How we forget our true identity

When i remember what i heard in the previous video
about the ego
it said, that what we believe that we know about ourselves (thus what we believe that we are) is ONLY a reflection about what society see us/tell us.

likewise, it distorts the truth of what we are.

and strangely enough,
what we are?
commonly, we can start with a physical description
but what is the boundary?
it will extend as far as our experiences are, isn't it?
so that even what we experienced a given day in a given year with a given person, will become part of what we think we are, be it emotionally speaking or in any other way
because it will taint our perception of ourselves
we will feel more or less secure about a topic
and identify with the weakness or strength of our feelings by then.

so far, can our identification process go!
or it can be very narrow, depending on our choices to define ourselves.

and so, loneliness could be a trait of character that we identify ourselves with
and again, it will be defined by the reflection of what society taught us (through our formal learning or life experiences with family, friends or lack of it)

yet, it is not true definition of loneliness
it will be tainted, would be seen through rough glasses, it will be like rays of light reflected by society on us
while it would have absorbed and hidden the other rays of this light
so that the true meaning of loneliness
which i am sure is a beautiful one, which is THE ONE,
will be distorted and forgotten by us
because that loneliness it is also what we are
for we were born and were lonely
and will depart also in that state
it is just that in between we will gather a full range of experiences
which are aimed at awakening us to our true self so that we may dig into it deeper i feel.

so that the experience of being our own friend
could be such a beautiful experience
except that we rarely take pleasure in our own company
so much we have forsaken ourselves : )

Little story about images

in a movie
a son who has been abandoned by his mother
and met her in his adulthood to take his revenge from her
is now willing to change his feelings towards her
since he understood the underlying reasons of her abandoning him.

and he said that as his mother has had so far only a bad image of him
and worked with him and came to know him only as an unfair businessman
for it is the only experience she had with him so far

the only way for her to have another image of him
a renewed image of him
and feel him differently when she looks at him
is for him to do her justice in the business area
by giving her back what he took from her when he was taking his revenge

this is why acts/deeds are important
they help us feel different about a person
and this constitutes the experience we gather about this very person
and the image we have of him
and how we sense ourselves when we are in his vicinity

and thus indirectly our deeds of past experienced by the person
we control the atmospher of joy or lack of it

but greater is to not associate ourselves with the reflection of the people in us
but to know who we are.

Daring to do

Faith
what is faith

Faith is the gap between what we do (cooking meal for someone) and the result of it (its unexpected appreciation)
we do not control the result
but we control what we are (doing)

focus is just one pointed (on what we ARE doing)
such a great amount of concentration
to be what you desire  (= real doing)

and then,
you let it explode,
when you bring your gift into a new atmospher
where it shines
this shining is the one into which you bathe yourself
and it is through this shining
that everything is shared.

Dropping the Ego

This is a very straight to the point video
listen to it well,

 

 

Neat and clean :

 

Ego is the self we imagine to BE.  : ) right now it makes me smile, for if  I AM how can i imagine what i am, as it is PRESENT in front of me? so it simply means i do not have yet eyes to see, for my eyes/sight/attention is diverted/veiled by some other seeing, with which i identify myself with.

 

so any seeing is not me, for in truth  I AM that true self born with when i was a baby.

 

Ego : is when we catch someone's attention and the reflection we get from his reaction constitutes our identity then. Ego is just the reflection of the outside world (absorbed in us).

 

Role playing, we all have this acute sense of role playing, our rhythm of being, reaction and automatic responses and manners of beings are different from family to school to friends' setting. this is why students are "shy" in front of classroom. not because they are shy people by nature, hell no way, they are the ones that bully you in the school lol. no, they go shy because they see Inside the discrepancy between their way of acting in group and now they are standing in front of their same peers and have to play the role of a student. so it clashes with their former identity.

and also this is why they laugh and giggle without reason it seems.

but no, it is just that they sense it, and as the guy say in the video, no one tells them it is because you are right to SENSE the gap in your roles switching, and NOW turn Inside.

instead the teacher will laugh at their oddities and the friends too and finally the poor student performing in front of the classroom will too find himself quite silly to perform.

 

it is like i feel, in life, at times, only foolishness exists (in the sense of everything is done in excess) and there is hardly ever anyone who cares to tell you

where sanity lies.

it is not about judging, but it is about showing you boundary,

not for the sake of rules or severity, but for the sake of helping you to turn Inside.

unless this someone exists, you can't remember ... and it is most probable that this someone exists in your daily life, and you have been the one who has been so far blind to give him/her credit.

 

I liked the part about the dead leaves dropping,

they drop, for it is simply into the Absolute Awareness of it falling,

you do not have to do any effort for it to fall lol,

but just to be aware of it falling.

that is pure awareness

without association.

that is purity of faith.

of witnessing.

which brings you back to what you ARE.

 

so just let it fall.

just see it falling

for in any case it will fall,

do not make effort

you know it is bound to fall no?

so just see it, for ONCE, in your life,

simply fall.



Gayatri mantra

A very well read
and try of the gayatri mantra (recitation) :

http://chakrabarty.com/blog/gayatri_mantra_full_lyrics_meaning_translation_chakra_meditation.html



illustrated in this video :

water resonates to what is thrown into it
throw a peeble into it and it resonates / creates vibes.

so make good use of your own water,
for your body is made of 70% of water...

make it resonate with the wish of receiving light
and becoming light
for sure it will happens.

it all depends on what you wish to put in it
and it will be returned to you.

sure tv and stuff, arguments and anger are put into it
with great dedication everyday
this is what they produce : the life we are living in the very moment

if you want to see your life changed
change the stuff you put in it
and it shall resonate in a new light.

