Sufism is the message of digging out that water-like life which has been buried by the impressions of this material life. There is an English phrase: a lost soul. But the soul is not lost; the soul is only buried. When it is dug out, then the divine life breaks forth like a spring of water.
And the question is, what is digging?
What does one dig in oneself?
Is it not true, is it not said in the scriptures that God is love?
Then where is God to be found?
Is He to be found in the seventh heaven or is He to be found in the heart of man?
He is to be found in the heart of man, which is His shrine. But if this heart is buried, if it has lost that light, that life, that warmth, what does that heart become? It becomes like a grave. In a popular English song there is a beautiful line which says, "The light of a whole life dies when love is done."
That living thing in the heart is love. It may coe forth as kinndess, as friendship, as sympathy, as tolerance, as forgiveness, but in whatever form this living water arises from the heart, it proves the heart to be a divine spring. And when once this spring is open and is rising, then everything that a man does in action, in word, or in feeling is all religion; that man becomes truly religious.
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