A Mother Love

A little boy came up to his mother in the kitchen one evening while she was fixing supper, and handed her a piece of paper that he had been writing on. After his Mom dried her hands on an apron, she read it, and this is what it said:
For cutting the grass: $5.00
For cleaning up my room this week: $1.00
For going to the store for you: $.50
Baby-sitting my kid brother while you went shopping: $.25
Taking out the garbage: $1.00
For getting a good report card: $5.00
For cleaning up and raking the yard: $2.00
Total owed: $14.75
Well, his mother looked at him standing there, and the boy could see the memories flashing through her mind. She picked up the pen, turned over the paper he’d written on, and this is what she wrote:
For the nine months I carried you while you were growing inside me:
No Charge.
For all the nights that I’ve sat up with you, doctored and prayed for you:
No Charge.
For all the trying times, and all the tears that you’ve caused through the years:
No Charge.
For all the nights that were filled with dread, and for the worries I knew were ahead:
No Charge.
For the toys, food, clothes, and even wiping your nose:
No Charge.
Son, when you add it up, the cost of my love is:
No Charge.
When the boy finished reading what his mother had written, there were big tears in his eyes, and he looked straight at his mother and said, “Mom, I sure do love you.” And then he took the pen and in great big letters he wrote: “PAID IN FULL”.
Lessons:
- You will never how much your parents worth till you become a parent
- Be a giver not an asker, especially with your parents. there is a lot to give, besides money.
Advice:
IF your mom is alive and close to you, give her a big kiss and ask her for forgiveness. If she is far away, call her. if she passed away, pray for her.


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enlightenment

Question: Can you provide the definition of enlightenment?

Question: What do you give, provide the definition of enlightenment?

Shri Mataji: Enlightened means a personality, enlightened personality, I can tell you, is a person who is beyond his mind. And he is in contact completely with this all-pervading power of divine love. As a result everything in that person is guided, helped by that divine love. That power is so great that it looks after you, it organizes everything, it thinks, it understands, it is wisdom of all the things. You become a person who is so collectively conscious. 

Today we need people like that. Otherwise you always think about yourself. About others you can only think when you are collectively conscious. But these days there are so many people marketing their spirituality, you see. That’s also there. And just people jump to it, I don’t know why. Why don’t they find out what is the gain, what did you gain out of it? Nobody wants to know.

Question: How did you find America?

Shri Mataji: They are antipodes. I don’t know what to say, they are very money-oriented, extremely money-oriented. And they can’t understand me because I’m not asking for money, you see, they can’t understand. It’s very difficult. And how to penetrate that veil of theirs?

So, this time it has been much better, I should say, I’ve been there. I went first, long time back, 1973 I went there, and I saw the people how mad they were. After one boy was a 16 years old guru, you see. They just giving money to him. So, I asked him “Why they are giving money?” What is the need to give money like this? To this guru? They said: “Because he is giving us spirit.” Where is he giving you spirit?

And then this fellow, he was wiser than others I should say, because he settled down as a young one, he married some American lady and used his money, but all the rest of them, so many of them, went there to befool them. It’s endless. Still going on.

But unless and until you accept the truth, you cannot change. Accept us in the sense you have to ask for it. You should have pure desire. This Kundalini is the power of pure desire within you. When She rises She gives you your pure desire. Not like this, changing from one to another. And if you have pure desire only then it works out. If you don’t have, it won’t work out – no. I cannot force it. Cannot be forced, you see.

source-http://www.sahajayoga.net.au/question-can-you-provide-the-definition-of-enlightenment/

What is meditation?

What is meditation?

Despite all its popularity, today very few of us truly know what meditation is. Some regard meditation is the mental concentration on something, others consider that we meditate when we imagine something that gives us peace or satisfaction. All these methods are being with one goal to slow down and, eventually, completely stop the incessant activity of our minds. These exercises are not really meditation - they are substitutes for meditation because it is normally very difficult to stop our minds all-together. In reality, meditation is a state of thoughtless awareness. It is not an act of doing - it is a state of awareness. We either in this state or we are not, regardless of what we are doing in life. Truly, a man can be in meditation while doing his day's labors as another man can be very far from meditation while sitting in a lotus posture on the top of a mountain.

