Spiritual Letter 64 - Outline & Summary Version About Spiritual Letter 64 Title: "The importance of "Giving Greetings" to our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) within us, and to God within Him, and "Getting Their Blessings" from within us, before we "say or do" anything", as the only way of correctly walking the "Straight Path" of God for our age Date Written and Posted: January, 2005 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Written to: The Children of God for our age Go To: Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 64 Go To: Outline & Summary Version - of Spiritual Letter 64 "Silent Outline" - with no short summary of each Topic "Brief Outline" - with a short summary of each Topic Go To: Summary of Spiritual Letter Home Page - Spiritual Letters Go To Spiritual Letter 65 Letter 64: E-mail Version Library Home Page Go To Spiritual Letter 63 Letter 64: Related Material Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 64 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). 1. Purpose of Spiritual Letter 64 - is to focus on the importance of "Giving Greetings" to our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and to God within Him, and "Getting Their Blessings" from within us, before we "say or do anything", as the only way to correctly walk on the "Straight Path" of God for our age, as the only way of correctly using the "Gift of God" for our age, in order to complete what God has started within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen The purpose of Spiritual Letter 64 is to provide a way to establish the "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything in our life, in this way, allowing God within us to harvest "His Crop" within us, revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, when the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, at God's direction within us, will harvest "our crop" within us, will harvests that what "we" in our ignorance have allowed to grow within us, like weeds, which are lives of darkness and evil within us, and a life of "separation and differences", a life of sin, that we are currently experiencing with our dearest loving brothers and sisters in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. In line with this purpose, here is an expansion of a set of beautiful short discourse by His Holiness that our dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, have instructed this child to perform, living at the feet of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) within us, and of God within Him. This selection of short discourses, the source of which are all listed in the next part of this introduction, "List of Reference Material", all point to the same thing, that is, to "The Importance of Giving Our Greetings To Our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and to God within Him", as part of walking the "Path of God", the "Straight Path" within us, and doing this, by using what God has given us for this age, as the "Gift of God" for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), both within us and on the "outside" of us. Doing all of this by using what His Holiness has given us, by using the very same words that His Holiness has given to us during His time with us in the world on the "outside" of us, but using them this time in partnership with God within us, in partnership with Bawa within us, and with God within Him, which in truth for our age is now our birth right, whether we know it or not, and even whether we want it or not, which is certainly something to think about a little. 2. Understanding The "Straight Path" of God Within Us - which is the "Presence of God" within us, not the "presence of us" on the "outside" of us, for only then can anything of value occur within us, no matter what "we" may think that we are doing on the "outside" of us, as "separate from" God within us In this way, this letter, Spiritual Letter 64, includes quotations from the following set of short discourses by His Holiness, which this child, joined in partnership with God within us, recites each day, recites one or two or more times each day, in order to walk the "Straight Path" within us, in order to establish the "Presence of God" within us. 3. Understanding The "Enemy of our Soul" Within Us - and the battle that must occur within us against the "Enemy of our soul" within us, if we are to ever truly become successful in our own lifetime, which naturally occurs within us when "we" truly join in partnership with our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and with God within Him Before we physically die to the "outside" of us we must learn to do battle with the "Enemy of our soul" within us, which is the battle of our life, the battle of "us" against "us", of "Oneness and Unity" within us against "separation and differences" both within us and on the "outside" of us, the battle of "us" joined as "One with" God within us, which is our future state, against "us" joined as "one with" the "Enemy of our soul", which is our current state, which is "us" living a life of sin, a life of "selfishness", a life of "separation and differences, in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. And doing all of this before we physically die to the "outside" of us, by giving our greetings to our Father, and to God within Him, before we "say or do" anything. Amen And doing all of this by first saying the word "Bawa" or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), before saying each of our prayers, before saying each of the prayers to God given to us by His Holiness, some of which are provided in this Spiritual Letter as a starter. In this way, inviting our wisdom for our age, and the truth of God within our wisdom, to join in partnership with us, in the battle of our life, in the battle against the "Enemy of our soul" within us, with is "us" living a life of sin, a life of "selfishness", a life of "separation and differences, in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. That is, inviting Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, to come out of the "perfectly pure spot of flesh" within us, which is no bigger than an atom within us, which is where God and all of the "Stuff of God" live within us, including our wisdom, and the truth of God within our wisdom, inviting Them to leave Their place of purity within us, which is the place of our first birth within us, and come into our place of impurity within us, which is our second birth within us, that is, to come into our impure birth within us, into our mind and desire within us, which is where we currently live within us, and join with us to destroy the "Enemy of our soul" within us, and reveal Them within us, in this way using God to reveal God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. For as His Holiness teaches us, "Your mind and desire will only sit down within you when your wisdom stands up within you". And our wisdom will only stand up within us, when we call it, when we call it before we "say or do" anything, for then, with "us" joined as "One with" God within us, God within us will harvest the crop that He has grown within us, which is all of the "Stuff of God" within us, in this way, revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, before the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, after we physically die to the "outside" of us, will harvest the crop that we have allowed to grow within us in our ignorance within us, which is everything "God has discarded" within us. In this way, with "us" joined as "One with" God within us, joined in partnership with God within us, revealing God within True Man within us, as the "Oneness of True Man and the Creation of True Man" within us, with the Creation of True Man within us being the hereafter or akhirah within us, by first reveal True Man within God within us, as the "Oneness of God and the Creation of God" within us, with the Creation of God within us being this earth world or dunya within us. 4. Understanding "The Wisdom Surrounding Our Soul" Within us - and the "Gift of God" for our age, which is the life and teaching of God for our age, for the Children of God for our age, which is each of us living in this age, if we truly want the "Gift of God" for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, the "Gift of God" for our age, which if joined with properly can awaken the wisdom surrounding our soul In this way, before we die to the "outside" of us, we must first find and join as "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age, with the life and teaching of God for the Children of God for this age, which for this age, is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), within us, and with the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), on the "outside" of us, and in this way, awaken the wisdom surrounding our soul. 5. Understanding Our Soul And the "True Destiny" of Our Soul - which is to again live a life of purity within us, having earlier died to the life of purity within us so we could sin, so we could live a life of impurity on the "outside" of us, so through this "Contrast", the contrast of our pure and our impure births, come to understand who it "Already is", and having understood itself again become "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, so it will never be "separate from" God again, and it can spend eternity as "One with" God within us sharing the understanding it has accumulated with God within us forever. Amen And then, having found and join as "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age, and having awoken the wisdom surrounding our soul, we must then join with the wisdom surrounding our soul within us, in order to liberate our soul from our impure birth, from the cross of our elemental body, realizing with our wisdom that in truth our soul has died to its life of purity within us, to its direct connection to God within us, so we could sin, so we could live a life of impurity on the "outside" of us, so through "Contrast" within us, through the contrast of our pure and impure birth within us, so it could learn. So our soul joined as "One with" our awakened wisdom could learn, so our soul liberated from the cross of this impure birth could learn, by our wisdom pulling out the "5 nails" of "desire to live" here, which are the 5 elemental spirits that we in our ignorance have allowed to grown and come to maturity within us, as the 5 ruhanies within us. So our soul could come to an understanding of "who it already is", which is the "Seed of God" buried within the "Earth of God" within us, which is the Creation of God within us, and like the apple seed buried within the earth, through this understanding, our soul joined as "One with" our wisdom, could join with the earth within us, with the Creation of God within us, to germinate, revealing the "Tree of God" within us. In this way, with our soul, our wisdom, and the Creation of God within us, in a state of the Kalimah within us, in a state of Completeness within us, joined as "One" within us, become the "Shepherd and the Tree" within us, the "Palace of the soul" within us, the House of wisdom within us, the House of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within us. Amen. For as His Holiness teaches us, "Understanding only occurs through contrast". And having come to an understanding of God within True Man within us, and of True Man within God within us, which is an understanding of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us, They will return as "One with" God within us, before we die to the "outside" of us, and live as "One with" God within us for eternity, joyfully sharing this understanding with Him forever. 6. Understanding "Our Role" In What God Is Doing Within Us - as the "witness", as the "witness" of Them revealing Them within us, and as the "Nothing" within the "Nothing", as the "Understanding of the No-Thing" within us. Amen And we will be within Them, as the witness, as the witness of the Everything or the Sifat or form of Creation within us becoming the Essence of Everything within us, which is the Secret of God within us, the Sirr of God within us, as the Qutb or the grace of the Dhat within us, with the Sirr within us revealing the Dhat or the Essence of God within it within us, as the Rasul or wisdom within it within us, and revealing the Sifat of the Dhat within us, which is the Asma'ul-Husna or "The 99 beautiful Names of Allah" within us, which are the windows of the House of wisdom within us. Amen. In this way, with "us" joining as "One with" with the wisdom surrounding our soul within us, in order to do battle with the "Enemy of our soul" within us, before we die to the "outside" of us, which are all the worlds of darkness and evil that we in our ignorance have allowed to grow within us, like weeds in a garden, that have now come to maturity within us, and now rule over us as our "karma, fate, and destiny". With our "karma" being the "veil of thought" that now covers our wisdom, that covers our direct connection to God within us, as the clouds in the sky obscure the light of the moon and even of the sun, with our "fate" being what is written on our forehead at birth by the "Pen of God" within us, which writes the true intentions of our parents before us, while they were living in the world, not what they might have said, and with our "destiny" being our choices, like "our" deciding whether to live as "One with" or as "separate from" God within us, as "One with" or as "separate from" each other, and as "One with" or as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, as we live each moment that God has given us, and react to each thing that God places before us, saying either Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar, demonstrating our trust and love only for God within, or we "say or do" something else, demonstrating our trust and love for the world on the "outside" of us. Amen. For as His Holiness teaches us, in the beautiful refrain, in the wisdom song, starting on page 108, in Chapter 30, "The Mystical Meaning of Man's Body", in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", "Fate rules me with a show of scenes, What will my conscience do to me in the world? May God grant us the grace of His wisdom to dispel everything but Him and "His Stuff" from within us, by "us" getting Him to do it for us, by "us" getting Him to do it again, but this time within us, if that be our true intention, if our true intention is to become "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters, who are the Children of God for this age, if we will only truly awaken to the "truth of us", and to the "truth of God" within us, that in truth we are the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us, we are "God happening" within the Creation of God within us, and in truth God within us is the "Seed of True Man" within the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us, is "True Man happening" within the "God happening" within the Creation of God within us, and we are the witness. For in truth, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, please realize that we do not belong here. For as Bawa teaches us, "The only thing that can leave here is what came here, which is the ray of light from God that came to the Nur Muhammad within us, to the Nur Muhammad that God had placed on the forehead of Adam (peace be upon Him) within us, with God placing it there a very, very long time ago, way before you were born, way before you came to this earth world, to this dunya." "Everything else here, other than this ray from God, grew here and cannot leave here, and truly has no intention to leave here, no matter what it may say. Please realize this without the slightest doubt and join with God within you to complete what you came here to do, which is to understand through Contrast who you "already are", and then as the "Light of God", as the "Sun of God", to the world, complete you duty here and leave here. That would be very good. Amen. So please join with God within you to realize this, before it is too late, and learn how to leave here, before you can no longer leave here, before you physically die to the "outside" of you, or before the "outside" of all of us is prematurely destroyed by "one of us" for all of us, which can also happen. Because in truth we are the "Nothing", that has come here from the "Nothing", from the "No-thing", as a traveler, traveling through "The Everything", in order to extract the "Understanding of Everything" from "The Everything", and then, in order to extract the "Understanding of the No-thing" from the "Understanding of the Everything", and finally, in order to extract "The No-thing" from the "Understanding of the No-thing". Please do it like that. Amen. 7. The "Secret" Within The True "Shaikh-Disciple Relationship - is "True Prayer", that is, you become His life within Him as He becomes your life within you, and in this way, He becomes your soul and you become His form in this earth world or dunya, as you become His soul or life within Him and He becomes your form in the next world, in the hereafter or akhirah, which is "True Prayer", the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is", and as such "you and He" are One, One within the Other as One, One revealing the Other within it, One hiding itself within the One being revealed only to be revealed again, in the next cycle of Man-God/God-Man, as an apple seed reveals the apple tree hidden within it, only to be revealed again, as the apple seeds within the apple fruits of that apple tree, in the next season, but this time as many, not just as one Such is the "Secret of God" within the true "Shaikh-Disciple Relationship" within us, which is the harvest of God of "His Crop" within us, the harvest of Himself within us, not just as one, as the one "Seed of God", as He was planted within us, but now as many "Seeds of God", ready to be planted again and again within the "Earth of God", which is the Creation of God within us, in order to tell the story of God for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. In order to tell the story of God within the story of True Man within us, and to tell the story of True Man within the story of God within us, to tell the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us that each of us have come to the earth, to join with the earth, to tell, to join as "One with" the "Earth of God" within us, which is the Creation of God within us, to tell. Amen. Other than this duty, which in truth is within us, not "outside" of us, everything else is just drama, and a waste of our exalted birth. Amen. And as His Holiness teaches us, "The only way to win the drama of our life is not to play." May we all know this now, and start to act accordingly. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). List of Reference Material: 1) "Service to The Guru", "Chapter 19"(www.spiritualbook002chap19.homestead.com) in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom" (www.ThePearlOfWisdom.homestead.com) 2) "The Kalimah Song" (4/26/72) (www.SpiritualSong001.homestead.com) 3) "How To Merge With The Guru" (4/26/72), (www.SpiritualDiscourse001.homestead.com) 4) "How To Reach and Merge With God" (4/26/72), (www.SpiritualDiscourse002.homestead.com) 5) "Forgive me the wrong, and accept the good", on page 11, in the "Forward" in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom" (www.ThePearlOfWisdomForward.homestead.com) 6) "Invocation To The Guru" (www.ThePearlOfWisdomInvGuru.homestead.com), in "The Pearl of Wisdom" (www.ThePearlOfWisdom.homestead.com) 7) "Signs of Spiritual Significance", as Chapter 01, in "The Pearl of Wisdom" 8) "Search For God", as Chapter 02, in "The Pearl of Wisdom" 9) "Search For a Guru", as Chapter 03, in "The Pearl of Wisdom" 10) "The Four Gurus", as Chapter 04, in "The Pearl of Wisdom" 11) "The Shepherd and the Tree", as Chapter 01, in the book, "A Mystical Journey" (www.AMysticalJourney.homestead.com) 12) "The Mystical Meaning of Man's Body", as Chapter 30, in "The Pearl of Wisdom", (www.spiritualbook002chap30.homestead.com) (www.The99NamesOfGod.homestead.com) 14) "World Within & Without", Ch 03 (www.spiritualbook008chap03.homestead.com) in the book, "The Wisdom of Man" (www.spiritualbook008.homestead.com) 15) "The Dream of Time", as Wisdom Saying 450, in the beautiful book of wisdom, "Golden Words of a Sufi Shaikh" (www.GoldenWords.homestead.com) 16) "Please, Please, Please Destroy Me, And Reveal You", which is from a discourse given by His Holiness in 1972, and has grown over the years in the heart of this child, and is now available on-line as "The Father's Prayer of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen" (www.SpritualPrayer001.homestead.com), 17) "Coming As The Guru of God To All Lights On Earth", from page 106, in Chapter 03, "KQED Radio Interview, October 27, 1973", in the beautiful book of wisdom, "Truth and Light - Brief Explanations" (www.SpiritualBook009.homestead.com) Outline & Summary Version - of Spiritual Letter 64 "Silent Outline" - with no short summary of each Topic Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 64 2. Understanding - The "Straight Path" of God Within Us 3. Understanding - The "Enemy of our Soul" Within Us 4. Understanding - "The Wisdom Surrounding our Soul" Within Us 5. Understanding - Our Soul And the True Destiny of Our Soul 6. Understanding - "Our Role" In What God Is Doing Within Us 7. Understanding - The Secret Within The True "Shaikh-Disciple Relationship" 1. Service To The Guru For Our Age - is finding and becoming "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age before we die to the "outside" of us. Amen a. "The Guru presides over - the abode of the divine state" b. "It is the "Primary Duty" of the disciple - to greet the Guru with reverence, and to obtain His blessing with patience and silence" c. "They must be seated in one place - without making any disturbance" d. "The "Secondary Duty" of the disciple - is to conduct yourself knowing your inner responsibilities and not disobeying the words of the Guru" e. "You should complete your duties - with purity of body, mind, and speech, even if there is any difficulty in the administration" 2. Establishing "The True Kalimah" For Our Age - is becoming "One with" God within us before we die to the "outside" of us. Amen. 3. After Establishing The True Kalimah For Our Age - then as "One with" our Guru, the true work begins within us, and we begin to do duty "here" from "there". Amen. 4. The Traps That Man Falls Into - upon coming into the world 5. Help In "Giving Greetings" To His Holiness - and to God within Him, as "One with" Them within us, and with "us" as "One with" Them within Them, within us, Help in Receiving Their Blessings, before we "say or do" anything, and in this way, help in truly walking on the "Straight Path" in our age. Amen a. "Ask For The Remedy - in order to shine everywhere" b. "Grant Me The Grace of The Holy One" - "Make my soul pure in this impure birth, and make it shine" c. "Please, Please, Please Destroy Me - and reveal You" d. "Coming As The Guru of God - to all lights on earth, becoming good qualities by fasting for 12 years" e. "You Are The One Who Feeds Us - and it is You who must send the One who will fulfill the needs of all these creations, bringing us to completion" 6. Closing Comments - "Forgive me the wrong, and accept the good. So I request" "Brief Outline" - with a short summary of each Topic Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 64 1. Purpose of Spiritual Letter 64 - is to focus on the importance of "Giving Greetings" to our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and to God within Him, & "Getting Their Blessings", before we "say or do anything", as the only way to correctly walk on the "Straight Path" of God for our age, as the only way of correctly using the "Gift of God" for our age, in order to complete what God has started within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen 2. Understanding The "Straight Path" of God Within Us - which is the "Presence of God" within us, not the "presence of us" on the "outside" of us, for only then can anything of value occur within us, no matter what "we" may think that we are doing on the "outside" of us, as "separate from" God within us 3. Understanding The "Enemy of our Soul" Within Us - and the battle that must occur within us against the "Enemy of our soul" within us, if we are to ever truly become successful in our own lifetime, which naturally occurs within us when "we" truly join in partnership with our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and with God within Him 4. Understanding "The Wisdom Surrounding our Soul" Within Us - and the "Gift of God" for our age, which is the life and teaching of God for our age, for the Children of God for our age, which is each of us living in this age, if we truly want the "Gift of God" for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, the "Gift of God" for our age, which if joined with properly can awaken the wisdom surrounding our soul 5. Understanding Our Soul And the "True Destiny" of Our Soul - which is to again live a life of purity within us, having earlier died to the life of purity within us so we could sin, so we could live a life of impurity on the "outside" of us, so through this "Contrast", the contrast of our pure and our impure births, come to understand who it "Already is", and having understood itself again become "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, so it will never be "separate from" God again, and it can spend eternity as "One with" God within us sharing the understanding it has accumulated with God within 6. Understanding "Our Role" In What God Is Doing Within Us - as the "witness", as the "witness" of Them revealing Them within us, and as the "Nothing" within the "Nothing", as the "Understanding of the No-Thing" within us. Amen 7. The Secret Within The True "Shaikh-Disciple Relationship" - is "True Prayer", that is, you become His life within Him as He becomes your life within you, and in this way, He becomes your soul and you become His form in this earth world or dunya, as you become His soul or life within Him and He becomes your form in the next world, in the hereafter or akhirah, which is "True Prayer", the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is", and as such "you and He" are One, One within the Other as One, One revealing the Other within it, One hiding itself within the One being revealed only to be revealed again, in the next cycle of Man-God/God-Man, as an apple seed reveals the apple tree hidden within it, only to be revealed again, as the apple seeds within the apple fruits of that apple tree, in the next season, but this time as many, not just as one 1. Service To The Guru For Our Age - is finding and becoming "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age before we die to the "outside" of us. In this way, "It is the "Primary Duty" of the disciple to greet the Guru with reverence, and obtain His blessing with patience and silence", and "It is the "Secondary Duty" of the disciple to conduct yourself knowing your inner responsibilities and not disobeying the words of the Guru.". Amen a. "The Guru presides over - the abode of the divine state" b. "It is the "Primary Duty" of the disciple - to greet the Guru with reverence, and obtain His blessing with patience and silence" c. "They must be seated in one place - without making any disturbance" d. "The 'Secondary Duty' of the disciple - is to conduct yourself knowing your inner responsibilities and not disobeying the words of the Guru", in order to, - To transform our heart within us - To transform our life within us - To transform our face within us - And to transform our breathe within us 1. Service To The Guru For Our Age (continued) e. "You should complete your duties - with purity of body, mind, and speech, even if there is any difficulty in the administration", realizing that, - The purity of body within us is the pure open heart within True Man within us - The purity of mind within us is the open spring of God's grace or the wisdom within True Man within us - And the purity of speech within us is the word of God spoken by True Man within us 2. Establishing "The True Kalimah" For Our Age - is the same, is also becoming "One with" God within us before we die to the "outside" of us. It is the greeting within us between His Holiness and His Children, it is the greeting within us between our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), the Children of God for our age, which is each of us living in the world today, if that be our true intention. If our true intention is to become "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us Amen 3. After Establishing "The True Kalimah" For Our Age - then as "One with" our Guru within us, and with God within Him, the true work begins within us, and we begin to do duty "here" from "there", we begin to do duty from within the "Heart of the Guru" that has been established within us by God within us. Amen. 4. The Traps That Man Falls Into - upon coming into the world, is that we "Forget God" within us, and we don't know to go in search of "ourselves", although God exists within us, because we falsely believe that we have already found ourselves, as "you and I" living in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, as a life of sin, a life as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of within us, a life of "separation and differences", a life of "arrogance, karma, and illusion", a life of "desire for earth, women, and gold", of desire to either "have a women" or to "be a women", it is the same, and it is "why we suffer", and a life of "body, trick, and danger", when in truth no danger exists, because man has no natural enemies 5. Help In Giving Greetings To His Holiness - and to God within Him, as "One with" Them within us, and with "us" as "One with" Them within Them, within us, and Help in Receiving Their Blessings, before we "say or do" anything, and in this way, help in truly walking on the "Straight Path" in our age. Amen a. "Ask For The Remedy - in order to shine everywhere", and then within the "justice of God" you will get whatever you intend, so "get God within you" to ask for "God within you", to see and steady God within you, which is the whole point of the Kalimah, and then "get God within you" to ask the following question of God within you, the question, "Who am I?" within you, then God will reveal God to God within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, realizing as "One with" your wisdom within you, and as "One with" the truth of God within your wisdom, that asking for anything less than this within you, is less then this within you, and in truth is a waste of your exalted birth. Amen b. "Grant Me The Grace of The Holy One - "Make my soul pure in this impure birth, and make it shine", Ya Qadus, Ya Qadus, Ya Qadus. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. c. "Please, Please, Please Destroy Me - and reveal You", destroy "me" as "separate from" You, and You as "separate from" me, and reveal "Me" as "One with" You, and You as "One with" Me", destroy the life of "separation and differences" that you have given us on the "outside" of us and reveal the life of "Oneness and Unity, of Justice and Truth, and of Compassion and Unity" that you have also given us within us. Amen d. "Coming As The Guru of God - to all lights on earth, becoming good qualities by fasting for 12 years", which is the prayer that the "Guru of Bawa" gave to Bawa to say, when Bawa's Guru, the Nur Muhammad first came to stand by Bawa's side, when Bawa had come into the state of Shari'at, "the knowing of good from evil, and then doing only good", after standing on one leg, or fasting from the world, for 12 years, in this way, closing the 12 openings of the body, & seeing only God e. "You Are The One Who Feeds Us - and it is You who must send the One who will fulfill the needs of all these creations, bringing us to completion", finding completion within your grace, finding wisdom within your completion, finding truth within you wisdom, finding "You" as the "Oneness of God and True Man" within your truth, within your wisdom, within your completion, within your grace. Amen. 6. Closing Comments - "Forgive me the wrong, and accept the good. So I request" Text of Spiritual Letter: 1. Service To The Guru For Our Age - is finding and becoming "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age before we die to the "outside" of us. In this way, "It is the "Primary Duty" of the disciple to greet the Guru with reverence, and obtain His blessing with patience and silence", and "It is the "Secondary Duty" of the disciple to conduct yourself knowing your inner responsibilities and not disobeying the words of the Guru". Amen a. "The Guru Presides Over - the abode of the divine state" A 'udhu billahi min al-shaytan al-Rajim. Bismillah al-Rahmanir al-Rahim. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu, Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Amen. O Allah, we seek refuge within You from the evils of the accursed satan. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. May all the peace, the beneficence, and blessings of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, His Holiness teaches us the following in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", on page 68, in "Chapter 19", "Service to The Guru": Comments: - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Which is the purified open heart within the impure closed heart within us, which is the growth spot within the seed of God's grace that is our heart within us. Amen. b. "It is the primary duty of the disciple - is to greet the Guru with reverence, and obtain His blessing with patience and silence." Comments: - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Which we must do from within our purified open heart within us, from within our heart joined as one with the heart of our virtuous Guru within us. Amen. c. "They must be seated in one place - without making any disturbance." Comments: - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) - In process. Please come back later. Thank you - d. "The second duty of the disciple - is to conduct yourself knowing your inner responsibilities and not disobeying the words of the Guru." Comments: - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Our inner responsibility is joining with our virtuous Guru to transform our heart within us - which is now a impure closed heart within us, which is now what has grown over and covers the original pure open heart of Adam (A.S.) within us, which is the five lettered heart of alhmad within us, the five letter form of alif, lam, mim, hay, and dahl within us, the secret form of the truth of Allah within us, the form of the Suratal Fatihah within us, the form of the Ummul Qur'an, of the Inner Qur'an within us - into the pure open heart of the Guru within us, which is the palace of the soul within us, the house of wisdom, the house of Muhaiyaddeen 'Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within us, which in maturity is akhirah or the hereafter within us. Representing the necessary transition of the state of our heart that must occur within us as move closer to God within us, from closed to open heart, from impure to pure heart, from this earth world or dunya within us to the next world, or the hereafter or akhirah within us, a heart which in the process must also become the inner most heart of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within us, as ahmad within us, as Ahamd Muhammad within us, as the beauty of God in the heart within us, or ahamd, reflected in the face or muham (Tamil) or muhayyan (Arabic) on the "outside" of us, as reflected in the face of God or Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) on the "outside" of us. That is, for each of us, as the "Seed of God" within us, buried within the Creation of God within us, to transform our life within us - which is now a life of darkness, a life of arrogance, karma, and illusion in our mind and desire, which is now what has grown over and covers the original pure life of Adam (A.S.) within us, which is the life of the soul within us - back into the pure life of the Guru within us, which in maturity is the life of wisdom within us, is a "message in a clear heart", is the Rahman or ruler of God within us, is the life of Nur Muhammad within us, the life of the True Shaikh within us. To transform our face within us - which is now a false face comprised of the 6 faces of separation and differences, which has grown over and covers the original pure face of Adam (A.S.) within us, which is the face of light, the face of the Nur Muhammad within us - back into the face of the Guru within us, the 1 true face of unity that is one with all of the creations of God within us, which in maturity is the Muham or the face of Muhammad (Sal.) within us, which reflects the light of God in the alhamd or the heart of Muhammad (Sal.) within us, for the benefit of all of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us, within man and within God and within God and within man within us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. And to transform our breathe within us - which now affirms with each in-out movement the illusory world of the 64 sexual arts and science within us, which is now what has grown over and covers the original pure breath of Adam (A.S.) within us, which is man's direct connection with God within us, man's partnership with God within us - back into the breathe of the Guru, which is the kalimah of God and True Man within us, which in maturity affirms with each in-out movement, the truth of God and of True Man within us, the truth that God and True Man are One within us, one within the other as One within us, One revealing the other within it, as the Other is revealed, One hiding Itself within the Other being revealed only to be revealed by the Other being revealed in the next cycle of Man-God/God-Man. Amen. e. "You should complete your duties - with purity of body, mind, and speech, even if there is any difficulty in the administration." Comments: - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) The purity of body within us, is the pure open heart within True Man within us, which is the original creation of God known as Adam (A.S.) within us, which in truth is the palace of the soul or house of wisdom within us, the house of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen 'Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within us, the house of the Shepherd and the Tree in the story by His Holiness of the" in the beautiful book of wisdom, "A Mystical Journey" (www.AMysticalJourney.homestead.com), by His Holiness, in "Chapter 1", "The Shepherd and the Tree", and which in maturity is akhirah, the hereafter within us. Amen. The purity of mind within us is the open spring of God's grace or the wisdom within True Man within us, which is the Rahman of God within us, the ruler of the creation of God within us, which originally emerged out of God in anathi, in the time of darkness, and revealed the light of God in the primal beginning, in athi, allowing for the creation of Adam (A.S.) within us, which in truth is the Nur Muhammad, the light of wisdom within us, is the Tree of Iman in the story of the "Shepherd and the Tree" (see the book, "A Mystical Journey", in "Chapter 1", "The Shepherd and the Tree"), and which in maturity is the wisdom of True Man within us. And the purity of speech within us is the word of God spoken by True Man within us, which is the Rahim of God within us, the redeemer of all of the creations of God within us, bringing them to completeness within us, which is the word of God spoken by the Muhaiyaddeen of God within True Man within each of us, which is "the giver of life back to true belief" in God within us, which is God's belief in God within us, which pulls everything back into God within us, from which everything has came within us, which in truth for this age is the life and teachings of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) both within us and on the "outside" of us, and now of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, and which in maturity is the light of Allah within us, the light within True Man within us, which in truth is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. In this way, redeeming all of the creation of God within us by bring them to completion within us, by transforming the 4 religions within us, the 4 parts or chambers of the heart within us, back into the one pure open heart of Adam (A.S.) within us, the alhamd of God within us, which is made up of the five letters of, alif, lam, mim, hay, and dahl, as "the secret form of the truth of Allah" within us, as the form of the Suratal Fatihah within us, as the essence of the 28 spiritual letters within us, from which the 4 religions have all came within us, which in truth are the "four destructive women" within us and the "four false gurus" within us, that His Holiness teaches us about in the first four Chapters in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", (www.ThePearlOfWisdom.homestead.com) in "Chapters 1", "Signs of Spiritual Significance" (www.SpiritualBook002Chap01.homestead.com) in "Chapter 2", "Search for God", (www.SpiritualBook002Chap02.homestead.com) in "Chapter 3", "Search for a Guru", (www.SpiritualBook003Chap01.homestead.com) and in "Chapter 4", "The Four Gurus". Amen. (www.SpiritualBook004Chap01.homestead.com). [Note: currently Chapters 2, 3, and 4, cannot yet be access directly using its own URL or Web Address, like Chapter 1, but can be accessed indirectly through the "Pearl Of Wisdom - Home Page". Thank you. