Chapter 29 - "The Lotus Pond"
From: the Book, "The Pearl of Wisdom" (Spiritual Book 02)
Author: by His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him)
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of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", by His Holiness, M. R. Bawa
Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). Amen
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Introduction - to Chapter 29
1. Greetings - heart to heart, if you like
Bawa. Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.
Bawa. 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 all of My Children. May God be pleased with all of My Children. May God help all of My Children. Amen.
Bawa. My love you, My GrandChildren, My Sons and Daughters, My Brothers and Sisters - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). Amen.
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Outline of Introduction - To aid you in reviewing this Introduction to Chapter 29, which includes a lot of "Extra Material", if you like, as well a lot of Links that point to this "Extra Material"
1. Greetings - heart to heart, if you like (which is presented above)
below)
Chapter 29
your life, both earlier, before "you grew up", and Now, as well as in the future
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Body of Introduction:
2. "In Truth Nothing Truly Comes To You - Until It Is Shared"
Bawa. Here is a copy of the Original Version of Chapter 29, "The Lotus Pond", from the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom", by His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us), for your reading and hopefully for your sharing enjoyment, for as Bawa teaches us,
"In truth nothing truly comes to you until it is shared"
Bawa. For in truth nothing is for you as "separate from", it is always for "You" as "One with", it is always for "The One", for in truth this is "Who You are", the "One", the "One within the Many", and within that the "Prayer of the One", which is True Prayer, the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is", and this is the inner meaning of your life, the life of all of My Children, if you like, that is, moving from the "Presence of the Many" to the "Presence of the One", and from the "Presence of the One" to True Prayer, the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is", within God within you".
Bawa. Only this is success in your life, only this is victory in your life, My Dearest Loving Children, with You again standing in "The Presence" of the One, in the "Presence of God", first on the "outside" of you and then within you, but this time with an understanding of "Your Oneness", first on the "outside" of you and then within you, which in truth within you is the Qutbiyyat of God or the "Grace of the Dhat" in the "Presence of the Nur", as the "Shepherd and the Tree" [see the book, "A Mystical Journey", Chapter 1, with the same name (www.AMysticalJourney.homestead.com) for more on this wisdom point], and in truth Now for your age and for your life on the "outside" of you is "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us), in whom "We are well pleased". Amen.
Bawa. And in this way, and only in this way, with you learning how to fall into the One, first on the "outside" of you and then within you, or at least you Starting to do this, in partnership with God, first on the "outside" of you and then within you, before you die to the flesh, and before "The Beast" comes out of at least one of My Children, which he must certainly is about to do, in your lifetime, and harvests you as "his crop", and claim you as "his property", dragging you yelling and screaming with him off to an eternal hell within you, that is, to an eternal life within you as "separate from" God within you, all with "God's permission".
Bawa. That is, if you are Not Wise, if in the End you haven't truly fallen into the One, into the "Fire of God" Now for your age and for your life, which is Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us), first on the "outside" of you, that is, if you haven't truly grow God's Crop within you, or at least truly Started to do this, before you die to the flesh, So in the End, God harvests you as "His Crop", and claims you as "His Property", taking you off with Him to His Kingdom within you, that is, to an eternal life within you as "One with" God within you, causing "The Beast" to pass you by, like the Jews experienced in there "Pass Over". Amen.
Bawa. This is true success, true victory in your life, My Dearest Loving Children, not anything that you are currently doing on the illusory "outside" of you, that is, with you living as if you are "separate from" God within you, as if you are "separate from" each other, and as if you are "separate from" the Creation of God, within God within you, all of which in truth is "Just Not True". Amen.
Bawa. And as Bawa teaches us in the beautiful book, "Songs of God's Grace", and as reproduced in the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Calendar for this month, for August, 2007,
"Let You and Me ascend to "This Place" together.
This Treasure (This Place) has transcended the "I" and the "you"
As One within the One.
"The inner meaning (of This Place) becomes the "Light of God".
This is the One who shines as Allahu.
This is the Resonance of the "Hu".
This is the meaning of Allahu.
This will be understood everywhere
As a Divine Mystery".
Bawa. My love you - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). Amen.
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4. The Role of God, of "The Aathi", of The Primal One - and of "Mom and Dad", in your life, both earlier, before "you grew up", and Now, as well as in the future
Bawa. Chapter 29 is presented here as a short discourse by Bawa, Now called "The Lotus Pond", in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom", but a short discourse which in truth is really part of a larger discourse by Bawa which includes the following seven Chapters in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom", that is, of Chapters 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, and 34, with the following Titles,
Chapter 28 - "The Tree In The Desert" (In Process)
Chapter 29 - "The Lotus Pond" (the Chapter you are Now reading)
Chapter 31 - "The Twenty Eight Arabic Alphabet In Man's Body"
Chapter 32 - "Allahu ta-aallaa Nayan's Instructions to Muhammad (Sal.)"
Bawa. For in truth all seven Chapters can be viewed, if you like, as One Discourse by Bawa, all dealing with the relationship between the Aathi, or the Primal One or the Primordial One, and True Man, or Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine), which is how True Man is referred to in this beautiful book of wisdom, that is, in "The Pearl of Wisdom".
Bawa. A discourse by Bawa that presents the Aathi, or the Primal One or the Primordial One, as the One who gives birth to, and raises True Man, as Contrasted with the relationship that you Now think that you have with "mom and dad", who in truth do not give birth to or raise True Man, but in truth give birth to and raise "false man" or the "child of darkness", or Manu-neesan (man-the-low, man-the-worldly).
Bawa. Who in truth give birth to and raise Manu-neesan or "false man" who in truth is the "Opposite" of Manu-eesan or True Man, who in truth give birth to and raise the "child of darkness" who in truth is the "Opposite" of the "Child of Light".
