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Is it not a problem that every impulse is from God?
I have many impulses that it would quite surprise me if that were the case. It's a conundrum that is not so easily solved it seems to me
.My reply is that we would have to distinguish impulses from our reactive survival self and the impulses coming from the heart.
The survival self thinks in a heauristic fashion and thinks that it is rational but it usually not the case because this thinking is pretty much reactive and takes some shortcuts .
The languange of the heart or as the sufis say Kalam Al Batin is a much more subtle thinking that fuffills a higher purpose . It takes practice to distinguish between the two and it also takes practice to actually hear the voice calling from within.
A prayer of Hazrat Inayat Khan is:
Open my heart that I may hear thy voice calling to me from within.
Unless this channel is opened we hear but our hearing is distorted hence the distortion is then manifest in our distorted wants and needs .
A Longing for the Beloved for example may manifest as a seeking for the one true love, and this may come out as changing partners ever so often because the love one has found does not fit the ideal in one's mind...and this behaviour may one day cease when one realizes the Beloved is non other than God...then one is able to love the human beloved who is less than perfect.
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Hi Suriya, I would add that this sort of thinking tends to be layered. A desire of the body for instance may manifest as a desire to eat an onion for its peculiar vitamin mix. So each level needs attention.
The example I like best is when a young man wants some kind of antique car that he can convert into a hot-rod. He acquires the rusty hulk, spens hours and all of his spare money on it and, eventually, his desire is sitting in the driveway. So the desire is fulfilled in a very basic manner. If the young man just sits and looks at the car however he has stopped, he now needs to do something with the car, attract a girl perhaps. In this manner God expresses its desire to continually discover itself through us in all sorts of ways. Ultimately it is union with the beloved but I would hesitate to say that this is God's only desire. Maybe God likes the hot-rod too.
Much Love, Musawwir
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