"The Wisdom of Man" - Summary of Chapter 03: "The World Within and Without" (Spiritual Book 08) By His Holiness: M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) Summary By: One of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Date Posted: October, 2004 Go To: Summary of Chapter 03 - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Outline of Summary - the outline Topics extracted from Chapter 03 Text of Summary - an expanded summary of each outline Topic Go To: Review of Chapter 03 - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Go To: Wisdom Study Material - for Chapter 03 Go To: Related Material - for Chapter 03 Go To: Original Version - of Chapter 03 Go To: Table of Contents - for "The Wisdom of Man" (Spiritual Book 08) Home Page - Spiritual Books Go To Spiritual Book 09 Book 08: Go To Chapter 04 Library Home Page Go To Spiritual Book 07 Book 08: Go To Chapter 02 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Summary of Chapter 03 - by Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Outline of Summary - the outline Topics extracted from Chapter 03 1-0. Opening Prayer - by His Holiness 2-0. The Steps We Must Take - With God Within Us 3-0. We Must Realize - The True Exaltedness & Rarity of Our Birth 4-0. We Must Understand - The Secret Within Our Exalted & Rare Birth 5-0. The First Thought - of The Tiny Ant Man 5-1. The Meaning of This First Thought - of The Tiny Ant Man 6-0. The Second Thought - of The Tiny Ant 6-1. The Meaning of the Second Thought - of The Tiny Ant Man 7-2. The "Inside" of Our "Outside" - Can Become Our Salvation 7-3. The Decision That We Must All Now Make - If We Are Wise 8-0. What To Do? 8-2. The Condition Within The Condition - For Our Salvation 9-0. The True State of Prayer - And What Blocks It 12. What Must Be Formed Within Us - To Be Successful 13. Who Is At Fault - If We Don't Succeed In Our Life 14. What Is The Meaning - Of Being Born Again 15. What Is The True Journey - That We Are On? 16. How It Works "Outside" - In the World of Hell "Outside" of Us 17. How It Works "Within" - In The World of God Within Us Text of Summary - an expanded summary of each outline Topic 1-0. Opening Prayer by His Holiness Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Gracious. May Allah, the unfathomable ruler of grace, the One who is incomparable love and gives undiminishing wealth, the One who gives the fragrance which the mind cannot perceive, grant you His resonance, His explanation, the radiance of wisdom, and the plenitude of the clarity of the soul. May He give and give this to you, protect you, and nourish you. 2-0. The Steps We Must Take With God Within Us The steps we must take with God within us is to again become "One with" God within us, before we die to the world on the "outside" of us. We must join with God within us to dispel all the things within us, that we see as "outside" of us, but are really hidden from us within us, that are currently "separating us" from God within us, that are "separating us" from the world of souls within us, the palace of the soul, the house of wisdom within us, and from the kingdom of God within us, that are "separating us" from firdaus, the 8th heaven of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within us, the kingdom of God within us, and from the "Secret World of Allah" within the 8th heaven within us. So we can go beyond them within us, to the open space beyond them, beyond everything that God has discarded within us that we now see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, to Allah within us, to the original treasure which stands in the open space within us, to the treasure of the innermost heart within us. Amen 3-0. We Must Realize The True Exaltedness & Rarity of Our Birth We must realize the true exaltedness and rarity of our birth which is True Man or Insan Kamil within God within us, when God is within man and man is within God within us. In this way, man is the mystery of God, and God is the mystery of man. Man is a mystery to the world, and the One who created the mystery known as man is also a mystery. Man-God, Insan Kamil, or perfected man is the mystery within the mystery that is the mysterious power of Allah. God is the mystery which resplends in perfection (kamal), and Insan Kamil is the mystery within the mystery. When the two become one, existing as wisdom within wisdom, as speech within speech, as prayer within prayer, as meditation within meditation, as sound within sound, as food within food, and as life within life - that is the mystery 4-0. We Must Understand The Secret Within Our Exalted & Rare Birth We must understand the secret within our exalted & rare birth which is the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, when the two within us, which is man within God and God within man within us, intermingle and dwell as one within one within us, that is the secret, that is the secret within the secret within us 5-0. The First Thought of The Tiny Ant Man "Pretend to believe in the world, but do not believe in it." 5-1. The Meaning of The First Thought of The Tiny Ant Man The meaning of this first thought of the Tiny Ant Man nothing is as it might appear to