When we take a look at the various explanations of meditation, another thing we often see is that meditation is defined as taking a moment to sit quietly or to ponder. True meditation, however is much more than this. It is a state of profound, deep peace that occurs when the mind is calm and silent, yet completely alert. This is just the beginning of an inner transformation that takes us to a higher level of awareness. This enables us to fulfill our true human potential. The problem, of course, is how to achieve this state.

Meditation is not...

Concentration
Concentration is an effort to fix the attention on a particular object or idea for a long period of time. The techniques used in visualization are another type of concentration.
Loss of control 
Sounds, voices, colors and involuntary movements have nothing to do with meditation or spirituality. These are symptoms of loss of awareness and loss of control over some parts of ourselves.
Exercises
Exercises, such as postures and breathing, do not constitute meditation. They may help establish some balance if under the guidance of a true master (a realized soul). Their practice without a true spiritual goal only leads to an imbalance in the right channel.
Mental effort
Thoughtless awareness is achieved through the raising of the Kundalini. To get rid of blockages that prevent her ascent, we use the hands and introspection but never mental effort (e.g., the continuous repetition of "I must stop thinking").
Testimonials
It’s amazing how your life can change for the better in seconds, that 10 seconds of self realization changed my whole world. It’s truely a blessing everyday to be able to enjoy each and every second, its only natural to be out of words while describing your experince in Sahaja Yoga, so much blessing, so much joy, so much peace, nothing compare it nothing.
Hitesh – Nepal

What would be the effect of increasing number of Sahaja Yogis on the economic system…?

Sunday 10 Jul 2011

Question: What would be the effect of increasing number of Sahaja Yogis on the economic system…?

Question: What would be the effect of increasing number of Sahaja Yogis on the economic system and the lifestyle of the country where the increase of Sahaja Yogis takes place?

Shri Mataji: Oh, it just triggers everything. For example, now what are our problems? We see the economic problems of this country is. I have understood it so well that we have so much of a, say, ores and all other things like silver we have here, and gold and all kinds of things we have, and the ones who are exploiting us are Americans and nobody sees the point. Nobody sees the point. While those who will get Sahaja Yogis, they will become so dynamic. They will put in their own industries here. Why send it? Why make cars in America? Why not make them here? So many things can happen because you become so dynamic and there’s so many people to help you all over that this is what should happen. After all, you have all kinds of things available here. Why should you send your aluminum to America, to be drawn into wires and beaten into sheets? There’s no need. We can do it ourselves.

So this, you see, self-confidence that we can do it together and the collective feeling can give you such good ideas. And another point is that the way we are working out machines now. Now we have to understand that machines are for us. We have created machines and machines are to be used according to our need and we are not for machines. They are not to dominate us. So as much as we need we’ll use machines otherwise we’ll not use machines. And as a result, already it is happening that people don’t like machine-made things and machine-made this thing. So they will go to the balancing state where they will take to more handmade things and handmade material. Now for a handmade things you don’t have to have so many. Like, now we say in India, thank God, we are quite poor country, we can’t afford to have so many machines. Thank God for that because now in a household they will have about, say, ten plates of brass or twelve plates of brass. Finished. We don’t have to have so many crockery, cutlery, this, that, that breaks. Then, after that you have plastic. Because it breaks so you have plastics. So, you go on. The plastic is now mounting up, mountains after mountains we have created.

So, you take more to practical side, very much practical and more to the natural. And in natural, it’s nice to have one natural thing than to have ten plastics. Now people are realizing, I’m not saying they are not realizing it. But still there are machines sitting on top of us. And then the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurs are very clever. Today they start one fashions, tomorrow another fashion, third day third fashion. England is another one who suffers a lot. For example, in a place like London, which is such a cold place, people have pants which have holes in it. They call it holy pants, you see. And now imagine, they developed varicose veins with that. Or they’ll have tight pants. They have to do something about it. They have to feed their machines. So they will start this fashion or that fashion.

