A piece of wisdom from
February 18, 2023 · Saturday
The quote
“The Gita is not a sectarian work. It belongs to all humanity. It teaches the religion by which all can live.”
— Mahatma Gandhi · The Bhagavad Gita
The concept
Sufism
The Persian path of the heart, where the lover finds the Beloved by losing the self.
Rumi is the bestselling poet in America. Hafiz is quoted at weddings and on coffee mugs. Yet almost no one in the West has practiced what they were writing about. Sufism, the mystical heart of Islam, with branches in Persia, Anatolia, Khora…
A practice for today
Walk one slow block today and observe the lesson of Sufism. The Persian path of the heart, where the lover finds the Beloved by losing the self.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 4.8
परित्राणाय साधूनां विनाशाय च दुष्कृताम्। धर्मसंस्थापनार्थाय सम्भवामि युगे युगे॥
“For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and to re-establish dharma, I am born age after age.”
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