Spiritual Analysis 01
“The Three Choices In Our Life”
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Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler)
on February 28, 2000,
and updated on October 26, 2001.
Wisdom Point: "We Have Three Choices In Our Life:
Hell, Heaven, Or God"
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Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the Name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluh. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessings of God be upon all of us.
My love you (anbu), my dearest brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen
(Louie Beutler).
“The Outline”
of “Spiritual Analysis 01”
Analysis” of “Spiritual Insight 01”, Called “The Justice of God”.
02. Get Wisdom To Stand Up - “The mind will only sit down when
Wisdom stands up”.
03. First Quotation From His Holiness - “The Prayer To Make us Pure”
04. Set Intention To Be With His Holiness - "If two of you come together in
My name, I will be there".
06. Second Quotation From His Holiness - “Do not pretend to believe in
God. That will destroy you. If you pretend to believe in Him, that
deception will destroy you. Believe in God with determination."
07. Closing Thoughts - “God has already given us everything”.
“The End”
“The Outline”
of “Spiritual Analysis 01”
01. Introduction - to “Spiritual Analysis 01”, that is, To The “Spiritual Analysis” of “Spiritual Insight 01”, Called “The Justice of God”.
In the first Spiritual Insight, "The Justice of God", we learned that "The Justice Of God Is That Whatever You Intend Is What You Will Receive". Let us use this learning as the starting point for this Spiritual Analysis.
If you have not yet read the first Spiritual Insight, "The Justice of God", upon which this Spiritual Analysis is based, or if you world like to read it again before reading this Spiritual Analysis, please click HERE. When you are done reading it, click on Go To “An Analysis” of “Spiritual Insight 01” at the end of “Spiritual Insight 01” to come back here.
02. Get Wisdom To Stand Up - “The mind will only sit down when Wisdom stands up”.
My dearest loving brothers and sister, to do this work properly we must first join with Wisdom, so our mind will sit down.
For as Bawa teaches us that,
“The mind will only sit down when Wisdom stands up”.
And we get Wisdom to stand up by simply "calling it," and by tasking it with something that is worthy of Wisdom, something that Wisdom was created by God to do, like destroying the self and revealing God, not to put it to work for our selfish purposes of "you and yours", as they say.
03. First Quotation From His Holiness - “The Prayer To Make us Pure”
So let us start with a prayer that Bawa told us to say everyday, which Bawa calls,
“The Prayer To Make Us Pure”
"Oh our Father, our Shaikh, our Guru, we need your love, please, please,
please destroy us, and reveal You."
"Destroy us as separate from You and You as separate from us, and reveal us
as one with You and You as one with us."
"Destroy the life of separation and differences that You have given us, and reveal
a life of oneness and unity, of justice and truth, of compassion and unity, that
You have also given us.
Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen.
Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen.
Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen.
Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar."
04. Set Intention To Be With His Holiness - "If two of you come together in My name, I will be there".
Also, let us set our intention to sit at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), as He explains about the justice of God and “The Three Choices” in life that reflect this “Justice of God”. Amen. May God complete this intention within us.
For as His Holiness teaches us that Jesus (may the blessings of God be upon Him) said,
"If two of you come together in my name, I will be there".
Therefore, let us come together in the name of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and let Him be there in our hearts teaching us what we need to learn and understand for this moment. Amen. May God complete this intention within us.
05. The Spiritual Analysis - of “Spiritual Insight 01”, The Justice of God
We have come to the world because we wanted to come here, and we will stay here as long as we want to be here. This is not God's fault. It is our foolishness, our ignorance, that has brought us here and keeps us here.
We need to stop acting like we want God and what to leave here when in truth we love the world, not God, we trust the world, not God, and we want to stay here, not go back to God.
This is the hypocrisy of our life that will destroy us, and take us to hell, that is, to an eternal life within us as “separate from” God within us.
This hypocrisy, of “Saying One Thing, But Doing The Other”, is rooted in the elemental lives that have grown within us and keep us from the truth about the path of God, the truth that only God can go back to God, only that light life, that soul life, that life that is nourished by the grace, and wisdom, and the ‘Ilm or divine knowledge of God can grow within God, and become One with Him.
So what about us? Where do we fit in? We fit into the story of God in the same way that an apple seed fits into the story of the apple tree. We have to realize that we are the seed of God's grace, that we are the story of God's grace, just like the apple seed realizes that it is the seed of the apple tree, that it is the story of the apple tree.
We have to realize that for this seed of God's grace to germinate we must join in partnership with God, so that the story of God's grace can be told, just like the apple seed realizes that for it to germinate, it must join in partnership with the earth, so that the story of the apple tree can be told.
And having realized this truth about who we are, the truth that we are the story of the grace of God, and having joined with God to tell His story, we must become peaceful with our own ending, and call for our own destruction, so that True Man can occur, just like the apple seed, having realized the truth about itself, the truth that it is the story of the apple tree, and having joined with the earth to tell the story of the apple tree, becomes peaceful with its own ending, and calls for its own destruction, so that the tree can happen. Can we not do at least what an apple seed can do?