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar] Doing this transformation within us, this bringing of everything of Creation within us into completeness, this bringing of everything within us which is now in a state of incompleteness within us, into the state of completion within us, through the 1000 generosities of God within us, which is the one fistful of earth known as Adam (A.S.) within us when we have successfully established the "True Shaikh-Disciple Relationship" within us, that is, when our Guru has become our soul and we have become His form. Amen. For this is the truth of our life, and the truth of what has been hidden by God within our life, like the truth of an apple seed buried within the earth is that it is an "apple seed" buried within the earth, that it is the "apple tree happening" within the earth that it is buried within, and the truth of the "apple tree" hidden within it, is that it is the "seed of the apple fruits" hidden within it, that it is the "apple fruits happening" within the "apple tree happening" within the earth that the apple seed is buried within in, and as such "they are one", that is, the apple seed, the apple tree, and the apple fruits are all one, one within the other, one revealing the other, one being revealed by the other. And as such, so are we, "us" within us, and "God hidden within us", and "True Man hidden within God within us" are all one, one within the other, one revealing the other, one being revealed by the other, if we will only let it happen within us, if like the apple seed if we will only realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth of itself, that it is an apple seed buried within the earth, and the truth of what is hidden within it, that it is an apple tree that is ready to bear fruits, if like the apple seed if we will only let the "truth surrender to the truth" within us, and join with the earth to germinate, to destroy its life of "selfishness" on the "outside" of itself, and to reveal the life of the apple tree, and of the apple fruits, and again of the apple seeds hidden within it. If like the apple seed if we will only join with the earth within us, which is the Creation of God within us, to tell the story of God within the story of True Man within us, and to tell the story of True Man within the story of God within us, if like the apple seed if we will only realize that we have come from God within us, to join with His Creation within us, to tell the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, and do all of this before we physically die to the world on the "outside" of us, because after we die it is to late to do any of the "Heart's Work" within us. Amen. And His Holiness beautifully describes all of this for us, for the Children of God in our age, in the beautiful "Kalimah Song" (www.SpiritualSong001.homestead.com), and the two companion discourses, (www.SpiritualDiscourse001.homestead.com), and "How To Reach and Merge With God", (www.SpiritualDiscourse002.homestead.com). All of which were given to us by His Holiness on April 26th, 1972, on the day that His Holiness told us was the "One good day in a hundred years", telling us that in every 100 years that there is "one good day", and that in the last 100 years, from 1886 to 1986 which is the time His Holiness lived in the world with us, there was one good day, and that "one good day" was April 26th, 1972, when His Holiness, and God within Him, gave us the "Kalimah Song", and these two beautiful discourses of the highest wisdom. Amen. And in this way, with "us" within us, having joined in partnership with God within us, and with the "Stuff of God" within us, to become the Light of God to the world for our age, becoming the 1000 fistfuls of earth within us known as man living as "One with" God within us, before we die to the "outside" of us, living in the world that "we" see as within us, not on the "outside" of us, through the "Eyes of the Guru" within us, which are the 99 wilayats of God, or powers of God, or attributes of God within us, described so beautifully for us by His Holiness in the beautiful book of wisdom, "Asma'ul-Husna", The 99 Beautiful Names of Allah" (www.The99NamesOfGod.homestead.com). In this way, with "us" becoming the 1000 generosities of God known as True Man living in the purified heart within us, and in this way, transforming the body, mind, and speech of man into the heart, wisdom, and word of God for this age, which is True Man within us, which is "us" living as "One with" our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and in this way, transforming the 4 religions of man into the 1 religion of God which is Iman-Islam within us, for as His Holiness teaches us, only Iman is Islam within us. And as our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, teach us, using 300 of these 1000 generosities of God to bring the religion of earth or creation or Hinduism to completion within us as the open pure heart within us, which in maturity is akhirah or the hereafter within us. Amen. Using 300 of these 1000 generosities of God within us to bring the religion of fire worship to completion as wisdom within us, as the 6th level of wisdom within us, which in maturity is the Qutb of God, or Moses (A.S.) within us. Amen. Using 300 of these 1000 generosities of God within us to bring the religion of air or Christianity to completion within us, as the purified and liberated soul within us, joined as "One with" our wisdom within us, which in maturity is Jesus (A.S.) within us. Amen. And using 99 of the last 100 generosities of these 1000 generosities of God within us to bring the religion of light or Islam to completion as the Nur Muhammad within us, with the 1 remaining generosity staying with God within us, which in maturity is the state of Man-God/God-Man within us, of Insan Kamil or Perfected Man within us, which in maturity is the state of Allahu Ill Allahu, the prayer of the One to the One who is within us, which is true prayer within us. Amen. 2. Establishing The True Kalimah For Our Age - is the greeting within us between His Holiness and His Children, is the greeting within us between our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us). Amen This greeting of His Holiness by "us", by His Children, by the Children of God for this age, within the pure and open heart of God for this age, and through the life and teaching of God for this age, which is the heart, life, and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), is the true Kalimah of God for this age, with each of us eventually performing this greeting with each breath, thought, intention, and action. May we all come to know this now, without the slightest doubt, and become "One with" our Father within us, and "One with" His Children on the "outside" of us, before we "say or do" anything, in this way, establishing the "Presence of God" both within us and on the "outside" of us, before we "say or do" anything, and in this way, allow God within us to "say and do" what is required in this age, to complete what God has started within each of us in this age, ever before we were born, even before we came to this earth world or dunya, which is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. And this is so very important, both within us and on the "outside" of us, because of the enormous disease of birth that we have all acquired in coming to this place, to this earth world, to this dunya, a disease which only God can cure, by harvesting God out of us, by harvesting the 1000 "Seeds of God" from the "Plant of God" that we have joined in partnership with God within us to grow within us, by joining in partnership with our Guru within us to plant the one "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us. Amen. In this way, awakening the wisdom surrounding our soul, so it can do battle with the "Enemy of our soul", which is each of us living a life of "selfishness" on the "outside" of us, which is each of us living a life of "separation and differences" with our dear brothers and sisters in the world that we collectively see as existing on the "outside"{ of us, but which in truth is within each of us, as the world of darkness, as the hell and evil and the two worlds within us, the world of souls and the dunya, which if properly harvested by God within us becomes the 8 heavens within us. And this earth world within us, in truth is but the first of many "Schools of God" within us, that we must attend to understand who "we already are", and this first school that we have now attended is the "School of Contrast", where we learn about what "separates us" from God within us, and if we successfully graduate from this school, before we die to the "outside" of us, then we will go to the next of "God's School" within us, which is the "School of Light" within us, where God teaches us about God within us. This is the truth of our life, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, and the great danger of living our life only on the "outside" of u s, because God has in His infinite love and mercy and compassion sent each of us to this first of "God's School", this "School of Contrast" within us, which is the dunya or earth world within us,, but we must earn our right to the second school, to the "School of Light" within us, which is akhirah or the hereafter within us. So we can learn about who "we already are", and having learned our lessons, and passed our exams, we can return to Him within us, and share with Him what we have learned for eternity, because all of the "outside" of us is simply what God has discarded within us in order to become God within us, and is what He must do again, but this time within us, which He will, after we have "seen Him" and "steadied Him within us", which in truth is the "True Kalimah" for our age, and only then will our life become successful in our own life time. Everything else in our life is just drama, and our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, teach us, "The only way to win the drama of your life is not to play." May we all come to realize this, without the slightest doubt, before it is too late, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, and before one of us prematurely destroys the "outside" of us for all of us, which can still happen if we are not careful, if we do not use what God has given us in our age to prevent this, if we learn to live at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of God within Him, within us, and at the feet of the Grandchildren, Sons and Daughters, and Brothers and Sisters of our dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, in this way, becoming "Bawa" for them. Amen. Only then, with this "One-two Punch", with our complete surrender to Bawa within us, and to God within Him, and our complete surrender to the Children of His Holiness on the "outside" of us, making Them and Their true success in Their life, within Their lifetime, our life and our true success on the "outside" of us, within our lifetime, only then, when we have truly become "One with" these "Special Few" on the "outside" of us, will all of our "arrogance, karma, and illusion", and all of our desires be removed from within us, before we die to the "outside" of us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us. Only then will our life truly become successful in our lifetime. Because if any of this "outside" of us remains within us, when we do physically die, then that is what we will get for eternity, then that will be our reward for coming to the earth world, to the "God's first School, to the "School of Contrasts", not "Oneness" with God within us, not "Oneness" with the "Stuff of God" within us, and not "Oneness" with the understanding of who "we already are" within us, which we could have then shared with God for eternity within us, as "One with" God for eternity within us. But rather, if we die in our current state, in the state of "separation and differences" living our life as we currently are, living as "separate from" God, as "separate from" our dearest loving brothers and sisters, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, in the world that we collectively see as existing on the "outside" of us, so we can sin, so we can stay "separate from" God, and "separate from" each other, and "separate from" the Creation of God within us, then our fate will be quite different from what God had planned for us, and that God is trying to obtain for us, if we will only let Him, if we will only join Him within us, for then we will "get what we have intended for us", not what "God has intended for us", we will harvest the "crop that we have grown", not what God has started to grow for us, we will move into the "house that we have built", not the house that God has started for us, all within the justice of God. For as our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, teach us, "The justice of God is that whatever you intend is what you will receive." So if we fail to join in partnership with God within us to empty our current cup, which now contains all of "Our stuff" on the "outside" of us, and to fill it again, but this time with the "Stuff of God" within us, if we fail to do this and still have our arrogance, karma, and illusion, if we still have all of our "desire for earth, women, and gold", our desire to either have a women, or to be a women, for it is the same, if we still have all of this "outside" stuff of us, that we have accumulated since our birth, then when we do physically die to the "outside" of us, in that state, in the state of "separation from" God, of "separation from" each other, and of "separation from" the Creation of God within us, then we will not be harvest by God within us, for the "Property of God" within us, we will not be harvested by Allahu ta'ala Nayan (Allah, the Lone One who Rules and Sustains) within us. But rather we will be harvested by the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, for the crop of hell and of evil that has grown within us, that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, that we see in our ignorance as "us" and our dearest loving brothers and sisters living successful lives on the "outside" of us, with our own beautiful body, and thoughts, and understanding, with our own wife and children, and family and friends, within our own race and religion, etc. and as a result we will have to experience the "suffering of the grave" within us, and then Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment) within us, and then 105 million re-births within us, ending as a worm in hell with only one level of consciousness within us, or feeling, then we will have to experience an eternal life of "separation from" God, which is truth is separation from the "truth of us", and from the "truth of God" within us. Amen. For as our dear wonderful Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, teach us, "Hell is simply the realization that we have separated ourselves from God". So my dearest loving brothers and sisters, of the One Open Heart of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), our goal in life is to be harvested by God within us, before we die to the "outside" of us, having become and demonstrated in our life that we have become the "Property of God" within us, that we have become "Everything within God" within us, rather than everything that God has discarded within us, in order to become God within us, rather than what God has discarded within us, which is everything that "we" currently see, hear, smell, taste, touch, think, and do in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. Amen. 3. After Establishing The Kalimah For Our Age - then the true work begins within us Therefore, this exchange of greetings, between the disciple and the Shaikh, this establishing the True Kalimah for our age within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, is so very important, both within us and on the "outside" of us, because there is so much work to be done within us, after we successfully greet His Holiness within us, after we successfully join in partnership with His Holiness within us. There is so much that must be done in our life to overcome the diseases of our birth, and the karma that we have accumulated since our birth, if we are ever to become victorious in our life, before we physically die to the "outside" of us . For example, His Holiness teaches us in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom", on page 111, in "Chapter 30", "The Mystical Meaning of Man's Body", about the "true purpose of life in the world", about "what true success really is in our life", and about the "role of fate and wisdom" in our life. With our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within us, telling us all this after His Holiness sings us a beautiful song about how fate rules over us in our ignorance, telling us, over and over again, as the refrain of the song He sings to us, "Fate rules me with a show of scenes, What will my conscience do to me in the world". And then after singing us this beautiful song of wisdom, His Holiness and God within Him, tell us, "Son, (fate or destiny) will thus make you do many other things." "After a man is born, it is said by everybody that his life is controlled by fate (or destiny). But son, it is not so." "Life is the victory of wisdom reasoning over fate." And His Holiness within us, and God within Him, teach us in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Wisdom of Man" (www.SpiritualBook009.homestead.com) on page 44 in "Chapter 3", "The World Within And Without" (www.SpiritualBook009Chap03.homestead.com), about some of the things that currently define us, that define us as "us" and our dearest loving brothers and sisters living in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. That define our fate or destiny in the world as some of the things that we must win over before we die to the "outside" of us, as what must leave us before we die, if our life is to become truly successful in our lifetime. And we can successfully do this real "Heart's Work" within us, joined in partnership with God within us, not by any individual or group effort by us or by others on the "outside" of us, by rather by doing this inside work before we "say or do" anything, that is, by greeting His Holiness within us, and greeting God within Him, by joining in partnership with Them within us, and with "what They are doing" within us, before we "say or do" anything on the "outside" of us, and in this way, by our becoming "One with" Them within us, becoming "One with" His Holiness within us, and with God within Him, before we "say or do" anything. And our doing this with each breath, with each look, with each thought, word, and action that we take in the world on the "outside" of us, transforming it from a world on the "outside" of us, into a work of God's grace, wisdom, and 'ilm or divine knowledge within us, into the Open Pure Heart of our Shaikh within us. Amen.. In this way, by our obtaining the blessings of His Holiness within us, and of God within Him, before we "say or do" anything, by our joining in partnership with His Holiness within us, and with God within Him, before we "say or do" anything, in this way, joining in partnership with, becoming "One with", what They are currently doing within us, which is revealing God to God within us, by first revealing True Man to True Man within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God and True Man within us, and in this way, we will gradually disappear within Them within us, and They will gradually appear as "who we are", as "where we are", and as "what is happening" in our life, both within us and on the "outside" of us. Amen. And doing this in a very simple way, doing this by simply saying the word "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him) before we "say or do" anything, in this way, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything, and in this way, allowing our wisdom to stand up within us, and causing our mind and desire to sit down within us, before we "say or do" anything. For as Bawa within us, and God within Him teach us, on page 44 in "Chapter 3", "The World Within And Without", in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Wisdom of Man", "May all of you dispel the disease known as the world, the dog known as desire, the demon known as the mind, the torpor (or fascination) known as illusion, the pleasure that is the dream, the sadness that is the darkness of ignorance, the karma that is the torpor of the world, the evil actions of kalam [time, which is comprised of arrogance, karma, and illusion] that lead you to Kalan [the angel of death], and the nature and games of the five elements that collect and praise time." "May you dispel all these things and go beyond them to Allah, the original treasure which stands in the open space, the treasure of the innermost heart." "May God give you the grace of His wisdom to dispel all these evils. Amen. May God fill your hearts with His grace. Amen." And in closing this Topic, let us reflect upon what our dearest loving Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and as God within Him, teach us, at the very end of "Chapter 3", "The World Within and Without", in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Wisdom of Man", "Children, we must realize and understand these things. The study of wisdom exists in a totally different section. It does not exist in words. It exists within the cage of man's body. Only if we go deeper and deeper inside this cage will we understand." "To be born as a transformed embryonic form within the cage, to go within that form, and then to see - this is what we must do as we proceed on and on. This does not exist in writings. We must realize this within. Amen". 