Spiritual Letter 17 - Expanded Version About Spiritual Letter 17 Title: "Becoming God Advocate To All The Lives Within Us", Date: April 17, 2002 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) to Jalaal Deen (Rob Peddle) Page 1 of 4 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum. May all the peace and blessings of God be upon us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest brothers and sisters. 1. Introduction - to the letter to Jalaal Deen Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum, my dearest brother Jalaal Deen (Rob Peddle). May the peace and blessings of God be upon us all. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Thank you very much for your letter and your concern, but be assured that all is well in the sharing of the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) with the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Us). 2. The Gift of Our Life Is Becoming The Advocate of God Within Us The gift of life, of all life, is the life and teaching of God within us, which for this age of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us, for this age of the Rahim of God within us, is the life and teaching of our Father, of Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him). This is "who we are", which is "what He is doing" within us, this is "where we are", which is sitting on God's lap while Bawa teaches us "what we do not know", and this is "what is happening" in our life, which is God revealing God within God within us, by revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, so True Man within us can reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us. Revealing in this way, the Oneness of God and True Man within us, which in truth is God revealing God within God within us. This sharing of the gift of God for our age is what our life is all about, to become the witness of God to all of the Creation of God within us, to become God's advocate to all of the lives of separation and differences that have grown within us, which includes everything that we now see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, bringing them over to the good side within us, to a life of "oneness with" God within us, explaining to them the truth and majesty of God, of True Man, and of the Creation of God within us. Explaining to them the relationship between the Creation of God and True Man within us, the relationship between the Creation of True Man and God within us, and the relationship between God and True Man within us. This is our real work, my dearest younger brother, as Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Us), not to become, as many of us in our ignorance have become, their advocate to God, not to become the advocate of the Creation of God within us to some illusory god "outside" of us, trying to get things for them from god, like a wife or a husband, children, a house or an education, a good job, a good meal, and even a place in some imaginary heaven on the "outside" of us near this illusory god "outside" of us. This "outside" work is certainly not the work of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Us). 3. We Must Get God To Again Discard The Sifat And Reveal The Dhat We must get God within us to again discard the sifat or form of His Creation, and reveal His dhat, reveal the essence of God, but this time within us, to again separate from Himself all that separates Him from Himself, but this time within us, to again allow His resplendence, His Rasul Allah, His Triple Flame, His grace, purity, and treasury, to emerge from His effulgence, from His Power or Wilayah within us. From His Wilayah which in truth is the heart of our Shaikh within us, causing all that separated Him from Him in anathi, in the time of darkness or lack of understanding, which in truth is our current state, to separate from Him again, allowing Him within us, which is our soul, to separate from our state of "separation from" God within us, revealing His aathi within us, His Nur Muhammad within us, revealing His state of wisdom within us, revealing His state of "one with" God within us. Bawa teaches us that everything that we now see, hear, smell, taste, and touch is what God has discarded, which when wisdom dawns within us, we will also discard. Until then we either embrace or fear everything we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, not knowing in truth what it is, using the life of separation and differences, that in our ignorance has grown within us, the life of "separation from" God within us, that we experience as existing "outside" of us, to deal with it, to deal with everything that comes to us, no matter what it is, either good or bad. It makes no difference to our mind and desire, all of it is just something to consume. But there is another way. 4. We Must Let Our Soul Go Back Into The Light of God Within Us We must let our soul go back into the Light of God within us, first back into our divine analytic wisdom, the Qutb of God within us, separating us again into heaven and hell, into aathi and anathi, into light and darkness, into the understanding of God and the lack of the understanding of God within us, and then back into our divine luminous wisdom, the Nur of God within us, that God personally placed on the forehead of Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him). Back into the state of the Nur Muhammad within us, which is the seed of True Man, the seed of Iman within us, which is our Shaikh within us, separating us into God and the Goodness of God within us, making our life eternal, making the "alif the pillar of the sukun of the mim" within us, revealing the 18,000 universes within the sukun of the min within us, the sukun that is supported by Allah within us, which is the state of Allah Muhammad within us, which is the seed of God, the seed of Islam within us, which is God within our Shaikh within us. Bawa teaches us that "If you have fear you do not have Allah. And if you have Allah you do not have fear." So to fear is to not have Allah. Bawa