The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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What does this story tell us? It tells us that there is another direction of learning which is quite contrary to what we generally understand by learning. When this lad was taught to write "one", he could not see beyond "one." He thought: two is one and one. What is four? It is one and one and one and one. It was to this "one" that he put his mind, and when he went into the wilderness what was his contemplation? Every tree suggested the same figure "one" to him; every plant, everything in nature he saw as "one", because everything in nature is unique, and it is the uniqueness in nature which is the proof of the oneness behind it all. This symbolical story of the wall being split in two explains that when the meditative person has developed the sense of oneness, wherever he casts his glance, on a human being, on an object, it will open itself just as the wall opened into two, and it will show him its character, its nature, its secret, and its mystery. People who read occultism say that there are three eyes, and that the third is the inner eye. What does this mean? It means that the very two eyes we have turn from two into one. When a person meditates upon the One, and when he realizes One, then his eyes become one; and in becoming one this eye obtains such power that it pierces all things and knows all things. It is for this knowledge that the eye opens.


 
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