Once, a shipwrecked man found himself washed ashore on an unfamiliar coast. Exhausted from battling the tempestuous sea, he lay down to rest. As he awoke, his gaze fell upon the vast expanse of water that had both saved and threatened him. In that moment, he couldn’t help but reproach the sea. Its serene surface […]
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I will instruct you in metaphysics,’ said ‘Mulla Nasrudin’ to a neighbour in whom he saw a spark of understanding, albeit a small one. ‘I should be delighted,’ said the man; ‘come to my house any time and talk to me.’ ‘Nasrudin realised that the man was thinking that mystical knowledge could be transmitted entirely
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Muslim Wisdom According to some authors, Sufi is traceable to the Arabic word, pronounced ‘soof’,which literally means, ‘wool’ referring to the material from which the simple rooes of the early Muslim mystics were made. Mysticism in the Islamic context has traditionally been intertwined with the notion of Ḥikmah, which is at once both wisdom and philosophy (Nasr 1996).
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A man went to a Guru desiring instruction. The Guru said, “Thou art That.” “Is that all?” asked the man. He was not satisfied and went to another Guru who understood his condition. “Well, you will have to work very hard before I will instruct you,” said this Guru. The disciple was ready to do
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It is said that Guru Nanak ji (the first Guru of the Sikhs) told his disciple to build a plate form. He built it. When Guru Nanak Saw it. He told him to demolish it. He demolished it. Guru Nanak told him to rebuilt it. He rebuilt it. Guru Nanak again told him to demolish
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During his tour of Malwa. Guru Tegh Bahadur reached village Barna from Kaithal. He inquired of a man outside the village. “Brother. does any Sikh of Guru Nanak live in this village?” He replied. “There is one farmer who is Guru Nanak’s Sikh.” The Guru said to him, “Please go and tell him that your
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Sikh Ancient Wisdom Smoking is Prohibited During his tour of Malwa. Guru Tegh Bahadur reached village Barna from Kaithal. He inquired of a man outside the village. “Brother. does any Sikh of Guru Nanak live in this village?” He replied. “There is one farmer who is Guru Nanak’s Sikh.” The Guru said to him, “Please
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When anger is repressed by reason of inability to do immediate harm, it retires into the heart in the form of malice and breeds these vices envy, triumph over the enemy’s ill, repulsion of friendly approaches, contempt, slander, derision, personal violence, and injustice.
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There is, among the records of Newton, a sentence in the spirit of ‘Shakspeare’ : —”I don’t know what I may seem to the world ; but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a
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George the Third was one day standing between Lord Eldon and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Sutton. After a moment’s pause in the conversation, the King said gravely, ” I am now in a position which probably no European king ever occupied before.” Lord Eldon begged His Majesty to explain himself. ” I am standing,”