be, so walk cautiously in the arms of God, because not everyone born with the form of man is a man, and not everything that lives in the world has wisdom, has a direct connection to God within them. Everything that has a form made of the five elements has hunger, illness, old age, and death. It is said that when hunger comes, the ten good qualities and the divine analytic wisdom which distinguishes and sees, fly away. The pangs of hunger can destroy wisdom. The selfishness of the body exists as desire, blood-ties, attachments, religions, races, castes, separations, philosophies, scriptures, differences, praise, and blame. There are 17 puranas, or ancient epics, which make up the world - arrogance, karma, and maya, or illusion; the three sons of maya: tarahan, singhan, and suran; lust, hatred, miserliness, greed, fanaticism, envy, intoxicants, desire, theft, murder, and falsehood. The beauty of form, the visions seen by the eyes, the music heard by the ears, the smells smelled by the nose, the tastes tasted by the tongue, all the energies of the five elements, the qualities of the 17 puranas, and the millions and millions of shadows within the puranas are all contained in the huge world that exists within the heart of man. That world contains the 18,000 universes. It lies within man, and man lies within it. Children, the intellect of man can perceive that there are two worlds. One is within his heart, and the other is the world outside which is seen by his eyes and perceived by his senses. But in both worlds, animals will come to try to kill a man of truth, a man of mystery. They will come to eat him and to destroy him. We must pretend to believe them. We must act in such a way as to deceive them, and then we must escape. Man must escape from these 'animals' in order to leave this world. Man must understand this with mysterious wisdom. He must deceive those things, pretend to believe them, and then escape. If he believes in them, they will destroy and eat his unique birth. If he believes in them, they will kill his connection to that unique mystery. We must pretend to believe in them, deceive them, and escape. Otherwise, they will try to kill our connection to the mystery, and they will try to kill us. This is one thing that the ant man says. 6-0. The Second Thought of The Tiny Ant Man "Believe in God, do not pretend to believe in Him." 6-1. The Meaning of the Second Thought of The Tiny Ant Man The meaning of the second thought of the Tiny Ant Man is that only God can pray to God, so always pray to God by getting God within us to do it, by inviting Him to come and pray to God for us, asking Him to stand on us as His prayer mat, with us experiencing His prayer. Only then is our prayer valid. In this way, we must "stop working for wages to get into heaven, because we will be very disappointed, and instead, join in partnership with God within us, to complete what God has started within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, by first revealing True Man within True Man within us, revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, within the dunya or this earth world within us, as the "Oneness of God and His Creation" within us, allowing True Man within us to reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us, within akhirah or the hereafter within us, as the "Oneness of True Man and His Creation" within us, and in this way, revealing the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us. Amen. Also always realize that the only cure for us, for any of us, and for anything and everything in the Creation of God, is God, not anything of the Creation of God. So at all times, in every situation that God places before us, believe in God within us, and all of the "Stuff of God" within us, like the grace, the wisdom, and the 'ilm or divine knowledge of God within us, not in the world and in all of the "Stuff of the world", and in all of the "Stuff of ours", that we currently see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, and not in ourselves or in our brothers and sisters, as we currently see ourselves and them on the "outside" of us, instead, always placing our faith and trust in God, and in God alone, before we "say or do" anything in the world, in this way, establishing the "Presence of God" within us before we "say or do" anything, by saying the word "Bawa", which is the "Name of God" for our age. In this way, as Bawa teaches us in this beautiful discourse, believe in the one point within us that is God. Believe in the One God within us, the mysterious God within us. He will embrace and protect you. That one point within us is the mystery within us. And believe in the treasure within us within that mystery within us, which is True Man or Insan Kamil within us, as the mystery within the mystery within us, which exists as man within God within us and God within man within us. Believe in that treasure within us. That will protect you from within you. You can exist within it within you. 7-0. The Two Worlds That We All Have The two worlds that we all have is the world "outside" of us, and the world within our heart, and only the world on the "inside" of us can be changed, and