Now, there’s another fashion which is also very dangerous that people don’t put any oil in their hair. Before taking a head bath, one can put easily some oil or before night they can put it. They are all getting bald. Once they get bald, them they’ll sell their wigs. The same hair which are fallen off, they make wigs and sell it. They are befooling you. If you see little bit, you stand out and see how they are befooling you must, these entrepreneurs are. This is the fashion today, that is the fashion.

Tags: economics, lifestyle, sahaja yogis

Salaat: Technology of the Heart and Soul

Salaat: Technology of the Heart and Soul

1.

Salaah or Salaat or the Islamic mode of Prayer is a gift received from the Holy Ascension of the Prophet.  The word comes from the meaning Connection and in the Final Testament again and again it is commanded to establish Salaat, that is to say, to establish the primordial connection of the human soul to the Supreme Soul, the Source with which the soul must connect to maintain its spiritual milk that nourishes and sustains.

It is a technology of the heart and soul in which transformation of human being while living in ordinary way of life, having family and being engaged and productive in the world does not restrict or limit the possibility of Godly realization. While in many previous sacred traditions of the past, a life devoted to God would mean divorcing the world completely, leaving behind family and society, which by every sign present to us in modern day tells us that such mode of life is no longer sustainable and even possible. A quick glance at the monastic tradition of other faith traditions is a testimony of this fact. Those faith traditions which embody purely monastic path and hold it as the ideal, such as Buddhist and certain Christian traditions are facing a serious crisis (less and less people are pursuing this path and leaving the monasteries in critical mass) and as days go by this crisis will only deepen since such divorcing the world exclusively is no longer attracting devotees to follow it as it were in the past. Also the duality that exists within paths where devotion to God would mean denying the rights of family, loved ones and also one’s own biological, emotional need of family, friends and society gives rise more conflicts in modern time. 

Jesus taught his disciples to be in the world as if one is passing by, be like a passerby or a traveler, not caught up with the world. Another teaching is "to be in the world, but above it." To be in the world is important because that is why human existence and human family is for and to be above the world is equally and more important (depending on soul's evolution). But there needs an appropriate technology to be in the world, perform all the myriads of duties and yet to remain free always. In Romans apostles of Christ taught as they learned from their Master, "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind." And it is through consistent and organic way of life in which prayer is embodied in an unified fashion is what continuously renews the mind and heart and transform them both within and without.

Islam being the finalized sacred code for complete guidance of life dissolves this duality of being a lay person,, being an ordinary person, being loved and loving to others, living a life of humble human being with all human limitations and existential necessity – and that of a life lived in complete awareness and awe of the Supreme Being and dedicating one’s life in everything one does to God, including the sacred duties and following holy commandments. The material and spiritual life is not in split in Islam, but brought into unity. While as we observe in western life style (and as with osmosis this has also perverse in eastern lifestyle) that the total pre-occupation with material impulse only means a deeply rooted poverty of spirituality for human being, a total cut off from the spiritual currents which nourish the spirit and soul of a human being, gives him a purpose in life, serenity, tranquility and a higher ideal to aspire to. And those who feel close to the call of the Divine equally find themselves caught in the material world and its ways roams like lost soul, unable to attend to the call of the Invisible voice of the Soul.

I AM calling to you from afar;
Calling to you since the very beginning of days.

Calling to you across millennia,
For aeons of time-
Calling-calling... since always...

It is part of your being, My voice,
But it comes to you faintly
and you only hear it sometimes;

"I don't hear", you say,
"what is it and where?"

But somewhere you hear,
and deep down you know.
For I AM that in you which has been always:
I AM that in you which will never end.

Even if you say, Who is calling?
Where will you run? Just tell Me.
Can you run away from yourself?

