earth and has taken into the spirit world, it heals its own being, and renews the tissues of that body which still remains with it after it has left the physical body. It purifies itself from all illness and the impression of illness, and thus renews the life in the spirit world in accordance with its grade of evolution. Apart from evolution, it is the tendency of the soul to reject all that is foreign to it, either from the physical body, or from the mental body which it still has in the spirit world.

The soul is on a continual journey. On whatever plane it is, it is journeying all the time, and on this journey it has a purpose to accomplish, many purposes contained and hidden in one purpose. There are objectives which remain unfulfilled in one’s lifetime on earth. They are accomplished in the further journey in the spirit world, for nothing that the human heart has once desired remains unfulfilled. If it is not fulfilled here, it is accomplished in the hereafter. The desire of the human soul is the wish of God, small or great, right or wrong, and it has a moment of fulfillment. If that moment does not come while the soul is on the earth plane, it comes in its further journey, in the spirit world.

Is there death for the spirits in the sphere of the jinns? Yes, but after a much longer time, a death that is not so severe as on the earthly plane, where everything is crude and coarse; but a change is slightly felt after a very long time of the fulfillment of every desire. What causes this death? Are there illnesses or diseases? Yes, there are discomforts and pains peculiar to that sphere, not to be compared with the diseases on the plane of the earth. What especially brings about death in the sphere of the jinn is the moment when hope gives way, and there is no ambition left. It is the loss of enthusiasm which is death there, and the cause of death here on the earth.

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The soul now enters the angelic heavens, and it is allowed to enter under the same condition as before: it has to leave all that belongs to the sphere of the jinn in that sphere.

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