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Petama Topic July 'Magnetism of the Mind' - 3 from Hazrat Inayat Khan: 'Healing Papers' |
t is not that all sympathetic people are always tactful. There are people who are most loving and yet tactless; the more they want to please their friends, the more they displease them. Their loving words can become stones instead of flowers. This does not mean that they have no love, that they have no sympathy; it only means that they do not possess this great wealth of mind which is tact. There are three degrees of the rhythm of mind. 1) There is a mind which creates slowly and perceives slowly, 2) There is a mind which creates gently and perceives gently, 3) And the third degree is the mind which perceives quickly and creates thoughts quickly. There is a particular phenomenon that manifests from these three rhythms of the mind, each of which has its particular influence. The three qualities of the mind - slow, gentle, and quick - are the outcome of the three Gunas, as they are called in Sanskrit: Satva, Rajas and Tamas. 1) There is one person to whom we may say something and he answers, ‘Will you give me time to think it over? May I tell you about it tomorrow?’ The answer that he will give us will surely be of some worth. 2) There is another person who has heard us say something and he says, ‘And then, what then?’,; and then we go on speaking, and while we are saying something else he is thinking about what has struck his mind. By the time we have finished our conversation he has found a proper answer to what we said first. 3) And there is a third human being who answers us even before we have finished our sentence; far from thinking about what we have said, he has not even heard it. He has at once formed an opinion on it and promptly gives an answer. Such a human being may easily make a mistake. In conclusion we might say that there are two principal mentalities, of which one may be called a living mind and the other a dead mind. A living mind will show its life by its creative and perceptive quality. The pleasure that a human derives from a clear mind and a living mentality is a pleasure that cannot be compared with the pleasures that belong to this earth. A brilliant intellectuality imparts the pleasure of flying in the air, it lifts us above the earth. The thinker is like a bird that flies in the air compared with the human being who is like an animal that stands on its four legs; and the joy of the bird that flies in the air is beyond comparison with the pleasure of the animal that walks on the earth. Sincerity is the jewel that forms in the shell of the heart.
Bowl of Saki 28th January (these E-book are free of all charge - use their treasures well!) |
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