4. The Traps That Man Falls Into - upon coming to the world Next, His Holiness within us, and God within Him, teach us about the traps that man falls into upon coming into the world, about the many things that man now believes in, and trusts in, other than God, such as "time", traps which have a terrible grip on man, making man a slave to the things of hell, a slave to the things that are in truth the opposite of God, a slave to the things that prevent man from praying to God, as "One with" God within us, in partnership with God within us, in this way, getting God to pray to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, not to benefit "us" as "separate from" God within us, not as part of "us" on the "outside" of us "working for wages to get into heaven". For example, our dearest loving Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, teach us about the "nature of time" within us, or more appropiately, "the nature of man" within us, and how man carries time within himself, and makes it pass, until he relinquishes the darkness within himself, until he gives up the dreaming of his mind, within himself, as given on page 144 in the beautiful book of wisdom, "Golden Words of a Sufi Shaikh" (www.GoldenWords.homestead.com), as "Wisdom Saying 450", which was given the following title in the Table of Contents, "The Dream of Time", ---- beginning of Wisdom Saying 450, by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) ----- A fortuneteller asks a wise man, "Does man carry time with him, or does time move along carrying man?" The wise man answered, "It is man who carries time and makes it pass. Time does not carry man. Man carries time, counts it, and is subject to the difficulties and conditions of each season that time brings". "If man unburdens himself of time, then all of the things connected to time will also leave him. Time is the day and night which man himself brings about. It is the dream he sees". "If man relinquishes darkness, he will no longer exist in the duality of time. If he gives up the dreaming of his mind, he will lose his thoughts." "(Then), engulfed in the light of grace, he will live a life without darkness. Forever he will dwell in the light of God, and there will be no passage of time." "When the resplendence of wisdom rises, the darkness of ignorance will set and the dream of time will vanish by itself. Just as the sun is constant and unchanging, the light of wisdom will resplend, forever, indestructible in his soul." ---- end of Wisdom Saying 450, by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) ----- 5. Help In "Giving Greetings" To His Holiness, And To God Within Him - as "One with" Them within us, and with "us" as "One with" Them within Them, within us, and Help in Receiving Their Blessings, before we "say or do" anything, and in this way, help in truly walking on the "Straight Path" in our age. Amen My dearest loving brothers and sisters, as a help in this endeavor, as a help in greeting and joining with His Holiness, and receiving His blessing, with each breathe, thought, intention, and action, here are a few of the ways (5 ways) that this child has learned To Greet and Join With, as "One with", Bawa within us, and with God within Him, and To Receive Their Blessings, at the start and end of each day, at each waqt or time of prayer during the day, repeatedly as much as possible between each waqt of prayer, and gradually with each breath, thought, intention, and action. And doing this by starting each prayer with the word "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), in this way inviting Bawa within us, and God within Him, to come out of "Their Place of Purity" within us, which is a tiny piece of flesh within us, no bigger than an atom, which is where They currently live within us, and into "our place of impurity" within us, which is our mind and desire within us, which is where we currently live within us, and conduct our life with Them within us as "One with" us, and with "us" as "One with" Them within Them, within us. And in this way, causing our mind and desire to sit down within us when our wisdom, and the truth within our wisdom, stand up within us, and in this way, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything, including these prayers, and in this way, correctly walking the "Straight Path" of God within us in our age. Amen. May God give us the grace of His wisdom, in order to live our life in this way, at His Divine Feet for our age, which is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), allowing God within us to finish what God has already started within us, a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. a. "Ask For The Remedy - in order to shine everywhere" Disciple: "To let Grace spring forth, To let darkness vanish, To let love of Guru grow, To let qualities be purified, O Graceful Guru, give me a remedy." This is a quotation from a discourse given by His Holiness in 1945 that was later reproduced in the book, "Guru Man" or "Pearl of Wisdom", in the "Invocation (To The Guru)", on page 11 (www.ThePearlOfWisdomInvGuru.homestead.com) by His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). At the end of this invocation to the Guru, His Holiness sings us the following short song about destroying fate or destiny, and answers a very important question asked by a disciple: Disciple: "Swami, show us a way to dispel the darkness in the world". Guru: "O son, I shall sing a song and then answer your question." "For the Silent One to appear as Grace, To find the world as a tiny thing, To destory sorrow which is a maiden, With help from Master Guru's graceful way, Seek and learn standing on the path, And ask with a melting heart". "Let the body be the true mystery, Dominant with grace, Let the seed be destroyed, Blinding both eyes". "Enshrine in thy heart The lamp of Guru's graceful words. With love in your heart See Aathi as a thing" "Spread the Guru's words with a delightful heart, Unfurl the flag of Guru's words everywhere, Then the fate (or destiny) that follows thee Shall turn into dust." "My pure and perfect pupils, gems of my eyes, ask for the remedy in order to shine everywhere." This is the end of greeting number 1. Now let us look at the next suggested way to greet and join with His Holiness. b. "Grant Me The Grace of The Holy One - Make my soul pure in this impure birth, and make it shine" The following quotation is from a discourse given by His Holiness in 1945 that was later reproduced in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom", on page 68 in Chapter 19, "Service To The Guru", by His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him. "I trust you always, O gurunathar (guru who guides). Make my soul pure in this impure birth, and make it shine. Grant me the grace of the Holy One." This is the end of greeting number 2. Now let us look at the next suggested way to greet and join with His Holiness. c. "Please, Please, Please Destroy Me - and reveal You" The following is a quotation from a discourse given by His Holiness sometime in 1972, that has not yet been reproduced in a book, but has grown in the heart of this child and is available on-line as "The Father's Prayer of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen" (www.SpiritualPrayer001.homestead.com). "O my Father, O my Shaikh, O my Guru, I need Your love, please, please, please destroy me." In this discourse His Holiness talked to a brother from California, and told this brother to say this prayer every day, in order to strengthen his connection with His Holiness. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, please realize that the only thing needed in our life, to do anything of real value in our life, is our connection to His Holiness, is our partnership with His Holiness, which in our state is our connection and partnership with God, is the presence of God. Please take advantage of this little prayer to His Holiness to establish the presence of His Holiness in our life, and our presence in the life of His Holiness, because in truth there is only one life, the life of Man-God/God-Man, which is the life of God and True Man joined together as one, one revealing the other within it, the one life within all of us, within all of everything. Finally, the brother His Holiness talked to in this discourse had his own group of disciples in California and had come to His Holiness for advice on his and their life. In response to his request, His Holiness gave this brother the name, Shaikh Hamid, and told him to go back to California and raise his disciples to a good state. At this point, the brother acted surprised at what His Holiness had told him to do - to return to California and raise his disciples to a good state - as if such a task was impossible for him to do, and after a moment of hesitation he said to His Holiness, "How can I do that?" And His Holiness told him, "You have Me!" My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is the whole path to God, there is nothing else - "We have His Holiness" within us, and God is within Him. Such is the "Gift of God" for our age. We just have to realize this truth of ourselves, and of God within us, and learn how to properly greet and join with His Holiness within us, and with God within Him, which is to become "One with" Them within us before we "say or do" anything, by inviting Them within us to join us, in everything that we "say or do", in everything that we see, hear, smell, taste, touch, say, think, and do, before we "say or do" it, and in this way, establishing the "Presence of God within us, before we "say or do" anything, in this way, receiving Their blessing from within us, as "One with" us, from within us, before we "say or do" anything. It is just this simple. And for this age the way we invite Them to join with us before we "say or do" anything, is to say the "Name of God" for our age, before we "say or do" anything, just like the "Name of God" in the age of Jesus (peace be upon Him) was Jesus (peace be upon Him), and the "Name of God" in the age of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) was Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him), now the "Name of God" for our age is "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Bawa" (may God be pleased with Him). And if we accept this truth for our age we will benefit accordingly, as some accepted this truth for the age of Jesus (peace be upon Him) over 2000 years ago, and some acceted this truth for the age of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) over 1400 years ago, and those in those earlier ages who did benefited accordingly. Amen. Please think about this wisdom point a little. It could save you from the suffering of the grave, for as His Holiness teaches us, the suffering of the grave is simply everything that we have brought to life within us, other than God, everything that defines our life as separate from each other, separate from His Holiness, and separate from God. In this way, His Holiness teaches us that this is the suffering of the grave, this is what eats us in the grave, when we can no longer feed what we have given life to as "separate from" God, what we have brought to life through our life in the world of separation and differences, a life and a world that we currently see as "us" and our dearest loving brothers and sisters living a life of sin, a life of "selfishness" in the world that we currenty see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, but in truth is within us. Which in truth is the world of darkness and evil that we have allowed to grow within us, which now in maturity "separates us" from God within us, and that "separates us" from each other, and from the Creation of God within us, which when we physically die to the "outside" of us then becomes the "suffering of our grave", because we can no longer feed what we have grown within us, because we have died, so they then eat us. This is the end of greeting number 3. Now let us look at the next suggested way to greet and join with His Holiness. d. "Coming As The Guru of God - to all lights on earth" The following quotation is from a discourse given by His Holiness in 1973 that was later reproduced in the book, "Truth & Light - Brief Explanations", in Chapter 3: "WQED Radio Interview, October 27, 1973", on page 106, by His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). "He is the ray resplending from the sun. He is the ray resplending from the sun. He is the ray resplending from the sun, in all of the created beings, each one". "All of them receive His grace through His quality of grace. Coming as the Guru of God to all lights on earth. O Father, becoming good qualities by fasting for 12 years". This quotation is the song sung to His Holiness by the Guru known as the "Muhaiyaddeen of God", when the "Muhaiyaddeen of God" first came to His Holiness, when His Holiness tells us of His despair before meeting His Guru, in this way, telling us of His despair, He says, "[I was] crying and in despair. When I was in that state, I had to just sit. It was then that my Guru came looking for me. That Guru is the most rare Guru. He came to me and gave me this discourse". This is the end of greeting number 4. Now let us look at the next suggested way to greet and join with His Holiness. e. "You Are The One Who Feeds Us - and it is You who must send the One who will fulfill the needs of all these creations, bringing us to completion" The following quotation is from a discourse given by His Holiness in the book, "A Mystical Journey", in Chapter 1, "The Shepherd And The Tree", on page 13, by His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). "O God, you are the Katpaha Virudcham, the Pure and Perfect One, the Father of the soul. You are the Most Merciful and the Most Compassionate, the Rahman and the Rahim. You are the One who feeds us, and it is You who must send the food that will fulfill the needs of all these creations (bring us to completion)." This quotation is the song of the Qutb, Muhaiyaddeen 'Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) to the Primal One, to the Katpaha Virudcham, the celestial tree of the divine realm, the wish fulfilling tree of God, a tree in the 7th heaven with its roots in the 6th heaven, and its fruits in the 8th heaven, a song to God, to grant His grace, wisdom, and ilm, which is True Man, to all of the creations of God, to awaken them to the reality of their life which is True Man, and to the reality of God within True Man, to the state of Man-God/God-Man, which is the state of the Oneness with God, the state of Allahu Ill Allahu, which is True Prayer, the prayer of the One to the One who Is. This is the end of greeting number 5. This concludes the suggested ways to greet and join with His Holiness within us, and God within Him. Please give them a try, if you like, they really work, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything. That is, if that be your true intention, if your true intention is to become "One with" God within you, before you physically die to the "outside" of you, and not just "working for wages to get into heaven". For there is really an incredible difference between the two, which if you are not sure about, give this child a call, or send us an E-mail (Muhaiyaddeen786@aol.com), and then we can do as Jesus (peace be upon Him) told us to do over 2000 years ago, and now as Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) has told us to do in our age, and now as His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) are telling us to do right now, in this letter, and that is, "If two of you come together in My Name, I will be there". Amen. And this is the key to our life changing, from "our" life as "separate from" God on the "outside" of us, into "Our" life as "One with" God within us, if you join in partnership with God each day, allowing God to finish what He has started within each of us a very, very long time age, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, for example, like this child has been doing over the last 29 years, living at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiymaddeen (may God bee pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him. Amen. 6. Closing Comments - "Forgive me the wrong, and accept the good. So I request" Please forgive me, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, if there are any faults in this sharing of the heart, this Hearts Work, and praise God for anything within it that you find of value. I so request. For as our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, teach us, on page 7, in the "Forward" of the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", "Let those who are knowledgeable correct any faults. Forgive me the wrong, and accept the good. So I request. Amen." My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). End of Spiritual Letter 64 - outline & summary version - ...................................... or Go To Spiritual Letter 64: E-mail Version Summary of Spiritual Letter Related Material or ( a top-down version of the Library Home Page) (a bottom-up version of the Library Home Page) |
