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Petama Counsellor July Home - 2 from: Hazrat Inayat Khan: 'In an Eastern Rosegarden - Dependence' |
Furthermore, a physical home holds the invisible impressions of those who dwell within it. In our daily life the influence of the visitors who come to our house is felt not only in their presence but remains even after they have left. In the chair on which they have sat, the room in which they have been, the hall in which they have walked a finer person can sense, though not, of course, everybody. I recall an instance in Colombo where I felt a deep unease in a room; the atmosphere of someone else was still there. I said: 'You have given me such a room!' This lady said: 'Because I thought you were a prayerful man.' This shows how a room where we sleep, where we have created our atmosphere, becomes a religious place; you have said a prayer and then you have gone to rest; but all night long the prayer is repeated there, the atmosphere is praying for you and that gives quiet to the place, it is a harmony. Therefore, when a person lives in a home, he can naturally not only care for its cleanliness, but also for the purity of its atmosphere. It was for this reason that ancient people always painted symbols of a religious character before their doors, and some twice, and some three times, and some five times, burnt incense in every room with the thought that the home may be purified from all undesirable atmospheres and influences. And those who came there and lived there, their atmosphere was cleared away and every day there was a new atmosphere created in this home. Thus, the impression of happiness or unhappiness that a house gives shows the influence – sometimes of those who lived there and left it, sometimes of those who lived in the house and passed away
(Maheboob Khan, Hazrat Inayat Khan‘s brother, has composed music to a row of aphorisms of Hazrat Inayat Khan in the middle of last century, as this ‚How Shall I Thank Thee‘. Mohammed Ali Khan, Hazrat Inayat Khan’s cousin, has sung this song around the year 1956 in a concert in Zürich – here you can listen to it) (these E-book are free of all charge - use their treasures well!) |
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