has come into our life, if we will let Him, to drive away our fear by awaking us to the reality of our life, which is Him within us, which is God in the state of the Dhat within us, which is the grace of God, the wealth of purity, and the treasury of God, all existing as One within us. In this way, beginning as "God, the Shaikh, and the Disciple" we become through the grace, wisdom, and 'ilm or divine knowledge of God, the Triple Flame of God within us - Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen - which in maturity is the Nur Muhammad within us, the seed of Iman or True Man within us, which as One is Allah Muhammad within us, the seed of Islam or of God within us. We must realize, understand, accept, and join with this truth of our life, if we are ever to find peace in our life. This is "who we are", the Triple Flame of God within us becoming the Oneness of God within us, the Oneness of God and True Man within us, which in truth is God within us, if we will but put down what we have been told about "who we are", about "where we are", and about "what is happening" in our life, by our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders, our wives, our husbands, our bosses, our families, and our friends. It is all false. Your concern, all concern, comes out of fear, fear based on a miss-understanding, on a miss-understanding of "who we are", of "where we are", and of "what is happening" in our life, a miss-understanding which is all false. For Bawa teaches us that, "Not a blade of grass moves without God's permission." So what is there to fear? What is there to be concerned about? Nothing my dearest younger brother. However, we must still be very careful in our life, especially in our current state of ignorance, because nothing is as we see it, or as we know it to be, or as we understand it to be. Bawa teaches us that we must not trust anybody but God within us. Not ourselves, not our parents, not our family, not our teachers, not our religious leaders, not our friends, not our husbands or wives, not anyone, not even anybody at the Fellowship. We must show them all respect, but don't want or expect anything from them. We must take what we need only from God within us. Only then will you, or any of us, be safe. "It is all a lie. It is all false. It is all over. What is next." This is what Bawa teaches us. "God alone is sufficient." This is the truth of your life, of my life, and of all life. 5. We Must Realize That We Have Come To The School of Contrast We must realize that we have come from God, as "one with" God, to the School of Contrasts to understand who we already are, which is the life that is "one with" God, and having understood who we already are, to return to live forever as "One with" God, we have not come here to live and then die, but to learn and then to leave here before we die, because we can only leave here if we do so before we die, because there is no leaving here after we die. Because if we die in the state of "separation from" God, which is our current state, we are forced to live here forever, forever "separate from" God, "separate from" each other, and "separate from" the Creation of God that God has personally placed within each of us, forever in ignorance of "who we truly are", of "where we truly are", and of "what is truly happening" in our life. Bawa teaches us that the only thing that any of us need is God, not each other, not a Fellowship, not books or discourses, not meetings, not school, not friends, not family, not a religion, not a wife or a husband, not an education, not a job, nothing. So why do we have all of these things? And why has Bawa even at times encouraged us to get these things? The answer is simple. So we could realize through our wisdom that we don't really need any of these things, that all we need is God. That is why. That is why God has sent us to the School of Contrasts that is called the world. To understand who we already are. To use our wisdom to differentiate between heaven and hell within us, between false man and True Man within us, between our wisdom and our mind & desire within us. That is why. Because everything is really within us, nothing is really "outside" of us. But this is also the trap of it, the trap of the place that we have come, for if we don't use our wisdom to come to the correct conclusion, if we don't use our wisdom to realize that it is all false, it is all wrong, it is all a lie, it is all over, and turn away from it, from all of it, turn away from all that we are currently experiencing as "who we are", as "where we are', and as "what is happening" in our life, and ask God within us and only God within us, "What is next?", then our life will end in disaster, we will become subject to the suffering of the grave and an eternal life of "separation from" God. This is why Bawa teaches us, in the opening line of the "Forward", in the beautiful new book, "The Pearl of Wisdom", on page 6, "Man, appearing on this earth, forgets God and falls into many a trap. He does not know to seek himself, although God exists within man. This 'Guru Mani' is to explain this concept in detail." 