: )

Blissfreelovesoul 6 months ago

Aum Bhur Bhuva Svah
Tat Savitur Varenyam
Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi
Dhiyo Yo Naha Prachodayat
On the absolute reality and its planes,
On that finest spiritual light,
We meditate, as remover of obstacles
That it may inspire and enlighten us.

Om tat savitur varenyam : I see « Om » that (tat) light (savitur) which is bright (varensyam) 

Bargo                                   : destroy our impurities and purify us (bhargo)

Devasya dhimahi               : and give us enlightened (devaya) intelligence (dhimahi)

Dhiyo yo nah                     : let good thoughts (dhiyo) from you (yo) enter us all (nah)

Prachodayat                      : and guide us in the right direction (prachodayat)

from : http://chakrabarty.com/blog/gayatri_mantra_full_lyrics_meaning_translation_chakra_meditation.html

The WORD

"It is to be followed.
It is God Law, you cannot change it.

How do you know this?

It is as ancient as Time Itself,
and I was there, when the Law was made.

This is the very first time He recognised that His Knowledge was supreme.

He may not know that it comes from deep within Himself
from a reservoir that has been born within Him,
but He knew that He was right."

Yeshua replying to rabbis who were in discussion about whether or not to abrogate a law.

extract : The Children of Light - Father Abraham on the Fulfilment of a Prophecy, Compiled by David Davidson, p.140

ps : isn't yeshua beautiful ? : ) what a word of clarity standing among the confusion of a group of "teachers of religion/rabbis"
and he has answered so, while he was a child; lol
this is where you understand what Life teaches,
knowledge is not to be found in aging and wrinkles or beard or titles lol
but it is to be found WITHIN
and a younger one is a contrasting example to shock your ego
so that you WANT TO KNOW MORE
but usually, people what do they do?
they cover, they create more issues
why? only to deny to curiosity its right to follow their initial shock
instead of digging
and saying, hey, how come, where does it come from? and be THUS hopeful,
they end up envying...
while they could be what they envy.
it is just that they have chosen envy over Love
separation/division over Love/unity

and had they chosen Love for themselves, they would have done to themselves such a great favor,
but Love is patient
and they are impatient, unkind to themselves, not believing that it was meant to be their lot too,
just they had to be patient at the hurt suffered by their ego,
so that afterwards they may be set in motion and follow their initial tug and curiosity which was excited, by such an encounter.

as it is said, a sign is enough for the Wise.
they were Wise ignorants,
Wise to see the sign,
and ignorant to think that envy could solve their issue instead of grabbing Love.
Covering (meaning of the word Kafir) has never been a favor that one has done to one's soul,
but always a loss.

In the beginning was the Word

and so, shall it be again,

and the Word is the law,

and the Law is Love.

Issa alaihi salam is called in islam, Kalimat ullah = The Word of God.

It is like we know the words
but are ignorant of their reality
what on earth : ) means the Word of God?

Reflect : )
that is this I AM presence within
when we are in silence
who speak and say the Eternal Truth ?

Hence christians are right to point at the divinity within,
but wrong into worshipping a human being, yeshua is NOT GOD.
but we have a soul, a Higher Self, and that Higher Self is this Light of God
breathed into us as a Light from the Light of God.

and this Light is ONE
in all of us.

Hence Jesus said in holy bible,
call me not good, only God is good.

and muslims are right to say do not elevate Jesus as a Partner to God, as his , literally speaking, son of God,
but are ignorant of the INNER TRUE SELF
which made them disconnected from their within.
for it is the message of yeshua... who is the Word of God.

BALANCE is what is needed :
to know that we are a human being
with a soul
that soul connecting itself to the spirit, true self,
makes us connect to a "reservoir of knowledge"

Hence,

Connais toi-toi même et tu connaîtra Dieu
Know yourself, and your will know God

Hence, Al Hallaj the muslim was martyred for having said "annal Haqq"
"I AM the TRUTH"

it is not the ego there who was saying it,
but the TRUE SELF WITHIN
the one who has a far reaching awareness
beyond time and place.

and the True Self Within
has to AWAKEN

this is why in quran
it is made reference of ghafil = the unconscious ones, more exactly unaware, absent-minded; meaning they are ignorant of the Reality, asleep to it, like a veil is drawn between them and Reality.

all prophets got to meditate
what for is meditation
to silence what
for the profit of what?

to silence our thoughts, noise of the head, our ego
for the profit of the One Who was, is and will be always There : HU.

QUL HU WALLAHU AHAD
say (to them, to those who ask about Me, about WHO i am) : Hu (He is the Presence) WHO is ONE


HU MEANS THE ONE WHO IS
how could HE BE
and we feel He is not (near us?)
How could HE BE
and we feel there is lack?

it can ONLY BE
because we KNOW NOT TRUTH

and one canNOT know truth by assertion of mind
for it is PRECISELY this mind/noise/ego/falsity
which is standing between us and unity with GOD.
to know you have to get your mind transformed
so that you may get connected to the THE TRUE SELF.

and transformation can ONLY occur through the Grace of God/Power of God
which is only once Kundalini is awakened in MEDITATION and SUSTAINED.