the world "inside" of us can only be changed by God, by the direct intervention of God within us, when we have successfully steadied Him within us. Then God sets about curing Himself of "us", of the current "inside" of us, which produces the current "outside" of us, curing Himself not us, because we no longer exist. Then the inside of "us", after God has cured Himself of "us", first becomes the separation of the 7 heaves from the 7 hells within us, and then the 8th heaven within us, the firdaus of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him), which is the kingdom of God within us, and then the "Secret World of Allah" within the 8th heaven within us, which Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) opens within us, on His journey of Mi'raj within us, which is the place of True Prayer within us, the prayer of the One to the One who is, within us. Amen. 7-1. The World "Outside" of Us The world "outside" of us is the world that we currently see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, which in truth is "within us", and which in truth is only leading us to hell within us, to the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, if God doesn't directly intervene in our life before we die to the "outside" of us. To the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, who we will meet when we die to the "outside" of us, who is leading us to the suffering of the grave within us, to Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment) within us, and to an eternal life of "separation from" God within us, if we die in our state both within us and on the "outside" of us. If we die still living only on the "outside" of us, on the "outside" of us which in truth represents the form on the "outside' of us of everything that God has discarded within us, that God within us has discarded and is now within us, as it once was within God within us, everything that God discarded in order to become God within us, and which God will again discard, but this time within the wisdom within us, if we will only let Him, that is, if we will only join in partnership with Him to do it, that is, when we have successfully awakened the wisdom surrounding our soul, through the gift of God for our age, through the life and teaching of God for our age, both within us and on the "outside" of us, which for this age is the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), which is all of us living in this age, if that be our true intention, if our true intention is to become "One with" God within us for eternity before we die to the world on the "outside" of us. In this way, allowing the wisdom surrounding our soul to do battle with and win over the "enemy of our soul" both within us and on the "outside" of us, which are the "5 desires" within us to live on the "outside" of us, liberating our pure soul from our current impure birth, joining it with our wisdom, and in this way, closing down the world of hell within us, the world of jinns within us, and the world of fairies within us, and reopening the world of souls within us, and then opening the kingdom of God within us, and in this way, steadying God within us, allowing God to "cure Himself of us", because we no longer exist as "separate from" God, either on the inside or on the "outside" of us. In this way, making the current state of "us" come to an end, both within us and on the "outside" of us, the state of us only living on the "outside" of us, in ignorance of the "truth of us", and the "truth of God" within us, the "truth of us" which is "True Man happening" within the Creation of God within us, within the dunya or earth world within us, as the "Oneness of God and His Creation", and the truth of God within us which is "God happening" within the Creation of True Man within us, within akhirah or the hereafter within us, as the "Oneness of True Man and His Creation, and in this way, ending the state of "separation and differences" within us, the state of "arrogance, karma, and illusion" within us, the state of "desire for earth, women, and gold" within us, the state of "body, trick and danger" within us, by transforming "us" into God's problem within us. That is, making "us" in our current state into God's problem within us, making "us" in our current state no longer "our problem" on the "outside" of us, no longer "our" problem as "separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, but rather making "us" in our current state into God's problem within us, with God as "One with" us within our wisdom within us, and "us" as "One with" God within Him within our wisdom within us, which is the state of Insan Kamil, the state of the One within the One, the state of true prayer, the prayer of the One to the One who is, the state of Man-God/God-Man within us. Amen. In this way, we must come to realize without the slightest doubt, with our iman, that the problem of "us" in our current state is a problem that only God can solve within us, by revealing Himself to Himself within "us", within the Creation of True Man within us, by first revealing True Man to True Man within us, within the Creation of God within us, if we will only let Him. That is, if we will only join in partnership with God within us to do this "Divine Work" within us, to do this "Heart's Work" within us, that is, to finish what God has already started within us, a very, very long time ago, even before we were born into this earth world, that is, if we will let God reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us. That is, if we will only freely and peacefully let the current inside and "outside" of us come to an end, and do all of this in partnership with God within us before we die to the "outside" of us, then our life will truly be successful before we die, because after we die to the "outside" of us then it is too late to do this kind of work within us, then if we don't do this "Heart's Work" before we die, then when we die to the "outside" of us, all that is left for us is to live for eternity in the house that we have built within us, while we lived in ignorance of ourselves on the "outside" of us, and eat the harvest the crop we have sown in that state. Then that is all that is left to do after we die. May we all think about this a little, it is very, very important. Amen. 7-2. The "Inside" of Our "Outside" Can Become Our Salvation The "inside" of our "outside" can become our salvation when we "Steady God" within us, when we begin to realize and understand that everything that we see on the "outside" of us as form is really within us as essence, that is, when we begin to use God within us to save us. When we begin to use the wisdom of God within us to see the "inside" of our "outside", that is, to see through our wisdom that the "outside" of us is really within us as qualities and shadow forms, qualities and shadow forms which can subject us to many rebirths, qualities and shadow forms which only God can covert within us into the wealth of His three worlds within us. Amen. 7-3. The Decision That We Must All Now Make, If We Are Wise If we are wise we must think of this state, the current "inside" of our "outside', which are the qualities and shadow forms within us, within our "outside" which can subject us to many rebirths, and we must understand which of these two worlds we must come to know, our current "outside" of us through our mind and desire, which is our current way of knowing, and our current "inside" through our wisdom, and through God within our wisdom, which is a new way of knowing for all of us, that is, through Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, as our soul, as the Nur Muhammad within us, as the "light of our wisdom", the light of the "grace awakened wisdom of gnanam" within us, as the Katpaha Virudcham or the "wish fulfilling tree" within us, as the "Shepherd and that Tree" within us. As the "Palace of the soul" within us, as the "House of wisdom" within us, the house of Qutb Muhaiyaddeen Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (may God be pleased with Him) within us, as the 6th life within us, as the pure soul liberated from the cross of our elemental body, from our impure birth that we see on the "outside" of us, and through God within Him. The choice is ours, to either become eternally "One with" God within us, before we die to our "outside", or to become eternally "separate from" God within us, when we die to the current "outside" of us in our current state, having failed to come to know about the current "inside" of us, by joining in partnership with God within us, allowing God to transform our current "inside", which is everything that God discarded within us to become God within us, into the wealth of His three worlds, into heaven and hell, into good and evil, and into all of His qualities. Amen. 7-4. The Current World Within Each of Us The current world within each of us shows us in our ignorance our current world on the "outside" of us, so we can sin, and through our sin of "separation and differences", through our sin of "separation from" God, of "separation from" each other, and of "separation from" the Creation of God within us, we are being led to the Angel of Death (peace be upon Him) within us, to the "suffering of the grave" within us, to Qiyamah (the Standing Forth; the Day of Judgment) within us, and to an eternal life of "separation from" God. And in this way, in our ignorance of "who we are", of "where we are", and of "what is happening" in our life, we have allow all of the lives of darkness hidden within us to grow and live and prosper. This is why His Holiness teaches us, "Life is a feast of the world, Its medicine is a time after a time, (Is a repeated remembrance of God, Establishing the Presence of God within us, Before we say or do anything)". The lives of darkness within us that in truth are made up of 400 trillion, 10 thousand spiritual energies or sakties within us, which Bawa describes in the "Introduction" to the beautiful book of wisdom, "Shaikh and Disciple" (www.ShaikhAndDisciple.homestead.com), as "ether", as "Everything that is beyond the control of the mind". My dearest loving brothers and sisters, in our ignorance this is what we have done with the gift of God for our age, which is our life. We have grown it into the world on the "outside" of us which nourishes the world of darkness within us, that nourishes with each look, thought, intention, and act, each of these sakties or energies that has formed in our heart within us, whether it be murder, sin, karma, or maya or illusion, and now each of them must be given what it requires. This in truth is our life on the "outside" of us, feeding all of the lives of darkness or sakties within us, that we have grown within us, for man must feed them if they are to grow, and when we think we are feeding us, or protecting us, or taking care of us, and our "stuff", in truth we are feeding them, for in truth we have in our ignorance become "one with" them, we have become "one with" each of the lives of darkness within us. This is the current world within each of us that rules us through a "show of scenes" on the "outside" of us. And as a result of our current state we have taken on their qualities, and act with their actions, and take repeated births, and if not corrected by the direct intervention of God within us, before we die to the "outside" of us, we will eventually end up in hell within us, which in truth is but an eternal life of "separation from" God within us. Then we will have permanently lost for eternity our direct connection to God within us, which we came into this earth world with, but without an understanding of it, and which we will only regain through an understanding of everything that is separation us from it, and we will have lost the connection within God within us to being a True Man, to being one who has become "One with" God within Him, as God has become "One with" True Man within Him. 8-0. What To Do? What we all must do is first realize the truth behind the current "outside" of us, which are the 400 trillion, 10 thousand spiritual energies within us, which is the current "inside" of us, and the dangers of this "inside of our outside", the dangers of these qualities and actions within us, and of their forms of illusion on the "outside" of us, which we currently see and accept in our ignorance as "who we are", as "where we are", and as "what is happening" in our life, realizing that in truth they are only leading us to an eternal life of hell within us, an eternal life of "separation from" God within us, if God doesn't first directly intervene in our life before we die to the "outside" of us. And all the while, as Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) teaches us, we are being deceived by this "inside" of our "outside". For as Bawa 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, (Is a repeated remembrance of God, Establishing the Presence of God within us, Before we say or do anything)". In this way, realizing that the "inside" of our "outside" is in truth only leading us to an eternal life in hell, an eternal life of "separation from" God within us, which Bawa teaches us the only true hell, and having realized this, without the slightest doubt, with our iman, with our unshakable, complete, absolute faith, certitude, and determination that "God alone exist", with the complete acceptance of the heart that "God is One", and having realized this, then turn to God within us for help, in everything that we "say or do". And in this way, we must turn away from both of them, from the 5 elemental spirits within us, from them both as the current "inside" of us, and as hidden within the current "outside" of us, in this way, handing both our current "outside" and our current "inside" to God within us, handing our current "outside" to God within us, which is what currently defines us, defines us as "separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, which is our life of sin, and handing our current "inside" to God within us, the current "inside" of our "outside", which are the qualities and actions of our "inside", which are all of the lives of darkness within us that in our ignorance we have given birth to, and have grown to maturity within us, and which are now being nourished by our life of sin on the "outside" of us. That are being nourished within us by everything that we "say or do" on the "outside" of us, without first establishing the "Presence of God" within us, without first calling our wisdom within us to stand up, in this way, establishing the "Presence of God" within us, making our mind and desire sit down in this "Presence of God" within us, before we "say or do" anything. In this way, realizing that in our ignorance we have become "One with" the wrong thing within us, we have become "one with" the 5 elemental spirits within us, one with the co-operative store within us, which is the flower of the 5 elemental spirits within us, with the fragrance of hell on the "outside" of us, rather than "One with" the 1 true spirit within us, which is our soul joined with our wisdom, our pure soul liberated from our impure birth by our wisdom, which is the Holy Trinity of Jesus (peace be upon Him) within us, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit within us. Which in maturity is the Triple Flame of God within us, of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within us, Ya Allah, Ya Rasul, Ya Muhaiyaddeen within us, which in maturity becomes firdaus or the 8th heaven of Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within us, within the 7th heaven of Jesus (peace be upon Him) within us, becomes the kingdom of God within us, and which becomes in maturity the "Secret World of Allah" within, becomes the station of "True Prayer" within us, the prayer of the One to the One who Is within us, when Muhammad (blessing and peace be upon Him) within us goes on and completes His final journey within us, which is Mi'raj within us, establishing the state of "True Prayer" within us. And all of this naturally happens within us, with each of us, because it is our true heritage, our true birthright, the true destiny of our soul, when we truly realizing, understanding, accepting, and join with this "truth of us" within us, and the "truth of God" hidden within the "truth of us" within us, the truth that we are the "seed of True Man", and hidden within that is the "seed of God". And in this way, when we have come to this realization within us, then we will immediately change our allegiance, from our "outside" to God within us, and to the "Stuff of God" within us, allowing "truth to surrender to truth" within us, as an apple seed having realize the "truth of itself", that it is an apple seed buried within the earth, and the truth of what is hidden within it, that what is hidden within it is the "seed of the apple tree", it allows this "truth to surrender to that truth", and germinates, revealing the tree hidden within it, and the sweet taste of the apple hidden within the apple tree, and again the apple seed, hidden within the mature apple. In this way, changing our allegiance to God within us, and to all of the "Stuff of God' within us, like His grace, wisdom, and 'ilm or divine knowledge within us, finding completeness within His grace, finding wisdom within His completeness, finding truth within His wisdom, and finding Him as the "Oneness of God and True Man" within His truth within us. Amen. And in this way, "be done with them", be done with the 5 elemental spirits within us, with them both within us and on the "outside" of us, leaving the dealing with them up to God within us, allowing God within us in this way to "cure Himself of us", after we have "steadied Him within us", after we have become peaceful with our own ending, on the "outside" of us, before we die to the "outside" of us, after we have become "One with" God within us, as He has become "One with" us within Him, after we give birth to Him within us, so He can give birth to us within Him. Amen. And in this way, we must all realize and deal with this danger both "outside and within us" through our direct connection to God within us, and to all of the "Stuff of God" within us, our direct connection to our wisdom within us, and to the truth of God within our wisdom, and for this age, that is our direct connection to Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within us, and to His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us) both within us and on the "outside" of us, and to God within Him and within Them. Amen 8-1. The Condition For Our Salvation The condition for our salvation is our loving God within us, and the "Stuff of God" within us, more than we love ourselves on the "outside" of us, and all the "stuff of ours" on the "outside" of us, because we know that God and the "Stuff of God" within us is the truth of us, and that the current "outside" of us, and all of the "stuff" of the current "outside" of us, that we have grown and nourished on the inside of us, by focusing on it on the "outside" of us, is but the falsehood of us, is but the "Contrast of Us", is really the "opposite of us", is but the "School of Contrasts" both outside and within us that God has sent us to, that allows understanding to occur. That allows God to complete His intention within us, which is to reveal God to God within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God within us, by first revealing True Man within the Creation of God (the dunya) within us, as the "Oneness of God and His Creation" within us, so True Man within us can reveal God within the Creation of True Man (akhirah) within us, as the "Oneness of True Man and His Creation" within us, in this way, revealing the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, which in truth is God and True Man within us. Amen. 8-2. The Condition Within The Condition For Our Salvation The condition within the condition for our salvation is that we must destroy our destruction, which naturally occurs within us when we believes in that mystery and dedicates ourselves to that mystery; when we place its qualities, actions, and powers into the world of wisdom and the world of souls within ourselves; when we make that mystery come into form within us and serve it. That is, when we disappears as the mystery into the mystery; when we take into ourselves God's 3,000 gracious and beautiful qualities, God's quality of seeing all other lives as His own and protecting all lives without giving way to hunger, old age, illness, or death; when we takes into ourselves goodness, the love of all lives, surrender, balance, concentration, patience, tolerance, peace, justice, honesty, and