Bawa. Who in truth is the "Opposite" of the "Child of Light" who must Now emerge again "Out of You", if you like, that is, out of the "child of darkness" within you, if you like, that is, if you are to become truly successful in your lifetime, if you are to become truly victorious in your life time, or at least truly Start to do this, before you die to the flesh, allowing the "Child of Light" to Understand, or at least Start to Understand, who "He Already Is", allowing the "Child of Light" to pass His Exams and graduate from the "School of Contrast", within God within you, which in truth is where "You Already Are", and go off to the Next of God's Schools within you, within God within you, which is the "School of Light", so God can teach You about God, if you like.
Bawa. For the Choice is yours, not God's, that is, the Choice to let the "child of darkness" End, both "outside" and within you, so the "Child of Light" can Again Begin, within God within you, or not, but this time with an Understanding of who "He Already Is", this time with an Understanding of what is "separating Him" from God, this time with an Understanding of "His Oneness", so it will never leave Him again.
Bawa. Such is the significance of these 7 chapters in your life, that is, in the life of True Man within "false man", in the life of the "Child of Light" within the "child of darkness", which is an Understanding of who "you think you are" and of who in truth "You Already Are", and the "Role of God" or Aathi, or the Primal One or the Primordial One in "Your Life", that is, in "Your True Life", and the "role of mom and dad" in "your life", that is, in your false life".
Bawa. All of which in truth is supporting, in either its Coming or in its Going, in either its Beginning or in its Ending, How God answers the Question, that God asked of God in Anathi, that is, the Question, "Who Am I?", that is, the Question that God asked of God in the time of darkness or the lack of Understanding, before Aathi, that is, before the "Time of Light", before the "Time of Understanding", that is, of How God answers the Question, "Who Am I?".
Bawa. For in truth this is "Who You Are", and this is "Where You Are", and this is what is truly "Happening In Your Life", which is God revealing God to God, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God, within God within you, and for a little while on the "outside" of you, for the benefit of your brothers and sisters, if you like, as this child has Now learned to do, and as you can Now learn to do, again if you like, for the Choice is yours, not God's, and certainly not the Choice of this child. Amen.
Bawa. My love you - Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). Amen.
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Original Version - of Chapter 29, of "The Lotus Pond", that is, without any "Outline or Expansion" by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us), that is, as it is Published in the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom"
Guru:
There is a pond. It is at a lower level of earth where water flows into it. People refer to such a collection of stagnant water as a low lying area. When it rains the pond becomes filled with water. When the rains continue, dirt and mud too find their way into the pond. Grass and lotus plants appear in this collection of mud. People call it a lake when the water does not strain itself and there is plant life. Some people bathe and others wash themselves in its waters saying,
"Oh this lake is good."
The water is stagnant and the lotus plants grow in it. It looks pretty. Roots and flowers appear in the water. The leaves are useful to man. The lotus plants puts out shoots and bear flowers and leaves.
People now call it a lotus pond. Some fish appear on their own in the mud at the bottom of the pond. Some fish enter the pond with the flood waters while other fish fall into the pond with the rains from the sky.
The frogs see the pond from a place of elevation and jump into its waters. Waves form and break into all four shores and overflow to expand the pond. More living creatures migrate into the pond to live there.
People look at the pond and say,
"Aha, this is a good lotus pond. Let us drink its water and rest for awhile."
So they drink the water and relax for a while before going on their way.
One person says,
"Yes, it is a good pond. There is water. There is an ache in my stomach. I
shall ease myself here and wash my hands and feet before I proceed."
Yet others say,
"Oho, this was earlier a low lying piece of land. Now it has become a large lotus
pond. This water is not so pure. All the rain water in the village collects here.
Chee! Chee! This is not suitable for drinking."
They say this and go away.
Cattle, goats and cows too come to drink the water in the same pond and also to ease themselves, dropping their excreta and urine there. People come there to pick the lotus leaves and others to gather the lotus flowers for the temple. Some come to fish. They all come, each for his individual purpose.
Each person completes the work for which he has come and goes away.
However, the Manu-neesan (man-the-low, man-the-worldly) who sees the pond thinks,
"What is this? This is a muddy pond. It contains the droppings of cattle and
human excreta. There are frogs and fishes. It is not clean. After all, this was
only a piece of low lying land once. There is excreta on one side. It is dirty.
Cows drink its water. There are fish and crocodiles. There is mud. There are
lotus flowers. This pond is impure"
They say this and that and talk about the impurities of the pond.
But if man uses his wisdom (as Manu-eesan or Man-The High, Man-The-Divine) he will realize that where there is a pond, there is mud; where there is mud, there is the blue lotus flower; where there is the lotus, there is impurities; where there is impurity, there are many fish, frogs and similar creatures.
Where there is a pond, people will come there to fulfill their needs. They will perform their duties and go away.
There is a repulsive impurity in the pond. But the Angel Mikha'il (peace be upon Him) comes and cleans this impurity and deposits it with a collection of dirt. The lotus eats this dirt and flourishes. The flowers bloom into a large size. The water in the pond becomes clear. Many creatures live happily in the pond. The sand on the shores is clean. The water in the pond is so clear that one sees one's face in it like in a mirror.
The man who does not cast adverse remarks on the nature of the pond and does his work and goes away is Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine).
Just like the secret in man's life (lies in the Qutbiyyat of God, in man's 6th level of wisdom or consciousness, so too) the inner meaning of his body lives here (in the example of the lotus pond).
Inside of the repulsive pit mixed with many types of dirt, man is formed into a dirty embryo and remains in this state for ten months. Venom is mixed with his flesh, skin and nerves. At the tenth month he finds his exit through the entrance of the same dirty pit. At the end of nine months, nine days, nine "nalihai", nine hours, nine minutes, and nine seconds he comes through the passage with fluid oozing out and with a melting heart of desire.