Invisible seed

we often take our wishes as our masters.
yet a free man is the one who is his own master

what happens is that we put our wishes on a pedestal
noble wishes, those that are good for humanity, those that bring a solution
those that give us light and so on.

so many names
just to enhance their values
and make us stick to them
make us pledge allegiance to them : )
as a knight to his king.

but yet,
the second after we have pledged all of our striving and life and love to them
they desert us
as if they had never existed
as if we were stolen of our energy

why is it so?
most probably because
there  is wish and there is bliss

wishes are from the mind realm
and bliss is beyond.
and only beyond is freedom.

so let your wishes come on our way
try them out
give them love
and then set them free
put onto them a notice "take it or leave it"
so that the one who receive your gift that you put there into the air,
read the notice
and will either take it, and your gift to him/her will have found its home
for there was the likeness of a nest waiting for it
or it will be left
for there was no likeness fitting for it

and it will keep travelling
its way into the air
till the end of time
till it finds its nest.
for everything has been created in pair.

i often wondered
how come
such free gift of love are never taken
though they are send into the air
so freely

it is because their particularity is that they are of an invisible kind
this is why they are never recognised
nor ever taken.

may be because they do not belong to the realm of wishes
but their path is the the realm of bliss
for there , there is no duality
though created in pair, they end up from where they stem from, from the One and Only.

Get your self Realisation

http://www.sahajayoga.com.au/info/experience/default.asp.shtml

Get Practical

Sometimes it is so wearisome
people indeed love suffering
not because they consciously want it
but because they consciously are stubborn.
sticking to always same patterns of thoughts.

Think, if your thoughts are always the same,
when the pattern, the mould is the same,
how could you expect a different production?

it will always be the same result.
To bring a change,
you need to change your mould.

Like any room,
first you REMOVE your old furniture
and then your bring in new ones.

The removing is called purification
and the new buying is the growth

Growth cannot happen
if bad grass is not uprooted.

Purification can only be done through meditation,
meditation can never be done without a pure source
and the pure source has to gush forth from the Inside

...

as the water has gushed from the rock when God ordered Moses to :

And (remember) when Moses sought water for his people, so We said: 'Strike the rock with your staff.' Then there gushed forth from it twelve springs. Each (group of) people knew their (respective) drinking-place. 'Eat and drink of Allah's provision, and commit you not evil in the earth, doing corruption'."
[quran, 2:60]

Then your hearts became hardened after that, being like stones or even harder. For indeed, there are stones from which rivers burst forth, and there are some of them that split open and water comes out, and there are some of them that fall down for fear of Allah. And Allah is not unaware of what you do.
[2:74]

This pure source of purificative Power of Divine Love
is awakened

do the awakening of it by yourself :

http://www.sahajayoga.com.au/info/experience/default.asp.shtml

After your source of purification has awakened
for it was always in you
you have to honor it
by using it
through meditation
to purify your mind
so that you surrender to the Power of Allah

only the surrender counts
it means that Allah will take care of ALL of your affairs
and transform your mind/ego into the Mind
when the spirit will ASCEND from the heart to the mind

which is the ONLY one which remains at your death time
and if not there, you will only go where your mind/ego will lead you.

Visibility

Each time i forget
and each time i remember
that love is not in the other
but it is in myself

this is a duality
because Love, as God
is One
Beyond time and space
and yet still being manifested in the circle of time.

but never the manifestation was separated from God
it is as united or separated as the sun rays are from the sun
they are from the sun
and return to it
after having accomplished a loooong cycle on the earth

To God we belong to Him is our return.



We do not love many but the One
Love is always One
as God is.

The intensity of love towards someone
does not mean that it is this someone who is the object of love
but the spirit that is one and that is just more visible in him
than in others at a given time.

in a labyrinthe of mirrors
find the true Mirror among the mirrors
which reflects your true identity
the right standard of truth
this Mirror is the other
and in him you can see yourself.

Blueprint

 

Isn't she beautiful?
Flowers were being handed down out of the metro by girls having baskets into their hands
to celebrate the Day of the respect of women.

i had some time to watch the flower,
mine was white with red color like the size of a finger print on each of her petals
and on its central petals there were lots of brown small lines.

it occured to me
that the flowers we have into our hands are being photocopied from the Realm of the Designer
like the design or blueprint from there trinkled down up to here and appeared on the leaves of the flower

it is like a white page
which is being written upon
and then it got animated with forms and colors

and what if, me too, i am that white page
upon which i am being written
and that i become that to be experienced?

all depends from which mind
and thus lense i look upon myself

if it is from the Pure Mind
for sure i am beautiful

but if i try to make out any sense from the mind of the ego
then most of my life is pain.
for i fit nowhere.

and yet,
the flower is so perfect
and it existed and fit into the Mind Realm
so that it got printed here

so somehow, me too,
if i am printed here, i should come from that Mind Realm too,
except that i do not have eyes to see.

Message of Light

Risal-e-Nur
Message of Light


What is the meaning of La ilaha illa Allah?

.............

