The Way of Illumination (The Sufi Teachi - Khan, Hazrat Inayat_0

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disregards his vocation is a lamp unlit. He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal. Each one has his circle of influence, large or small; within his sphere so many souls and minds are involved; with his rise, they rise; with his fall, they fall. The size of a man's sphere corresponds with the extent of his sympathy, or we may say, with the size of his heart. His sympathy holds his sphere together. As his heart grows, his sphere grows; as his sympathy is withdrawn or lessened, so his sphere breaks up and scatters. If he harms those who live and move within his sphere, those dependent upon him or upon his affection, he of necessity harms himself. His house or his palace or his cottage, his satisfaction or his disgust in his environment is the creation of his own thought. Acting upon his thoughts, and also part of his own thoughts, are the thoughts of those near to him; others depress him and destroy him, or they encourage and support him, in proportion as he repels those around him by his coldness, or attracts them by his sympathy.
Each individual composes the music of his own life. If he injures another, he brings disharmony. When his sphere is disturbed, he is disturbed himself, and there is a discord in the melody of his life. If he can quicken the feeling of another to joy or to gratitude, by that much he adds to his own life; he becomes himself by that much more alive. Whether conscious of it or not, his thought is affected for the better by the joy or gratitude of another, and his power and vitality increase thereby, and the music of his life grows more in harmony. 4. Nur-Zahur To the view of a Sufi this universe is nothing but a manifestation of the divine Being, and this divine manifestation is called in Sufi terms Nur-Zahur. The supreme God, from His existence as the single and only Being, has, so to speak, journeyed as far as He could towards the surface. Through His activity and His will behind it, He has manifested on the surface, from the heavens He has descended upon earth. From the most unconscious state of existence, blind, unaware of His being, as is the rock, He has gradually awakened to consciousness of the surroundings on the surface. Also in the Quran, one finds the idea that the world was created out of
Page 2 and 3: Table of Contents Cover Book List C
Page 4 and 5: 6. God as Friend 7. God As Beloved
Page 6 and 7: Angels Chapter 10 Akasha Chapter 11
Page 8 and 9: Sufi Teachings by Hazrat Inayat Kha
Page 10 and 11: Copyright Notice Sufi Teachings by
Page 12 and 13: Book I The Way of Illumination
Page 14 and 15: Chapter 1 Sufi Thoughts There are t
Page 16 and 17: Him to speak through the lips of ma
Page 18 and 19: guidance is found among few indeed
Page 20 and 21: manuscript of nature; and that whic
Page 22 and 23: has been awakened in him by a selfl
Page 24 and 25: patriotism for his nation. He is gr
Page 26 and 27: it is with love. It is blind when u
Page 28 and 29: Hazrat Ali says, 'Know thyself, and
Page 30 and 31: life understand that life is one, b
Page 32 and 33: ourselves devoid of love. If we thi
Page 34 and 35: were not so in its nature, there wo
Page 38 and 39: darkness. The gradual progress of t
Page 40 and 41: invisible ones, who floated in this
Page 42 and 43: yet wish their children to benefit
Page 44 and 45: ise and fall. So there is a cycle o
Page 46 and 47: If the Masters were not the same in
Page 48 and 49: the past Masters which had in the c
Page 50 and 51: Muhammad have been the one embodime
Page 52 and 53: children were left with guardians w
Page 54 and 55: The guardians became alarmed at the
Page 56 and 57: is myself who promised, and went to
Page 58 and 59: He also retains those forms which i
Page 60 and 61: poetry, music, painting, sculpture,
Page 62 and 63: him his first and most inspiring le
Page 64 and 65: school of Sufis, take a special int
Page 66 and 67: vicissitudes of a lover. It is poet
Page 68 and 69: eing life, all will in time be abso
Page 70 and 71: Chapter 3 The Sufi 1. Seeker of Tru
Page 72 and 73: expect the Teacher to be a woman, a
Page 74 and 75: 5. What Is Initiation? Then the que
Page 76 and 77: To become an initiate in the Sufi O
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Page 80 and 81: for selfish purposes. These teachin
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Page 84 and 85: develop in his nature the same resp
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others are in higher forms, that is
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elieving all things and everything,
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'Truth is that which cannot be full
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disbelief. Divine light is the only
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life becomes unhappy. 'Right' is th
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Again, it may be said: sin and virt
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and have safeguarded themselves aga
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Chapter 1 The Preparation for the J
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those around him sacredly does his
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and that garment is the vow of secr
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heart as an empty cup; when they st
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Chapter 2 The Objective of the Jour
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world, man looks at God, the perfec
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Unconscious of this outer world, an
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Rumi, Hafiz, and Jami, is the relat
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evolution, and that he cannot go wi
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with another, with a fellow man, an
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need the knowledge of anything exce
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Chapter 4 The Realization of the In
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sides is his God. In form, in princ
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depend upon his coat. The fear of d
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Chapter 5 Freedom of Action As man
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ules of the time that anyone kept a
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advanced have any special conceptio
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character and this whole visible wo
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sympathize; it gives the inclinatio
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3. Childhood Then he becomes as a l
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6. Animal Kingdom But as he grows h
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e a friend or an enemy, he understa
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to the earth a living God, who with
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desire to play with dolls; there is
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tendency in him to appreciate every
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whatever be the condition of those
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Chapter 8 The Attainment of the Inn
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is not difficult for the soul that
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and lanes; down to the sea or throu
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meditation throughout the day and n
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The fifth necessity in the spiritua
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soul, because it is in contact with
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things which hold the average soul
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ut only in the way of kindness, for
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experience, but has upheld the trut
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everybody, reads the scriptures in
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advise them through their lives. In
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When he says 'Go', they go. When he
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his glance most inspiring, there is
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Chapter 1 Introduction Before Manif
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Besides one which is the source and
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called it in the Vedanta Chaitanya,
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The soul, which is the ray of the d
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they are life itself. One can see i
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that sphere; and if they have any d
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it is a medium by which God's messa
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apostles if one said they knew all
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friends and foes, and dispute about
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it can create. Therefore in the ang
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who are not even aware of their own
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God asked the angels to play and si
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each; and the word of the jinn reac
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'We have made man in our own image.