He falls out of the passage gazing at the dirt. We see it as a baby. On falling on earth, he gazes at the same repugnant spot which he had desired in his previous existence.
He desires the place called "Mother". She makes him the rightful owner of four things (hunger, illness, old age, and death). That is why there are some specific differences in man and woman and these differences are referred to as males and females.
The baby looks at the mother and fondles her breast. It strokes it with its hands and gazes at it with its eyes. It cries and clutches it. It is this that nourishes the baby and helps it to grow. The baby falls down, cries and clutches the mother's bosom and sucks it with its mouth.
The mother says,
"The baby is crying in hunger and must be given its milk".
As soon as the child is born, he observes that place and knows its inner meaning. He utters,
"Are you the mother of these four; hunger, disease, old age, and dearth?"
He grinds his gums saying,
"Are you the woman who has shaken up the total universe knowing the
philosophical meaning of these four and their result?"
"Oh woman, do you not control and subordinate even the celestial beings and
play games before my very eyes - the six acts of lust, hatred, greed,
miserliness, bigotry and envy, and the sixty-four arts, as the ghosts that destroy
the body, like the dog of desire and falsehood?"
"You are the devil that develops my body and makes me wonder about like a dog
on this earth. You are my mother but a devil for this earth. Oh you desirous
mother, I shall attack you and break you. I shall feed you with the heavenly
words of "Mother! Father!".
"I shall show you the Primordial One. I shall dance the sixty-four arts with you,
compressing them within three years".
So saying, he bites the cheek, kisses the nose, squeezes the breast, kicks the chest, pinches the ears, and does many other things, and completes sixty-one games within a span of three years.
He does this with no malice. He speaks with the Aathi, The Primordial One and smiles with the mother.
It is this infant having completed the sixty-one sensual arts who is born as Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine). This gnani is called an "infant" by the world and the mother. Reflect on this and be clarified.
My brothers and sisters, Aathi, the Primordial One converses and laughs with Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine), stays with him, plays with him, sings him lullaby, carries him, kisses him and embraces him till he is three years of age. The ten evil qualities of intoxication, lust, theft, murder, falsehood, jealousy, prejudice, impatience, haste, and arrogance are torn away from him.
Born as Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine), with the Aathi (The Primordial One), he completes the sixty-one (of the sixty-four) arts compressed within three years. He grows happily to a youthful stage.
Brother, it is because the ten evil qualities had been gotten rid of that God loves the Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine), trusts him, and is close to him, despite the great task of the sixty-one arts he had completed earlier.
When Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine) severs the ten evil qualities, God is to him as He is to the infant. He will kiss him, converse with him, help him, show him love and speak to him. This child will be a true gnani. These are the important signs of the body and its power.
Aathi Eeswaran (God) plays with the infant, carries him, gives him milk, sings him lullabies, wheels him around in a pram, feeds him with ambrosia and performs several other things that are beneficial to the child. This babe and the true gnani are in the same state. Please reflect carefully about this.
When the child grows up, he catches the same repulsive spot at the second opportunity. It is called love, infatuation or lust. He handles this spot at the second opportunity and for this event the world holds celebrations and ceremonies. The right of procreation in this hell-house of the world is obtained with pride. In this state of pride, some spots that are to be concealed are kept exposed.
But brother, born as human and after having successfully completed the sixty-one sexual arts and reached their finality, he is oblivious to such temptation (at the age of 3 years old). It is he who is born as (a human), as Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine) and completes sixty-one of the sixty-four arts in this worldly life, until (or by the time) he is three years of age. At this stage he is exempted from the other arts (from the last 3 of the sixty-four arts).
The child thereafter (until he grows up) becomes oblivious to these sexual arts. The human mother (the mother of the human child) does not recognize the sixty-one arts (that the human child plays out with her) and thinks the child is behaving innocently.
This babe (or human child) will be a great gnani (by the age of 3 years old). The Aathi Sivam (The Primal One) sees his greatness and determination. He plays and laughs with the babe saying,
"Oh great gnani, you have successfully conquered and discarded the sixty-one
arts".
"When you reach the age of twenty-one years, the three arts that are unknown to
you will become four types of women. They will turn out to be devils who will
destroy you. They will show love to your face but cause injury to your heart.
They will show love that will melt you and lust that will blind your eye. The ghost
whom you denounced (earlier) will (then) squeeze your throat".
"The three arts unknown to you earlier, "love, infatuation, and lust", will join with
the sixty-one arts already conquered by you to follow you when you are
twenty-one years of age. These three arts and the sixty-one will make up the
sixty-four sensual arts. The three arts are the four types of women. Your
youthful age will try to turn you into a dog".
O Precious Son, if you escape from this and become a Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine), the Aathi Sivam (The Primal One) will befriend you. The meaning of this cannot be easily told in full.
But the enormous "Debt of Karmic Births" will send you into three and a half crores of births.
It is those who conquer this enormous debt of birth who are the True Gnanis. You should know this. But Son, this is very rare in the world. These True Gnanis will be like children. They will conceal themselves. They will know themselves. They will worship the Lone God. They will forget the world and proceed. They will conquer death. They will be in seclusion and hiding. They will not work for glory and fame. They will not display themselves. They will possess many virtues, good conduct and behavior. They will be at prayer and worship the Lone God. They will be aloof.
Look for a Guru of this high state. Do selfless service to Him and thereby acquire great benefit and reach the glorious feet of the Master (God). This is the Manu-eesan's (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine) great acquisition of the unattainable and rare gift of birth.
