Sufism.+

                         Sufism from the non-dualistic or Advaitic perspective:~  

Al Hillaj Mansoor was a great Sufi. He was killed by religious fanatics, because he said, Anal Hak- I AM GOD. Sai Baba of Shirdi also used to say, Anal Hak.

When Al Hillaj Mansoor asserted, ‘I am God,’ religious fanatics killed him. Sufism is always killed by fanatic religious believers – because religious fanatics cannot tolerate a man asserting that he is God! They feel offended because how can a man be a God?

Hafiz refers to orthodox believers and fanatics, wherein Hafiz says: "O God, forgive the orthodox and fanatics, for they do not see the Truth."

Meher Baba: ~ We find the people quarreling in the name of religion over their holy books. Is it not like dogs fighting for the bare bones which have no marrow in them?"

How can you believe the belief of God as a separate entity? That implies two ~ the believer and the belief, whereas God in truth is nondual or Advaita. One can worship his idea of God only or realize his unity with God when he can’t worship God as a part.

God is in the form of the Spirit, and God is indeed Spirit itself” then why accept another God in place of the Spirit or believe other than the Spirit.

God is the Supreme Being the One eternal homogeneous essence, indivisible consciousness, and intelligence, which is hidden by the illusory form, time, and space. To which the Sages of truth describe in a variety of ways through diverse words.

When Al Hillaj Mansoor says, Anal Hak - ‘I AM GOD. Anal Hak or I AM GOD is the state of God in Sufism.    Only a person who has realized what God is supposed to be in actuality reaches the State of Anal Hak or the State of God. 

Third Mundaka Upanishad - Chapter 2 (9) - He who realized the Supreme Brahman (God) verily becomes Brahman (God).

God cannot be attained by one who is without strength or earnestness but if one strives with sincerity and seriousness then the dualistic illusion (universe) transcends into the nondualistic reality, which is God

A Sufi is one who realized God in truth. God shines brightly and in which the universe rests. The Sufi is free from ignorance. The Sufi transcends the illusory form, time, and space and is established in a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.   The nature of God is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. 

It is very difficult to recognize who is a real Sufi because he bears no external mark. Neither nudity nor the religious symbol has anything to do with him. Anyone who follows Sufism does not become a Sufi unless he has realized God in truth.  

A Sufi, on attaining realization, will not give up his vocation in life but will continue it as before. If he was a billniore then he continues so, if a peasant, he will remain one. He still does his duty, but he is fully aware of the fact that his practical life within the practical world is merely an illusion.

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A Self-realized person is a God-realized person because the Soul, the ‘Self’ itself is God in truth. In reality, the ‘Self’ is free from experiencing the illusory form, time, and space as a reality. Man and his experience of the world cease to exist without illusory form, time, and space.  Real existence is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence. The nature of God in truth is formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.  The real existence is God.

If God is the formless Spirit, then how does man know God created the world? There is no proof. If man had seen God creating the world, he could admit it, but how could he have seen God before he came into existence? (i.e. were created).

God, the Spirit is the root element of the universe. The Spirit is present in the form of the Soul, the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. 

From the Spirit, the universe comes into existence. In the Spirit, the universe resides. And into the Spirit, the universe is dissolved. The Spirit is the parent of all that is there. 

This universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms is nothing else but God (Spirit) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of the illusory form, time, and space.

So the fanatics believers in dogmas – they said that God created man, so man can only be a creature, not a creator; and this is profanity, the very apex of profanity to assert that ‘I AM GOD’ – they killed him. And what was Al Hillaj Mansoor saying when they killed him? He said loudly to the sky, ‘You cannot deceive me! Even in these murderers, I see you, – you cannot deceive me. You are here in these murderers! And in whatsoever form you come, my God, I will know you, because I have known you.’

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Religion is regarded as sacred and real by the common people, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. 

Religious fanatics never understood the Spiritualistic interpretation of Anal Hak- they thought he is referring to himself as God but it is not so he was referring to the infinite existence hidden by the finite ‘I’, which is present in the form of the universe.

The Soul is the  Self. The innermost Self is God.  It is not “I AM GOD, but it’s correct to say ‘the SELF IS GOD. 

Before saying ‘I AM GOD’ one must realize what ‘God’ is supposed to be in actuality.   Only the ignorant say ‘I AM GOD’ without knowing what it means. 

People say I AM GOD but when God is, how can "I" remain? Only God prevails not I. The ‘I’ exists only in the domain of the illusory form, time, and space whereas the Soul, the Self is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.  The Soul, the ‘Self is God in truth.

There is no God in the domain of the ‘I’ because the ‘I’ is merely an illusory expression of God.

It is erroneous to use the word ‘I’ for the Self, because ‘I’ represents the illusory form, time, and space whereas the Soul, the innermost Self is a formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.  

