Qawwali & Sufi

Music plays a great role in the spiritual attainment. The Chistis call it the food of the soul. They listen to Qawwali. The atmosphere is charged with magnetism, harmony and peace. The nature of love,lover and beloved is expressed. The Qawwals sing the verses distinctly. The tabla players keep the rhythm even. The Sufi already set to music, joins with the rhythm and harmony of the music. His emotional nature at  times has its full play. His joy and feeling can not be explained. Language is inadequate to express them.

 This state is termed "HAL". Hal means condition

The state of ecstasy is no different from the natural condition of man moved to tears either on separation from the one he loves or when overjoyed on the arrival of his long expected beloved

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ASHTAVAKRA

Ashtavakra was the son of a lesser disciple of the great sage Uddalaka.The disciple married to Uddalaka's daughter.The unborn child, who already had mastered the Vedas,kept twisting and turning within the womb, unable to bear his father's mistakes in recitation, and  was therefore born with eight deformations. Hence he was called Ashta (8) Vakras ( bends).
Ashtavakra went on to become a great sage himself., and had  the honor of having  the King Janaka  as one of his students.
Ashtavakra, one of the Mithila's "Vibhutis" wrote Gita, " THE ASHTAVAKRA GITA". It has been called "a quantum leap into the absolute"
Even the Bhagvad Gita does not have the majesty found in it------ it is simply unparalleled

It teaches how one can rest in the stillness from which emerge the qualities of life and love, peace and compassion, bliss and enlightenment.

Pain

In the heart of pain,no matter how dark it feels--- there is always light,there is always healing.

Your Soul steps in and brings you absolution. Your Soul never abandons you and lifts you into its light

We spend our lives running from pain, doing everything we can to avoid feeling it, yet only when we can run no longer, and the pain breaks us open, when we dont'care if  we live or die and often prefer to die,we let ourselves be touched by this light that has been there all along.

Things are not what they seem. Times are changing There is new freedom in the air. Freedom from pain, freedom from the past. you are birthing it within yourself. Can you feel it? The stirring, the awaakening ,the magic?

It does not matter if you dont' understand it and if you cant' see how. Let go off your need to once again  have everything fit into a neat and logical explanation. It might be a mystry. Rejoice in it. Open your arms wide and embnrace it. You shall have bliss.

The world is splitting. Two roads lie ahead. We can not travel both. We can choose joy or we can choose pain.

An epitaph to a women by her husband states "She cried every day, but not from sadness, but because the world's so beautiful and life's so short."

SHE MUST HAVE HER SHARE OF MISFORTUNE AND PAIN,AND YET SHE CHOSE TO LIVE IN GRATITUDE AND WAS MOVED BY BEAUTY.

Future fruits

A man was planting a garden. Somebody asked him,"What are you doing old man? Will you be able to enjoy the fruits of this garden? Your one leg is already in the grave"

Thr gardener replied, "Others had planted gardens, and we enjoy the fruits. Now I am planting the garden,and others will enjoy its fruits after me".

                     THAT IS HOW THE BUSINESS OF THE WORLD GOES ON.

" I "

The tendency to  say, 'No', I will not listen; I will not give in; I will not consider.

Because of what? Bacause of " I "; because "I am "

But there is only one 'I' ----- the perfect " I ". He is God

This is expressed in the saying, " Man proposes, but God disposes

What is good and what is evil?

Good is that which you consider to be good, and the effect of which is agreeable to you both in its beginning and end.Evil is that which you  consider to be evil and the effect of which is disagreeable in the beginning as well as in in the end.

All things that seem good and evil are the opposite ends of one line,and it is difficult to say where evil ends and good begins. A lesser good would seem evil when compared with a greater good, and the lesser evil in comparison with the greater evil would appear good.

If there were no evil, good would not have been valued.

Therefore the whole of life's joy is expressed in duality.

H I Khan, Pir-o-Murshid