For I AM the Only One for you;
there is no other,

Your Promise, your Reward AM I alone
Your Punishment, your Longing
and your Goal ...

~ Anonymous ~

In Islam Salaat or daily prayer which are aligned to the natural rhythm of the cosmos in which man find himself in existence, is the greatest technology which enables and ennobles the dissolving of this duality of attending to the world while giving response to the sacred call of the spirit and soul. Salaat is the regular renewal of the connection with the Divine Presence from which in truth we are never disconnect but are veiled by thousands of veils in the world of appearances. Through the Salaat each time we move beyond veils so that the ultimate goal is to remain and subsist (baqa) in that perpetual sacred connection (salaah).

In the sacred tradition of Islam the Prophet said, "Whoever loveth to meet God, God loveth to meet that being" On this earth, Salaat is the response to that call of meeting the Lord while living in this very reality, for truly salaat is the holy ascension for the believer. Salaat, for the believers, is the Valentine with the Real Beloved.

2.

The best exemplar and the exemplar who is highly praised by none other but by Allah Himself, Glorious is He, is Prophet Muhammad and who is sent with the most beautiful patterns for human embodiment. Thus for the Sufis the archetypal exemplar is the Divine Messenger himself who is a mercy to mankind (rahmatallil ‘alamin). During his holy ascension to the Supreme Presence (miraj) the gift he was bestowed was the daily five times prayer of the heart, which is called Salaat in Arabic. No less than close to eighty times in the Final Testament it is reminded to establish salaat, which means to establish ceaseless prayer in the heart (which is to attain pure awareness of God in every state and in every situation through prayer) and also to establish it in the family, in the society and hence in the world, because the Kingdom belongs to God who is glorified forever. Salaat is the establishment of that very glorification.

3.

The very practice and movement of Islamic prayer which many calls Islamic Yoga has in it preserved all the prayer movement and all the form in which previous great illuminated messengers used to pray to the Supreme Being. The very form of Islamic prayer is an universal prayer form of humanity. From time immemorial human beings were inspired to stand, bow, put their head on the ground in complete awe and adoration of the Being Supreme. Also in the Hebrew tradition, all the Biblical Prophets used to pray in the same manner. In fact Orthodox and knowledgeable Jews still pray in the same way with a combination of standing, bowing and prostration. The Old Testament and New Testament both wherever they mention the ways in which the previous illuminated beings used to pray speaks of standing, bowing, falling down on their face (sujud, prostration) for this has been very form in which even invisible beings in the Kingdom of Power and Kingdom of Command adores God, the Most High. According to the Gospel and account of his close disciples, Jesus Christ (Isa Masih), son of Mary, when prayed, used to pray in the traditional Hebrew way with falling on the ground (prostration) as the ultimate posture of humility and surrender.

Times of the prescribed Five Canonical Prayers | redrawn from Sh. Nooruddeen Durkee's Shadhuliyya Orsions, volume 1

Do you not see how Allah has made the night to merge into the day 

and the day to merge into the night? 

And has subjected the sun and the moon, each running [its course] 

for a specified term. 

Allah is aware of your every action. 

~ The Quran 31:29 ~

The previous messengers had the established habit / ways / command to pray in certain time in sync with the nature. According to the Talmud, prayer is a Biblical command: "'You shall serve God with your whole heart.' (Deuteronomy 11:13) What service is performed with the heart? This is prayer." The prayers are therefore referred to as Avodah sheba-Lev ("service that is in the heart"). For the Israelite, they were commanded to glorify and pray to God during three times in a day and night (morning light, afternoon and nightfall prayers). This practice is still observed by Orthodox Jews.

In Islam, which is the continous chain in the Abrahamic tradition, all the sacred times during the day and night in which people are commanded to pray their obligatory prayer, renewing their connection with that which is their Essence, is a continuation of the preserved times during which holy Messengers used to adore the Supreme because they were commanded and inspired to do so. Man is not disconnected from the nature, neither is he disconnected from the Divine. Thus as the earth moves with its rhythm, as the celestial bodies swims causing day and night, so also man is told to renew his or her connection with the Divine during the organic times of the day and night. This establishes the place of man in the cosmos. The prescribed times for prayer in Islam correspond to previous greatly illuminated messengers of God sent to humanity at different epoch.

