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 3 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. 17. Learning To Use The "Guru Mantra" To Liberate Our Soul The name of our Shaikh, followed by the intention of God within us for this age, is the "Guru Mantra" that our Shaikh has taught us to use, to liberate our soul from the cross of our elemental body, from our body of the five elements which has fallen out of the state of the Kalimah within us, out of the remembrance of God within us, out of the affirmation of the Unity of Allah, or "tawhid", within us, which is the principle tenet of Islam within us. The principle tenet of Islam within us, which God originally employed within us, to create the original body of purified earth within us, known as Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him), the original palace of the soul within us where God placed the Light of the Nur, which is the light of our wisdom, the light body of our soul, and within which God placed our soul, and the Light of the Qutb of God, which is the wisdom surrounding our soul, the guardian of our soul, the wisdom which explains within us, which is the grace of the dhat (the essence of God) within us, which awakens the soul within us, the hayah or life of purity within us, and transforms it into the divine vibration, into the "Resonance of Allah" within us. The "Guru Mantra" that starts with the word, "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), allowing us to join with our Shaikh to re-establish the Kalimah within us, the Kalimah of, La illaha, Ill Allah, Muhammadar Rasulullah - I am not god, You are God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God, causing our body of the 5 elements within us to return to the state of Adam within us before the fall of Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him). Before the spit of satan within us, which is the sperm of our father, which weakened Adam within us (may the blessings of God be upon Him), before the creation of Eve within us (may the blessing of God be upon Her), which is the ovum of our mother fertilized by the sperm of our father, and before the fall of Adam and Eve from the grace of God within us, from the state of "oneness with" God within us, which is our birth into the world of earth with a body of 9 openings, where everything that we see is maya or an illusion. In this way, we start the process of Adam recovering from the fall of Adam within us, (may the blessing of God be upon Him), of our body of 5 elements returning to the state of purity, by setting our intention on affirming the Unity of Allah within us, on re-establishing the state of the Kalimah by the 5 elements within us, and by calling our wisdom to complete this intention of God within us, by saying the word, "Bawa", followed by the words of the Kalimah within us, followed by, "La illaha, Ill Allah, Muhammadar Rasulullah" - I am not god, You are God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God. In this way, we must realize, without the slightest doubt, that God within us, and only God within us, has allowed the life of separation and differences within us to grow and come to maturity within us, to complete what He has started within us, which is to reveal God within God within True Man within us. In this way, we must realize, without the slightest doubt, that God as Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim within us, as the Creator, the Nourisher, and the Sustainer within each of us, has allowed the life of "separation from" God within us, the life of "separation from" each other within us, and the life of "separation from" the Creation of God within us, to come to life within us, and to rule over us within us, to come and rule over our life of "oneness with" God within us, to come and rule over our life of "oneness with" each other within us, and to come and rule over our life of "oneness with" the Creation of God within us. And in this way to come and rule over the life of grace, of 'ilm or divine knowledge, and of divine wealth within us, that was present within us, in the world of Souls, in the womb, and for the first two years of our life in the world. In this way, we must realize, without the slightest doubt, that the name of our Shaikh, which is "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" within us, (may God be pleased with Him), followed by the intention of God within us, is the "Guru Mantra" that we must use within us, to allow our wisdom to finish what it has started within us, which is to reveal True Man within True Man within us, so God can finish what God has started within our Shaikh, so God can reveal God within God within True Man within us. And we must realize that we can only do this wisdom work within us by first setting our intention for the work of wisdom within us, for the work that is appropriate for the wisdom within us, and then by calling our wisdom from within us to complete God's intention within us, by saying the word, "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him). And then by again setting our intention for the work of wisdom within us, and then by again calling our wisdom, by again saying the word, "Bawa". And then by again setting our intention for the work of wisdom within us, and then by again calling our wisdom, by again saying the word, "Bawa", etc., etc., etc.. My dearest loving brother Jalaal Deen, this is how it works, this is how we can use our wisdom to successfully live our life in the world of illusion that we now find ourselves surrounded by, this is how we can transcend this world of darkness, evil, and impurity that we have mistakenly opened within us, this is how we can close down the world of hell within us, re-open the world of souls within us, and