When your perform your many rare duties to the "True Guru", and expect no reward, your Guru Consciousness will develop and the Grace of the Guru too will grow. Through the Grace of the "One True Guru", the Disciple will develop. He will grow in wisdom and his love for the Aathi (The Primal One) will increase. His sins will be thereby erased, and this will lead to the disappearance of fever, disease, and hatred.
All this will make the earth pleased and the "Justice of the King" will be enhanced. Kindness and the love of fellow beings will grow. The blessings of the Celestial Beings will be showered. Charity will develop and patience will increase. Poverty will cease to exist. Guru Grace will spring forth. The massive "Debt of Birth" will be erased due to this Grace. Truth will grow. The generous Celestial Beings will be alone with you offering you assistance.
But Son, at this point I must take you back to the planting of the tree in the desert, and its greatness. This tree is the excellent and virtuous "Guru Leader". All the words spoken Now are about this "Truthful Guru". Reflect on this and do your service to Him wisely and your wants will be removed. You must perform selfless service towards Him with "One Mind". Accordingly, the tree of "Guru's Grace" will grow to tower sky high.
Many poisonous winds will attack this tree. The "Guru's Grace" will receive the poisonous wind and send in its place a good wind that will be of benefit to the country. Likewise, My Son, if the services of a "True Guru" are available in a country, good will accrue and pave the way for the prosperity of that country.
You must look for such a "Tree" and discover "It". You cannot easily find this tree in any tree-family. You should not cast aspersions and label the tree as good or bad as the words occur to your tongue.
Brother, when such a tree grows in a desert, people want to selfishly and greedily enjoy it for themselves, and prevent its benefit spreading to others. Contrary to this conception, it is our duty to protect this tree in the desert as we protect a fruit-bearing tree in our garden in the country.
We must share its benefits with all mankind. If we thus water this tree with the waters of our love, the fruits of love will be abundant on the tree to be eaten by all the needy. Further, this tree can bring happiness to all living beings. It is the "panacea", the "Katpaham" (the Celestial Tree of the divine realm), that grants all wishes. Therefore, the Grace of the Guru should be sustained and nourished and no hindrance or evil should be allowed to touch it. Amen.
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"Text of Longer Version" - of Chapter 29, of "The Lotus Pond", using the "List of Outline Topics" developed by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler), and with some "Outline Topics" Expanded upon by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler)
[Note: The Expanded Part by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) of Chapter 29 for some "Outline Topics" is contained in brackets (xxx), is highlighted in RED, and when set off in a separate paragraph starts with the word "Bawa". Thank you. Enjoy. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. Amen]
1. The Nature of the "Lotusd Pond" - Is An Example of "Man-God Happening"
Guru:
There is a pond. It is at a lower level of earth where water flows into it. People refer to such a collection of stagnant water as a low lying area. When it rains the pond becomes filled with water. When the rains continue, dirt and mud too find their way into the pond. Grass and lotus plants appear in this collection of mud. People call it a lake when the water does not strain itself and there is plant life. Some people bathe and others wash themselves in its waters saying,
"Oh this lake is good."
The water is stagnant and the lotus plants grow in it. It looks pretty. Roots and flowers appear in the water. The leaves are useful to man. The lotus plants puts out shoots and bear flowers and leaves.
People now call it a lotus pond. Some fish appear on their own in the mud at the bottom of the pond. Some fish enter the pond with the flood waters while other fish fall into the pond with the rains from the sky.
The frogs see the pond from a place of elevation and jump into its waters. Waves form and break into all four shores and overflow to expand the pond. More living creatures migrate into the pond to live there.
People look at the pond and say,
"Aha, this is a good lotus pond. Let us drink its water and rest for awhile."
So they drink the water and relax for a while before going on their way.
One person says,
"Yes, it is a good pond. There is water. There is an ache in my stomach. I
shall ease myself here and wash my hands and feet before I proceed."
Yet others say,
"Oho, this was earlier a low lying piece of land. Now it has become a large lotus
pond. This water is not so pure. All the rain water in the village collects here.
Chee! Chee! This is not suitable for drinking."
They say this and go away.
Cattle, goats and cows too come to drink the water in the same pond and also to ease themselves, dropping their excreta and urine there. People come there to pick the lotus leaves and others to gather the lotus flowers for the temple. Some come to fish. They all come, each for his individual purpose.
Each person completes the work for which he has come and goes away.
2. The Work of "Man-the-low" - Is Rejecting "God's Gifts", Including Oneself
However, the Manu-neesan (man-the-low, man-the-worldly) who sees the pond thinks,
"What is this? This is a muddy pond. It contains the droppings of cattle and
human excreta. There are frogs and fishes. It is not clean. After all, this was
only a piece of low lying land once. There is excreta on one side. It is dirty.
Cows drink its water. There are fish and crocodiles. There is mud. There are
lotus flowers. This pond is impure"
They say this and that and talk about the impurities of the pond.
3. The Work of "Man-The-High" - Is Accepting "God's Gifts", Including Oneself
But if man uses his wisdom he will realize that where there is a pond, there is mud; where there is mud, there is the blue lotus flower; where there is the lotus, there is impurities; where there is impurity, there are many fish, frogs and similar creatures.
Where there is a pond, people will come there to fulfill their needs. They will perform their duties and go away.
There is a repulsive impurity in the pond. But the Angel Mikha'il (peace be upon Him) comes and cleans this impurity and deposits it with a collection of dirt. The lotus eats this dirt and flourishes. The flowers bloom into a large size. The water in the pond becomes clear. Many creatures live happily in the pond. The sand on the shores is clean. The water in the pond is so clear that one sees one's face in it like in a mirror.
The man who does not cast adverse remarks on the nature of the pond and does his work and goes away is Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine).