Spiritual Letter 64 - Outline & Summary Version About Spiritual Letter 64 Title: "The importance of "Giving Greetings" to our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) within us, and to God within Him, and "Getting Their Blessings" from within us, before we "say or do" anything", as the only way of correctly walking the "Straight Path" of God for our age Date Written and Posted: January, 2005 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Written to: The Children of God for our age Go To: Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 64 Go To: Outline & Summary Version - of Spiritual Letter 64 "Silent Outline" - with no short summary of each Topic "Brief Outline" - with a short summary of each Topic Go To: Summary of Spiritual Letter Home Page - Spiritual Letters Go To Spiritual Letter 65 Letter 64: E-mail Version Library Home Page Go To Spiritual Letter 63 Letter 64: Related Material Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 64 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). 1. Purpose of Spiritual Letter 64 - is to focus on the importance of "Giving Greetings" to our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and to God within Him, and "Getting Their Blessings" from within us, before we "say or do anything", as the only way to correctly walk on the "Straight Path" of God for our age, as the only way of correctly using the "Gift of God" for our age, in order to complete what God has started within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen The purpose of Spiritual Letter 64 is to provide a way to establish the "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything in our life, in this way, allowing God within us to harvest "His Crop" within us, revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, when the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, at God's direction within us, will harvest "our crop" within us, will harvests that what "we" in our ignorance have allowed to grow within us, like weeds, which are lives of darkness and evil within us, and a life of "separation and differences", a life of sin, that we are currently experiencing with our dearest loving brothers and sisters in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. In line with this purpose, here is an expansion of a set of beautiful short discourse by His Holiness that our dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, have instructed this child to perform, living at the feet of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) within us, and of God within Him. This selection of short discourses, the source of which are all listed in the next part of this introduction, "List of Reference Material", all point to the same thing, that is, to "The Importance of Giving Our Greetings To Our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and to God within Him", as part of walking the "Path of God", the "Straight Path" within us, and doing this, by using what God has given us for this age, as the "Gift of God" for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), both within us and on the "outside" of us. Doing all of this by using what His Holiness has given us, by using the very same words that His Holiness has given to us during His time with us in the world on the "outside" of us, but using them this time in partnership with God within us, in partnership with Bawa within us, and with God within Him, which in truth for our age is now our birth right, whether we know it or not, and even whether we want it or not, which is certainly something to think about a little. 2. Understanding The "Straight Path" of God Within Us - which is the "Presence of God" within us, not the "presence of us" on the "outside" of us, for only then can anything of value occur within us, no matter what "we" may think that we are doing on the "outside" of us, as "separate from" God within us In this way, this letter, Spiritual Letter 64, includes quotations from the following set of short discourses by His Holiness, which this child, joined in partnership with God within us, recites each day, recites one or two or more times each day, in order to walk the "Straight Path" within us, in order to establish the "Presence of God" within us. 3. Understanding The "Enemy of our Soul" Within Us - and the battle that must occur within us against the "Enemy of our soul" within us, if we are to ever truly become successful in our own lifetime, which naturally occurs within us when "we" truly join in partnership with our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and with God within Him Before we physically die to the "outside" of us we must learn to do battle with the "Enemy of our soul" within us, which is the battle of our life, the battle of "us" against "us", of "Oneness and Unity" within us against "separation and differences" both within us and on the "outside" of us, the battle of "us" joined as "One with" God within us, which is our future state, against "us" joined as "one with" the "Enemy of our soul", which is our current state, which is "us" living a life of sin, a life of "selfishness", a life of "separation and differences, in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. And doing all of this before we physically die to the "outside" of us, by giving our greetings to our Father, and to God within Him, before we "say or do" anything. Amen And doing all of this by first saying the word "Bawa" or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), before saying each of our prayers, before saying each of the prayers to God given to us by His Holiness, some of which are provided in this Spiritual Letter as a starter. In this way, inviting our wisdom for our age, and the truth of God within our wisdom, to join in partnership with us, in the battle of our life, in the battle against the "Enemy of our soul" within us, with is "us" living a life of sin, a life of "selfishness", a life of "separation and differences, in the world that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. That is, inviting Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and God within Him, to come out of the "perfectly pure spot of flesh" within us, which is no bigger than an atom within us, which is where God and all of the "Stuff of God" live within us, including our wisdom, and the truth of God within our wisdom, inviting Them to leave Their place of purity within us, which is the place of our first birth within us, and come into our place of impurity within us, which is our second birth within us, that is, to come into our impure birth within us, into our mind and desire within us, which is where we currently live within us, and join with us to destroy the "Enemy of our soul" within us, and reveal Them within us, in this way using God to reveal God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. For as His Holiness teaches us, "Your mind and desire will only sit down within you when your wisdom stands up within you". And our wisdom will only stand up within us, when we call it, when we call it before we "say or do" anything, for then, with "us" joined as "One with" God within us, God within us will harvest the crop that He has grown within us, which is all of the "Stuff of God" within us, in this way, revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, before the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, after we physically die to the "outside" of us, will harvest the crop that we have allowed to grow within us in our ignorance within us, which is everything "God has discarded" within us. In this way, with "us" joined as "One with" God within us, joined in partnership with God within us, revealing God within True Man within us, as the "Oneness of True Man and the Creation of True Man" within us, with the Creation of True Man within us being the hereafter or akhirah within us, by first reveal True Man within God within us, as the "Oneness of God and the Creation of God" within us, with the Creation of God within us being this earth world or dunya within us. 4. Understanding "The Wisdom Surrounding Our Soul" Within us - and the "Gift of God" for our age, which is the life and teaching of God for our age, for the Children of God for our age, which is each of us living in this age, if we truly want the "Gift of God" for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, the "Gift of God" for our age, which if joined with properly can awaken the wisdom surrounding our soul In this way, before we die to the "outside" of us, we must first find and join as "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age, with the life and teaching of God for the Children of God for this age, which for this age, is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), within us, and with the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), on the "outside" of us, and in this way, awaken the wisdom surrounding our soul. 5. Understanding Our Soul And the "True Destiny" of Our Soul - which is to again live a life of purity within us, having earlier died to the life of purity within us so we could sin, so we could live a life of impurity on the "outside" of us, so through this "Contrast", the contrast of our pure and our impure births, come to understand who it "Already is", and having understood itself again become "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, so it will never be "separate from" God again, and it can spend eternity as "One with" God within us sharing the understanding it has accumulated with God within us forever. Amen And then, having found and join as "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age, and having awoken the wisdom surrounding our soul, we must then join with the wisdom surrounding our soul within us, in order to liberate our soul from our impure birth, from the cross of our elemental body, realizing with our wisdom that in truth our soul has died to its life of purity within us, to its direct connection to God within us, so we could sin, so we could live a life of impurity on the "outside" of us, so through "Contrast" within us, through the contrast of our pure and impure birth within us, so it could learn. So our soul joined as "One with" our awakened wisdom could learn, so our soul liberated from the cross of this impure birth could learn, by our wisdom pulling out the "5 nails" of "desire to live" here, which are the 5 elemental spirits that we in our ignorance have allowed to grown and come to maturity within us, as the 5 ruhanies within us. So our soul could come to an understanding of "who it already is", which is the "Seed of God" buried within the "Earth of God" within us, which is the Creation of God within us, and like the apple seed buried within the earth, through this understanding, our soul joined as "One with" our wisdom, could join with the earth within us, with the Creation of God within us, to germinate, revealing the "Tree of God" within us. In this way, with our soul, our wisdom, and the Creation of God within us, in a state of the Kalimah within us, in a state of Completeness within us, joined as "One" within us, become the "Shepherd and the Tree" within us, the "Palace of the soul" within us, the House of wisdom within us, the House of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within us. Amen. For as His Holiness teaches us, "Understanding only occurs through contrast". And having come to an understanding of God within True Man within us, and of True Man within God within us, which is an understanding of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us, They will return as "One with" God within us, before we die to the "outside" of us, and live as "One with" God within us for eternity, joyfully sharing this understanding with Him forever. 6. Understanding "Our Role" In What God Is Doing Within Us - as the "witness", as the "witness" of Them revealing Them within us, and as the "Nothing" within the "Nothing", as the "Understanding of the No-Thing" within us. Amen And we will be within Them, as the witness, as the witness of the Everything or the Sifat or form of Creation within us becoming the Essence of Everything within us, which is the Secret of God within us, the Sirr of God within us, as the Qutb or the grace of the Dhat within us, with the Sirr within us revealing the Dhat or the Essence of God within it within us, as the Rasul or wisdom within it within us, and revealing the Sifat of the Dhat within us, which is the Asma'ul-Husna or "The 99 beautiful Names of Allah" within us, which are the windows of the House of wisdom within us. Amen. In this way, with "us" joining as "One with" with the wisdom surrounding our soul within us, in order to do battle with the "Enemy of our soul" within us, before we die to the "outside" of us, which are all the worlds of darkness and evil that we in our ignorance have allowed to grow within us, like weeds in a garden, that have now come to maturity within us, and now rule over us as our "karma, fate, and destiny". With our "karma" being the "veil of thought" that now covers our wisdom, that covers our direct connection to God within us, as the clouds in the sky obscure the light of the moon and even of the sun, with our "fate" being what is written on our forehead at birth by the "Pen of God" within us, which writes the true intentions of our parents before us, while they were living in the world, not what they might have said, and with our "destiny" being our choices, like "our" deciding whether to live as "One with" or as "separate from" God within us, as "One with" or as "separate from" each other, and as "One with" or as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, as we live each moment that God has given us, and react to each thing that God places before us, saying either Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar, demonstrating our trust and love only for God within, or we "say or do" something else, demonstrating our trust and love for the world on the "outside" of us. Amen. For as His Holiness teaches us, in the beautiful refrain, in the wisdom song, starting on page 108, in Chapter 30, "The Mystical Meaning of Man's Body", in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", "Fate rules me with a show of scenes, What will my conscience do to me in the world? May God grant us the grace of His wisdom to dispel everything but Him and "His Stuff" from within us, by "us" getting Him to do it for us, by "us" getting Him to do it again, but this time within us, if that be our true intention, if our true intention is to become "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters, who are the Children of God for this age, if we will only truly awaken to the "truth of us", and to the "truth of God" within us, that in truth we are the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us, we are "God happening" within the Creation of God within us, and in truth God within us is the "Seed of True Man" within the "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us, is "True Man happening" within the "God happening" within the Creation of God within us, and we are the witness. For in truth, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, please realize that we do not belong here. For as Bawa teaches us, "The only thing that can leave here is what came here, which is the ray of light from God that came to the Nur Muhammad within us, to the Nur Muhammad that God had placed on the forehead of Adam (peace be upon Him) within us, with God placing it there a very, very long time ago, way before you were born, way before you came to this earth world, to this dunya." "Everything else here, other than this ray from God, grew here and cannot leave here, and truly has no intention to leave here, no matter what it may say. Please realize this without the slightest doubt and join with God within you to complete what you came here to do, which is to understand through Contrast who you "already are", and then as the "Light of God", as the "Sun of God", to the world, complete you duty here and leave here. That would be very good. Amen. So please join with God within you to realize this, before it is too late, and learn how to leave here, before you can no longer leave here, before you physically die to the "outside" of you, or before the "outside" of all of us is prematurely destroyed by "one of us" for all of us, which can also happen. Because in truth we are the "Nothing", that has come here from the "Nothing", from the "No-thing", as a traveler, traveling through "The Everything", in order to extract the "Understanding of Everything" from "The Everything", and then, in order to extract the "Understanding of the No-thing" from the "Understanding of the Everything", and finally, in order to extract "The No-thing" from the "Understanding of the No-thing". Please do it like that. Amen. 7. The "Secret" Within The True "Shaikh-Disciple Relationship - is "True Prayer", that is, you become His life within Him as He becomes your life within you, and in this way, He becomes your soul and you become His form in this earth world or dunya, as you become His soul or life within Him and He becomes your form in the next world, in the hereafter or akhirah, which is "True Prayer", the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is", and as such "you and He" are One, One within the Other as One, One revealing the Other within it, One hiding itself within the One being revealed only to be revealed again, in the next cycle of Man-God/God-Man, as an apple seed reveals the apple tree hidden within it, only to be revealed again, as the apple seeds within the apple fruits of that apple tree, in the next season, but this time as many, not just as one Such is the "Secret of God" within the true "Shaikh-Disciple Relationship" within us, which is the harvest of God of "His Crop" within us, the harvest of Himself within us, not just as one, as the one "Seed of God", as He was planted within us, but now as many "Seeds of God", ready to be planted again and again within the "Earth of God", which is the Creation of God within us, in order to tell the story of God for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. In order to tell the story of God within the story of True Man within us, and to tell the story of True Man within the story of God within us, to tell the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us that each of us have come to the earth, to join with the earth, to tell, to join as "One with" the "Earth of God" within us, which is the Creation of God within us, to tell. Amen. Other than this duty, which in truth is within us, not "outside" of us, everything else is just drama, and a waste of our exalted birth. Amen. And as His Holiness teaches us, "The only way to win the drama of our life is not to play." May we all know this now, and start to act accordingly. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). List of Reference Material: 1) "Service to The Guru", "Chapter 19"(www.spiritualbook002chap19.homestead.com) in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom" (www.ThePearlOfWisdom.homestead.com) 2) "The Kalimah Song" (4/26/72) (www.SpiritualSong001.homestead.com) 3) "How To Merge With The Guru" (4/26/72), (www.SpiritualDiscourse001.homestead.com) 4) "How To Reach and Merge With God" (4/26/72), (www.SpiritualDiscourse002.homestead.com) 5) "Forgive me the wrong, and accept the good", on page 11, in the "Forward" in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom" (www.ThePearlOfWisdomForward.homestead.com) 6) "Invocation To The Guru" (www.ThePearlOfWisdomInvGuru.homestead.com), in "The Pearl of Wisdom" (www.ThePearlOfWisdom.homestead.com) 7) "Signs of Spiritual Significance", as Chapter 01, in "The Pearl of Wisdom" 8) "Search For God", as Chapter 02, in "The Pearl of Wisdom" 9) "Search For a Guru", as Chapter 03, in "The Pearl of Wisdom" 10) "The Four Gurus", as Chapter 04, in "The Pearl of Wisdom" 11) "The Shepherd and the Tree", as Chapter 01, in the book, "A Mystical Journey" (www.AMysticalJourney.homestead.com) 12) "The Mystical Meaning of Man's Body", as Chapter 30, in "The Pearl of Wisdom", (www.spiritualbook002chap30.homestead.com) (www.The99NamesOfGod.homestead.com) 14) "World Within & Without", Ch 03 (www.spiritualbook008chap03.homestead.com) in the book, "The Wisdom of Man" (www.spiritualbook008.homestead.com) 15) "The Dream of Time", as Wisdom Saying 450, in the beautiful book of wisdom, "Golden Words of a Sufi Shaikh" (www.GoldenWords.homestead.com) 16) "Please, Please, Please Destroy Me, And Reveal You", which is from a discourse given by His Holiness in 1972, and has grown over the years in the heart of this child, and is now available on-line as "The Father's Prayer of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen" (www.SpritualPrayer001.homestead.com), 17) "Coming As The Guru of God To All Lights On Earth", from page 106, in Chapter 03, "KQED Radio Interview, October 27, 1973", in the beautiful book of wisdom, "Truth and Light - Brief Explanations" (www.SpiritualBook009.homestead.com) Outline & Summary Version - of Spiritual Letter 64 "Silent Outline" - with no short summary of each Topic Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 64 2. Understanding - The "Straight Path" of God Within Us 3. Understanding - The "Enemy of our Soul" Within Us 4. Understanding - "The Wisdom Surrounding our Soul" Within Us 5. Understanding - Our Soul And the True Destiny of Our Soul 6. Understanding - "Our Role" In What God Is Doing Within Us 7. Understanding - The Secret Within The True "Shaikh-Disciple Relationship" 1. Service To The Guru For Our Age - is finding and becoming "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age before we die to the "outside" of us. Amen a. "The Guru presides over - the abode of the divine state" b. "It is the "Primary Duty" of the disciple - to greet the Guru with reverence, and to obtain His blessing with patience and silence" c. "They must be seated in one place - without making any disturbance" d. "The "Secondary Duty" of the disciple - is to conduct yourself knowing your inner responsibilities and not disobeying the words of the Guru" e. "You should complete your duties - with purity of body, mind, and speech, even if there is any difficulty in the administration" 2. Establishing "The True Kalimah" For Our Age - is becoming "One with" God within us before we die to the "outside" of us. Amen. 3. After Establishing The True Kalimah For Our Age - then as "One with" our Guru, the true work begins within us, and we begin to do duty "here" from "there". Amen. 4. The Traps That Man Falls Into - upon coming into the world 5. Help In "Giving Greetings" To His Holiness - and to God within Him, as "One with" Them within us, and with "us" as "One with" Them within Them, within us, Help in Receiving Their Blessings, before we "say or do" anything, and in this way, help in truly walking on the "Straight Path" in our age. Amen a. "Ask For The Remedy - in order to shine everywhere" b. "Grant Me The Grace of The Holy One" - "Make my soul pure in this impure birth, and make it shine" c. "Please, Please, Please Destroy Me - and reveal You" d. "Coming As The Guru of God - to all lights on earth, becoming good qualities by fasting for 12 years" e. "You Are The One Who Feeds Us - and it is You who must send the One who will fulfill the needs of all these creations, bringing us to completion" 6. Closing Comments - "Forgive me the wrong, and accept the good. So I request" "Brief Outline" - with a short summary of each Topic Introduction - to Spiritual Letter 64 1. Purpose of Spiritual Letter 64 - is to focus on the importance of "Giving Greetings" to our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and to God within Him, & "Getting Their Blessings", before we "say or do anything", as the only way to correctly walk on the "Straight Path" of God for our age, as the only way of correctly using the "Gift of God" for our age, in order to complete what God has started within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen 2. Understanding The "Straight Path" of God Within Us - which is the "Presence of God" within us, not the "presence of us" on the "outside" of us, for only then can anything of value occur within us, no matter what "we" may think that we are doing on the "outside" of us, as "separate from" God within us 3. Understanding The "Enemy of our Soul" Within Us - and the battle that must occur within us against the "Enemy of our soul" within us, if we are to ever truly become successful in our own lifetime, which naturally occurs within us when "we" truly join in partnership with our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and with God within Him 4. Understanding "The Wisdom Surrounding our Soul" Within Us - and the "Gift of God" for our age, which is the life and teaching of God for our age, for the Children of God for our age, which is each of us living in this age, if we truly want the "Gift of God" for our age, which for our age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, the "Gift of God" for our age, which if joined with properly can awaken the wisdom surrounding our soul 5. Understanding Our Soul And the "True Destiny" of Our Soul - which is to again live a life of purity within us, having earlier died to the life of purity within us so we could sin, so we could live a life of impurity on the "outside" of us, so through this "Contrast", the contrast of our pure and our impure births, come to understand who it "Already is", and having understood itself again become "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, so it will never be "separate from" God again, and it can spend eternity as "One with" God within us sharing the understanding it has accumulated with God within 6. Understanding "Our Role" In What God Is Doing Within Us - as the "witness", as the "witness" of Them revealing Them within us, and as the "Nothing" within the "Nothing", as the "Understanding of the No-Thing" within us. Amen 7. The Secret Within The True "Shaikh-Disciple Relationship" - is "True Prayer", that is, you become His life within Him as He becomes your life within you, and in this way, He becomes your soul and you become His form in this earth world or dunya, as you become His soul or life within Him and He becomes your form in the next world, in the hereafter or akhirah, which is "True Prayer", the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is", and as such "you and He" are One, One within the Other as One, One revealing the Other within it, One hiding itself within the One being revealed only to be revealed again, in the next cycle of Man-God/God-Man, as an apple seed reveals the apple tree hidden within it, only to be revealed again, as the apple seeds within the apple fruits of that apple tree, in the next season, but this time as many, not just as one 1. Service To The Guru For Our Age - is finding and becoming "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age before we die to the "outside" of us. In this way, "It is the "Primary Duty" of the disciple to greet the Guru with reverence, and obtain His blessing with patience and silence", and "It is the "Secondary Duty" of the disciple to conduct yourself knowing your inner responsibilities and not disobeying the words of the Guru.". Amen a. "The Guru presides over - the abode of the divine state" b. "It is the "Primary Duty" of the disciple - to greet the Guru with reverence, and obtain His blessing with patience and silence" c. "They must be seated in one place - without making any disturbance" d. "The 'Secondary Duty' of the disciple - is to conduct yourself knowing your inner responsibilities and not disobeying the words of the Guru", in order to, - To transform our heart within us - To transform our life within us - To transform our face within us - And to transform our breathe within us 1. Service To The Guru For Our Age (continued) e. "You should complete your duties - with purity of body, mind, and speech, even if there is any difficulty in the administration", realizing that, - The purity of body within us is the pure open heart within True Man within us - The purity of mind within us is the open spring of God's grace or the wisdom within True Man within us - And the purity of speech within us is the word of God spoken by True Man within us 2. Establishing "The True Kalimah" For Our Age - is the same, is also becoming "One with" God within us before we die to the "outside" of us. It is the greeting within us between His Holiness and His Children, it is the greeting within us between our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), the Children of God for our age, which is each of us living in the world today, if that be our true intention. If our true intention is to become "One with" God within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us Amen 3. After Establishing "The True Kalimah" For Our Age - then as "One with" our Guru within us, and with God within Him, the true work begins within us, and we begin to do duty "here" from "there", we begin to do duty from within the "Heart of the Guru" that has been established within us by God within us. Amen. 4. The Traps That Man Falls Into - upon coming into the world, is that we "Forget God" within us, and we don't know to go in search of "ourselves", although God exists within us, because we falsely believe that we have already found ourselves, as "you and I" living in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, as a life of sin, a life as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of within us, a life of "separation and differences", a life of "arrogance, karma, and illusion", a life of "desire for earth, women, and gold", of desire to either "have a women" or to "be a women", it is the same, and it is "why we suffer", and a life of "body, trick, and danger", when in truth no danger exists, because man has no natural enemies 5. Help In Giving Greetings To His Holiness - and to God within Him, as "One with" Them within us, and with "us" as "One with" Them within Them, within us, and Help in Receiving Their Blessings, before we "say or do" anything, and in this way, help in truly walking on the "Straight Path" in our age. Amen a. "Ask For The Remedy - in order to shine everywhere", and then within the "justice of God" you will get whatever you intend, so "get God within you" to ask for "God within you", to see and steady God within you, which is the whole point of the Kalimah, and then "get God within you" to ask the following question of God within you, the question, "Who am I?" within you, then God will reveal God to God within you, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within you, realizing as "One with" your wisdom within you, and as "One with" the truth of God within your wisdom, that asking for anything less than this within you, is less then this within you, and in truth is a waste of your exalted birth. Amen b. "Grant Me The Grace of The Holy One - "Make my soul pure in this impure birth, and make it shine", Ya Qadus, Ya Qadus, Ya Qadus. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. c. "Please, Please, Please Destroy Me - and reveal You", destroy "me" as "separate from" You, and You as "separate from" me, and reveal "Me" as "One with" You, and You as "One with" Me", destroy the life of "separation and differences" that you have given us on the "outside" of us and reveal the life of "Oneness and Unity, of Justice and Truth, and of Compassion and Unity" that you have also given us within us. Amen d. "Coming As The Guru of God - to all lights on earth, becoming good qualities by fasting for 12 years", which is the prayer that the "Guru of Bawa" gave to Bawa to say, when Bawa's Guru, the Nur Muhammad first came to stand by Bawa's side, when Bawa had come into the state of Shari'at, "the knowing of good from evil, and then doing only good", after standing on one leg, or fasting from the world, for 12 years, in this way, closing the 12 openings of the body, & seeing only God e. "You Are The One Who Feeds Us - and it is You who must send the One who will fulfill the needs of all these creations, bringing us to completion", finding completion within your grace, finding wisdom within your completion, finding truth within you wisdom, finding "You" as the "Oneness of God and True Man" within your truth, within your wisdom, within your completion, within your grace. Amen. 6. Closing Comments - "Forgive me the wrong, and accept the good. So I request" Text of Spiritual Letter: 1. Service To The Guru For Our Age - is finding and becoming "One with" the "Gift of God" for our age before we die to the "outside" of us. In this way, "It is the "Primary Duty" of the disciple to greet the Guru with reverence, and obtain His blessing with patience and silence", and "It is the "Secondary Duty" of the disciple to conduct yourself knowing your inner responsibilities and not disobeying the words of the Guru". Amen a. "The Guru Presides Over - the abode of the divine state" A 'udhu billahi min al-shaytan al-Rajim. Bismillah al-Rahmanir al-Rahim. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu, Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Amen. O Allah, we seek refuge within You from the evils of the accursed satan. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. May all the peace, the beneficence, and blessings of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, His Holiness teaches us the following in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", on page 68, in "Chapter 19", "Service to The Guru": Comments: - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Which is the purified open heart within the impure closed heart within us, which is the growth spot within the seed of God's grace that is our heart within us. Amen. b. "It is the primary duty of the disciple - is to greet the Guru with reverence, and obtain His blessing with patience and silence." Comments: - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Which we must do from within our purified open heart within us, from within our heart joined as one with the heart of our virtuous Guru within us. Amen. c. "They must be seated in one place - without making any disturbance." Comments: - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) - In process. Please come back later. Thank you - d. "The second duty of the disciple - is to conduct yourself knowing your inner responsibilities and not disobeying the words of the Guru." Comments: - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Our inner responsibility is joining with our virtuous Guru to transform our heart within us - which is now a impure closed heart within us, which is now what has grown over and covers the original pure open heart of Adam (A.S.) within us, which is the five lettered heart of alhmad within us, the five letter form of alif, lam, mim, hay, and dahl within us, the secret form of the truth of Allah within us, the form of the Suratal Fatihah within us, the form of the Ummul Qur'an, of the Inner Qur'an within us - into the pure open heart of the Guru within us, which is the palace of the soul within us, the house of wisdom, the house of Muhaiyaddeen 'Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within us, which in maturity is akhirah or the hereafter within us. Representing the necessary transition of the state of our heart that must occur within us as move closer to God within us, from closed to open heart, from impure to pure heart, from this earth world or dunya within us to the next world, or the hereafter or akhirah within us, a heart which in the process must also become the inner most heart of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within us, as ahmad within us, as Ahamd Muhammad within us, as the beauty of God in the heart within us, or ahamd, reflected in the face or muham (Tamil) or muhayyan (Arabic) on the "outside" of us, as reflected in the face of God or Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) on the "outside" of us. That is, for each of us, as the "Seed of God" within us, buried within the Creation of God within us, to transform our life within us - which is now a life of darkness, a life of arrogance, karma, and illusion in our mind and desire, which is now what has grown over and covers the original pure life of Adam (A.S.) within us, which is the life of the soul within us - back into the pure life of the Guru within us, which in maturity is the life of wisdom within us, is a "message in a clear heart", is the Rahman or ruler of God within us, is the life of Nur Muhammad within us, the life of the True Shaikh within us. To transform our face within us - which is now a false face comprised of the 6 faces of separation and differences, which has grown over and covers the original pure face of Adam (A.S.) within us, which is the face of light, the face of the Nur Muhammad within us - back into the face of the Guru within us, the 1 true face of unity that is one with all of the creations of God within us, which in maturity is the Muham or the face of Muhammad (Sal.) within us, which reflects the light of God in the alhamd or the heart of Muhammad (Sal.) within us, for the benefit of all of the creations of God in the 18,000 universes within us, within man and within God and within God and within man within us. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. And to transform our breathe within us - which now affirms with each in-out movement the illusory world of the 64 sexual arts and science within us, which is now what has grown over and covers the original pure breath of Adam (A.S.) within us, which is man's direct connection with God within us, man's partnership with God within us - back into the breathe of the Guru, which is the kalimah of God and True Man within us, which in maturity affirms with each in-out movement, the truth of God and of True Man within us, the truth that God and True Man are One within us, one within the other as One within us, One revealing the other within it, as the Other is revealed, One hiding Itself within the Other being revealed only to be revealed by the Other being revealed in the next cycle of Man-God/God-Man. Amen. e. "You should complete your duties - with purity of body, mind, and speech, even if there is any difficulty in the administration." Comments: - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) The purity of body within us, is the pure open heart within True Man within us, which is the original creation of God known as Adam (A.S.) within us, which in truth is the palace of the soul or house of wisdom within us, the house of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen 'Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within us, the house of the Shepherd and the Tree in the story by His Holiness of the" in the beautiful book of wisdom, "A Mystical Journey" (www.AMysticalJourney.homestead.com), by His Holiness, in "Chapter 1", "The Shepherd and the Tree", and which in maturity is akhirah, the hereafter within us. Amen. The purity of mind within us is the open spring of God's grace or the wisdom within True Man within us, which is the Rahman of God within us, the ruler of the creation of God within us, which originally emerged out of God in anathi, in the time of darkness, and revealed the light of God in the primal beginning, in athi, allowing for the creation of Adam (A.S.) within us, which in truth is the Nur Muhammad, the light of wisdom within us, is the Tree of Iman in the story of the "Shepherd and the Tree" (see the book, "A Mystical Journey", in "Chapter 1", "The Shepherd and the Tree"), and which in maturity is the wisdom of True Man within us. And the purity of speech within us is the word of God spoken by True Man within us, which is the Rahim of God within us, the redeemer of all of the creations of God within us, bringing them to completeness within us, which is the word of God spoken by the Muhaiyaddeen of God within True Man within each of us, which is "the giver of life back to true belief" in God within us, which is God's belief in God within us, which pulls everything back into God within us, from which everything has came within us, which in truth for this age is the life and teachings of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) both within us and on the "outside" of us, and now of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, and which in maturity is the light of Allah within us, the light within True Man within us, which in truth is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us. In this way, redeeming all of the creation of God within us by bring them to completion within us, by transforming the 4 religions within us, the 4 parts or chambers of the heart within us, back into the one pure open heart of Adam (A.S.) within us, the alhamd of God within us, which is made up of the five letters of, alif, lam, mim, hay, and dahl, as "the secret form of the truth of Allah" within us, as the form of the Suratal Fatihah within us, as the essence of the 28 spiritual letters within us, from which the 4 religions have all came within us, which in truth are the "four destructive women" within us and the "four false gurus" within us, that His Holiness teaches us about in the first four Chapters in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", (www.ThePearlOfWisdom.homestead.com) in "Chapters 1", "Signs of Spiritual Significance" (www.SpiritualBook002Chap01.homestead.com) in "Chapter 2", "Search for God", (www.SpiritualBook002Chap02.homestead.com) in "Chapter 3", "Search for a Guru", (www.SpiritualBook003Chap01.homestead.com) and in "Chapter 4", "The Four Gurus". Amen. (www.SpiritualBook004Chap01.homestead.com). [Note: currently Chapters 2, 3, and 4, cannot yet be access directly using its own URL or Web Address, like Chapter 1, but can be accessed indirectly through the "Pearl Of Wisdom - Home Page". Thank you. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar] Doing this transformation within us, this bringing of everything of Creation within us into completeness, this bringing of everything within us which is now in a state of incompleteness within us, into the state of completion within us, through the 1000 generosities of God within us, which is the one fistful of earth known as Adam (A.S.) within us when we have successfully established the "True Shaikh-Disciple Relationship" within us, that is, when our Guru has become our soul and we have become His form. Amen. For this is the truth of our life, and the truth of what has been hidden by God within our life, like the truth of an apple seed buried within the earth is that it is an "apple seed" buried within the earth, that it is the "apple tree happening" within the earth that it is buried within, and the truth of the "apple tree" hidden within it, is that it is the "seed of the apple fruits" hidden within it, that it is the "apple fruits happening" within the "apple tree happening" within the earth that the apple seed is buried within in, and as such "they are one", that is, the apple seed, the apple tree, and the apple fruits are all one, one within the other, one revealing the other, one being revealed by the other. And as such, so are we, "us" within us, and "God hidden within us", and "True Man hidden within God within us" are all one, one within the other, one revealing the other, one being revealed by the other, if we will only let it happen within us, if like the apple seed if we will only realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth of itself, that it is an apple seed buried within the earth, and the truth of what is hidden within it, that it is an apple tree that is ready to bear fruits, if like the apple seed if we will only let the "truth surrender to the truth" within us, and join with the earth to germinate, to destroy its life of "selfishness" on the "outside" of itself, and to reveal the life of the apple tree, and of the apple fruits, and again of the apple seeds hidden within it. If like the apple seed if we will only join with the earth within us, which is the Creation of God within us, to tell the story of God within the story of True Man within us, and to tell the story of True Man within the story of God within us, if like the apple seed if we will only realize that we have come from God within us, to join with His Creation within us, to tell the story of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, and do all of this before we physically die to the world on the "outside" of us, because after we die it is to late to do any of the "Heart's Work" within us. Amen. And His Holiness beautifully describes all of this for us, for the Children of God in our age, in the beautiful "Kalimah Song" (www.SpiritualSong001.homestead.com), and the two companion discourses, (www.SpiritualDiscourse001.homestead.com), and "How To Reach and Merge With God", (www.SpiritualDiscourse002.homestead.com). All of which were given to us by His Holiness on April 26th, 1972, on the day that His Holiness told us was the "One good day in a hundred years", telling us that in every 100 years that there is "one good day", and that in the last 100 years, from 1886 to 1986 which is the time His Holiness lived in the world with us, there was one good day, and that "one good day" was April 26th, 1972, when His Holiness, and God within Him, gave us the "Kalimah Song", and these two beautiful discourses of the highest wisdom. Amen. And in this way, with "us" within us, having joined in partnership with God within us, and with the "Stuff of God" within us, to become the Light of God to the world for our age, becoming the 1000 fistfuls of earth within us known as man living as "One with" God within us, before we die to the "outside" of us, living in the world that "we" see as within us, not on the "outside" of us, through the "Eyes of the Guru" within us, which are the 99 wilayats of God, or powers of God, or attributes of God within us, described so beautifully for us by His Holiness in the beautiful book of wisdom, "Asma'ul-Husna", The 99 Beautiful Names of Allah" (www.The99NamesOfGod.homestead.com). In this way, with "us" becoming the 1000 generosities of God known as True Man living in the purified heart within us, and in this way, transforming the body, mind, and speech of man into the heart, wisdom, and word of God for this age, which is True Man within us, which is "us" living as "One with" our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and in this way, transforming the 4 religions of man into the 1 religion of God which is Iman-Islam within us, for as His Holiness teaches us, only Iman is Islam within us. And as our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, teach us, using 300 of these 1000 generosities of God to bring the religion of earth or creation or Hinduism to completion within us as the open pure heart within us, which in maturity is akhirah or the hereafter within us. Amen. Using 300 of these 1000 generosities of God within us to bring the religion of fire worship to completion as wisdom within us, as the 6th level of wisdom within us, which in maturity is the Qutb of God, or Moses (A.S.) within us. Amen. Using 300 of these 1000 generosities of God within us to bring the religion of air or Christianity to completion within us, as the purified and liberated soul within us, joined as "One with" our wisdom within us, which in maturity is Jesus (A.S.) within us. Amen. And using 99 of the last 100 generosities of these 1000 generosities of God within us to bring the religion of light or Islam to completion as the Nur Muhammad within us, with the 1 remaining generosity staying with God within us, which in maturity is the state of Man-God/God-Man within us, of Insan Kamil or Perfected Man within us, which in maturity is the state of Allahu Ill Allahu, the prayer of the One to the One who is within us, which is true prayer within us. Amen. 2. Establishing The True Kalimah For Our Age - is the greeting within us between His Holiness and His Children, is the greeting within us between our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us). Amen This greeting of His Holiness by "us", by His Children, by the Children of God for this age, within the pure and open heart of God for this age, and through the life and teaching of God for this age, which is the heart, life, and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), is the true Kalimah of God for this age, with each of us eventually performing this greeting with each breath, thought, intention, and action. May we all come to know this now, without the slightest doubt, and become "One with" our Father within us, and "One with" His Children on the "outside" of us, before we "say or do" anything, in this way, establishing the "Presence of God" both within us and on the "outside" of us, before we "say or do" anything, and in this way, allow God within us to "say and do" what is required in this age, to complete what God has started within each of us in this age, ever before we were born, even before we came to this earth world or dunya, which is revealing God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. And this is so very important, both within us and on the "outside" of us, because of the enormous disease of birth that we have all acquired in coming to this place, to this earth world, to this dunya, a disease which only God can cure, by harvesting God out of us, by harvesting the 1000 "Seeds of God" from the "Plant of God" that we have joined in partnership with God within us to grow within us, by joining in partnership with our Guru within us to plant the one "Seed of God" within the Creation of God within us. Amen. In this way, awakening the wisdom surrounding our soul, so it can do battle with the "Enemy of our soul", which is each of us living a life of "selfishness" on the "outside" of us, which is each of us living a life of "separation and differences" with our dear brothers and sisters in the world that we collectively see as existing on the "outside"{ of us, but which in truth is within each of us, as the world of darkness, as the hell and evil and the two worlds within us, the world of souls and the dunya, which if properly harvested by God within us becomes the 8 heavens within us. And this earth world within us, in truth is but the first of many "Schools of God" within us, that we must attend to understand who "we already are", and this first school that we have now attended is the "School of Contrast", where we learn about what "separates us" from God within us, and if we successfully graduate from this school, before we die to the "outside" of us, then we will go to the next of "God's School" within us, which is the "School of Light" within us, where God teaches us about God within us. This is the truth of our life, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, and the great danger of living our life only on the "outside" of u s, because God has in His infinite love and mercy and compassion sent each of us to this first of "God's School", this "School of Contrast" within us, which is the dunya or earth world within us,, but we must earn our right to the second school, to the "School of Light" within us, which is akhirah or the hereafter within us. So we can learn about who "we already are", and having learned our lessons, and passed our exams, we can return to Him within us, and share with Him what we have learned for eternity, because all of the "outside" of us is simply what God has discarded within us in order to become God within us, and is what He must do again, but this time within us, which He will, after we have "seen Him" and "steadied Him within us", which in truth is the "True Kalimah" for our age, and only then will our life become successful in our own life time. Everything else in our life is just drama, and our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, teach us, "The only way to win the drama of your life is not to play." May we all come to realize this, without the slightest doubt, before it is too late, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, and before one of us prematurely destroys the "outside" of us for all of us, which can still happen if we are not careful, if we do not use what God has given us in our age to prevent this, if we learn to live at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of God within Him, within us, and at the feet of the Grandchildren, Sons and Daughters, and Brothers and Sisters of our dear Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us) on the "outside" of us, in this way, becoming "Bawa" for them. Amen. Only then, with this "One-two Punch", with our complete surrender to Bawa within us, and to God within Him, and our complete surrender to the Children of His Holiness on the "outside" of us, making Them and Their true success in Their life, within Their lifetime, our life and our true success on the "outside" of us, within our lifetime, only then, when we have truly become "One with" these "Special Few" on the "outside" of us, will all of our "arrogance, karma, and illusion", and all of our desires be removed from within us, before we die to the "outside" of us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us. Only then will our life truly become successful in our lifetime. Because if any of this "outside" of us remains within us, when we do physically die, then that is what we will get for eternity, then that will be our reward for coming to the earth world, to the "God's first School, to the "School of Contrasts", not "Oneness" with God within us, not "Oneness" with the "Stuff of God" within us, and not "Oneness" with the understanding of who "we already are" within us, which we could have then shared with God for eternity within us, as "One with" God for eternity within us. But rather, if we die in our current state, in the state of "separation and differences" living our life as we currently are, living as "separate from" God, as "separate from" our dearest loving brothers and sisters, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, in the world that we collectively see as existing on the "outside" of us, so we can sin, so we can stay "separate from" God, and "separate from" each other, and "separate from" the Creation of God within us, then our fate will be quite different from what God had planned for us, and that God is trying to obtain for us, if we will only let Him, if we will only join Him within us, for then we will "get what we have intended for us", not what "God has intended for us", we will harvest the "crop that we have grown", not what God has started to grow for us, we will move into the "house that we have built", not the house that God has started for us, all within the justice of God. For as our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, teach us, "The justice of God is that whatever you intend is what you will receive." So if we fail to join in partnership with God within us to empty our current cup, which now contains all of "Our stuff" on the "outside" of us, and to fill it again, but this time with the "Stuff of God" within us, if we fail to do this and still have our arrogance, karma, and illusion, if we still have all of our "desire for earth, women, and gold", our desire to either have a women, or to be a women, for it is the same, if we still have all of this "outside" stuff of us, that we have accumulated since our birth, then when we do physically die to the "outside" of us, in that state, in the state of "separation from" God, of "separation from" each other, and of "separation from" the Creation of God within us, then we will not be harvest by God within us, for the "Property of God" within us, we will not be harvested by Allahu ta'ala Nayan (Allah, the Lone One who Rules and Sustains) within us. But rather we will be harvested by the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, for the crop of hell and of evil that has grown within us, that we see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, that we see in our ignorance as "us" and our dearest loving brothers and sisters living successful lives on the "outside" of us, with our own beautiful body, and thoughts, and understanding, with our own wife and children, and family and friends, within our own race and religion, etc. and as a result we will have to experience the "suffering of the grave" within us, and then Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment) within us, and then 105 million re-births within us, ending as a worm in hell with only one level of consciousness within us, or feeling, then we will have to experience an eternal life of "separation from" God, which is truth is separation from the "truth of us", and from the "truth of God" within us. Amen. For as our dear wonderful Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, teach us, "Hell is simply the realization that we have separated ourselves from God". So my dearest loving brothers and sisters, of the One Open Heart of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), our goal in life is to be harvested by God within us, before we die to the "outside" of us, having become and demonstrated in our life that we have become the "Property of God" within us, that we have become "Everything within God" within us, rather than everything that God has discarded within us, in order to become God within us, rather than what God has discarded within us, which is everything that "we" currently see, hear, smell, taste, touch, think, and do in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. Amen. 3. After Establishing The Kalimah For Our Age - then the true work begins within us Therefore, this exchange of greetings, between the disciple and the Shaikh, this establishing the True Kalimah for our age within us, before we physically die to the "outside" of us, is so very important, both within us and on the "outside" of us, because there is so much work to be done within us, after we successfully greet His Holiness within us, after we successfully join in partnership with His Holiness within us. There is so much that must be done in our life to overcome the diseases of our birth, and the karma that we have accumulated since our birth, if we are ever to become victorious in our life, before we physically die to the "outside" of us . For example, His Holiness teaches us in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom", on page 111, in "Chapter 30", "The Mystical Meaning of Man's Body", about the "true purpose of life in the world", about "what true success really is in our life", and about the "role of fate and wisdom" in our life. With our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within us, telling us all this after His Holiness sings us a beautiful song about how fate rules over us in our ignorance, telling us, over and over again, as the refrain of the song He sings to us, "Fate rules me with a show of scenes, What will my conscience do to me in the world". And then after singing us this beautiful song of wisdom, His Holiness and God within Him, tell us, "Son, (fate or destiny) will thus make you do many other things." "After a man is born, it is said by everybody that his life is controlled by fate (or destiny). But son, it is not so." "Life is the victory of wisdom reasoning over fate." And His Holiness within us, and God within Him, teach us in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Wisdom of Man" (www.SpiritualBook009.homestead.com) on page 44 in "Chapter 3", "The World Within And Without" (www.SpiritualBook009Chap03.homestead.com), about some of the things that currently define us, that define us as "us" and our dearest loving brothers and sisters living in the world that we see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. That define our fate or destiny in the world as some of the things that we must win over before we die to the "outside" of us, as what must leave us before we die, if our life is to become truly successful in our lifetime. And we can successfully do this real "Heart's Work" within us, joined in partnership with God within us, not by any individual or group effort by us or by others on the "outside" of us, by rather by doing this inside work before we "say or do" anything, that is, by greeting His Holiness within us, and greeting God within Him, by joining in partnership with Them within us, and with "what They are doing" within us, before we "say or do" anything on the "outside" of us, and in this way, by our becoming "One with" Them within us, becoming "One with" His Holiness within us, and with God within Him, before we "say or do" anything. And our doing this with each breath, with each look, with each thought, word, and action that we take in the world on the "outside" of us, transforming it from a world on the "outside" of us, into a work of God's grace, wisdom, and 'ilm or divine knowledge within us, into the Open Pure Heart of our Shaikh within us. Amen.. In this way, by our obtaining the blessings of His Holiness within us, and of God within Him, before we "say or do" anything, by our joining in partnership with His Holiness within us, and with God within Him, before we "say or do" anything, in this way, joining in partnership with, becoming "One with", what They are currently doing within us, which is revealing God to God within us, by first revealing True Man to True Man within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God and True Man within us, and in this way, we will gradually disappear within Them within us, and They will gradually appear as "who we are", as "where we are", and as "what is happening" in our life, both within us and on the "outside" of us. Amen. And doing this in a very simple way, doing this by simply saying the word "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him) before we "say or do" anything, in this way, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything, and in this way, allowing our wisdom to stand up within us, and causing our mind and desire to sit down within us, before we "say or do" anything. For as Bawa within us, and God within Him teach us, on page 44 in "Chapter 3", "The World Within And Without", in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Wisdom of Man", "May all of you dispel the disease known as the world, the dog known as desire, the demon known as the mind, the torpor (or fascination) known as illusion, the pleasure that is the dream, the sadness that is the darkness of ignorance, the karma that is the torpor of the world, the evil actions of kalam [time, which is comprised of arrogance, karma, and illusion] that lead you to Kalan [the angel of death], and the nature and games of the five elements that collect and praise time." "May you dispel all these things and go beyond them to Allah, the original treasure which stands in the open space, the treasure of the innermost heart." "May God give you the grace of His wisdom to dispel all these evils. Amen. May God fill your hearts with His grace. Amen." And in closing this Topic, let us reflect upon what our dearest loving Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and as God within Him, teach us, at the very end of "Chapter 3", "The World Within and Without", in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Wisdom of Man", "Children, we must realize and understand these things. The study of wisdom exists in a totally different section. It does not exist in words. It exists within the cage of man's body. Only if we go deeper and deeper inside this cage will we understand." "To be born as a transformed embryonic form within the cage, to go within that form, and then to see - this is what we must do as we proceed on and on. This does not exist in writings. We must realize this within. Amen". 