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CONFRATERNITY MEDITATION FOR OCTOBER 10

Man! Thou art the master of life, here and in the hereafter. Gayan of Hazrat Inayat Khan

Annotation by Cherag Hamid Cecil Orion Touchon

To be the master of one’s life one needs mastery and mastery is gained through self discipline and this is attained through the path of accomplishment. So arriving at mastery is through a constant practice of setting and achieving our goals. What are your goals in life?

“It would not be an exaggeration if one called the mind a world; it is the world that man makes and in which he will make his life in the hereafter, as a spider weaves his web to live in. Once a person thinks of this problem he begins to see the value of the spiritual path. The soul learns on the path in which it is trained not to be owned by the mind, but to own it; not to become a slave of the mind, but to master it.” The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan - The Soul, Whence and Whither? – Manifestation

“The soul is on a continual journey, on whatever plane it is; it is journeying all the time, and on this journey it has a purpose to accomplish; many purposes contained and hidden in one purpose.
There are objects which remain unfulfilled in one's lifetime on earth; they are accomplished on the further journey in the spirit world. For nothing that the human heart has once desired remains unfulfilled. If it is not fulfilled here, it is accomplished in the hereafter. The desire of the soul is the wish of God; small or great, right or wrong, it has a moment of fulfillment. If that moment does not come while the soul is on the earth-plane it comes to the soul in the spirit world.
The soul proves its divine origin on all the planes of existence, in creating for itself all it desires, in producing for itself the wish of its heart, in attracting and drawing to itself all that it wants. The source of the soul is perfect, and so is its goal; therefore even in its limitation the soul has the spark of perfection. The nature of perfection is that no want remains. The limitation that the soul experiences is on the earth, where it lives the life of limitation; yet its one desire is perfection. So every want is supplied, for the reason that the Perfect One, even in the world of variety, does everything possible to experience perfection.” The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan - The Soul, Whence and Whither? – Towards the Goal

18 "I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
19 "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.
20 For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them." Christian Tradition - The New Testament - Matthew 18

A Fikr Practice (silent breath meditation)

However many breathes seem appropriate

On the in breath
"DISCLOSE TO US THY DIVINE LIGHT "

On the out breath:
"THAT WE MAY KNOW AND UNDERSTAND LIFE BETTER”