4. The Inner Meaning of Your Body - Is Why, Where & How "Man-God Happens"
Just like the secret in man's life (lies in the Qutbiyyat of God within you, within God within you, which is your 6th level of wisdom, the wisdom surrounding your soul, just waiting to awaken to the "Presence of God" and to the "Word of God" for your age and for your life, and if you like, then liberate your soul and take it back to God, but this time with an understanding of "Your Oneness", so "Your Oneness" will never leave you again, that is, an understanding of "Your Oneness" with God within you, and with what is "Within God" within you, and with what "God is doing" with what is "Within God" within you, which is revealing God to God within you for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within God within you, and for a little while on the "outside" of you for the benefit of your brothers and sisters, so too) the inner meaning of his body lives here (in the example of the lotus pond).
5. "Man Enters A Woman As A Man" - And "Comes Out As A Child", as "Rebirth"
Inside of the repulsive pit mixed with many types of dirt, man is formed into a dirty embryo and remains in this state for ten months. Venom is mixed with his flesh, skin and nerves. At the tenth month he finds his exit through the entrance of the same dirty pit. At the end of nine months, nine days, nine "nalihai", nine hours, nine minutes, and nine seconds he comes through the passage with fluid oozing out and with a melting heart of desire.
He falls out of the passage gazing at the dirt. We see it as a baby. On falling on earth, he gazes at the same repugnant spot which he had desired in his previous existence.
6. Man Comes Into The World Again As A Child - But "To Do What?"
He desires the place called "Mother". She makes him the rightful owner of four things (hunger, illness, old age, and death). That is why there are some specific differences in man and woman and these differences are referred to as males and females.
The baby looks at the mother and fondles her breast. It strokes it with its hands and gazes at it with its eyes. It cries and clutches it. It is this that nourishes the baby and helps it to grow. The baby falls down, cries and clutches the mother's bosom and sucks it with its mouth.
The mother says,
"The baby is crying in hunger and must be given its milk".
7. "You Are My Mother But A Devil For This Earth" - So, Who "Must Be Destroyed" is Now "Mom and Dad" within you, who in truth is Now your "Body" and your "Mind", by revealing the Nur and the Qutb within God within you, as One
As soon as the child is born, he observes that place and knows its inner meaning. He utters,
"Are you the mother of these four; hunger, disease, old age, and death?"
He grinds his gums saying,
"Are you the woman who has shaken up the total universe knowing the
philosophical meaning of these four and their result?"
"Oh woman, do you not control and subordinate even the celestial beings and
play games before my very eyes - the six acts of lust, hatred, greed,
miserliness, bigotry and envy, and the sixty-four arts, as the ghosts that destroy
the body, like the dog of desire and falsehood?"
"You are the devil that develops my body and makes me wonder about like a dog
on this earth. You are my mother but a devil for this earth. Oh you desirous
mother, I shall attack you and break you. I shall feed you with the heavenly
words of "Mother! Father!".
"I shall show you the Primordial One. I shall dance the sixty-four arts with you,
compressing them within three years".
So saying, he bites the cheek, kisses the nose, squeezes the breast, kicks the chest, pinches the ears, and does many other things, and completes sixty-one games within a span of three years.
He does this with no malice. He speaks with the Aathi, The Primordial One and smiles with the mother.
8. The Truth of One Born As "Man-The-High" - Is "Man-God Happening"
It is this infant having completed the sixty-one sensual arts who is born as
Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine). This gnani is called an "infant" by the world and the mother. Reflect on this and be clarified.
9. The Primal One, The Aathi - Is The One Who Raises You, Not "Mom & Dad"
My brothers and sisters, Aathi, the Primordial One converses and laughs with Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine), stays with him, plays with him, sings him lullaby, carries him, kisses him and embraces him till he is three years of age. The ten evil qualities of intoxication, lust, theft, murder, falsehood, jealousy, prejudice, impatience, haste, and arrogance are torn away from him.
Born as Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine), with the Aathi (The Primordial One), he completes the sixty-one (of the sixty-four) arts compressed within three years. He grows happily to a youthful stage.
10. What Establishes "Your Presence" - as "separate from" God's Presence, is "Mom's Presence" as "separate from" you
Brother, it is because the ten evil qualities had been gotten rid of that God loves the Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine), trusts him, and is close to him, despite the great task of the sixty-one arts he had completed earlier.
When Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine) severs the ten evil qualities, God is to him as He is to the infant. He will kiss him, converse with him, help him, show him love and speak to him. This child will be a true gnani. These are the important signs of the body and its power.
Aathi Eeswaran (God) plays with the infant, carries him, gives him milk, sings him lullabies, wheels him around in a pram, feeds him with ambrosia and performs several other things that are beneficial to the child. This babe and the true gnani are in the same state. Please reflect carefully about this.
11. "Play It Again Sam" - "When the child grows up, he catches the same repulsive spot at the second opportunity. It is called love, infatuation or lust"
When the child grows up, he catches the same repulsive spot at the second opportunity. It is called love, infatuation or lust. He handles this spot at the second opportunity and for this event the world holds celebrations and ceremonies. The right of procreation in this hell-house of the world is obtained with pride. In this state of pride, some spots that are to be concealed are kept exposed.
12. You Learning "How To Do It Correctly" Is "What Matters" - Not Just "You Doing It", whether it be prayer, worship, duty, learning, work or play, or anything else, including "Making Love"
[Note: There is No Original Text for this Topic, for Topic 12, but this Topic appeared to become a very important Topic in the development of this "Outline and Topic Review Version" of Chapter 29, and is Now shared with you at this time, if you like. All other Topics, other than Topic 12, have Original Text associated with them. Thank you. Enjoy. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. Amen - My love you Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us). Amen]
13. Understanding The "Two Great Battles of Your Life" - And "How They Are Won?", and "By Whom?", and "Where?", and Most Importantly, "Why?"
