Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláhBahá'u'lláh
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Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
Bahá'u'lláh
Bahai Faith -- Doctrines
O My servants! Deprive not yourselves of the unfading and resplendent
Light that shineth within the Lamp of Divine glory. Let the flame of the
love of God burn brightly within your radiant hearts. Feed it with the oil
of Divine guidance, and protect it within the shelter of your constancy.
Guard it within the globe of trust and detachment from all else but God,
so that the evil whisperings of the ungodly may not extinguish its light.
O My servants! My holy, My divinely ordained Revelation may be likened
unto an ocean in whose depths are concealed innumerable pearls of great
price, of surpassing luster. It is the duty of every seeker to bestir
himself and strive to attain the shores of this ocean, so that he may, in
proportion to the eagerness of his search and the efforts he hath exerted,
partake of such benefits as have been pre-ordained in God’s irrevocable
and hidden Tablets. If no one be willing to direct his steps towards its
shores, if every one should fail to arise and find Him, can such a failure
be said to have robbed this ocean of its power or to have lessened, to any
degree, its treasures? How vain, how contemptible, are the imaginations
which your hearts have devised, and are still devising! O My servants! The
one true God is My witness! This most great, this fathomless and surging
Ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you. Behold it is closer to you
than your life-vein! Swift as the twinkling of an eye ye can, if ye but
wish it, reach and partake of this imperishable favor, this God-given
grace, this incorruptible gift, this most potent and unspeakably glorious
bounty.
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