As someone born and raised in Britain, I am often asked what we as Muslims have to offer to the West. But before I answer, I should like to ask a question myself: Are we Muslims because we believe in Allah, or do we believe in Allah because we are Muslims? The question occurred to me during a march through the streets of London, over a decade ago, to protest against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. I'd made a formal conversion to Islam several years prior to this, and it wasn't my first demonstration. There were banners and placards and much shouting and chanting. And in between "Russians out," "Death to Breshnev," and "Muslims of Afghanistan rise up," we shouted our own Islamic slogans: Allahu akbar and La ilaha illa Allah. Towards the end of the demonstration I was approached by a young man who introduced himself as someone interested in Islam. "Excuse me," he said, "but what is the meaning of La ilaha illa Allah?" Without a moment's hesitation I answered, "There is no god but Allah." "I'm not asking you to translate it," he said, "I'm asking you to tell me what it really means." There was a long awkward silence as it dawned on me that I was unable to answer him. You are no doubt thinking, "What kind of Muslim is it that does not know the real meaning of La ilaha illa Allah?" To this I would have to say: a typical one. That evening I pondered my ignorance; being in the majority didn't help, it simply made me more depressed. So how did I become a Muslim? You've no doubt heard the anecdote about Nasreddin Hoja. A friend of his called on him one day and found Hoja sitting in front of a large basket of chillies. His eyes were red and swollen, blood dripped from his gums and tears from his eyes. Yet he carried on eating. Why are you torturing yourself, his friend asked. Because, said Nasreddin Hoja, biting into another pepper, I'm hoping one of them will be sweet. I had been in the same position myself. No ideology or alternative life-style that I tried could satisfy the inner need for something more, something worth existing for, that elusive something that is always just around the corner but never seems to appear. Disenchanted with every aspect of my life, I left Britain and somehow drifted towards the Middle East. It was not a conscious choice. And it was there that I found the sweet chilli pepper. Islam simply made sense, in a way that nothing else ever had. It had rules of government, it had an economic system, it had regulations covering every facet of day-to-day existence. It was egalitarian and addressed to all races, and it was clear and easy to understand. Oh, and it has a God, One God, in whom I had always vaguely believed. That was that. I said La ilaha illa Allah and I was part of the community. For the first time in my life I belonged. New converts are invariably enthusiastic to know as much as possible about their religion in the shortest possible time. In the few years that folowed, my library grew rapidly. There was so much to learn, and so many books ready to teach. Books on the history of Islam, the economic system of Islam, the concept of government in Islam; countless manuals of Islamic jurisprudence, and, best of all, books on Islam and revolution, on how Muslims were to rise up and establish Islamic governments, Islamic republics. When I returned to Britain in early '79 to begin a University course, I was ready to introduce Islam to the West. It was to these books that I turned for an answer to the question "What is the meaning of La ilaha illa Allah?" Again I was disappointed. The books were about Islam, not about Allah. They covered every subject you could possibly imagine except for the one which really mattered. I put the question to the imam at the University mosque. He made an excuse and left. Then a brother who had overheard my impertinent question to the imam came over and said: "I have a tafsir of La ilaha illa Allah. If you like we could read it together." I imagined that it would be ten or twenty pages at the most. It turned out to have over 5000 pages, in several books. It was, as I'm sure you're aware, the Risale-i Nur by Ustad Bediuzzaman Said Nursi. Initially, I dismissed the Risale-i Nur as mysticism. My brother pointed out that this was the reaction of a closed mind. Without the intellectual crutches provided by my old books, I felt ignorant and lost. It was a completely new language, a totally new vision. My brother sensed my unease. He said: "Don't worry. The books you have read before all have their place. They are the skin. But this," he said, tapping a copy of The Supreme Sign, "this is the fruit." So we began to read, this time in the name of Allah, and slowly things began to fall into place. Each of us is born in total ignorance; the desire to know ourselves and our world is an innate one. Thus "Who am I? Where did I come from? What is this place in which I find myself? What is my duty here? Who is responsible for bringing me into existence?" - these are questions which each of us answers in his own way, either through direct observation or through blind acceptance of the answers suggested by others. And how one lives one's life, the criterion by which one acts in this world, depends totally on the nature of those answers. The Supreme Sign is no less than a guided tour of the cosmos, and the traveller is one who is seeking answers to these questions. The Supreme Sign does not presuppose belief in God; rather it travels from the created to the Creator. And it affirms that anyone who sincerely wishes to answer the questions, and who looks upon the created world as it is, and not as he wishes or imagines it to be, must inevitably come to the conclusion La ilaha illa Allah. For he will see order and harmony, beauty and equilibrium, justice and mercy, dominicality and munificence; and at the same time he will realise that those attributes are pointing not to the created beings themselves but to a Reality in which all of these attributes exist in perfection and absoluteness. He will see that the created world is thus a book of names, an index, which seek to tell about its Owner. In Nature, Cause or Effect?, Bediuzzaman takes the interpretation of La ilaha illa Allah even further. The notion that he examines is that of causality, the cornerstone of materialism and the pillar upon which modern science has been constructed. Belief in causality gives rise to statements such as: It is natural; Nature created it; it happened by chance, and so on. With reasoned arguments, Bediuzzaman explodes the myth of causality and demonstrates that those who adhere to this belief are looking at the cosmos not as it actually is, or how it appears to be, but how they would like to think it is. In Tabiat Risalesi [Nature, Cause or Effect?], Bediuzzaman demonstrates that all beings, on all levels, are interrelated, interconnected and interdependent, like concentric or intersecting circles. He shows that beings come into existence as though from nowhere, and, during their brief lives, each with its own particular purpose, goal and mission, act as mirrors in which various attributes, and countless configurations of names, are displayed. Their createdness, transience, impotence and contingence, their total dependence on factors other than themselves prove beyond doubt that they cannot be the owners of that which they appear to possess, let alone bestow attributes of perfection on beings that are similar to or greater than themselves. The materialists, however, see things differently - they do not see different things. They ask us to believe that this cosmos, whose innate order and harmony they do not deny, is ultimately the work of chance. Of chaos and disorder, of sheer accident. They then ask us to believe that this cosmos is sustained by the mechanistic interplay of causes - whatever they may be, and not even the materialists know for sure - causes which are themselves created, impotent, ignorant, transient and purposeless, but which somehow contrive, through laws which appeared out of nowhere, to produce the orderly works of art of symphonies of harmony and equilibrium that we see and hear around us. Like Abraham in the house of idols, Bediuzzaman destroys these myths and superstitions. Given that all things are interconnected, he reiterates, whatever it is that brings existence to the seed of a flower must also be responsible for the flower itself; and given their interdependence, whatever brings into existence the flower must also be responsible for the tree; and given the fact that they are interrelated, whatever brings into existence the tree must also be responsible for the forest, and so on. Thus to be able to create a single atom, one must also be able to create the whole cosmos. That is surely a tall order for a cause which is blind, impotent, transient, dependent and devoid of knowledge of our purpose. More and more scientists are beginning to realize that the mechanistic theories of old are simply no longer sustainable. Faced with beauty, awesomeness, order, harmony, symmetry and purpose, attempts to explain away creation by evoking the idea of chance and causality are becoming increasingly untenable. Many are so outraged at the imminent collapse of their old gods that they lapse into hysteria: One celebrated biologist - and biology is still the most rigidly mechanistic of disciplines - is on record as having said "Funnily, the more beauty and harmony I discover in the cosmos, the more convinced I become of its meaninglessness." The poor man seems not to have understood that if everything is meaningless, his own effect to that is equally so. Another famous - or should I say infamous - scientist, also a bio-logist, asserts that the existence of beings, and in particular the phenomenon of form, can in no way be attributed to the random motions of blind, unknowing and impotent causes. He is not alone in his thinking, but he is the first eminent Western bio-logist to state such beliefs openly. Interestingly enough, he likens the state of the Western scientific fraternity to Russia under Breshnev. The mechanistic theory is the rigid, all-powerful orthodoxy to which all scientists - biologists in particular - must bow down if they are to retain their credibility - and their jobs. And so they are forced to live a fearful charade, shouting their loyalty in public but whispering their real thoughts in private. When the book in which he attacks causality was published, the magazine The New Scientist described it as a "canditate for burning." Since then, the author of this book has become an outcast, the Salman Rushdie of Western science. Such widely differing opinions as to the viability of the causal hypothesis show that the attribution of creative power to Nature or natural laws is by no means the inevitable corollary of objective, scientific investigation. It is no more than a personal opinion. Similarly, denial of the Creator of the cosmos, who has placed apparent causes there as veils to cover His hand of power, is not an act of reason but an act of will. In short, causality is a crude and cunning device with which man distributes the property of the Creator among the created in order that he might set himself up as absolute owner and ruler of all that he has, and all that he is. My aim was not to summarize the Risale-i Nur, but to show how far removed my previous conceptions about Allah were before reading this work. I thought that by saying La ilaha illa Allah, I had said all there was to be said about Allah. Thanks to the Risale-i Nur, I was now able to see that previously, God had been something that I had brought in to complete the occasion, an unknown factor placed almost arbitrarily at the beginning of creation to avoid the impossiblity of infinite regression. He had been the 'First Cause,' the 'Prime Mover,' a veritable 'God of the gaps.' He had been rather a constitutional monarch of the English variety, who must be treated with the utmost respect but not allowed to interfere in the affairs of everyday life. Inspired by the verse La ilaha illa Allah, the Risale-i Nur shows that the signs of God, these mirrors of His Names and attributes, are revealed to us constantly in new and ever- changing forms and configurations, eliciting acknowledgement, acceptance, submission, love and worship. The Risale-i Nur showed that there is a distinct process involved in becoming Muslim in the true sense of the word: contemplation to know-ledge, knowledge to affirmation, affirmation to belief or conviction, and from conviction to submission. And since each new moment, each new day, sees the revelation of fresh aspects of Divine truth, this process is a continuous one. The external practices of Islam, the formal acts of worship, are thus in a sense static. Belief, however, is subject to increase or decrease, depending on the continuance of the process I have just mentioned. Thus it is the reality of belief that deserves most of our attention; from there the realities of Islam will follow on inevitably. Thus I can say that I had been a Muslim but not a believer; that which I had assumed was belief was in reality nothing more than the inability to deny. Bediuzzaman was not responsible for introducing me to Islam - which anyone could have done - but for introducing me to belief. Belief through investigation, not through imitation. Let's return now to the question: What do we, as Muslims, have to offer to the West. The answer is: everything and nothing. We have belief and Islam, which is everything; and we have our understanding and interpretation of Islam, which in most cases amounts nothing much at all. As is evident from the books which introduced me to Islam, almost everything that has been written with the West in mind has been done more or less on the level of some benign cultural exchange. Almost invariably the central question of belief has been glossed over or ignored completely. In the Qur'an, the word 'Allah' appears more than 2500 times, the word 'Islam' less than ten. In a good deal of modern Muslim writing, the ratio is roughly reversed. In the Qur'an, the ratio between iman and islam is 5:1 in favour of iman. In Arabic book titles until the end of the 19th century, islam slightly outnumbers iman in a ratio of 3:2. By the Sixties, this has had jumped to 13:1, and today it is undoubtedly higher. Inevitably, then, the approach to the West has centred on Islam as a system, as an alternative 'ideology', presented almost totally without reference to the realities of belief. Another reason why our approach to the West has made little headway is that we have misunderstood the West. The West is not only a geopolitical entity, it is also a metaphor. Geographically, the West was the first place to witness a mass revolt against the Divine. Modern Western civilization is the first of which we have knowledge that does not have some formal structure of religious belief at its heart. The West is thus a metaphor for the setting of the sun of religious belief; a metaphor for the eclipse of God. And since this eclipse is no longer confined to the geopolitical West, one may say that wherever the truths of belief have been discarded, there is the West. Thus the West should be seen as a state of mind, a disease, an aberration. The root cause of this, as Bediuzzaman Said Nursi points out, is the disease of self-worship, of 'ENE'(Ana, the 'I' or ego). From the beginning of the Renaissance, man in the West has been his own point of reference, the centre of his own universe, the sole criterion by which he lives out his pathetic life. He has stolen the clothes of the Divine Names and has dressed himself in them and paraded as God. The problem is that they do not fit, and cannot fit. Unwilling to accept that his duty is merely to reflect the Divine attributes in the name of the Creator and according to His Will, he claims them as his own property and spends a lifetime trying to add to his imaginary possessions. Seeking the infinite from the finite drags him into a fierce and often murderous competition with his fellow beings. Man's endless desires are heightened by the fact that he is limited, impotent and dependent, and bound one day to give up all that he imagined was his and face annihilation. His limitations and deficiencies, which should serve to remind him of his absolute dependence and impotence, he contrives to conceal. Western man flees from ill thoughts of his ultimate destiny, smothers his innate ability to know and love the Creator, to recognize that man is nothing and can have nothing of his own. The secular, self-absorbed society of the West is designed on all levels to blind and stupefy. To mask the fact that the religion of the self has failed to live up to its promises; that the secular trinity of 'unlimited progress, absolute freedom and unrestricted happiness' is as meaningless as the Christian Trinity discarded centuries ago. To cover up the fact that economic and scientific progress which has secular humanism as its underlying ethos, has turned the West into a spiritual wasteland and ravaged generation after generation. Yet there are those who are beginning to awake, to realize the illusion under which they have been living. It is to these that the disease of ENE must be pointed out. It is no use telling one who is afflicted with this disease that the Islamic economic or judicial system is the most egalitarian or most just. You cannot cure a man suffering from cancer by giving him a new coat. What is needed is a correct diagnosis, radical surgery and constant back-up treatment. The Risale-i Nur provides all of these. You will recall that I dismissed the Risale-i Nur initially as mysticism, and I have also heard others describe it thus. The truth is otherwise, for there is nothing esoteric about the stark choice Said Nursi puts before us: belief or unbelief, eternal felicity or eternal wretchedness, salvation or perdition, heaven or hell - in this world and the next. I have also heard the Risale-i Nur described as revolutionary, and with this I agree. But I am not talking about revolution in the political sense of the word. There is no mention of this in the Risale-i Nur, although I am sure that had Bediuzzaman advocated the violent overthrow of all secular governments, the Risale-i Nur would be required reading in every Western university, and Bediuzzaman would be a household name in the West. After all, the West has a soft spot for extremism, especially when flavoured with religion. What can be better, more beautiful, more delicious in the eyes of the Western media than the sight of thousands of angry Muslims in some far-off, violent city screaming "Death to America!" and demanding revolution and the re-introduction of the Shari'a? The West no longer has to go to the trouble of misrepresenting Islam: we do it for them, and they simply film it for their own consumption. I remember watching such a demonstration over a decade ago, in a place where America is known as the great Satan. What struck me at the time was the fact that maybe 70% of the crowd were dressed in Levis, and that every cigarette smoked as the demonstration dispersed was either a Marlborough or a Winston. As one hand cuts - or claims to cut - the ties that bind us to the West, the other hand fastens them even tighter. Yet still we claim that it is time for action, that we have spoken enough. I've actually heard this said in reference to the Risale-i Nur. It is all talk, someone said, and no action. But we have not talked, we have merely moaned and wailed. And because we have not talked, not conversed, brother to brother, believer to believer, Muslim to Muslim, in the name of Allah, in the language of the Qur'an and in the language of the book of creation, then when we act we set incorrectly, without author-ity, without discipline, without a true criterion and frame of reference. And ultimately without any lasting result. The West understands this perfectly. No, the kind of revolution clamoured for on the streets of Tehran, Cairo or Algiers is not the kind of revolution that Bediuzzaman advocates. The kind of revolution envisaged by the Risale-i Nur is a revolution of the mind, of the heart, of the soul and the spirit. It is not an Islamic revolution but a revolution of belief. As such it works on two levels: it is designed to lead Muslims from belief by imitation to belief through investigation, and to lead unbelievers from worship of the self to worship of Allah. And that is why, in the eyes of those who control the West, a work such as the Risale-i Nur is deadly. Finally, I would say this: After many years of searching and comparing, I can say that the Risale-i Nur is the only self-contained, comprehensive Islamic work that sees the cosmos as it actually is, presents the reality of belief as it truly is, interprets the Qur'an as our Prophet intended, diagnoses the real and very dangerous diseases that afflict modern man, and offers a cure. A work such as the Risale-i Nur, which reflects the light of the Qur'an and illuminates the cosmos, cannot be ignored. For only Islam stands between modern man and catastrophe, and I believe that the future of Islam depends on the Risale-i Nur and on those who follow and are inspired by its teachings. ____________________ * Dr. COLIN TURNER (Manchester University - England) Dr. Turner as born in Birmingham in 1955, and in 1975 became a Muslim. He did his first degree in Arabic and Persian in Durham University, and then did a doctorate on political and social movements in the Safavid period in Iran. At present he teaches in Manchester University, and is preparing a book on 17th century Islamic philosophy. Dr. Turner has studied the Risale-i Nur for more than ten years, is married and has three children. ... http://www.nursistudies.com/article.php?ctg=Article&aid=173