then open the Kingdom of God within us. There is no other way. This is how our life will become victorious, how our wisdom will reason over our fate. There is no other way. This is what Bawa calls, "The Guru Mantra." Everything else is false. Using anything else will not accomplish this, will not lead us back to God, from which we have all come. Everything else will only lead us to hell, to the suffering of the grave and to an eternal life "separate from" God. May we both think about this a little, my dearest loving brother. It is very important. In this way, we have to call our wisdom within us to leave its realm within us and come to our realm within us, to come to our realm of "mind and desire", to our realm of separation and differences, to our realm of all of the stuff of our mind and desire, which includes all of the 400 trillion, 10 thousand spiritual energies within us, which is the stuff of the 7 hells within us. In this way, we have to be repeatedly setting our intention and calling our wisdom, to deal with the life of separation and differences that we are constantly facing in our life, by repeatedly setting our intention upon God's intention within us, and repeatedly saying the word "Bawa", to get the wisdom within us, to move from its place of light and purity within us, from its place of "oneness with" God within us, to our place of darkness and impurity within us, to our place of "separation from" God within us, to deal with "our place" for us, because "we" in our current state of "separation from" God cannot deal with our current state, but God can, but God as our wisdom can. This is the secret of God. 18. Never Forget That The Name of Our Wisdom Is "Bawa" We must never forget, that for this age, the name of our wisdom is "Bawa", because for this age God has set it up this way, because in each age the life and teaching of God comes a new to the Children of God for each age, because that is how the grace of God comes to each age, to move forward what God is doing in each age. And in this way, liberating the Children of God in each age from the mistakes of the past, from what the people have done in the past with the grace of God that came in the previous age, from what the people have done with what God did before for the Children of God in the previous age. And for this age, for this age of the Rahim, what God is now doing in this age, that He didn't do in previous ages, is the work of the Rahim of God, is the work of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), which is pulling back into God everything that has come from God, which is all of everything in all of us. And in this way, separating us from all that separates us from God, from each other, and from the Creation of God within us. And for this age of God, for this age of the Rahim of God, the life and teaching of God for this age, for the Children of God for this age, is the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), for the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us). And for this reason, the name of our wisdom in this age is, "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him). My dearest loving brother Jalaal Deen. There is no other way to deal with "our place" within us, to deal with the place of hell that we have in our ignorance opened within us, that we have opened in our ignorance of "who we truly are", of "where we truly are", and of "what is truly happening" in our life. And we must always remember, and never forget, that the name of our wisdom for this age, for this age of Rahim, for this final age when God calls everything back into Himself from which it has all come, is "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him). There is no other way to deal with the hell of us, which is all of us, which is all that we currently see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. This is why Bawa told us, right before He left the physical form, "Don't forget Me! Don't forget Me! Don't forget Me!" 19. Only By Using Our Wisdom Will Anything of Value Get Done We must realize, understand, accept, and join with the truth of our life, the truth that God has sent us to a very special school, a school of Contrasts to understand who we already are, because understanding only occurs through contrast, and having learned what we have come here to learn, to leave this special school and return to God, and as a good student, to study what is available in this school, by showing up on time, behaving ourselves, listening to the teachers, and completing our assignments on time and to the best of our ability. Our work is not to play around in school, or miss our classes, or waste our time, by excessively talking to other students, or by smoking cigarettes in the bathroom, or by trying to become attractive to the girls or the boys in the school, or by acing in a way to gain the admiration or envy of other students. Instead, our work is to correctly understand the true nature of this special school, and of the students and teachers who attend this special school, realizing that to become a good student in this special school we must join our wisdom with our soul, because in truth our soul, the hayah or life of purity God has placed within us, is the true student of this special school, not us in a state of "separation from" God. And our wisdom, the gift that God has personally placed surrounding our soul, is the true teacher of this special school, not us in the state of "separation" from Bawa, and the Creation of God, that God has personally placed within each of us, is the true curriculum of this special school, not the things that we currently see as existing "outside" of us. Only then, when our wisdom has awakened within us, and our soul has become the student of our