Some people say:  "I AM GOD." This presupposes that they have the same miraculous and creative powers of God. They do not, however, display possession of such power. Such is the fallacy of their logic.

People who say “I AM GOD’ are merely repeating like a parrot word, which they have read in their holy books or heard from a wandering monk or fakir. It does not prove that they have realized the ultimate truth or God in truth. With bookish or hearsay knowledge it is unable to prove that everything is God, which is present in the form of the Spirit. One has to do lots of homework to realize God, the Self. 

The Quranic version of Advaita. 

La illah illa Allah  -- No God  but Allah.

The meaning of La illaha illallah is simple, it means (La) No (illaha) God (illallah) but Allah.

The meaning of the word Allah is unique unlike English, it is purely singular in the Arabic language and cannot be made female or male despite it being a name that means Allah is free from being HE   or SHE. But why scripture uses “he” is another topic up for debate. But La Illaha Illallah means (There is) No god but Allah.

This means there is no God worthy of worship in the universe but the God which is hidden by the universe and is the cause of the universe. Allah is  God second to none. Allah is Advaita. 

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Sufism is nothing but mystic-orientated spirituality. Sufism is nothing to do with religion. Sufism is concerned with God in truth. God in truth is Spirit. There is no God in untruth because God is the truth hidden by the unreal universe.

Mysticism has its pragmatic value but mystics fail to stop and ask "what is the ultimate meaning of this bliss which they feel in the mystic experience?"  Therefore, an inquiry is needed to realize ‘What is the truth?’  ‘What is untruth?’    

The mystic object to introducing inquiry into the quest adopts an attitude as though it were like introducing something which is not sacred.  Mysticism blocks the mystic from realizing the truth hidden by the untruth because he has accepted the untruth as the ultimate truth.  He is unaware of the ultimate truth, which is Brahman or God in truth. 

The ultimate truth or God can be realized only when he realizes the ‘Self’ hidden by the ‘I’.  The ‘Self the Spirit’ is God, not the ‘I’. Only those who realize the Spirit as the ‘Self’ is a real Sufis.  

Meher Baba: ~ “When the reality appears this ignorance which one thinks as reality becomes unreal. 

Like an ornament made from gold is Gold, that which is born out of the Spirit (God in truth) is Spirit. Like gold is a permanent thing, in ornaments made of gold, similarly, the universe is born out of the Spirit, which is Spirit in its essence.

When Sufiism is bifurcated from mysticism then it is possible to realize the God hidden by the veil of ignorance. Mysticism takes God for granted without realizing what God is in actuality.   Realization of what God is necessary to become a real Sufi.

Bifurcating Sufism from mysticism is like beating around the bush without realizing that God is supposed to be in actuality.  One has to penetrate deep in Self-search and realize the God hidden by the ‘I’, which is the state of ignorance. The Sufi is the one who has reached the ‘Self is God' state.

People may not ever have heard of Sufism and you may be a Sufi. A Gnani has realized God in truth.  A Gnani is a real Sufi.   A Sufi is in awareness of God in the midst of the dualistic illusion. A  Sufi is a person who has established awareness of formless, timeless, and spaceless existence, which is the real nature of the Spirit or God.

Lord Krishna is a Sufi, Jesus Christ is a Sufi, Sage Sankara is Sufi and Bhagavan Buddha too is a Sufi they never heard of and they never knew that anything like Sufism. Meher Baba was Sufi. Meher Baba was on the 7^th plane, which is the Self is God's state.  In that state, God alone exists all else (the universe) is an illusion.

Meher Baba:~Unless and until ignorance is removed and Knowledge is gained. . . . the Knowledge whereby the Divine Life is experienced and lived . . . everything pertaining to the spiritual seems paradoxical . . . God, whom we do not see, we say is real; and the world, which we do see, we say is false. In experience, what exists for us does not really exist; and what does not exist for us, really exists.

Meher Baba said: ~ "There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization." 

Meher Baba said: ~ God is your innermost Self. Do not search for God outside of you. Let these words be inscribed in your heart. Nothing is real but God. Nothing Matters but love for God. God is everywhere and does everything. God is beyond us and is everything. God alone is and all else is an illusion. 

A Sufi bears no outward mark of a holy man. Sometimes he appears to be dull-witted, sometimes wise. Sometimes he seems splendid as a king, sometimes feeble-minded. Sometimes he is calm and silent. Sometimes he draws men to him. Sometimes people honor him greatly, and sometimes they insult him. Sometimes they ignore him.

Second-hand knowledge of God gathered from books or fakirs can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied; only direct realization will do that. 

Realize yourself by realizing the Self is not you but the Soul, which is present in the form of the Spirit. The Spirit is God in truth.