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What is the meaning of La ilaha illa Allah?

It is to be REALISED WITHIN

by EACH and SINGLE one

claiming to seek Truth.

The Message

Here is THE Message, 

Have you seen the Movie, "The Message" relating the message given by the prophet to his people and letting this message spread in the neighboring countries?

After having watch the whole movie, 

i felt longing in the heart for the message, which my ears did not hear, though the heart guessed there is more to it and NOW one IS TO REALISE IT.

Passion for The Message could be felt, 

but it was like sand dust of centuries was covering THE MESSAGE ITSELF, 

so there was the movie, the facts, the music, the passion, 

but THE MESSAGE, what i was to reap from it, was NOT there to be seen...

Because one has to EMBODY THE MESSAGE, 

one has to BE it, to realise it.

otherwise it is mere words.

...............

God is truth, and truth is God.                         Bowl of Saki, March 14, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan: Many intellectual people, with their various ideas, differ from one another in their opinions and in their way of looking at things, in their speculations, but do the prophets differ from one another? No, they cannot differ. The reason is that it is the various minds which differ, not the souls. The one who lives in his mind, is conscious of his mind; the one who lives in his soul is conscious of the soul. ... When a person is living in his mind, he is living through the darkness of the night. The moment he rises above his mind and awakens in the light of the soul he becomes spiritual. And if a thousand spiritual people speak, they will say the same thing, perhaps in different words but with only one meaning, for they have one and the same vision. This is why spiritual realization is called the truth. There are many facts but only one truth. The facts can be put into words but not the truth, for God is truth, the soul is truth, the real self of man is truth.   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/IX/IX_29.htm We generally confuse truth with fact, and we often use the word fact for truth. When we look at it from the mystic's point of view we find that words are too intricate ever to explain what is truth. ... Truth is that which cannot be pointed out, because all things that can be compared have their opposite, but neither God nor truth has an opposite. Names are to point out forms, and words are to distinguish one thing from another, while definitions come from the pairs of opposites or at least from differences. That which is all-pervading and is in all things and beings, that which every word explains and yet no word can explain, is God and is truth.   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/VIII/VIII_2_7.htm The seeker after truth goes out into the world and he finds innumerable different sects and religions. He does not know where to start. Then he desires to find out what is hidden under these sects, these different religions, and he begins to seek the object which he wishes to gain through wisdom. Wisdom is a veil over truth, even wisdom cannot be called truth. God alone is truth, and it is truth that is God. And truth can neither be studied nor taught nor learned; it is to be touched, it is to be realized; and it can be realized by the unfoldment of the heart.   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/IX/IX_33.htm Truth is one, God is one, life is one. To me there is no such thing as two. Two is only one plus one.   from  http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Biography_11.htm    ~~~ God is truth, and truth is God.

Space

Everyone runs after space, more space
Ads board are so full, walls too
that ever new ways are found to increase ads

now experts turns towards smell-related ads
for they say noses are less saturated than eyes
to be receptive to new messages

most probably not for long : ))


Space

thoughts are so much occupying our mind space
that we are so loaded
so full

and thus we do not realise or feel the heaviness
so used to them, we have become,
we have become used to suffering : )

but when you meditate
you look for that silence
that space
where thoughts are not

this space is where some sort of expansiveness exists
and by then, if you have a feeling of love
this one will spread into it
like perfume pervading the air
so does this feeling do to the space

a small piece of earth
is needed
to make it a garden

if your mind is so saturated by thoughts
nothing new could grow
you will just recycle your own thoughts
and this will become your routine.
and your routine your life.

isn't it sad to be an ordinary number in the crowd?

facing fears

  Facing our fears and sharing honestly with each other are essential to freeing up our spiritual energy. On the other hand, suppressing such root chakra issues robs a relationship of its vitality—of that powerful shakti that wants to flow between partners and nurture their connection

http://www.theinvisiblewedding.com/chapter7.htm

Union

 

Whose idea was this,
to have the lover visible,
and the Beloved invisible!
-Rumi

 

 

 

 

Doesn't it sum up all life harmony and tension?

: )))

Blindness

Let's take this example

when you are walking and someone who has not seen you
hit you
your first reaction is that of anger, how silly this person is.

and later, you find out that he is blind.
and suddenly you are no more angry
and instead you go and apologise for your own ignorance
of his state.

likewise, it is so in life,
people are more or less veiled to the truth
they are blind
but unless we KNOW truth in us
and thus that they are blind to it
we will never become angry.

Retaliation

This is a very good extract from Neale Donald Walsh :

"...love is not what you want, it is what you are.

It is very important to not get these two confused.

 

If you think that love is what you want,

you will go searching for it all over the place.

If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it

all over the place. The second approach

will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal.

 

Yet you cannot give love in order to get it.

