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

"THE MEANING OF SUBUD"...Talk  I  THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS AND THE ACTION OF SUBUD...  Continued today Monday 9/20/10... 

Bapak will now briefly describe the way in which a soul is incarnated in a new being, which develops and eventually attains a complete human form.


The structure of life, by the Decree of Almighty God, comprises different levels;  each level is a sphere or world of its own. 


Beginning with the lowest there are:  the world of the material life-forces, the world of the vegetable life-forces, the world of the animal life-forces, the world of the human life-forces and the world of the life-force of beings superior to the human beings of this world.


Bapak doesn't need to say anything about what is beyond the first five levels.


On its own level, each of these life-forces constitutes a world of its own. 


For example, the material world contains millions of souls analogous to people in this world. The souls of each of these worlds are drawn towards and enter certain focal points of attraction wherever these are available.  Such focal points come into existence through the union of man and woman. 


The vessel that acts as a focal point for a soul, as Bapak just said, is produced by the union of man and woman.  


From the union of a man and woman something is created that is still in the form of a fluid.  Although it appears merely as a fluid, it can be called the Water of Life, as it is able to receive the content of life, which causes it to move, function and develop until it eventually acquires a complete form.


Since the vessel has come into existence through the union of a man and a woman, it is derived from the essences of these two beings of opposite sex. 


It acts as a kind of lens, a form required by the soul that will enter it.  And if the thoughts of this couple have been constantly occupied, before and during the union, with the affairs and pleasures of this world, then the drop of fluid can serve only as a focal point for material forces and nothing higher.  


So if that is the state of the couple, and they create a new entity that can only attract material souls, then its content will be a material soul.


This new vessel, still in the form of a fluid, filled by a material soul, will gradually grow and develop in the mother's womb until it is completely formed as a human being, and ready to be born into this world. 


Of course, even if the soul is a material soul - or an animal soul or whatever - the body, organs and limbs are human, therefore he or she will think human thoughts and have human desires.  He or she will hold things and touch things, and walk just as human beings do.  In short, the way they live their lives will be no different from human beings.


Bapak will give an example.  It is like striking an object: if it is struck by a child it makes a sound, 'ting'.  If it is struck by a learned man or a beautiful woman, it will still make the same sound, 'ting'.  Because whoever may strike it, since the nature of the object remains the same, the sound it makes, 'ting' will always remain just 'ting'.  


It is the same with the soul: whether the inner content of a person, which governs their whole being, is a material, vegetable or animal soul, nevertheless he or she will sound like a human being, not like an animal.


Little by little a new-born child can see the forms of the world around them;  they are gradually affected by the atmosphere of this world and begin to be able to think and to feel things.  


At the same time their contact with the atmosphere of their soul becomes obscured in comparison with how it used to be before they fell under the influence of this world.  


In the end everything in them - their whole body, brain, heart and feelings - becomes entirely filled with the things of this world.


So eventually, when this person begins to think and to wonder, and to imagine conditions beyond this world - such as Heaven, or God and God's Power - they are able to do so only in terms of their worldly environment, which has come to be the sole content of their brain, heart and feelings. 


Therefore it is not surprising if there are people who visualize God as some impressive human figure, seated on a beautiful chair in a great palace made of gold or whatever.  Because they figure that God is above all, they take the elements and forms of this world and exaggerate them.


(To be Continued Thursday 9/23/10... 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...)