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CONFRATERNITY MEDITATION FOR OCTOBER 21

“God is the answer to every question.” Gayan of Hazrat Inayat Khan

Annotation by Cherag Hamid Touchon

2+2=God? How can that make any sense? From a mystical point of view, as we grow inwardly though our spiritual practices such as prayer, meditation, etc. Our view of the world gradually becomes a continuous vision of the Divine Reality of God which is the underlying reality that animates the world in which we live. When we come to realize this our life becomes a continual communication with God until all answers and all questions for that matter resolve into this one reality.
Now how we get to that point is always the hard part. Short of living in this constant vision of God, caught up in the drama of our every day lives, lost in the meandering thoughts and desires of our minds and hearts, how can we come to the point of recognizing that God is the answer to all of our questions?
First we can consider that God is answering all of our questions. And what does this require of us? It requires that we are listening, that we are waiting and watch for God to give us an answer. Because, in reality, God is constantly answering us, we are in a constant dialog with God and all we have to do is pay more attention and pay closer attention. God is talking to us through everything and everyone around us. We are immersed in God! So if we will take this approach, that everything all around and within us is God interacting with us than we will gradually begin to understand God’s language. And this is a big part of it, we have to understand God’s language and find our answers in how God answers us. God is always subtle and poetic and surprising. The answers might come in the same breath as the question or perhaps in a week or a year. We have to be willing to let things unfold as they must so that we can understand the answers. There are many questions that we may need to prepare ourselves for a whole life time so that we may hear and understand the answer which was, perhaps all around us the whole time just waiting for us to be ready to hear it and realize it.

A Fikr Practice (silent breath meditation)

However many breathes seem appropriate

On the out breath
"OPEN OUR HEARTS THAT WE MAY HEAR THY VOICE "

On the in breath:
"WHICH CONSTANTLY COMETH FROM WITHIN "