Bowl of Saki for January 12

PEACE IS PERFECTED ACTIVITY; THAT IS PERFECT WHICH IS COMPLETE IN ALL ITS ASPECTS, BALANCED IN EACH DIRECTION AND UNDER COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE WILL. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by -- Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:

Until the soul has found itself far above the mind-mesh, there cannot be peace. Peace is found at the center, at the hub of things, nevertheless it cannot be separated from activity. Cessation of activity may be called non-activity, not peace; cessation of war may be called non-war, but peace is a very inappropriate term for it.

Whenever there is a change of feeling, thought or action, there is some rearrangement; and every type of change, arrangement or rearrangement causes or accompanies a dis-equilibrium. Any change of equilibrium is necessarily of the nature of war. Only when equilibrium can be maintained without change is there peace. This is only found when the will has entire control of the mind.

All vibrations and atoms below the mind-mesh are constantly in motion, changing themselves and causing changes to others and being changed except where they are held in place by a stronger force. It is love or will that stand above law, which can fix these atoms and vibrations. This fixation is symbolically studied in alchemy and directly studied in the inward mystical process.

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