Jesus said: ~ Seek and ye shall find. Knock the doors shall open to you. 

Why did Jesus say different things? Owing to the time and the persons, according to their readiness to listen and understand. What Jesus meant was to leave all and follow the ‘Self’; that means to know the ‘Self’ and realize the ‘Self’, which is the Spirit, the God.

The teachings that are being followed by Christians are not the real teachings that Christ gave. The priests have altered his words, added to his teachings, and spoiled them.

Jesus said: ~ Seek and ye shall find. Knock the doors shall open to you.
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Gospel Thomas Logian 22:~ Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to his disciples, “These infants being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom.”

They said to him, “Shall we then, as children, enter the kingdom?”

Jesus said to them, “When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female is female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter the kingdom.”

Santthosh Kumaar: ~ “This above passage is Jesus’s version of Nonduality or Advaita. When one realizes mind (matter) and the Soul (Spirit), the Self are one, in essence, there is no place for duality. Without duality, the universe ceases to exist. Without the universe, your existence within the universe is merely an illusion because there is scope for two because everything is created out of single stuff. That single stuff is the consciousness or Spirit, the God. 

Sage Sankara’s Supreme Brahman (God in truth) is impersonal, Nirguna (without Gunas or attributes), Nirakara (formless), Nirvisesha (without special characteristics), immutable, eternal, and Akarta (non-agent). God is above all needs and desires. God is always the Witnessing Subject. God can never become an object as God is beyond the reach of the senses. God is non-dual, one without a second. God has no other besides it. God is destitute of difference, either external or internal. God cannot be described because the description implies a distinction. God cannot be distinguished from any other than God. In God, there is not a distinction between substance and attribute. Sat-Chit-Ananda constituted the very essence or Svarupa of God, and not just God's attributes. The Nirguna Brahman of Sage Sankara is impersonal.

Constant remembrance of the nature of God leads to Self-awareness, which itself is God-awareness.

Until one thinks he is an individual separate from this world he remains in the realm of duality. Duality is the product of ignorance. When the Advaitic wisdom dawns, then the ignorance vanishes. When ignorance vanishes, then duality never remains a reality.  Without duality, God alone exists as the ultimate reality.

No mystic has as yet asked himself the question, "How do I know that my experience is Truth?"

A Sufi is without form, time, and space even though he exists in the domain of form, time, and space.  A Sufi is immersed is aware of the formless, timeless, and spaceless God in the midst of the domain of the illusory form, time, and space.

Until the followers of Sufism speak of God without realizing what God is supposed to be in truth, it is impossible to unfold the mystery of God.  When they realize what God is supposed to be in truth then the truth will start revealing itself.  

When the followers of Sufism can observe their worldview from the non-dualistic perspective then they will realize the truth hidden by the ‘I’.

The look of an object will depend upon the medium through which the observer views it. In fact, our mental and intellectual conditions determine the world, observed and experienced. The commoner viewing the world will see differently from a Sufi viewing the same world. Each one interprets the world that they see in terms of their existing knowledge. The commoner sees everything based on the ego, therefore, experiences birth, life, death, and the world as a reality, whereas a Sufi sees everything as consciousness and he is fully aware of the fact that, there is no second thing exists other than the Soul or the consciousness. Thus, all egocentric knowledge has to be bifurcated to realize the ultimate truth, which is hidden by the ‘I’.

Meher Baba said~ ‘When we talk of the Infinite and the finite, we are referring to them as two, and the Infinite has already become the second part of the duality. But the Infinite belongs to the non-dual order of being. 

If the Infinite is looked upon as the counterpart of the finite, it is strictly speaking, no longer infinite, but a species of the finite, for it stands outside the finite as its opposite and is thus limited. 

Since the Infinite cannot be the second part of the finite, the apparent existence of the finite is false. The Infinite alone exists. 

God cannot be brought down to the domain of duality. There is only one being in reality and it is the Universal Soul. The existence of the finite or limited is only apparent or imaginary.

God cannot be brought down to the domain of dualistic illusion or Maya.  In reality, there is only the Spirit, which is  God in truth. 

The Spirit, God pervades everything and everywhere in the universe. When one realizes the universe is nothing but a dualistic illusion created out of the Spirit, God,  then he realizes there is no second thing that exists other than Spirit, God. Thus everything is God.  There is no second thing that exists other than God. Hence God is nondual or Advaita.

God appears as the universe in waking or dream (duality) and the universe disappears as God in deep sleep (non-duality). 

God is not a Christian; God is not a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, or a Buddhist because God in truth is universal.

Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is required to unfold the mystery of God.  No religion defines God. Spirituality alone points to God in Truth.  God in truth is Advaita.  : ~ Santthosh Kumaar