BAPAK AND THE COMING OF THE LATIHAN (I THE PROOF Concluded)

By the Grace of Almighty God, Bapak and his family were able to survive in such a condition until the year 1945;  that is, when the second world war ended and Indonesia became a free country.

In the year 1945 Bapak and his family moved to Jogjakarta, where Bapak worked in the Government as chief of the financial section of the Army Medical Corps, and every Thursday and Saturday, in the evening, Bapak Opened brothers who wished to follow the Latihan Kejiwaan.

At the beginning of the year 1948, Bapak asked to resign from his position, because he felt that working as a soldier was not in accordance with Bapak's Jiwa (inner-force).

Bapak then set up an enterprise as a building contractor, assisted by brothers who were experts in this field and who had Received the Latihan Kejiwaan.

Bapak wishes to mention here that when he was in Jogjakarta and worked there he was always waiting for the opportunity to find a way to go abroad, as he had been Commanded to do when he was still at Semarang in the year 1933.

Indeed all the Messages Received by Bapak had already proved true: but Bapak had not yet received proof of the truth of the Message that after the second world war and after the liberation of Indonesia, Bapak
would be required to go abroad in order to spread the Latihan Kejiwaan. Even so, Bapak firmly believed that he would do this and that it was only a matter of waiting for the best time.

In the beginning of the year 1954, Bapak felt that he had to move to Jakarta and so Bapak moved there immediately. In Jakarta, Bapak and his family stayed at Kebajoran Baru [a suburb of Jakarta], but soon
Bapak moved from there to jalan jawa [a street in Jakarta].

Only after Bapak had moved to Jakarta did the expected time come, that is, the time when it really became possible for Bapak to go abroad and there Open and guide people who wished to follow the Latihan
Kejiwaan.

Bapak made several journeys abroad with the result that the Latihan Kejiwaan of SUBUD spread widely and was followed by brothers and sisters of various races, countries and religions.

This, brothers and sisters, was the proof of what Bapak had Received long before and which Bapak had felt, at the time of Receiving it, was something that could not possibly come about. And now, since everything has come true, Bapak feels it is necessary to tell you about what Bapak had Received and Experienced in the past; but Bapak will tell you only what is necessary.

(To be Continued with:  II  BAPAK'S OPENING...)