Tag: "Pearls"

tag name:	Pearls	type:	Miscellaneous; Metaphors and allegories
web link:	bahai-library.com/tags/Pearls
related tags:	Oceans and seas
notes:	"... 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 preordained in God’s irrevocable and hidden Tablets.... 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..." – Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, CLIII (Tablet of Ahmad, Persian; BH00249) "... Not every sea hath pearls; not every branch will flower, nor will the nightingale sing thereon. Then, ere the nightingale of the mystic Paradise repair to the celestial garden, and the rays of the morn of inner meaning return to the Day-Star of Truth, make thou an effort, that haply in this dust-heap of a mortal world thou mayest catch a fragrance from the everlasting rose-garden and live in the shadow of the inhabitants of this everlasting city. And when thou hast attained this highest plane and most exalted degree, then shalt thou gaze on the Beloved and forget all else..." – Bahá'u'lláh, The Seven Valleys", ¶81, in The Call of the Divine Beloved. "... Ye are the pearls of the Sea of Oneness! Consider ye the pearl: Its purity and fineness are qualities inherent in itself. Were one to wrap it in the finest silks, they would but hide from view its delicacy and lustre. Its beauty is within itself. Strive, then, to acquire this beauty, and grieve not at lacking this world’s material benefits..." – Bahá’u’lláh, from a Tablet, translated from the original language, in: Bahá’í Sacred Writings, chapter 5, 45.6
references:	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=pearl

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