Hazrat Inayat Khan on Atmosphere
The fruit must be of a certain
degree of ripeness before its taste becomes sweet. So the soul must be
of a certain development before it will handle wisdom with wisdom. The
developed soul shows his fragrance in his atmosphere, color, the expression
of his countenance, and sweetness of his personality, as a flower spreads
its fragrance around, and as a fruit when ripe changes its color and becomes
sweet. THE WAY OF ILLUMINATION - THE SUFI
When a person is all the time occupied doing
good to others, there is a constant joy arising; and that joy creates a
heavenly atmosphere, creating within him that heaven which is his inner
life. This world is so full of thorns, so full of troubles, pains and sorrows,
and in this same world he lives; but by the very fact of his trying to
remove the thorns from the path of another, although they prick his own
hands, he rises and this gives him that inner joy which is his spiritual
realization. THE WAY OF ILLUMINATION - FIVE DIFFERENT KINDS OF SPIRITUAL
SOULS
There is no doubt that, as the sight becomes
keen, first the colors of different elements working in nature manifest
to the view; secondly, the atmosphere that is created around man, which
is composed of semi-material atoms also becomes manifest. This is what
is called the aura. The different colors of this aura express the meaning,
for there is nothing in this world which is without meaning. THE
WAY OF ILLUMINATION - MANIFESTATION
(REGARDING THE AFTERLIFE) What will be the atmosphere
of that world? It will be the echo of the same atmosphere which one has
created in this. If one has learned while on earth to create joy and happiness
for oneself and for others, in the other world that joy and happiness surrounds
one; and if one has sown the seeds of poison while on earth the fruits
of these one must reap there; that is where one sees justice as the nature
of life. THE SOUL WHENCE AND WHITHER - TOWARD THE GOAL
Everyone shows harmony or disharmony according
to how open he is to the music of the universe. The more he is open to
all that is beautiful and harmonious, the more his life is tuned to that
universal harmony, and the more he will show a friendly attitude towards
everyone he meets, his very atmosphere will create music around him. THE
MYSTICISM OF SOUND AND MUSIC - THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
...every person, from morning till evening, is
making invisible forms in space by what he says. He is creating invisible
vibrations around him, and so he is producing an atmosphere. Therefore
it is that one person may come into the house, and before he speaks you
are tired of him, you wish to get rid of him. Before he has said or done
anything you are finished with him, you would like him to go away, for
in his atmosphere he is creating a sound; a sound is going on which is
disagreeable. There is another person with whom you feel sympathy, to whom
you feel drawn, whose friendship you value, whose presence you long for;
harmony is continually created through him. That is sound too.
If that is true then it is
not only the external signs, but also the inner condition which is audible
and visible. Though not visible to the eyes and not audible to the ears,
yet it is audible and visible in the soul. We say: 'I feel his vibrations.
I feel the person's presence. I feel sympathy, or antipathy towards that
person'. There is a feeling, and a person creates a feeling without having
said anything or done anything. Therefore a person who is in a wrong vibration,
without doing or saying anything wrong, creates the wrong atmosphere, and
you find fault with him. It is most amusing and very funny to see how people
may come to you with a complaint: 'I have said nothing, I have done nothing,
and yet people dislike me and are against me'. That person does not know
that it is not because of his saying or doing anything: it is because of
his being. 'What you are speaks louder than what you say'. It is life itself
which has its tone, its color, its vibration. it speaks aloud. MYSTICISM
OF SOUND AND MUSIC - THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SOUND AND COLOR
Even now you will see in the East healers who
magnetize water, or food, or the atmosphere. Where lies the secret of this
magnetism? It is in their breath. It is the influence of their breath which
is in the water or the food. MYSTICISM OF SOUND AND MUSIC - THE HEALING
POWER OF MUSIC
Man's atmosphere explains the condition
of his soul. The further we go, so the more our disputes and arguments
cease. They fade away until there is no color left in them; and when all
the color has gone, the white light comes which is the light of God. MYSTICISM
OF SOUND AND MUSIC - APHORISMS