Who Is God? - Part 2 Of 2

Dr. Nash: Has Bawa Muhaiyaddeen spoken of reincarnation?

Bawa Muhaiyaddeen:If a bee were to fall into fire, what would happen? It would become part of the fire.It could not come out of the fire again; it has become the fire itself.The fire has consumed the bee. If, however, the bee does not enter the fire, if it is not burned, then it still exists.It may fly near the fire or remain far away, but it still would exist here in this world.Where else is there for it to be?

Man is not really this external form, this body.The inner form of man is the qualities of God—a form separate from the external form.Within that form is the shadowless soul, which came as a ray from God, from that great power.It has no form or shadow, and it cannot be discovered by science.Everything has a shadow, but not the soul.God has no shadow, truth has no shadow, and wisdom has no shadow.It is this treasure that you must separate off.This is God’s treasure, God’s truth.This is separate from the body of earth, fire, water, air, and ether.That belongs to illusion, or maya, to the earthly world, to night and darkness.It is glitter, it is scenes, it is an act, and it is veils.One form is night and the other is light.One is false and one is truth.One is torpor and one is the radiance of wisdom.

The external body relates to the earth itself.It is just a cooperative store with five shareholders.But true man is a separate section from this cooperative store.His is the section of Man-God, God-Man, which contains God’s power.That power, that body, that prayer, and that devotion, all belong to a separate section

Within God’s creation there are multifarious things: goats, bulls, tigers, leopards, lions, mice, birds, and snakes.They each have their own qualities, their own peculiar sounds and actions.God is a great scientist, a great artist, and a potter.He is a learned scholar, the poet of poets, the gnani, the one who has divine wisdom.Realizing all things, God is the father who gives the explanation and the life to all.From His treasury, He is able to do all things.He is the one who has seen and known everything.He has seen the beginningless beginning (anathi), and the dawning of light (athi).God is that power for which there is no comparison anywhere.He holds within Himself such an immense treasury.He holds within Himself the entire understanding of grace, of creation, of all the sciences and arts, of ignorance, illusion, and the wealth of this world and the eighteen thousand universes.Everything that ever can be and ever will be is within His treasury.All the learnings of earth, fire, water, air, and ether, of colors, glitters, lights, and illusion are there within that treasury.

God knows the powers of each atom and the explanation and meanings of each and every thing.He has experience of everything whether it be astrology, the earth, or birth.It is God alone who has understood the clarity of each and every thing.Having created all things out of the entirety of His treasury, what He finally distilled and redistilled and purified and repurified many times and then created in man, the human being.That which God tempered and distilled to such a purified state and placed His qualities within, is man.

Having placed His qualities within man, God said, “I am the secret of man and man is My secret!I have placed within him My entire treasury.He is My wealth, My bank.Within man, I have placed all My powers.He is My wealth, and I am his wealth.If there is any being who can realize Me, it is only man.If there is any being who can learn My knowledge, it is only man. And if man is able to realize My knowledge, then he is I and I am he.All of My treasure and all My beauty is within man, and his beauty is within Me.He is My bank and I am his bank. The wealth that he needs is Me, and I have placed My wealth within him.It is man, himself, who must expend from My bank.It is he who must give forth of My grace.”So God has said.

When the station of divine wisdom dawns and one realizes, “I am nothing,” then he has no birth.Then there is no ‘I’, no ‘you’. There are no races, differences, colors, or sects.If he does not possess anything, just as God possess nothing, then there is no rebirth for him.It is he alone who can be called man, a human being.If one has not realized this wisdom and God, he cannot be called man.One can not be termed man except by the truth and wisdom within him.By looking at his face and body, you cannot call him man.There are men who are like monkeys.There are men who are like animals.They cannot all be called human beings.Only if one has that wisdom which is due to man, the human wisdom, can he be called man.If he does not possess this human wisdom, but instead possesses the consciousness and qualities of beasts, then this is not a human being.

Within man are the eighteen thousand universes.Whatever he sees outside is also found within himself, without form.There is a world outside, and there is a world inside. There is an ocean outside, and there is an ocean inside of man.There is satan outside, and there is satan inside.There are illusions outside and within; there are the visual attractions outside and within; there are demons without and demons within.There are lions outside and the qualities of the lion within man.The bull is outside and also within.The tiger is outside, and the tiger’s quality of pouncing and catching another is within man.The crow is outside and also within; the eagle and all of the birds to be found outside are also found within man.There is also a large ocean to be found within man—the red sea of blood attachments.The entire eighteen thousand universes are found within man.

Whatever angels or heavenly beings exist outside also exist within man, in shadow form.And if one takes on the qualities of a demon, then he is a demon.This body is a cooperative store.If one takes on the qualities of a lion, then he is a lion; if one has the arrogance of the elephant within him, then he is an elephant himself; if he has the quality of the biting snake, he is a snake.If he butts like the bull or kicks like the horse, then he is that animal.

If he has the quality of illusion, then he is illusion itself.If he has the quality of satan, then he is darkness itself.So, man has the form of whatever qualities he has taken within himself.It is by his qualities and actions that you can ascertain his form.If he is filled with arrogance, envy, vengeance, and jealousy, he has the qualities of satan.If he has desire, then he has the quality of illusion.If he has torpor, then he has the quality of ignorance.

Therefore, we must find out who is a true human being.If you look at all of mankind in the world of God’s creations, there are very, very few true human beings. But there are very, very many who are animals.

God is just one, and like that, true man is very, very rare.In the kingdom of this earth, the true human being is very rare indeed.They are very few and even these few are not tolerated here; they are not allowed to exist in this world.The true human being is just one in ten million.But if one does become a true man, then for him there will be no birth or death, nor will he return again.He does not come back to the world, nor is he destroyed.

A bull must plow, then later go to the butcher, and from the butcher come to the table.He must go and come back.He must go and come back through the gate of hell.This is the way of the animal.They must go to hell and come back through hell.This is the way it is, but true man is not like this. A true human being is very rare.

Discourse given September 11, 1973, Philadelphia, PA

Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship. (1993). Who is God? [Pamplet]. Philadelphia, PA: M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen