When the soul is awakened// Murshid's Meditation...

When the soul is awakened, it is as if that person were to wake up in the middle
of the night among hundreds and thousands of people who were fast asleep. He is
sitting or standing among them, hearing about their sorrows and miseries and
their conditions, hundreds of them
moving about in their sleep, in their dreams, not awakened to his condition
although he is near them. They know little about him, as each one is absorbed in
his own trouble. This awakened soul, standing among them all, will listen to
everyone, will recognize all that they think and feel; but his language no one
understands; his thoughts he cannot explain to anyone; his feelings he cannot
expect anyone to feel. He feels lonely, but no doubt in this lonliness there is
also
the sense of perfection, for perfection is always lonely. Imagine living in a
world where nobody speaks our language. Yet he knows the world's language. The
experience of the matured soul is like the experience of the man who watched a
play performed on the stage at night, and in the morning he saw the same stage
again in the sun and saw that all the palaces and gardens and the actors'
costumes were unreal.

From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN