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The WALK of CHRIST – Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan
A crown of thorns on His head
And a bed of thorns beneath His feet
And thorns pricking wherever He resteth
The palm of His helping hand
Still with unshaking faith
And unbroken hope
With closed eyes yet with open heart
His head in heaven
And His feet on earth
He walketh gently with all His trust
In Him who hath sent Him.
REFLECTIONS on the WALK of CHRIST
Pir Moineddin Jablonski
These words of Hazrat Inayat Khan present living signs of the Crucifixion of Christ, a Crucifixion which took place not only on the Last Day, but every moment of His life. Every thought, every feeling, every word, every deed was born through the fiery gamut of the Stations of the Cross. Every step of the day was trodden in the knowledge that the way led to Golgotha, the Place of the Skull.
Unshaken faith? Unbroken hope? What man or woman can say these things? These are divine words uttered by the God within.
With our heads raised to Heaven, and our feet firmly on the earth, we shall learn to walk the Heavens and to perceive the inner condition of earth. Complainers are crushed beneath the weight of life’s crosses. But with all trust placed in the Father who hath known us even before we became known, we shall walk gently from cross and thorn to Crown and Bloom, from divine limitation to divine perfection.
Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan
The real meaning of crucifixion is to crucify the false self, that the true self may rise. As long as the false self is not crucified, the true self is not realized.
Through that crucifixion resurrection comes. There is not the slightest doubt that when one has had enough pain in life, one rises to this great consciousness. But it is not necessary that only pain should be the means. It is the readiness on the part of a person to efface part of consciousness and to efface personality, which lifts the veil that hides the spirit of God from view.