good conduct; when the qualities of God's mystery take form within us, and all of God's actions exist within us, then the birth within us will be cut off. Our destruction will have been destroyed 9-0. The True State of Prayer, And What Blocks It True Prayer is to make God come into form within oneself, and what blocks true prayer from occurring within us, is "us" wanting anything that God has discarded, which is everything that we currently see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us, and everything that we have in our ignorance grown within ourselves, which is the essence of what we see "outside" of ourselves, that is, true prayer is to make everything that we have currently grown within us, die within us, before we die, allowing God to take form within us, allowing True Man to take form within God within us. 10. Our Current Prayer And Its Consequences The creation with the face of a man is subject to being ruled from within by animals. The qualities, the actions, the conduct, and the worship of animals come to exist within him. Finally, he dies with those animal actions. He dies in murder, sin, arrogance, and in the teachings of the 17 puranas. He dies and is reborn. 11. The Life of One Who Thinks With Wisdom One who thinks with wisdom and takes God's form within himself will reach the state of Man-God, or Insan Kamil. He will become one without form. He will become one who is forever mature. He will become one who is that mystery and is incomparable. He will become the plenitude which transcends beginning and end. He will become one who transcends separation, who has no birth or destruction, and who has no wife or child. He will become one who is not bound by the connection to maya and who has no desire, torpor or hunger 12. What Must Be Formed Within Us To Be Successful To become successful in our life it is the power of God that we must form within ourselves before we die. To do this is prayer and worship. To become successful this power of God must be formed within a true man or Insan. One who forms this power within himself will be without birth, death, diminishing or end. He will be the power within the power. He and God will be one; he and God will be in the same place; he and God will do the same work and have the same power. 13. Who Is At Fault If We Don't Succeed In Our Life If we don't succeed in our life then we are at fault, not God, because God has given us everything we need to become successful in our life, including Himself and all that He used to become successful in His life, to become successful before our death, before we die to the "outside" of us. 14. What Is The Meaning Of Being Born Again To be born again is for us to give life to God within us, and for God within our wisdom within us to give life to us within Himself, and to do all of this before we die to the world on the "outside" of us. 15. What Is The True Journey That We Are On? The journey that we are on is the journey of wisdom, is the journey of leaving this earth world before we die, of going to the world of God within us, of intermingling with God there, and in this way, being conceived of God, and being born of God, taking form from that embryonic state within God. That is wisdom. 16. How It Works "Outside", In the World of Hell "Outside" of Us How it works on the "outside" of us is that whatever we like and pray to in this world will take form within us. It takes form, becomes an embryo, grows, and then we give birth to it. We give birth to it and raise it. These are the kinds of devotion that are subject to many millions of rebirths, to many millions of qualities, to many millions of kinds of actions, and to many millions of kinds of murders. These are the kinds of devotion that exist in many millions of ways. This is easy. Everyone can learn this 17. How It Works "Within", In The World of God Within Us But there is another kind of study. It is a secret. It is the study of the kingdom of God, and it exists within. It transcends the seven innermost hearts and opens the eighth. The heart within that seventh heart will exist as the kingdom of God. It is the world of wisdom which is the world of God within us. This learning is an entirely different section. This study is a mysterious secret. It does not exist in books, in scriptures, in religions, or in philosophies. It exists as God's grace, as His qudrat or power, as His benevolence, and as His mystery. It exists as God. It is the majesty of His kingdom, it is His perfection, and it is His justice. That study cannot be found on the outside End of Summary for: "The Wisdom of Man" - Chapter 03 - "The World Within and Without" ............................................... or Go To: (Spiritual Book 08) Introduction - to "The Wisdom of Man" Chapter 01 - "A Benefit To All" Chapter 02 - "The Light of The Prophets" Chapter 04 - "Three Questions" Glossary of Terms or Spiritual Book 06 - '"The Truth and Unity of Man" - Letters in Response To a Crisis Spiritual Book 05 - "The Asma'ul Husna -The 99 Names of God" or ( a top-down version of the Library Home Page) (a bottom-up version of the Library Home Page) |
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