wisdom within us, joining it in completing God's intention within us, which is to liberate our soul from the cross of our elemental body, from our life of separation and differences, from our life of mind and desire, and then as One with our wisdom, to find and become One with the Nur Muhammad within us, which is the light of our wisdom, the light body of our soul, making our life eternal, only then can anything of value occur in our life. Everything else in our life is but a dream of "self existence", whose only value is in its ending. So unless we call our wisdom before we do anything, unless we properly set our intention to join in partnership with God within us, to complete God's intention within us, not to complete our intention "outside" of us, and unless we start each thing with the word "Bawa", nothing of value gets done in our life, and everything that we do in our life is a sin, whether it is prayer or duty or study or apparent acts of kindness or goodness or play or work. We must realize, without the slightest doubt, that without energizing our wisdom within us in this way, which in truth is energizing our soul life within us, our life of "oneness with" God within us, our life of "oneness with" each other within us, and our life of "oneness with" the Creation of God within us, without doing this, without properly bringing our wisdom into what we are doing, before we do it, all that we do, without our wisdom, is useless and has no value, because "we are doing it", because "we" as '"separate from" God, as "separate from" Bawa or our wisdom, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, are dong it. But once we set our intention properly, on joining in partnership with God within us, to complete God's intention within us, and properly call our wisdom, by saying the word, "Bawa", then "we" as "separate from" God, as "separate from" Bawa, are no longer doing it, now God is doing it, now God, as the power within our wisdom, is doing it. Now Bawa is doing it, now Bawa, as our direct connection with God within us, as the Qutb of the Quddus or Wilayah of God within us, as the Action of the Power of God within us, is doing it, and in this way, the life of "separation from" God within us sits down, and the life of "oneness with" God within us stands up. It is just that simple. 20. Only When Wisdom Stands Up Will Our Mind & Desire Sit Down We must come to realize and utilize the great secret of our life, the secret or Sirr of the Creation of God within us, hidden within the form or Sifat of the Creation of God within us, the secret that our good thoughts are hidden within our bad thoughts, the secret that our good qualities are hidden within our bad qualities, and the secret that our good actions are hidden within our bad actions, the secret that they are one, our good and our bad, one hidden within the other as one, one revealing the other as one hides itself within the other. We must come to realize, understand, accept, and join with, this great secret of our life, that when we as "separate from" God stop thinking then we as "one with" God begin to think, that when we as "separate from" God stop acting then we as "one with" God start acting. In this way, our good thoughts are just waiting for our bad thoughts to end, our good qualities are just waiting for our bad qualities to end, and our good actions are just waiting for our bad actions to end, and in this way, our good life, our true life, our life of "oneness with" God, our life of "oneness with" each other, and our life of "oneness with" the Creation of God within us, is just waiting for our bad life, our false life, to end, is just waiting for our false life of separation and differences, for our false life, that we now see as existing "outside" of us, to end. This is how close God is to us, within us, and this is how close we are to God, within us, closer than our own heart beat, closer than our own blood, closer than our own breath. In this way, everything is ready within us to finish what God has started within us, which is to reveal Himself within Himself within our wisdom, we have but to realize, understand, accept, and join with it, we have but to join with what God is doing within us, which is to reveal God within God within wisdom within us, as everything of the apple tree - its roots, its trunk, its branches, its leaves, its flowers, its fruits, and the sweet taste of the fruit, and again the apple seed - is just waiting, is ready for the apple seed to germinate, is just waiting for the apple seed to realize, undersand, accept, and join with it, is just waiting for the apple seed to tell the story of the apple tree, that it was placed in the earth, to join with the earth, to tell. And in this way, our mind and desire will only sit down within us, will only end within us, our life of darkness, impurity, and ignorance, our life of separation and differences that we live and experience as existing "outside" of us, will only end within us, and allow God to finish what He has started within us, when our wisdom stands up within us. When we join with what God and our Shaikh are doing within us, which is to reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, and to reveal God within the Creation of True man within us, when we reject what our mind and desire are doing within us, which is revealing false man within the Creaton of God within us, when we join with our Shaikh to tell the story of True Man within us, by joining as the Seed of True Man or Iman within us, as the Nur Muhammad within us, with the purified Creation of God within us, with Adam or the dunya within us, to tell the story of True Man within us, and the completion of the story of True Man within us is True Man within God within us, that we were placed