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"Blessed is the spot, and the house and the place, and the city, and the heart, and the mountain, and the refuge, and the cave, and the valley, and the land, and the sea, and the island, and the meadow where mention of God hath been made, and His praise glorified."
Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'í Prayerbook.
Prayer
and Meditation
Text to come, looking at the importance of prayer, etc. In the meantime.
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Read a few Bahá´í Prayers
Some of Bahá'u'lláh's Writings often used for meditation
see also Bahá´í Books
The
Hidden Words by
Bahá'u'lláh Written c. 1858
Translated into many languages and printed in various compilations as
well as separately as a small book. These are 153
short sayings or invocations, translated from the Persian and the Arabic.
Here is the first one:
"O Son of Spirit!
My first counsel is this: Possess a pure kindly and radiant heart that
thine my be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting."
The
Seven Valleys by
Bahá'u'lláh Written c. 1863
Translated into many languages and printed in various compilations as
well as separately as a small book. Composed in
reponse to a sufi's questions it adapts Sufi metaphors for the progress
of the soul in seven stages.
It is a timeless piece of mystical writing.
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...One must judge of search by the standard of the Majnun of Love. It
is related that one day they came upon Majnun sifting the dust, and his
tears flowing down. They said, "What doest thou?" He said, "I
seek for Layli." They cried, "Alas, for thee! Layli is of pure
spirit, and thou seekest her in the dust!" He said, "I seek
her everywhere; haply somewhere I shall find her."
Yea to the wise it be shameful to seek the Lord of Lords in the dust,
yet this betokeneth intense ardor in searching. "Whose seeketh out
a thing with zeal shall find it..." (from the Valley of Search)
The Four Valleys
by Bahá'u'lláh
Written c. 1855
Translated into many languages and printed in various compilations, often
together with the Seven Valleys. This is an epistle
which sets out four ways the Unseen is seen. The four ways of the human
heart, and the four kinds of mystic wayfarers searching for the Beloved.
"...The death of self is needed here, not rhetoric: Be nothing, then, and
walk upon the waves..."
(from the First Valley)
The Tablet of the Holy Mariner
by Bahá'u'lláh
Written 1863
[[INFO TO COME>>>>Translated into many languages and printed in various
compilations. Kalimat Press brought out a book of this in 2001
The
Fire Tablet (Lawh-i-Qad ihtaraqa'l-mukhlisún)
by Bahá'u'lláh
Written c. 1871
[[INFO TO COME>>>>Translated into many languages and printed in various
compilations
The
Tablet of Ahmad
by Bahá'u'lláh
Written c. 1865
[[INFO TO COME>>>>Translated into many languages and printed in various
compilations.
There are various collections of Bahá´í Prayers in many languages. Below are some unusual or new selections:
Prayers of Ecstasy from the Bahá´í Sacred Writings
Kalimát Press, U.S.A. 2001, ISBN: 1-890688-13-4. "
...Call it a conference of holy souls; a convocation of those who love
the Lord; a retreat for the people of the All-Merciful; a palace-hall
for all who sing His praise... " 'Abdul-Bahá, page 75.
Meditation
by Wendi Momen,
George Ronald Publishing, Oxford, U.K. ISBN: 0-85398-407-7. -Approaches
on what is meditation, meditation techniques, selections to meditate on.
I beheld
a Maiden...
The Bahá´í Faith and the life of the spirit
by Terry Culhane,
Kalimát Press, U.S.A. 2001,
ISBN: 1-890688-10-X. -Essays
on the divine feminine, the covenant and commonwealth, mysticism, and
Bahá'u'lláh and the philosophy of Ken Wilber.
You can order books and view other books on Bahá´í
related topics from
these publishers
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