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A small girl asked a Sufi, “Illusion, or maya, is mingled in everything. God is also mingled in everything. If both are everywhere, what is the difference between maya and God? The Sufi answered, “God has created a pair of opposites called light and darkness so that we can know the difference between the two. Darkness exists everywhere, and so does light. Each is revealed through its opposite. “In the same way, God is the light of perfection and maya is darkness; we understand light through the contrast of darkness, and good through the contrast of evil. “God is mingled within everything. Maya also exists within everything in the form of darkness, so that the perfect light of God may be understood in contrast. But does darkness remain when the light comes? No. As soon as light comes, darkness leaves. The power that can dispel the darkness is God. Maya is the darkness of manifested creations and is subject to change, whereas God is the effulgence which exists forever. “Light can dispel darkness, but darkness cannot dispel light. What is driven away is maya, while the power that dispels is God. This is the difference.”
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Muhaiyaddeen, M.R. Bawa. The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh. Philadelphia: Fellowship Press, 1981, 2006. 194-195. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen was over 120 before he passed in 1986. He wrote many books on wisdom and God, but The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh (www.religionspirituality.org) stands apart. Through his wisdom comes explanations of life’s mysteries. It’s a guidebook to cherish
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