The next point: Humanitarianism.
I feel a deep sense of identification with all human beings.
I feel a great deal of sympathy and affection for all human beings.
I have a genuine desire to help the human race.
These are three sentences.
Now, look into your heart. Actualise your potential.
Tell me, are you able to say this truly?
I have a genuine desire to help the human race.
Ponder, if there is a shortcoming in relation to this, if you think you cannot help,
then overcome that shortcoming now.
And come clean, that you have a spiritual deficit in this field.
But then, register your desire to be able to say this.
To have a deep sense of identification with human beings.
It is to be humane.
A Sufi naturally is humane.
What is humane?
When you have a soft corner for human beings,
when you have a kind heart for other fellow human beings, you are humane.
Do you have soft corner for other human beings?
Regardless of their religion, regardless of the colour of their skin,
regardless of their culture, whether they cover their body or they do not cover it at all,
does it affect your acceptability?
Make sure your acceptability is not affected by any
religious, cultural, societal, differences.
If as a Hindu or a Muslim, your culture asks you to dress up properly men and women,
but people who live in the west,
especially the women, if they do not cover their body properly according to your culture,
in that scenario, do you have acceptability of such things which come from different cultures?
And the difference of outfits does not affect on your kind nature, your humane ability to accept others,
or you only help those who are like your culture, who are like your religion?
This is the question. Because this is very deep.
This is true enlightenment.
And this is very shrewd, shrewd in a sense, accept yourself.
We have this deficit in our behaviour, you know?
We close our eyes on our bad side, and we never want to recognise our own bedside.
We only recognise bad side of others.
But as a Sufi, we have to go through this process of self-actualisation.
And in this process of self-actualisation,
go through the anatomy of your character. Are you able to accept all sides of yourself? Or just the good side of yourself?
So you need to know.
Just imagine how beautiful the society will become
when all of us are able to accept all sides of ourselves.
If this happen, then people will not taunt each other,
people will not pick on each other, right?
People will not persecute each other.
Because we have accepted ourselves and we know, 'I have this problem, so does he have this problem.'
'If the bad side in me does not stop me from pursuing in the way of God,
why should I persecute him when he has the same problem?
This will help bring equality.
This will help bring hearts together.
This will help build tolerance.
We are intolerant in the societies today, because we suffer from lack of acceptability in our life.
This may not sound as spiritual, but this is what it is.
You know to see, do you feel sympathy for human beings? Do you have affection for all human beings?
Look into your heart.
When you want to help a needy one, do you want to know what religion he practices?
If you're a Hindu and you only help those who are hindu, This is no humanity.
If you are a Muslim,
and you want to help the needy ones, but before you help them you want to know if they are muslims
this is not virtue.
A true human being is one, who helps all human beings,
regardless of their societal differences, regardless of their religious differences.
In order to qualify to be a human being,
you need to make sure that when you help others
you don't want to know who they are. You don't want to know what culture or society or religion they come from.
If you have developed this open-mindedness in you,
congratulation, you have the first human instinct in you.
Right?
You have the first human instinct in you.
Let me just remind you what Jesus said. You know, Jesus said,
with this acceptability perspective,
now listen to this, what Jesus said,
'If you knew how to suffer,
If you knew, how to suffer,
you would be able not to suffer.
We're suffering from our bad side. If you knew how to suffer for example,
we're suffering but we don't know we're suffering.
We have a bad side in us, but we're in the state of denial.
You suffer when you know you're bad,
but when you have ignored bad side of you, you don't suffer.
You don't know how to suffer.
How to suffer? To know your bad side is to suffer,
because when the evil whispers come to your heart
don't you suffer? Why, why, why? Why are the wrong thoughts coming to my mind? Why?
This is suffering.
Then you suffer.
And when you suffer, you besiege to the lord, 'I don't want this'.
And then the lord tells you, this is how to avoid.
So in the beginning, you knew the suffering,
only then you came to know how not to suffer.
Keep your heart focused on divinity and light.
And this is how the evil whispers will get burned before they arrive at your heart.
This is how to avoid suffering. So Jesus said,
'If you knew how to suffer,
you would be able not to suffer'.
So learn how to suffer.
So learn how to suffer and you will be able not to suffer.
And then Jesus said,
'One who knows everything,
one who knows everything,
but lacks in oneself,
one who knows everything but lacks in oneself, lacks everything'.
Thomas said to the disciples,
'If I tell you one of the sayings of lord Jesus Christ, that he secretly shared with me,
you will pick up rocks and stones,
and you will stone me to death.
And fire will come from the rocks
and consume you.
This is the same type of knowledge that we part with every day.
This is why we have a very fierce opposition
from people who suffer from non-acceptability of their own being.
This is the result.