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Peace Within the Heart
Musafir
05/20/02 at 04:13:57
[slm] [color=Green][/color] How can we search for (true) knowledge? By abandoning  (false) knowledge.* How can we seek (true) peace? By  abandoning (false) peace.* By abandoning (false) knowledge: "(It means),  'Where can we seek the knowing of Reality and the becoming a  knower of Divine Knowledge?' The answer: 'By abandoning that  which we ourselves know and by traveling the road of the  passing away [fanā = mystical transcendence of ego and the  limits of self-centered consciousness]." (Anqaravi, the 17th  century Turkish commentator, translated here into English  from a Persian translation) By abandoning (false) peace means  "From renouncing peace (with our carnal selves)."  "Similarly, in regard to true peace, (the seeker) also  must desire to abandon egotistic and sensual peace. A person  is continually at peace with his ego, Satan, people of  egotism, and the followers of devils. (So) he is unable to  know what true peace is, and he is not able to make peace  with the holy presence of God, the prophets -- peace be upon  them, and the saints.".                                               ........ IQuest [wlm]
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