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    The Balance Between Physicality & Spirituality

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    This document discusses the balance between physical and spiritual life. It states that those who live at the spiritual level with their heart conquering past and future are freed from the constraints of time. It also contrasts those who live shallow, banal lives focused only on physical concerns with those who understand the vitality of the soul. Those who balance actions with inner spiritual life through virtues like determination experience harmony and orderliness in both inner and outer worlds. The document advocates balancing inward religious experience with meticulous practice of religion and a love for eternity.

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    The Balance Between Physicality & Spirituality

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    This document discusses the balance between physical and spiritual life. It states that those who live at the spiritual level with their heart conquering past and future are freed from the constraints of time. It also contrasts those who live shallow, banal lives focused only on physical concerns with those who understand the vitality of the soul. Those who balance actions with inner spiritual life through virtues like determination experience harmony and orderliness in both inner and outer worlds. The document advocates balancing inward religious experience with meticulous practice of religion and a love for eternity.

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    This document discusses the balance between physical and spiritual life. It states that those who live at the spiritual level with their heart conquering past and future are freed from the constraints of time. It also contrasts those who live shallow, banal lives focused only on physical concerns with those who understand the vitality of the soul. Those who balance actions with inner spiritual life through virtues like determination experience harmony and orderliness in both inner and outer worlds. The document advocates balancing inward religious experience with meticulous practice of religion and a love for eternity.

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    This document discusses the balance between physical and spiritual life. It states that those who live at the spiritual level with their heart conquering past and future are freed from the constraints of time. It also contrasts those who live shallow, banal lives focused only on physical concerns with those who understand the vitality of the soul. Those who balance actions with inner spiritual life through virtues like determination experience harmony and orderliness in both inner and outer worlds. The document advocates balancing inward religious experience with meticulous practice of religion and a love for eternity.

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    The Balance Between Physicality & Spiritualityxx 98

    The Balance Between Physicality & Spirituality


    True life is the one lived at the spiritual level. The person, who faces
    existence with his heart conquering the past and the future, is freed of
    the containment of time. Such a soul can never be excessively distressed
    either by sorrows of the past or anxieties of the future. The ones, who
    are unable to experience full existence in their hearts, and so lead banal,
    shallow lives, are always gloomy and inclined to hopelessness. In their
    view, the past is a horrifying grave and the future is an endless well; it is
    torment if they die, it is torment if they survive.
    Establishing a sound relationship with a long, great past and a long
    better future depends on proper understanding of the vitality of one's
    heart and soul. Those fortunate ones who live at this level and fully
    understand this life, see the past as our ancestors' great tents and
    thrones, and the future as roads leading towards Paradise gardens, and,
    while sipping inspiration from their inner conscience they pass on from
    the lodge of this world. But the unfortunate ones, who cannot attain to
    such level of understanding and endeavour, their life is worse than death
    and their death is a hell of darkness upon darkness.
    There is a mutually supportive and perfective relation between an
    individual's actions and his inner life. We may call it a 'virtuous circle'.
    Attitudes like determination, perseverance and resolve illuminate his
    inner conscience; the brightness of his inner conscience strengthens his
    will power and resolve and stimulates him to higher horizons.
    The fortunate ones who in their actions obey their spirits will always
    walk in the direction of pleasing the Creator and of humanity and
    praiseworthy virtues. Although, on occasion, some straying may take
    place, a truly sincere regretful ness, a heartfelt penitence will melt away
    the consciousness of sin from their hearts and souls and they will
    resume their roads often with renewed vigour.
    Those fortunate ones who fulfils their duties meticulously and
    thoroughly, attending with care to every little detail, enjoy orderliness,
    harmony and devotion to duty in their outer worlds, while at the same
    time they increase the pure light of their inner worlds and, on the wings
    of their prayers, attain a few times each day the rank of angels.
    This understanding and balance in our hearts, that is, the inward
    experience and meticulous practice of religion alongside with a love and
    yearning for eternity, gave way over centuries to dull formalism and
    mysticism which, in different ways, engendered indolence. Since that
    time, those two ominous groups who regard their own inspirations
    (which are no more than the light of a firefly) as equal to the bright and
    varied brilliance of Revelation, have blocked our way to new horizons
    of thought and darkened the horizons of our aspirations, spraying fumes
    and dust onto our enlightened path.
    The Balance Between Physicality & Spiritualityxx 99
    By way of summing up, we may characterize the soldiers of truth as
    follows:
    He has a toughened structure; like that of tempered steel able to
    withstand all kinds of pressure and assault; he has an intellect able to
    compound, like an expert chemist, the Divine Word and the
    understanding of the age in a pot and thereby obtain new syntheses; he
    has a spirit perfected in the crucible in which the spiritual masters like
    Mawlana and Shah Jilani were perfected; he is so modest as not to see
    himself more than one ordinary human being among others; and he is an
    altruist who can forget his own needs and desires for the sake of others'
    happiness.

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