within the Creation of God, to join with the Creation of God, to tell. And to join with God to tell the story of God within True Man within us, by joining as the Seed of God or Islam within True Man within us, as Allah Muhammad within the Nur Muhamamd within us, with the Creation of True Man within us, with Muhammad or akhirah within True Man within us, to tell the story of God within True Man within us, and the completion of the story of God within True Man within us is God within True Man within us, that we were placed within the Creation of True Man to join with the Creation of True Man, to tell. And for any and all of this to happen within us our wisdom must stand up within us, and our wisdom will only stand up within us when we "intend as God intends" within us, and then call our wisdom within us, when we say, "Bawa", or "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen", or "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him), inviting Him to complete God's intention within us. It is just this simple. This is why Bawa teaches us, "The only way to get your mind and desire to sit down is to get your wisdom to stand up." And we get out wisdom to stand up, by setting our intention on God, on what God is doing within us, which is revealing God within God within our wisdom 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, and say the word, "Bawa". For without the supervision of our wisdom, the only value of anything that we do is to nourish the lives of separation and differences within us, is to keep our "separation from" God strong, not to liberate our soul, not to awaken the wisdom surrounding our soul, not to allow our Shaikh to finish what He has started within us, which is to reveal True Man within True Man within us, and not to allow God to finish what He has started within us, which is to reveal God within God within our Shaikh within us. My love you, my dearest brother Jalaal Deen. You are a good child of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). May we both read over and over again these beautiful words of wisdom, and reflect on them, reflect on these beautiful words of wisdom coming from the life and teaching of our Father within us, the life and teaching our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, the words of wisdom that have been growing and maturing within the heart of this child over the last 27 years. 21. "Forgive Me The Wrong And Accept The Good, So I Request" Please forgive me if anything that has been shared upsets you or offends you, or your family, or any of your friends, in any way. This child is a fool, who sits at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and calls on His protection and guidance in all things. And as Bawa said at the end of the "Forward" to the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom", on page 7, "Forgive me the wrong and accept the good. So I request." Please give my love and salaams to your mother and father, to your brothers and sisters, to your friends, and share and discuss these words of God's grace with them. They are very important words for your life, for my life, and for the life of all of the Children of God for this age, and they most be shared to continue to grow, within me, within you, and within all of us. That also is how it works. So have no fear, God is here, right here within each of us. That is our true birthright, our true heritage. 22. The Value of God Is In The Use of God Remember, Bawa teaches us, "The value of God is in the use of God". So in all things use God, not you, not you as "separate from" God. So in all things, use the wisdom that God has personally placed within you, which is "Bawa", which is "Bawa Muhaiyadeen", which is our Father, "Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen" (may God be pleased with Him). And in this way, and only in this way, may we both join with God within us, by joining with the wisdom of God within us, the direct connection to God within us, that God has personally placed within each of us, to walk out of this dream of "us", the dream of "us" as "separate from" God, back into the reality of "us" within us, of "us" as "one with" God within us, which in Truth is the Oneness of God and True Man within us, which is God within God within our wisdom within us, completing God's intention within us. In this way, we must realize, without the slightest doubt, that everything that we need is within us. Nothing that we need is "outside" of us. 23. Join With Bawa To Plant The Seed, Grow The Tree, & Share The Fruit And finally, His Holiness teaches us, "My words are seeds. If you plant them in your heart they will become the Tree of God's Grace for all of the worlds within you." "Then I will come and join you in tasting the Fruits of this Tree, further explaining them to you in your heart, and we will distribute these fruits together to all of the Creation of God within you, and to all of the Creation True Man within you, and God will be very pleased." My dearest brother Jalaal Deen, may this become our life, both your life, my life, and the life of all of our brothers and sisters, a fearless life built on iman, on our absolute faith, certitude, and determination in God, and in God alone, and on our realizing, understanding, accepting, and joining with the gift of God for our age, which is the life and teaching of our Father within us, of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen within us (may God be pleased with Him), that God has personally placed within each of our hearts. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) End of Page 3 of 4 of Spiritual Letter 17 - expanded version - .......................... or Go To Spiritual Letter 17: or |
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