6. To Successfully Learn In The School of Contrast We Need Wisdom To successfully create the School of Contrast within us, to learn what we need to learn from this school, to learn about "who we really are", about "where we really are", and about "what is really happening" in our life, we need divine analytic wisdom, we need a direct connection to our Shaikh & our Guru, within us, the wisdom of the Qutb connected to the Katpaha Virudcham within us, the Shepherd and the Tree within us, the wisdom that explains within us, the wisdom that divides us into aathi and anathi, into heaven and hell, into "one with" God and "separation from" God. the wisdom that reveals True Man within the Creation of God. And then to leave this School of Contrasts, and return to our Father, as "one with" our Father, understanding what it means to be "one with" God, and as True Man to share this understanding with our Father, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, and for the benefit of all of the Creation of True Man within us, we need divine luminous wisdom, we need a direct connection to our Father within us, the wisdom that reveals God within Goodness. the wisdom that reveals God within the Light of Heaven, the wisdom that reveals God within the Creation of True Man. And to climb out of this trap that we have all fallen into, which is our life as "separate from" God, "separate from" each other, and "separate from" the Creation of God within us, that we all fell into after forgetting God, after forgetting about our life as "one with" God, which is the life we lived in the world of souls, in the womb, and for our first two years on this earth world, to climb out of this trap we must turn away from our life of separation and differences, that we are now experiencing as existing "outside" of us, we must turn away from all that we currently are, from all that we currently know, and from all that we currently do and understand in our ignorance. And to successfully do this, to do this turning away from our life of "separation from" God, we need to use our wisdom. And to activate and use our wisdom we must realize without the slightest doubt, that the life and teaching Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him) is our wisdom, not "us", not "us" living in the world that we currently see as existing "outside" of us, not "us", or anything that we may know, understand, think, or do as "separate from" God. 7. We Must Realize That We Have Become The Opposite of Wisdom We must realize, without the slightest doubt, that in our ignorance we have become the opposite of wisdom, the opposite of the life of "oneness with" God within us, the opposite of the life that is our direct connection with God within us. We have become one with what God has discarded from Himself when God moved from anathi to aathi, from darkness to light, from the lack of understanding of God to the understanding of God, from incompleteness to completeness, when God in the time of anathi, or darkness, or incompleteness, or lack of an understanding of Himself, mediated upon the Power of God that appeared from within Him in anathi, when He turned away from the darkness within Him and asked the question, "Who am I?" Causing the Power of God to vibrate within him, which in truth is the heart of our Shaikh within us, which in truth is the Qutb of God within us, the grace of His Dhat within us, causing the Rasul Allah, His resplendence, His Dhat within us, to emerge out of His effulgence, out of His Power, out of His Wilayah, revealing aathi, or the light of God within us, revealing the completeness or understanding of God within us. And in this way, we have become the life of separation and differences within us, we have become the life of "separation from" God within us, we have become the life of "separation from" each other within us, we have become the life of "separation from" the Creation of God within us, from the Creation of God that God has personally placed within us, for His purpose, not for our purpose, to reveal God within God within us, by revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us. We have become in our ignorance one with the life of darkness and impurity within us, which is now covering and living through the hidden life of light and purity within us, that is now covering and living through the hidden life of the heart within us. And in this way, we have become one with the temporary false life within us, that is now covering and living off of the original true life of Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him). We have become "separated from" the original true life of Adam within us before the fall of Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him), before the spit of satan entered us, which is the sperm of our physical father, the father of the illusory world of satan within us, that we now see as existing "outside" of us, and before the house or body of satan grew within us, which is the ovum of our mother, the mother of the illusory body of the 9 deadly openings within us, that we now see as "us", that we now see as "our" body living in the illusory world of separation and differences "outside" of us, nourishing with our life all of the 105 million births of darkness within us. Such is our current state, our current world, and our current body or house. that we must overcome with our wisdom, by getting our wisdom to reason over our fate, by "making God's intention our search", by calling our wisdom to come and complete God's intention within us, by saying the name of our Shaikh, by saying, "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Myhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), before we do anything, before it is too late. We must realize, without the slightest doubt, that "we" as '"separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God that God has personally placed within each of us, is not wisdom, but is the opposite of wisdom, is the direct connection, not to God and to the stuff of God within us, but to darkness and to the stuff of darkness within us, to all of the lives of separation and differences within us that are nourished by our life of sin, by our every look, sound, smell, taste, and touch of separation and differences, by "us" living our life in a state of "separation from" God, from each other, and from the Creation of God within us. This is why His Holiness teaches us, "All that you see is a dream. All that you do is just a thought within that dream. All that you appear as is hidden. Life is a feast of the world, its medicine is a time after a time." In this way, our current life of sin, our current life of seeing, thinking about, and treating everything and everyone in our life as "separate from" us, is breakfast, lunch, and dinner for all of the lives of separation and differences that we have in our ignorance grown within us, and that now live in the 9 openings of our body, as we live in