Doing that is as much as saying you do not now have it.

And that statement will, of course, be your reality.

No, you must give love because you have it to give.

In this will you experience your own possession of it."

 

 

This is a very good reminder
(and a very rich post)

in our daily life

we  tend to correct the other

for we see them as an extension of our own self

so if we are exigent with ourselves we want others too to become "better"

 

but it is where clash happens

it is the clash of worlds

clash of egos.

because we try to change them from the outside.

 

but there is a way

and that is just to be ourselves.

to be that love that we have been initially sharing

yes if it is refused

then let others refuse it

it is their choice after all

of what kind of world they want to build for themselves

 

if as a retalisation you remove your love from them

because you did not find them receptive to it

then you are entering into a corruption of attention

of thinking that you "did not get that love"

while the whole point is for you to remember that you ARE that love.

 

now you always share, for your are

but others may or not accept the sharing/the receiving

theirs not accepting of it

is independent of who you are

 

second, if you react by removing yourself from

the natural way of sharing

you are harming yourself

for you are CHOOSING to believe that you LACK love
(as you did not receive what you gave.)

this is self harming
and you do not want that.

so give and move on.
do not expect
for you already are.

do not stop on the way
by reacting
for it is not your job
yours is to BE/GIVE
others is to learn to receive
let them busy themselves with this job.

you just do yours
and not neglect it
Under the pretext that "others" are not receptive.
your job always remain the same : YOU ARE LOVE WITHIN
(and correct others from WITHIN)

for we are all One in Spirit
in Truth.

The Whole world behind your smile

Smile and Make this World a Beautiful Place

that is the message of today i received.
by reading it i saw lots of rain of light being showered
on the place where we smile.
and i wondered where this light may come from
it looks it rains from the outside
though the step taken for that smile was from the Inside.

as it is said,
both are true
what comes from the OUTSIDE
is the SOLUTION

of what you had set yourself to look for INSIDE.

the outside brings you the experience,
the confirmation of your Inside yearning/heart desire of the moment.
so you are there to verify it.

on another note,
when we are born,
we choose a certain time and place,
yes the time frame of our birth is frozen,
time is defined by the position of the planets when your birth was taking place,
this is all of your energetic provisions that you came along with
it feels like so

for the outside
we can envision such massive spheres
rotating in that very strange type of sounding silence in the space
and all those waves of energy backing your every actions
and which flow then to the material spheres
and the more they flow the more they become materialised.

imagine
behind your smile
is such a massive power of your planets
serving you
to make this smile shine on the scale that
you choose to direct the showering of the rain of your desire.

"
The Reason Why You Can be Happier

The reason why a man does not live happily is not because that state is non-existent. Also, it is not because happiness is unattainable.
Furthermore, it is not because someone or something stands in his way.
The reason why a man fails to attain his rightful contentment is for a reason he rarely suspects.
I would like you to read the next few paragraphs with special care. If you will grasp them, even just a bit, you will make more progress in seconds than perhaps you have made in years.
A man fails to attain personal liberation because he is unaware that such a state actually exists.
A man never goes after something unless he at least suspects that it is real, that it is there. He must therefore become consciously aware - even if dimly at first - that AN ENTIRELY NEW WORLD EXISTS FOR HIM.
This new world has been proclaimed throughout the ages to unthinking mankind.
It appears when a man or woman becomes receptive to esoteric knowledge, secret knowledge.
It is secret only because millions of unhappy people will not receive and do not understand it. But YOU,
THE READER,
can DARE
to be DIFFERENT.

Then, you WILL be different from the millions of unhappy people. You will know the truth that sets you free.
You may be sure that we are not talking about anything remote or impractical. We are looking into a far Superior way of life that you can find and enjoy today.
Man's most tormenting and most carefully concealed fear is that there is no alternative road to the one which he now painfully endures. There is an alternative - and an utterly peaceful one-but he must express a rebellious sort of courage in order to find it. [i would say that rebellious sort of courage that you feel it in your gut-literally speaking, and you will FEEL it mounting in you-petals note]
He must deliberately abandon his so-called securities and start down a new road, as unfamiliar as it may be. By using the Four Golden Keys (provided later), he finally finds what he seeks.
A new life of abundant cheer us found in one way, and one way only. All others lead to endless anxiety.
It is found through an awareness of its existence.
This is the entire secret. We must catch a glimpse of this fresh life for ourselves.We can start by remembering that it exists within, not without.
We already possess this higher state. But we must become aware of our rich possession.
This awareness will break through, with increasing force, as we DARE to SEEK it BEYOND our PRESENT MENTAL ATTITUDES.
What prevents us from being aware?
Our own resistances.We are afraid that if we let go of our present beliefs-as useless as they are-that the unknown might be even worse [!-so true.petals note]
BUT WE MUST DARE. And we find that the very thing we feared was our very liberty!
Suppose you tell a man that just over the hill there is a grand castle, ready for his occupancy. He will want to believe you, but will be unable to do so. He has been fooled too many times by too many people. All his previous journeys have led to disappointment. He is not going to risk getting hurt again. So you really can't blame him for balking.
Nevertheless, the castle actually exists, whether he ventures toward it or not. Claimed or not, it is always there, ready for him.
Here we seem to have a major problem.The man will not walk toward the castle until he sees it. Yet, he cannot see it until he walks toward it.
No problem, there is a way out, and any man can take it."

extract : pages [20-22] from the book Psycho-pictography, by Vernon Howard.