But brother, born as human and after having successfully completed the sixty-one sexual arts and reached their finality, he is oblivious to such temptation (at the age of 3 years old). It is he who is born as (a human), as Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine) and completes sixty-one of the sixty-four arts in this worldly life, until (or by the time) he is three years of age. At this stage he is exempted from the other arts (from the last 3 of the sixty-four arts).
The child thereafter (until he grows up) becomes oblivious to these sexual arts. The human mother (the mother of the human child) does not recognize the sixty-one arts (that the human child plays out with her) and thinks the child is behaving innocently.
14. "The Second Great Battle of Your Life" - is a battle that is Now facing all of My Children, and a battle that can only be won by "The One", by God, by you finding and falling into "The One", first on the "outside" of you and then within you, if you like
This babe (or human child) will be a great gnani (by the age of 3 years old). The Aathi Sivam (The Primal One) sees his greatness and determination. He plays and laughs with the babe saying,
"Oh great gnani, you have successfully conquered and discarded the sixty-one
arts".
"When you reach the age of twenty-one years, the three arts that are unknown to
you will become four types of women. They will turn out to be devils who will
destroy you. They will show love to your face but cause injury to your heart.
They will show love that will melt you and lust that will blind your eye. The ghost
whom you denounced (earlier) will (then) squeeze your throat".
"The three arts unknown to you earlier, "love, infatuation, and lust", will join with
the sixty-one arts already conquered by you to follow you when you are
twenty-one years of age. These three arts and the sixty-one will make up the
sixty-four sensual arts. The three arts are the four types of women. Your
youthful age will try to turn you into a dog.
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Chap01.homestead.com), if you like, for the Choice is yours, not God's, that is, the Choice to accept and use what God is "Now Giving You", is most certainly your Choice, not God's, and certainly not the Choice of this child. Thank you. Enjoy. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. Amen]
"O Precious Son, if you escape from this and become a Manu-eesan (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine), the Aathi Sivam (The Primal One) will befriend you. The meaning of this cannot be easily told in full."
"But (if not, if you fail to do this in your lifetime, that is, if you fail to win this "Second Great Battle of Your Life", or at least to truly Start to do this, as "One with" God, first on the "outside" of you, and then within you, in your lifetime, that is, before you die to the flesh, and before "The Beast" emerges out of at least one of My Children, and drags you yelling and screaming off to hell with you, then), the enormous "Debt of Karmic Births" will send you into three and a half crores of births, (that is, into 105 million rebirths, with you ending as worm in hell with only one level of consciousness, or feeling)
(Bawa. So in the End, you take on an eternal life within you as "separate from" God within you, not because of God's Judgment, as the world believes, but rather, because that is "Exactly what you want", for in truth "The Justice of God is that whatever you intend is what you will receive", and in this way, "Your own life answers the question, "What do you want for eternity", for in truth what you End up with at the End, at the End of this brief stay in this earth world within you, is "Exactly what you want", for in truth "Everyone gets exactly what they want". Such is the true nature of God, of your Creator, and of you, as His Children, "The house you build is the house you get", and the "Crop you grow is the crop you harvest". Amen. So, the Choice is truly ours, not God's)
(Bawa. So please Choose wisely, not like a fool. For Bawa said that in the End, He will address each of His Children by either one of these two Names, that is, as either a "Wise Child", or as a "Fool". Please be "My Wise Children". Amen)
15. The Nature of The "One True Gnani" - is "Oneness with", rather than "separation from", and it is Only One who has truly joined in partnership with God to conquer the "Enormous Karmic Debt of Birth", which in truth is "Your Current Life" of "separation from", that is the "One True Gnani"
"It is those who conquer this enormous debt of birth who are the true gnanis, (that is, it is Only One who falls into the One, first on the "outside" of you, and then within you, who is "One True Gnani", who truly conquers this enormous debt of birth, that is, who truly conquers this enormous debt of "separation from" that in truth is your "false birth", both within you and for a little while on the "outside" of you)"
(Bawa. That is, this "false birth" of "separation from" Now in your "Room", or in your heart or mind within you, that is covering God within you, that in truth is covering your "True Birth" of "Oneness with", that is still within God within you, in "Safe Keeping" by God within you, within "God's Bank" within you, allowing One, if you like, if you truly turn back to God within you, and you truly away from "you" on the "outside" of you, to again take on your "True Birth" within God within you, that in truth is "Your Oneness With" God within you, that is, to again stand in "God's Presence" within you and hear "God Speak" from within God within you, but this time with an understanding of "Your Oneness", so it will never leave you again)
(Bawa. That is, to Truly Understand who "You Already Are", which is "God's Presence", and "God's Intention", and "God's Story", in the process, of one leaving and the other coming forward, that is, through the Contrast created by God of You as "One with" coming back into your "Room", or you heart or mind, and at the very same time by "you" as "separate from" leaving your "Room", or your heart or mind, for in truth "There is No True Birth, without a True Death", and "You cannot truly put something old down, unless you are truly picking something New Up)
(Bawa. That is, this is the "One True Gnani", One in whom your "Original True Birth", which is "Your Oneness" again comes into your "Room", or heart or mind, from within God within you, from within "God's Bank" within you, and Starts To Rule over Everything within that "Room", Passing Judgment upon Everything in that "Room", and offering Everything Salvation, if they like, that is, to fall back into God, from which they came, as the Understanding of God, as the Essence of Creation, or to return to the original place that of their birth, as the form or sifat of their birth, that is, to earth, fire, water, air, or ether, with all of this happening, first on the "outside" of you and then within you, at your repeated request)
(Bawa. That is, with each breath, look, smell, sound, taste, word, and thought of your life, in order to again fill your "Room", to fill your heart or mind, with "Who In Truth You Already Are", which is the "Presence of God", and the "Intention of God", and the "Story" of God, the Story of God, all of which is just waiting for God within you to again tell and bring to Completed by God within you, but this time within your "Room", or heart or mind. And in this way, this is the True Gnani, which One who is "No longer in your Room", as "separate from", so "God can be in your Room", as "One with", moving forward God's Story, causing Everything that has Now come into you, that is Now within your "Room", Everything that has Now filled your "Room", or heart or mind, in your ignorance and in your arrogance about your ignorance, and that Now Rules over you, as the 9 Openings of your Elemental Body, to join in the telling and bringing to Completion of God's Story, but this time within you, within your Room)
(Bawa. And in this way, transforming Everything that has Now taken over and filled your Room, that has filled the "Handful of earth" that was Adam (peace be upon Him) within you, that God originally placed within you, and has Now become full of Everything discarded by God, in order to become God within you, into what God Originally Intended for Adam (peace be upon Him) within you, which is the "Palace of the soul", which is the House of wisdom, is the House of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him), into the "Ship of the Qutb", and into the 11 Weapons of the Qutb, if you like, for the Choice is yours, not God, that is, the Choice to let this happen within you, that is, to let "God Again Happen", but this time within you, this time within your Room, or not. Please let this happen within you, for in truth this, and only this, is why God created all of My Children, in partnership with Me, and then gave them to Me, for Me to raise You as Him, and return You to Him, if you like, if you will only join with Me in this "Grand Endeavor", while you still can. Amen. Ok?)
(Again), "It is those who conquer this enormous debt of birth (this "false birth" of "separation from" that Now fills your "Room", or heart or mind) who are the True Gnanis, (who in truth "Is the One" who again becomes your "True Birth", the "One True Birth" of all of My Children, the "One True Birth" of "Your Oneness", all of which is no longer within your "Room", or heart or mind, but in truth is still within you, as what is "Within God" within you, which in truth is "God's Bank" within you, within a tiny piece of flesh within you no bigger than a atom, just waiting for your to claim, as "Your Crop", as "Your Property", as "Your Bank", just waiting for you to withdraw from, if you like, but which never diminishes, no matter how much you take, all of which is just waiting for you to Use to Rule Over what is Now Ruling Over You within your "Room")"
(Bawa. All of which is Now "God's Final Gift" for your age and for your life, all of which is How God Has Now Saved You, if you like, all of which in truth is Now "Our" dearest loving Son, and your dearest loving brother, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us), first on the "outside" of you, as "God's Presence", as "God's Intention", as "God's Story" for your age and for your life, and then within you, as the Understanding of Creation, as the Essence of God's Creation, which in truth is the Qutbiyyat of God, the Grace of the Dhat, your 6th level of wisdom, and within that, as the Understanding of God, which in the Nur Muhammad or Light of your wisdom, as the Dhat of God, as the Essence of God, as "God's Bank")
(Bawa. And within that as "God's Prayer", as the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is", and within that, as the Understanding of the Din or Deen, of the "Power Within The Essence of Everything", which is Allah Muhammad, as the Effulgence of God, as "True Man's Bank" within "God's Bank", and "True Man's Prayer" within "God's Prayer", the "Prayer of the One" within the "Prayer of the One to the One who Is", allowing God to withdraw from that Bank, which also never diminishes no matter how much is taken, in order to answer God's Question of God, in Anathi, in the time of darkness or Lack of Understanding, the Question, "Who am I?", So in the End, at the End of this last and final telling of God's Story, with Now all 9 Names of Muhammad having been revealed and Understood, "No Child Is Left Behind")
(Bawa. So in the End, there is nothing still "Separating God From God". Please do it like this, My Dearest Loving Children, while you still can. Please join with God to get to God, and let Everything else flow back into the "Ocean of Ilm", from which it all came, with you again becoming the Ocean, with you no longer existing as "separate from" the Ocean, as Rain, with you having Completed your duty, with "you" letting You as the Grace of God flow back into God, from which Everything has come. Amen, Amen, Amen Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Amen Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Amen Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. Amen. Ok?)
(Bawa. So My Dearest Loving Children),
"It is those who conquer this enormous debt of birth who are the True Gnanis. You should know this. But Son, this is very rare in the world. These True Gnanis will be like children. They will conceal themselves. They will know themselves. They will worship the Lone God. They will forget the world and proceed. They will conquer death. They will be in seclusion and hiding. They will not work for glory and fame. They will not display themselves. They will possess many virtues, good conduct and behavior. They will be at prayer and worship the Lone God. They will be aloof.
Look for a Guru of this high state. Do selfless service to Him and thereby acquire great benefit and reach the glorious feet of the Master (God). This is the Manu-eesan's (Man-The-High, Man-The-Divine) great acquisition of the unattainable and rare gift of birth, (of "Your True Birth" but this time within you, and this time with an Understanding of "Your True Birth", of "Your Oneness", this time with an Understanding of "Your Oneness", so it will never leave you again. Amen. Ok?)"