4. The Traps That Man Falls Into - upon coming to the world Next, His Holiness within us, and God within Him, teach us about the traps that man falls into upon coming into the world, about the many things that man now believes in, and trusts in, other than God, such as "time", traps which have a terrible grip on man, making man a slave to the things of hell, a slave to the things that are in truth the opposite of God, a slave to the things that prevent man from praying to God, as "One with" God within us, in partnership with God within us, in this way, getting God to pray to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, not to benefit "us" as "separate from" God within us, not as part of "us" on the "outside" of us "working for wages to get into heaven". For example, our dearest loving Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, teach us about the "nature of time" within us, or more appropiately, "the nature of man" within us, and how man carries time within himself, and makes it pass, until he relinquishes the darkness within himself, until he gives up the dreaming of his mind, within himself, as given on page 144 in the beautiful book of wisdom, "Golden Words of a Sufi Shaikh" (www.GoldenWords.homestead.com), as "Wisdom Saying 450", which was given the following title in the Table of Contents, "The Dream of Time", ---- beginning of Wisdom Saying 450, by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) ----- A fortuneteller asks a wise man, "Does man carry time with him, or does time move along carrying man?" The wise man answered, "It is man who carries time and makes it pass. Time does not carry man. Man carries time, counts it, and is subject to the difficulties and conditions of each season that time brings". "If man unburdens himself of time, then all of the things connected to time will also leave him. Time is the day and night which man himself brings about. It is the dream he sees". "If man relinquishes darkness, he will no longer exist in the duality of time. If he gives up the dreaming of his mind, he will lose his thoughts." "(Then), engulfed in the light of grace, he will live a life without darkness. Forever he will dwell in the light of God, and there will be no passage of time." "When the resplendence of wisdom rises, the darkness of ignorance will set and the dream of time will vanish by itself. Just as the sun is constant and unchanging, the light of wisdom will resplend, forever, indestructible in his soul." ---- end of Wisdom Saying 450, by M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) ----- 5. Help In "Giving Greetings" To His Holiness, And To God Within Him - as "One with" Them within us, and with "us" as "One with" Them within Them, within us, and Help in Receiving Their Blessings, before we "say or do" anything, and in this way, help in truly walking on the "Straight Path" in our age. Amen My dearest loving brothers and sisters, as a help in this endeavor, as a help in greeting and joining with His Holiness, and receiving His blessing, with each breathe, thought, intention, and action, here are a few of the ways (5 ways) that this child has learned To Greet and Join With, as "One with", Bawa within us, and with God within Him, and To Receive Their Blessings, at the start and end of each day, at each waqt or time of prayer during the day, repeatedly as much as possible between each waqt of prayer, and gradually with each breath, thought, intention, and action. And doing this by starting each prayer with the word "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), in this way inviting Bawa within us, and God within Him, to come out of "Their Place of Purity" within us, which is a tiny piece of flesh within us, no bigger than an atom, which is where They currently live within us, and into "our place of impurity" within us, which is our mind and desire within us, which is where we currently live within us, and conduct our life with Them within us as "One with" us, and with "us" as "One with" Them within Them, within us. And in this way, causing our mind and desire to sit down within us when our wisdom, and the truth within our wisdom, stand up within us, and in this way, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything, including these prayers, and in this way, correctly walking the "Straight Path" of God within us in our age. Amen. May God give us the grace of His wisdom, in order to live our life in this way, at His Divine Feet for our age, which is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), allowing God within us to finish what God has already started within us, a very, very long time ago, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. Amen. a. "Ask For The Remedy - in order to shine everywhere" Disciple: "To let Grace spring forth, To let darkness vanish, To let love of Guru grow, To let qualities be purified, O Graceful Guru, give me a remedy." This is a quotation from a discourse given by His Holiness in 1945 that was later reproduced in the book, "Guru Man" or "Pearl of Wisdom", in the "Invocation (To The Guru)", on page 11 (www.ThePearlOfWisdomInvGuru.homestead.com) by His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). At the end of this invocation to the Guru, His Holiness sings us the following short song about destroying fate or destiny, and answers a very important question asked by a disciple: Disciple: "Swami, show us a way to dispel the darkness in the world". Guru: "O son, I shall sing a song and then answer your question." "For the Silent One to appear as Grace, To find the world as a tiny thing, To destory sorrow which is a maiden, With help from Master Guru's graceful way, Seek and learn standing on the path, And ask with a melting heart". "Let the body be the true mystery, Dominant with grace, Let the seed be destroyed, Blinding both eyes". "Enshrine in thy heart The lamp of Guru's graceful words. With love in your heart See Aathi as a thing" "Spread the Guru's words with a delightful heart, Unfurl the flag of Guru's words everywhere, Then the fate (or destiny) that follows thee Shall turn into dust." "My pure and perfect pupils, gems of my eyes, ask for the remedy in order to shine everywhere." This is the end of greeting number 1. Now let us look at the next suggested way to greet and join with His Holiness. b. "Grant Me The Grace of The Holy One - Make my soul pure in this impure birth, and make it shine" The following quotation is from a discourse given by His Holiness in 1945 that was later reproduced in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom", on page 68 in Chapter 19, "Service To The Guru", by His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him. "I trust you always, O gurunathar (guru who guides). Make my soul pure in this impure birth, and make it shine. Grant me the grace of the Holy One." This is the end of greeting number 2. Now let us look at the next suggested way to greet and join with His Holiness. c. "Please, Please, Please Destroy Me - and reveal You" The following is a quotation from a discourse given by His Holiness sometime in 1972, that has not yet been reproduced in a book, but has grown in the heart of this child and is available on-line as "The Father's Prayer of Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen" (www.SpiritualPrayer001.homestead.com). "O my Father, O my Shaikh, O my Guru, I need Your love, please, please, please destroy me." In this discourse His Holiness talked to a brother from California, and told this brother to say this prayer every day, in order to strengthen his connection with His Holiness. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, please realize that the only thing needed in our life, to do anything of real value in our life, is our connection to His Holiness, is our partnership with His Holiness, which in our state is our connection and partnership with God, is the presence of God. Please take advantage of this little prayer to His Holiness to establish the presence of His Holiness in our life, and our presence in the life of His Holiness, because in truth there is only one life, the life of Man-God/God-Man, which is the life of God and True Man joined together as one, one revealing the other within it, the one life within all of us, within all of everything. Finally, the brother His Holiness talked to in this discourse had his own group of disciples in California and had come to His Holiness for advice on his and their life. In response to his request, His Holiness gave this brother the name, Shaikh Hamid, and told him to go back to California and raise his disciples to a good state. At this point, the brother acted surprised at what His Holiness had told him to do - to return to California and raise his disciples to a good state - as if such a task was impossible for him to do, and after a moment of hesitation he said to His Holiness, "How can I do that?" And His Holiness told him, "You have Me!" My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is the whole path to God, there is nothing else - "We have His Holiness" within us, and God is within Him. Such is the "Gift of God" for our age. We just have to realize this truth of ourselves, and of God within us, and learn how to properly greet and join with His Holiness within us, and with God within Him, which is to become "One with" Them within us before we "say or do" anything, by inviting Them within us to join us, in everything that we "say or do", in everything that we see, hear, smell, taste, touch, say, think, and do, before we "say or do" it, and in this way, establishing the "Presence of God within us, before we "say or do" anything, in this way, receiving Their blessing from within us, as "One with" us, from within us, before we "say or do" anything. It is just this simple. And for this age the way we invite Them to join with us before we "say or do" anything, is to say the "Name of God" for our age, before we "say or do" anything, just like the "Name of God" in the age of Jesus (peace be upon Him) was Jesus (peace be upon Him), and the "Name of God" in the age of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) was Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him), now the "Name of God" for our age is "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Bawa" (may God be pleased with Him). And if we accept this truth for our age we will benefit accordingly, as some accepted this truth for the age of Jesus (peace be upon Him) over 2000 years ago, and some acceted this truth for the age of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) over 1400 years ago, and those in those earlier ages who did benefited accordingly. Amen. Please think about this wisdom point a little. It could save you from the suffering of the grave, for as His Holiness teaches us, the suffering of the grave is simply everything that we have brought to life within us, other than God, everything that defines our life as separate from each other, separate from His Holiness, and separate from God. In this way, His Holiness teaches us that this is the suffering of the grave, this is what eats us in the grave, when we can no longer feed what we have given life to as "separate from" God, what we have brought to life through our life in the world of separation and differences, a life and a world that we currently see as "us" and our dearest loving brothers and sisters living a life of sin, a life of "selfishness" in the world that we currenty see in our collective ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, but in truth is within us. Which in truth is the world of darkness and evil that we have allowed to grow within us, which now in maturity "separates us" from God within us, and that "separates us" from each other, and from the Creation of God within us, which when we physically die to the "outside" of us then becomes the "suffering of our grave", because we can no longer feed what we have grown within us, because we have died, so they then eat us. This is the end of greeting number 3. Now let us look at the next suggested way to greet and join with His Holiness. d. "Coming As The Guru of God - to all lights on earth" The following quotation is from a discourse given by His Holiness in 1973 that was later reproduced in the book, "Truth & Light - Brief Explanations", in Chapter 3: "WQED Radio Interview, October 27, 1973", on page 106, by His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). "He is the ray resplending from the sun. He is the ray resplending from the sun. He is the ray resplending from the sun, in all of the created beings, each one". "All of them receive His grace through His quality of grace. Coming as the Guru of God to all lights on earth. O Father, becoming good qualities by fasting for 12 years". This quotation is the song sung to His Holiness by the Guru known as the "Muhaiyaddeen of God", when the "Muhaiyaddeen of God" first came to His Holiness, when His Holiness tells us of His despair before meeting His Guru, in this way, telling us of His despair, He says, "[I was] crying and in despair. When I was in that state, I had to just sit. It was then that my Guru came looking for me. That Guru is the most rare Guru. He came to me and gave me this discourse". This is the end of greeting number 4. Now let us look at the next suggested way to greet and join with His Holiness. e. "You Are The One Who Feeds Us - and it is You who must send the One who will fulfill the needs of all these creations, bringing us to completion" The following quotation is from a discourse given by His Holiness in the book, "A Mystical Journey", in Chapter 1, "The Shepherd And The Tree", on page 13, by His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). "O God, you are the Katpaha Virudcham, the Pure and Perfect One, the Father of the soul. You are the Most Merciful and the Most Compassionate, the Rahman and the Rahim. You are the One who feeds us, and it is You who must send the food that will fulfill the needs of all these creations (bring us to completion)." This quotation is the song of the Qutb, Muhaiyaddeen 'Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) to the Primal One, to the Katpaha Virudcham, the celestial tree of the divine realm, the wish fulfilling tree of God, a tree in the 7th heaven with its roots in the 6th heaven, and its fruits in the 8th heaven, a song to God, to grant His grace, wisdom, and ilm, which is True Man, to all of the creations of God, to awaken them to the reality of their life which is True Man, and to the reality of God within True Man, to the state of Man-God/God-Man, which is the state of the Oneness with God, the state of Allahu Ill Allahu, which is True Prayer, the prayer of the One to the One who Is. This is the end of greeting number 5. This concludes the suggested ways to greet and join with His Holiness within us, and God within Him. Please give them a try, if you like, they really work, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything. That is, if that be your true intention, if your true intention is to become "One with" God within you, before you physically die to the "outside" of you, and not just "working for wages to get into heaven". For there is really an incredible difference between the two, which if you are not sure about, give this child a call, or send us an E-mail (Muhaiyaddeen786@aol.com), and then we can do as Jesus (peace be upon Him) told us to do over 2000 years ago, and now as Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) has told us to do in our age, and now as His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) are telling us to do right now, in this letter, and that is, "If two of you come together in My Name, I will be there". Amen. And this is the key to our life changing, from "our" life as "separate from" God on the "outside" of us, into "Our" life as "One with" God within us, if you join in partnership with God each day, allowing God to finish what He has started within each of us a very, very long time age, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, for example, like this child has been doing over the last 29 years, living at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiymaddeen (may God bee pleased with Him) within us, and of God within Him. Amen. 6. Closing Comments - "Forgive me the wrong, and accept the good. So I request" Please forgive me, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, if there are any faults in this sharing of the heart, this Hearts Work, and praise God for anything within it that you find of value. I so request. For as our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and God within Him, teach us, on page 7, in the "Forward" of the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", "Let those who are knowledgeable correct any faults. Forgive me the wrong, and accept the good. So I request. Amen." My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). End of Spiritual Letter 64 - outline & summary version - ...................................... or Go To Spiritual Letter 64: E-mail Version Summary of Spiritual Letter Related Material or ( a top-down version of the Library Home Page) (a bottom-up version of the Library Home Page) |
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