"THE MEANING OF SUBUD" Talk I - THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS AND THE ACTION OF SUBUD (Continued)

"THE MEANING OF SUBUD" - I  THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS AND THE ACTION OF SUBUD... Continued today Thursday 9/16/10...




But, human beings remain human beings and are very easily swayed by the ambience of the world. 


Without being aware of what is happening, as time goes on they come to attach ever more importance to following the power of their desires, their will, their thinking minds and their hearts.


So it is clear that there is no shortage of advice, which has been given from the time of Abraham until Muhammad. 


It could be said that human beings have been flooded with advice - there is so much of it that nobody can carry it all out. 


This is because they just keep thinking about all of it; everything they need for their life, they just think about. 


Everything remains in their mind - just in their mind - and keeps on circulating there.  So it all stops short in their thinking and they are unable to implement the advice and make it real. 


For instance there are many people who study theology and think about it for years and years, and in the end they just become confused.


Now with the coming of SUBUD Bapak can say, 'It isn't certain, but, yes, perhaps It Is Willed By God that through practicing what God Has Given Us In SUBUD, we should be able to come alive again the way we once were - as was taught by the Prophets in the olden days.' 


None of us, including Bapak, can be completely sure of anything; still, the evidence of our own Experience, and what we Receive, proves to us that SUBUD Is A Way Of Receiving That Is Not Awakened By Our Heart, Our Thinking Mind Or Our Desire. 


It Comes Rather Through An Emptying Of Everything That Is In Us; And This Comes About By The Will of God, Which Is Above And Beyond Our Human Understanding - Our Worldly Understanding.


This Means It Is God Himself Who Works On Our Being, since human beings are not able, working from advice they have been given, to change the content of their own self. 


Indeed it is not possible; It Can Only Be Done By A Power That Has Authority, A Power Infinitely Greater Than That Of A Human Being.


Therefore no theory is to be found in SUBUD, Just Realities, Which Work, Grow And Proceed By Themselves.  


We Receive And Experience This Working. 


All Of A Sudden Our Hearts Have Changed, Our Characters Have Changed, Our Physical Health Has Changed, And What Was Like That (gesture) Is Now Like This (gesture). 


All This Is The Working Within Us Of An All-Powerful Force Of Life, The Results Of Which We Can Witness With Our Ordinary Organs Of Perception. 


The Work Of This Life Force Within Us - Changing What Is Wrong To What Is Right And What Is Bad To Good - Requires No Assistance From Our Thinking Minds, Our Hearts Or Our Desires;  A Person's Mind, Heart And Desires Have No Power To Work Any Improvement On His Or Her Nature. 


Indeed The Improvement Of A Person's Being And Soul Is Not A Human Undertaking, Not Something For The Mind, Heart And Will, But Is The Work Of Almighty God Alone, Of A Power Immeasurably Higher Than Human.


(To be Continued Monday 9/20/10... here 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...)