THE MEANING OF SUBUD - I THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS AND THE ACTION OF SUBUD (Concluded)

THE MEANING OF SUBUD -  I  THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS AND THE ACTION OF SUBUD... Concluded today Thursday 9/23/10...


How can we think about God with any degree of accuracy? Even to think, 'What is my soul and what is it really like?' is impossible for the human mind. 


For the thinking and the brain, the feelings, the desires and the heart have all come into existence only after the entry of the soul into that vessel, into that as yet formless and fluid state that you cannot but be familiar with. 


And therefore there is no other way for us to improve our inner state and to improve our soul - if it is wrong - Except By The Way That Is Willed By God, And Which We Have Been Given, Which We Receive, free from our thinking, free from our desires, free from our heart and our imagination that likes to picture things.


This is why what you Receive in the Latihan always seems strange to you;  because What We Get In The Latihan is beyond our ability, beyond our understanding - It Is Only Comprehensible To The Wisdom of God. 


God Can Accomplish that which human beings can never know, for they are no more than His creatures, who exist only because God Has Created them.  So it is impossible for people to know their Creator. 


It's just like when you make a table; you know if it is round or square, you know its color, whether it is yellow, white, red or another color.  But the table itself does not know whether it is square or round, or whether it has been painted yellow or black; it merely accepts whatever may be the will of human beings towards it.


You may tightly control your will, heart and thinking, ladies and gentlemen, but - and you can prove it to yourself from your own experience - although you certainly do not wish your hair to turn white, your teeth to fall out or your strength to decline; although you would certainly prefer to live a hundred or even two hundred years and still keep your hair black, your teeth intact and your full strength, you cannot force that to happen. 


For God Has The Authority, and He Has Decreed And Created human beings with limits. 


This is like when a car is made, there is always a service manual: after so many years you have to change this, this and this.  


In the same way, we must have complete faith that God Is All-Knowing And All-Wise, and realize that His Work is beyond our knowledge and understanding.


Although this Work Is Done By The Power Of God, do not cease to be attentive, brothers and sisters.  
Do not just allow things to happen and become careless.  Don't!  You must be aware, so that eventually you will be able to feel what is going on inside you: 


'Before, I was being moved like this, and now I'm Being Moved like that.' 


In this way, you will become aware that The One Who Moves You, The One In Charge Of Your Inner Feeling, Has Changed. 


And you will see this Change Manifested in your conduct from day to day.  


Finally, you will be able to see, to feel, and to be aware of the difference between the various forces or souls that form the content of your inner self.  Then you will become aware of the real master in you: that is, the true human soul.


These are Bapak's explanations this evening about the realm of the soul.  He will stop now, and maybe will continue on a future occasion. He hopes you will forgive him if anything he has said has offended you. And Bapak says 'thank you very much'.


(To be Continued Thursday 9/27/10... with the beginning of  III  GOD AND THE SOUL... on Muftiah's Facebook Notes Page... as well as on her Blogs... "JIWA TO JIWA"... and "MUFTIAH"... Insha Allah... God Willing... where via the free Google Translate Service... set up on your Browser... it can be read in many other languages... and in much easier... and larger to read print...) 

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