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on this physical plane, different f
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climate, he would need suitable gar
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impressed with he himself is. Do we
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whole universe; and all are used by
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Chapter 3 Jinn The soul which has p
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understanding, and whose work is in
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China in order that you may see it
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are different in their effect upon
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clear, another may be confused. Yet
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Therefore if Shankaracharya claims
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It is this nature of the soul which
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Chapter 4 Manifestation 1. The Phys
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of a grown-up person, it would lose
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which is called divine Spirit; but
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Man shows the signs of the angelic
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irth is the birth of God. The law t
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is put in its own place, and each i
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Man experiences that plane which is
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is divine Spirit; and it seeks cons
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in it to be filled. 3. The third sp
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ecome God-conscious and all-embraci
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3. The third is the material man, m
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the end of his suffering and sacrif
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his being, and in the light of that
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There is the picture which helps us
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Chapter 10 Akasha The word Akasha i
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the organs of sense. It penetrates
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spiritual point of view. The Sufis
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when one digs deep enough one finds
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depression and confusion, for the s
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sensitive as they develop spiritual
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Chapter 12 The Mind The mind is mad
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eincarnation, which the Hindus hold
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which the soul is most impressed. A
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the power of mind is worth knowing
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movement one makes, even a smile, o
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health is secure, and affairs will
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Therefore, intelligence and the sou
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Because limitation is not natural t
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the multitude. Motive gives power,
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As matter evolves so it shows intel
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towards the goal. Every moment of l
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man keeps before himself as fear du
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If this world is artistic it is the
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ignorant, being unconscious of it,
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know of the conditions of the earth
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ind them, and have liberated themse
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limitation that the soul experience
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Does this change? Yes, if it wishes
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habits and manners, even in his loo
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would come again. The theory, which
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its desire. Are there difficulties
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depends upon the physical body; the
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death here on the earth. Souls in t
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jinn whence it as arrived in the an
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The life of the souls in the angeli
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There is almost too much that a sou
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Chapter 14 Conclusion What is this
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But the soul which arrives at this
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Section IV - The Purpose of Life
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the difference is in the consciousn
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there is a difference, the differen
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Chapter 2 The Desire for Life The d
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That must be the attitude. When a p
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can make, we see that no sooner has
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does it mean? It does not mean comm
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person who likes to say twenty time
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Chapter 3 The Desire for Knowledge
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But knowledge can be divided into t
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One might ask, 'Then why should we
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one is able to manage it to its bes
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Chapter 4 The Desire for Power It i
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is in its realization. This teaches
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e attained by forgetting oneself in
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pleasure. Very often we confuse, in
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understanding this, a person may go
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Chapter 6 The Desire for Peace The
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experiences in itself, which it fee
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the day and night, thinking and wor
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Chapter 7 Duty 1. Dhama Is Duty In
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generation, towards the children, o
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It is said that a child of the Prop
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eathe, we should die in a moment. T
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But one might ask, 'Duty is respons
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something to be overlooked. To see
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having seen what one sees in the bu
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of the earth, it will be even more
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Chapter 9 Spiritual Means Living Th
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absorbed in it and by doing so, has
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Burbank, if he has read fifty books
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You will see around you that those
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one thing lacking, which is faith,
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heaven. It is that fulfillment of d
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Chapter 11 Tolerance A person who i
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ecome entitled to experience the jo
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Chapter 12 The Knowledge of Self If
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wanted to amuse himself, but when a
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also. I walk on the earth, but I ha
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who tries, tests, studies and obser
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In order to show this, Asaf Nizam m
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attracted unconsciously to another
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To the one who knows what it means,
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