The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Now you can see the symbolism of this. The water which comes from the top of the Himalaya as a spring is love, which comes from the heart. That which rises from the heart is the first place of pilgrimage. Then it goes on like a stream as the holy rivers Ganges and Jumna, and when those rivers meet, it is called sangam. Sympathy is sangam. When it goes and meets the sea, it is called the unity with God. It is such a beautiful picture of life, just to see it in that symbolical form. And if interpreted rightly, we could have the sacred pilgrimage of the Ganges here and everywhere. The sacred river is sympathy out of our own heart, and the reaching toward God is the perfection, the spiritual attainment.


 
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