THE MEANING OF SUBUD - II GOD AND THE SOUL... (Continued)

THE MEANING OF SUBUD -  II  GOD AND THE SOUL... Continued today Monday 10/4/10...


When one says that a person knows God, or that God Is Close to them, this does not mean that all the Power of God Enters into them. 


There are people who, because of their own wrong understanding, claim themselves to be God, to be Allah - to be the creator of the human race and the whole universe. 


But the truth is that the Power of God Received by any person, and which they are able to approach, is in proportion to their own strength and to the limit of their human capacity. 


For If The Whole Power And Reality Of God Were To Enter Into A Person, The Earth Itself Would Disappear,  Because God's Power Is Greater Than Everything God Has Created.


Therefore, although human beings may attain knowledge reaching to the skies, they still remain human and can never be like God. 


For however pure and clean a person may be, he or she nevertheless possesses desires, a heart and a thinking mind; and the nature of these faculties is that they like to arrange this and that, to change this and that, and to choose this and that. 


So if a person were to possess power as mighty as that of God, maybe they would change today into a thousand days, so they could just keep on working and make a large profit. 


They would want everyone to bow before them and would regard them as nothing more than tools or instruments - which is what happened in the time of the pharaohs. 


Pharaoh, the all-powerful king, claimed to be God, and treated the rest of the people as tools or instruments.


This is why it is not possible, and could never happen, that All The Power of God should reside in the self of any human being. 


For by their very nature human beings possess desires, a heart and a thinking mind; whereas all the Prophets have said that God and God's Power are not affected by the light of the day or by the darkness of the night or by anything whatsoever.  


On the contrary, the Power of God Is Able To Penetrate Everything That God Has Created.


Therefore the closeness of God to human beings, to all of you, is closer than anything you see, closer than anything you hear or anything you can perceive with your senses. 


The truth is that people are unable to know God and to see God because they are obstructed by their own seeing; they are unable to hear the Power of God because they are obstructed by their own hearing, as well as by their other faculties. 


So this means that whenever you try to think about God, you yourselves are closing the way whereby God could purify your thoughts and make them able to understand God's Power.


Bapak compares this state to that of a child newly delivered from its mother's womb.  When a child is newly born it is unable to see the forms or to recognize the sounds of this world. 


The child is still closely in touch with its own pure inner feelings, which are still connected with its soul. This is the reason why the child sometimes looks happy and sometimes looks sad.


As soon as the child begins to be able to see the forms of this world, to hear, to smell, and to perceive its atmosphere, little by little the connection between the child, its pure feelings and its soul begins to close. 


This closes further as the child begins to think and to use its heart and desires, until in the end the child is more aware of this world than of its life before coming into this world, or of its own inner self.


(Today on Monday the 4th of October... our Beloved SUBUD Father BAPAK... Visiting his daughter Muftiah... would like to remind... each and every one of his SUBUD children... of the following...:


"Everything that you read... in BAPAK'S Talks... are the Eternal Words of God... Conveyed to BAPAK... Directly from Almighty God... as BAPAK sat in front of you... and that it is very important... for all his SUBUD children... to  read them... in as quiet a state as possible... so that they may gain the greatest benefit... from them... for the Content of the Talks... are just as relevant today... as they were... when BAPAK was living amongst you... here on earth...") 


THE MEANING OF SUBUD -  II  GOD AND THE SOUL... To be Continued Thursday 10/7/10... 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...)