And if the apple seed fails to do this, it does not germinate, and the apple tree cannot happen, and if we fail to do this, then we do not germinate, and True Man cannot happen within us. Only in the ending of the life of the apple seed can the life of the tree begin, and only in the ending of our elemental life can the life of True Man, can the light life begin within us.
The apple seed does not go along on the story of the apple tree, it just successfully End, and neither can we go along on the story of God, we just successfully End.
For the story of the apple tree to be told, the apple seed must give up its life. Through an awareness and understanding of itself, of its place in the telling of the story of the apple tree, the apple seed peacefully comes to an end. Only then can the apple tree happen.
And like this, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, for the story of God to be told within us, we must give up our life. Through an awareness and understanding of ourselves, of our place in the telling of the story of God, we too must peacefully come to an end. Only then can God happen.
Then and only then can the light life within us be revealed, come to maturity, and become one with God.
For as Bawa teaches us,
There is no true birth without a true death,
and there is no true death without a true birth”
We must truly die as an elemental life so the light life within us can be born within us. We must truly die to be born again.
And we must realize that the elemental lives within us have no interest in this divine endeavor at all, they like the status quo, they want to keep the soul crucified on the cross of this elemental body, so they can live here.
For if Jesus (A.S.) ever gets off the cross of this elemental body, to join with wisdom and the Nur, becoming the light life, the eternal life of the soul, their elemental lives are over.
So they keep us talking about God, and acting like we believe in God, they keep us busy, with thoughts of heaven, and the rewards of heaven, never allowing us to do what is necessary for the seed of God's grace to germinate. We must think about this.
06. Second Quotation From His Holiness - “Do not pretend to believe in God. That will destroy you. If you pretend to believe in Him, that deception will destroy you. Believe in God with determination."
For as Bawa teaches us in the beautiful book, "The Wisdom of Man", Chapter 3, "The World Within and Without",
"Believe in God, do not pretend to believe in Him. Believe in God. Believe in the
one point. Believe in the One God, the mysterious God."
"He will embrace and protect you. That one point is the mystery. Believe in the
treasure which exists as man within God and God within man. Believe in that
treasure. That will protect you. You can exist within it."
"Do not pretend to believe in God. That will destroy you. If you pretend to
believe in Him, that deception will destroy you. Believe in God with
determination."
Please click HERE, or on the following Links, to go to the “Table of Contents” of the book, "The Wisdom of Man", by His Holiness. When you get there just click on Chapter 3,
"The World Within and Without". Use your Web Browser "Back" button to return to this page.
Also, Please click HERE, or on the following Link, to go to "A Wisdom Review" of Chapter 3, "The World Within and Without", if you like, that is, "If You Are A Wise Child", Now For Your Age, And Not Just A Foolish Child, Now For Your Age", As Bawa tells us.
07. Closing Thoughts - “God has already given us everything”.
Please think about this my dearest loving brothers and sisters. Please don't get upset with your little brother for saying these words. They need to be said. We all need to hear them, over and over again, because the mind is a very tricky fellow.
And if we truly want to leave this world, and join with God, then we must first join with our Shaikh, with Bawa, to confront the things within us that keep us here, that keep us acting like we want God and keep us acting like we what to leave here, while in truth these same things within us love the world, not God, trust the world, not God, and want to stay here, not go back to God and live as one with Him.
This is the subtle hypocrisy of our life that will destroy us, and take us to hell. This subtle hypocrisy of our life that must be confronted and overcome through our personal relationship with Bawa.
We must realize that only a True Shaikh can do this work within us, because this is the gift of the True Shaikh - to destroy the self and reveal God. And God has blessed us, and all of mankind for this age, with a True Shaikh, with our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him).
Bawa teaches us that,
“God has already given us everything”.
God has give us all that He has discarded, all that is within Him, and Himself. We have it all and it is up to us, not God, to decide what we want. We can have any of it, but not all of it. It is mutually exclusive. We can have hell. Or we can have heaven. Or we can have God. The choice is ours. We have these three choices in life.
Please choose God, not heaven or hell.
For Bawa teaches us,
“Don't work for wages to get into heaven,
you will be very disappointed.
Instead join in partnership with God”
My dear loving brothers and sisters, please do this work, Please Join In Partnership With God, That Is, As “One With” God, First On The Outside of You, And Then Within You, to complete God's intention within us, God's intention to reveal God to God for the benefit of all of God's creations in the 18,000 universes, within Man and within God, and within God and within Man.
Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen -
So be it, So be it, Oh Ruler of The Universes.
Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen -
So be it, So be it, Oh The Mercy of the Universes.
Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen -
So be it, So be it, Oh The Compassion of the Universes.
Al-hamdu lillah - all praise and praising belong to God alone.
Allahu Akbar - only God is great.
Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluh -
May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessings of God be upon all of us.
My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler)
“The End”
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Spiritual Insight 01”,
of “The Three Choices In Our Life”.
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