the dream of "self existence", separate from God, separate from each other, and separate from the Creation of God within us, as we live in the illusory world that we see as existing "outside" of us, and sin, and sin, and sin. 8. We Must Realize That The Life & Teaching of Bawa Is Our Wisdom We must realize, without the slightest doubt, that the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him) is our wisdom, is our life of "oneness with" God within us, is our direct connection with God within us. Is what God has personally placed within each of us, as the wisdom surrounding our soul, which when awakened by the life & teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen "outside" of us, (may God be pleased with Him), will do battle with the enemy of our soul "inside" of us, will do battle with our life of "separation from" God within us, will do battle with the life and teaching that we have become, in our ignorance of "who we truly are", of "where we truly are", and of "what is truly happening" in our life. And if we realize, understand, accept, and join with God within us to fight this battle within us, this true "jihad" or holy war within us, if we join with our wisdom within us, with our direct connection to God within us, to perform this true "qurban" or purification of our heart within us, if we join with the life and teaching of God within us for our age, with the life and teaching of our Father within us, of Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), God will be victorious within us, God will finish what He has started within us, which is to reveal God within God within us. And as part of this, as a part of what God is doing within us, our wisdom will be victorious over our fate, our wisdom will successfully reason over our fate, in all that we see, hear, know, do, and understand, our fate will turn into dust within us. Such is the truth of our life, of all life, my dearest loving brothers and sisters. And the opposite of all this, of our life of separation and differences, of our life of "selfishness", of our "self centered" existence, is wisdom, is the life of wisdom within us, is the life of "oneness with" God within us, is the life within us that is directly connected to God within us, and to all of the stuff of God within us, to all that is "one with" God within us, and for this age, the name of that life of wisdom within us, the name of the place within us where that life of wisdom dwells within us, the name of that tiny adamless point within the center of our innermost heart within us, and the name of all of the stuff of God within us, is "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him). 9. We Must Realize That We Have To Call Our Wisdom Within Us We must realize that we have to call our wisdom within us, in order to again become connected to our wisdom within us, and in this way again become connected to God within us, because God is within our wisdom within us, and as our soul, as the life of God within us, we are also within our wisdom. We must realize that this is our true life, the life of our heart, the connection of God, the Shaikh, and the Disciple within us, within the heart or house of wisdom within us, not the false life of separation and differences that we are currently experiencing as existing "outside" of us. And to overcome this life of separation and differences that we have mistakenly opened within us, as the life of hell, of the jinns, and the of fairies within us, we must re-establish our direct connection to our wisdom, to the life of our innermost heart, and we do this by "intending what God intends", and by calling our wisdom within us, to come out of our innermost heart and complete God's intention within us. We do this by "asking for the remedy in order to shine everywhere", we do this by calling on God within us, by calling on the Primordial One within us, to "Place the Primal ruler in my mind, the mighty mind that comes and rules, casting aside three kinds of fore running conduct, destroying six armies, and eliminating the enemy." And we must do all of this, this calling upon the Shaikh and God within us, this calling upon the Shaikh to complete God's intention within us, this calling upon the Primordial One within us, to take up residence within our mind, and rule us, while we are still living in the our mind and desire, while we are still living in our state of "separation from" God while we are still one with the life of separation and differences within us. My dearest loving brothers and sisters, this is what we must do with each breath, with each thought, with each intention, and with each action of our life. Only then will we be successful, only then can our wisdom reason over our fate. Quotations from pages 7 and 8, from the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom" This is why Bawa teaches us that wisdom is within us, but not resident within us, that wisdom is not like our mind and desire which is always resident within us, is always with us, no matter what we are doing or thinking, any time of the day or night. In this way, our mind and desire, as different from the wisdom within us, is always with us, is always resident within us. But wisdom is different from our mind and desire, wisdom is within us but is not resident within us, is not always with us, is not always connected to what we have become always connected with, which is our mind and desire, which is the life of separation and differences that we have become one with, which includes all of the lives of separation and differences within us, all of the lives of earth, fire, water, air, and ether within us, that have grown and come to maturity within us in our ignorance. Therefore, to access our wisdom we have to call it, we have to first get connected to it, not just try to use it, assuming that we are already connected to it. End of Page 1 of 4 of Spiritual Letter 17 - expanded version - ............................ or Go To Spiritual Letter 17: or |
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