16. The Value of the "One True Gnani" - is the "One True Gnani" Himself, not what He can do for you, not what you can get from Him, that is, for your life of "separation from" Him, for your "Current Life" of "separation from" the "One True Gnani", that is, the value of the "One True Gnani" is not what He can give you as "separate from" Himself
"When your perform your many rare duties to the "True Guru", and expect no reward, your Guru Consciousness will develop and the Grace of the Guru too will grow, (that is, the "Presence of God" and the "Word of God" coming from the "One True Guru", from the "Word of God Made Flesh" for your age and for your life, will awaken the "One True Guru" within you, that is, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us) on the "outside" of you will awaken Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and with Us) within you, all of which in truth is the wisdom surrounding your soul, all of which in truth is your 6th level of wisdom, all of which in truth is the Qutbiyyat of God, which in truth is the "Presence of God", the "Word of God" for your age and life, and within Him will be your 7th level of wisdom, which is the light of your wisdom, the Nur Muhammad, which is "God's Bank")"
(Bawa. And within that is "God's Prayer", within God within you, that is, as the "Shepherd and The Tree", as beautifully explained in Chapter 2, with the same name, in the beautiful book of wisdom, "A Mystical Journey" (www.AMysticalJourney.
homestead.com), that is, as the "Tree in the Desert" and the "Lotus Pond", as beautifully explained in Chapter 28, and Chapter 29, with the same names, in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom" (www.ThePearlOfWisdom.
homestead.com)
(Bawa. That is, as the Nur and the Qutb, or the 25th and the 24 letters of the Kalimah that naturally emerge out of the 25 letters, out of "The Shadow", when you let the "One True Guru" reason over your fate, first on the "outside" of you and then within you. That is, out of the "Shadow", which in truth is your current state, that is, out of the 25 letters, of the 28 letters that from the Mystical Body of Man, as beautifully explained as Chapter 30, "The Mystical Meaning of Man's Body", and as Chapter 31, "The Twenty Eight Arabic Alphabets In Man's Body", in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom". All of which in truth is True Prayer, the "Prayer of the One to the One Who Is", if you like)
(Bawa. For the Choice is yours, not God's, that is, the Choice to use your life in this way, or not, that is, to allow God to finish telling and bringing to Completion His Story Again, but this time within you, that is, within your "Room", or heart or mind, when "you" as "separate from" are no longer in "Your Room", allowing "You" as "One with" to re-enter, and tell and bring to Completion "Your Story", the Story of the "Oneness of God and True Man", for the benefit of all of the Creation of God, within God within you, and for a little while on the "outside" of you, for the benefit of your brothers and sisters, as this child has Now learned to do, and as you too can Now learn to do, if you like. Amen. Ok?).
(Bawa. So My Dearest Loving Children),
"When your perform your many rare duties to the "True Guru", and expect no reward, your Guru Consciousness will develop and the Grace of the Guru too will grow. Through the Grace of the "One True Guru", the Disciple will develop. He will grow in wisdom and his love for the Aathi (The Primal One) will increase. His sins will be thereby erased, and this will lead to the disappearance of fever, disease, and hatred.
All this will make the earth pleased and the "Justice of the King" will be enhanced. Kindness and the love of fellow beings will grow. The blessings of the Celestial Beings will be showered. Charity will develop and patience will increase. Poverty will cease to exist. Guru Grace will spring forth. The massive "Debt of Birth" will be erased due to this Grace. Truth will grow. The generous Celestial Beings will be alone with you offering you assistance.
17. The Tree That Is "Now Growing" In The "West" - will eventually fall into the "East", that is, the "Sun that is Now Rising in the West will eventually Set in the East", all of which in truth is Now the life and teaching of My Children, of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Us, and with Him), if you like
But Son, at this point I must take you back to the planting of the tree in the desert, and its greatness. This tree is the excellent and virtuous "Guru Leader". All the words spoken Now are about this "Truthful Guru". Reflect on this and do your service to Him wisely and your wants will be removed. You must perform selfless service towards Him with "One Mind". Accordingly, the tree of "Guru's Grace" will grow to tower sky high.
Many poisonous winds will attack this tree. The "Guru's Grace" will receive the poisonous wind and send in its place a good wind that will be of benefit to the country. Likewise, My Son, if the services of a "True Guru" are available in a country, good will accrue and pave the way for the prosperity of that country.
You must look for such a "Tree" and discover "It". You cannot easily find this tree in any tree-family. You should not cast aspersions and label the tree as good or bad as the words occur to your tongue.
Brother, when such a tree grows in a desert, people want to selfishly and greedily enjoy it for themselves, and prevent its benefit spreading to others. Contrary to this conception, it is our duty to protect this tree in the desert as we protect a fruit-bearing tree in our garden in the country.
We must share its benefits with all mankind. If we thus water this tree with the waters of our love, the fruits of love will be abundant on the tree to be eaten by all the needy. Further, this tree can bring happiness to all living beings. It is the "panacea", the "Katpaham" (the Celestial Tree of the divine realm), that grants all wishes. Therefore, the Grace of the Guru should be sustained and nourished and no hindrance or evil should be allowed to touch it. Amen.
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Destroyed" is Now "Mom and Dad" within you, who in truth is Now your "Body"
and your "Mind", by revealing the Nur and the Qutb within God within you, as One
"Mom's Presence" as "separate from" you
spot at the second opportunity. It is called love, infatuation or lust"
Doing It", whether it be prayer, worship, duty, learning, work or play, or anything
else, including "Making Love"
Fought & Won?", and "By Whom?", and "Where?", and Most Importantly,
"Why?"
My Children, and a battle that can only be won by "The One", by God, by you
finding and falling into "The One", first on the "outside" of you and then within
you, if you like
"separation from", and it is Only One who has truly joined in partnership with God
to conquer the "Enormous Karmic Debt of Birth", which in truth is "Your Current
Life" of "separation from", that is the "One True Gnani"
what He can do for you, not what you can get from Him, that is, for your life of
"separation from" Him, for your "Current Life" of "separation from" the "One True
Gnani", that is, the value of the "One True Gnani" is not what He can give you as
"separate from" Himself
"East", that is, the "Sun that is Now Rising in the West will eventually Set in the
East", all of which in truth is Now the life and teaching of My Children, of the
Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Us, and with Him),
if you like
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"The Pearl of Wisdom"
By His Holiness, M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
(may God be pleased with Him, and with Us)
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