Bowl of Saki for March 2

THE PRIEST GIVES A BENEDICTION FROM THE CHURCH; THE BRANCHES OF THE TREE GIVE BLESSING FROM GOD.-- Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by -- Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis:

What is the church? It is not wrong to go to church or worship in church. Church is right where it unites men and women in prayer and worship and so promotes unity and brotherhood; it is wrong when it excommunicates or antagonizes men and women and so divides humanity. This division is of man, not of God. He does not condemn on any basis as man declares; He is not bound by any decisions of human councils or human institutions.   Priest speaking in the name of self or in the name of church with thought of self cannot give the divine blessing. Tree, having no thought of self, rapt in love for God, can give the highest blessing and many people, believers and unbelievers alike, feel it.

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