In all aspects of life, wherever we find protection, its motive is always love, and no one can have trust in any protection, however great, except the protection that love offers. If a giant were to frighten a child, the child would say, 'I will tell my mother.' The strength and power of any man is too small in comparison with love's protection which the mother affords her child. Love can heal better than anything in the world.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The word ashram is derived from the Sanskrit term "aashraya", which means protection.
PROTECTION - its motive is ALWAYS love
In all aspects of life, wherever we find protection, its motive is always love, and no one can have trust in any protection, however great, except the protection that love offers. If a giant were to frighten a child, the child would say, 'I will tell my mother.' The strength and power of any man is too small in comparison with love's protection which the mother affords her child. Love can heal better than anything in the world.PROTECTION
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
PROTECTION provides a very good example of a word that got taught to those conquered on the British Isles after 1066AD (Norman Conquest). Linguists provide OLD ENGLISH to define the English language as written and spoken between 450 - 1100 AD. The Old English word for protect was beorgan to be replaced with PROTECTION with etymological roots into Old French, the language of the Conquerors.
- protection
- late 14c., from O.Fr. protection (12c.), from L. protectionem "a covering over," from protectus, pp. of protegere "protect, cover in front," from pro- "in front" + tegere "to cover" (see stegosaurus). The O.E. word for "protect" was beorgan. In gangster sense, "freedom from molestation in exchange for money," it is attested from 1860. Ecological sense of "attempted preservation by laws" is from 1880 (originally of wild birds in Britain).
Easy to read definitions can swiftly be found in this age of information. Wikipedia for example, discloses the following:
Ashram (Sanskrit/Hindi: आश्रम) is a religious hermitage. Additionally, today the term ashram often denotes a locus of Indian cultural activity such as yoga, music study or religious instruction, the moral equivalent of a studio or dojo.Hermitage: Although today's meaning is usually a place where a hermit lives in seclusion from the world, hermitage was more commonly used to mean a settlement where a person or a group of people lived religiously, in seclusion.
The Desert Fathers were hermits, ascetics, monks, and nuns (Desert Mothers) who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt beginning around the third century CE. The most well known was Anthony the Great, who moved to the desert in 270–271 CE and became known as both the father and founder of desert monasticism. By the time Anthony died in 356 CE, thousands of monks and nuns had been drawn to living in the desert following Anthony's example—his biographer, Athanasius of Alexandria, wrote that "the desert had become a city".[1]
The Desert Fathers had a major influence on the development of Christianity. The desert monastic communities that grew out of the informal gathering of hermit monks became the model for Christian monasticism. The eastern monastic tradition at Mt. Athos and the western Rule of St. Benedict both were strongly influenced by the traditions that began in the desert. All of the monastic revivals of the Middle Ages looked to the desert for inspiration and guidance. Much of Eastern Christian spirituality, including the Hesychast movement, had its roots in the practices of the Desert Fathers. Even religious renewals such as the German Evangelicals, the Pennsylvania Pietists, and the Methodist revival in England are seen by modern scholars as being influenced by the Desert Fathers.[2]
Early Christianity is commonly defined as the Christianity of, roughly, the three centuries (1st, 2nd, 3rd, early 4th) between accounts of Jesus' resurrection (circa 30 AD) and the First Council of Nicaea (325 AD).In this time in history, speaking of being in the world and not of it and you could likely find people thinking you were talking about space aliens infiltrating our human populous. A child as a student in our elementary schools adds the English word WORLD to their vocabulary bases and it will be word on their spelling tests. Such child will perhaps learn about the WORLD by a globe or in a science class teaching upon the solar system. Public education is divorced from religious education in our current American culture.
It would not be an exaggeration if one called the mind a world; it is the world that man makes and in which he will make his life in the hereafter, as a spider weaves his web to live in.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan, a Sufi
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