Short story: A religious journey into a different World of Religion

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The year was 1912, and the young Sufi master, Zir Shar Ghan, was sent by his own teacher, in India to introduce Sufism to America. He gave several lectures to various audiences, outlining the goals of Sufism. He talked about the great law of love, saying that we should treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves. Also, a man should be compensated for his effort, even as the law of reciprocity says that we tend to return a favour done to us by someone to them. We should realise that there is one God, and we should all be in agreement with that. The first step on any spiritual path should be to renounce your old ways, and be open to embracing the new ways, of living, and loving, as God would like you to live like. Asking for forgiveness helps you to be sincere in the turning around of your life, from being self-directed, to being God directed. We move from living from a selfish self, to a pure self. The stages of this development include passing through a self that becomes remorseful for its past ways of being, and then refining itself so that it lives more peacefully alive, within love, not desire, anymore. This self is inspired to live with God, inspiring it to live such a loving life, full of service for God, in harmony with God. This is achieved by us embracing and understanding the truths of our living patiently, humbly, and thankfully. Our inner life must be prayerfully lived, intuitively divinely, and being connected to God's words, as they live within us, when we live from his love within us. We must reach past self-centredness, and give up our empty reasoning, to living from the expression of love, rather than the logic of mind. We should maintain our nearness to God, by prayer, and from our loving of him. We should live truthfully within this divine reality. Renouncing our attachment to the ways of the world bring us into God's world, and closer to understanding God's truths, as they live within our hearts, placed there by God for us to live from, and to eventually fully understand with our minds too. Let God's love shine on your life, and on any problems that you might experience in that life. The opposite of love, which we refer to as hate, achieves nothing good in any life. Allow love to extinguish all of any hate within you. In the Christian Bible, we see the idea of speaking the truth in love, as Saint Paul advised us to do, in his letter to the Ephesians, chapter 4, verse 15. "Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ." We need to grow into this truth, as it is revealed to us, in our hearts, from God living there in us too, and then reveal it to others through love. This is the gist of one of his lectures, as recorded by a scribe in his audience. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Our lives should be lived in such a way that we grow into truth from living from love.