with love for God. Wine really means anything that uplifts the heart, whether it be prayer, contemplation, divine knowledge, etc.

The Murshid is often referred to as the tavern-keeper, and the Sufi school or place where disciples meet with their teacher as the tavern.

Omar Khayyam, and others, refer to "Jamshed's seven-ringed cup" which we know to be an allusion to the seven planes of existence referred to in Genesis and even in Salome's dance of the seven veils. These planes have been most particularly described by Baba. In the Rubaiy'at, references to reincarnation appear and lines like these are meaningful to Baba devotees:

Omar sings:

When I was with the American Red Cross in France during the First World War my faith in God was sorely tried because I could not understand how He, who is Love, would allow all these fine, good men to be killed so wantonly. It was only through later Sufistic studies that I realized existence is not just one life in the gross body and that these men who laid down their lives for the benefit of humanity at large were developing great nobility of soul which hastened their journey to the divine goal and wiped out a vast array of sanskaras. In Supplement 15 of God Speaks, Baba describes how man can become superior to angels and archangels because of his self-mastery and great love attained in a struggling world. Some references to this appear in the Bible, as in the Psalms and elsewhere.

The year 1960, just ended, marked the fiftieth anniversary of a Sufi school in the United States of America. The Sufi message was borne to the western world by Hazrat Inayat Khan of Baroda, India, in 1910. Much has been written about this great mystic, philosopher, poet and musician from sixteen generations of spiritual teachers and five generations of musicians. He traveled extensively in America and all over Europe, restating the inner Wisdom in terms of the religious philosophy of love, harmony and beauty.