For example, the morning prayer (Fajr) which is prayed before the sunrise was the prayer of Adam, the first and archetypal human being. Two cycle of fard (obligatory) prayer of the Fajr was given to him as a trust. Prophet Muhammad added two cycle of prayer before the obligatory.

The noon prayer (Juhr) was brought in by Abraham, which was only two cycle of fard. Our Prophet added two cycle of fard and the rest of the sunnah (practiced by him) in it.

The two cycle of afternoon prayer (Asr) was the prayer of Jacob. Prophet Muhammad added two cycle of fard as well as the sunnah before it.

The sundown prayer (Maghrib) was the prayer of David. Its sunnah and nafl (supererogatory) part added b Prophet Muhammad.

The night prayer (Isha) was the prayer of Jonah. Prophet Muhammad added additional cycles to it to increase awareness and devotion on part of the devotee.

In addition, the night vigil prayer (Tahajjut) was specifically an instruction to Prophet Muhammad and has been the hallmark prayer of many previous Messengers and saints of God.

4.

On Social level the practice of salaat was extra-ordinary in its earlier days as it still remains today. It is literally the only assembly where no difference remains between those who attend here.

Whether one is a head of the state, another is a very small employee, a slave or a master, an educated or an unlettered person, salaat in a mosque is a practical demonstration that all are equal in the eye of God. It remains to be the only living example where equality of humanity is not only given a lip service but lived and embodied in every time a prayer is done in a mosque. All the differences in outward appearance, role in the world, material achievement, worldly temporal power, all are leveled while people stand in salaat.

During the time of the Prophet, about 1400 years ago, even men and women prayed in the same room without any barrier between same. During the Hajj, the Pilgrimage when people go and visit the ancient house erected by Abraham, there is also no separation between men and women. Contrary to the popular misconception and stereotyping, Islam from its very beginning has practically dissolved the boundaries of not only monastic like devotion and lay people, it also dissolved the differences between devotion of men and women – and why it shouldn’t be? Cause in the eye of God, every single human being, both male and female are children of God, His cherished son and daughters and can any loving and caring mother, loving and caring father deny the love and affection of one and reject the other.

5.
There is no one in the heavens and earth but that he comes to the Most Merciful as a servant, an instrument of God (‘abd). – The Quran 19:93

And at Gethsemane Jesus Christ went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will.

He went away a second time and prayed, "My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done."

and went away once more and prayed the third time, uttering the same prayer.

For any sincere spiritual seeker, when he or she seek out a true master in the Sufi Path, the first thing that is established after sound understanding of faith and reality that there is but One God and all Messengers, from Adam to Muhammad, all are sent by God (la ilaha illa Allah, maan Adam ila Muhammad Rasululla) , after this comes the Salaat, or heart prayer that renews connection with the Divine. All illuminated masters through their teaching, through their practice and example performed prayer to the Supreme Being. There is no exception. Even elect masters such as Jesus Christ, Muhammad they all exemplify to their disciples and followers that no matter what is one's station with God responding to that longing of the heart through prayer and that humility which is quintessential for the creation before the Supreme Creator. It is the right of the Lord that He be adored and glorified, in this earth, in this very existence, as it is in heaven, as in the hereafter.

Salaat if established in the heart as it deserves to be established, it alone is the sufficient technology to make on ordinary person into a saint and elect friend of God, awliya Allah such is its transforming power.

Salaat has many spiritual benefit all encapsulated in it, since its the culmination of prayer form of all previous Messengers, Elect Friends and beloveds of God. From the sacred tradition of Islam (Hadith) Hazrat Anas (ra) has transmitted, when the servant finish his ablution (islamic baptism) and with pure intention stands at prayer and say “Allahu Akbar”, at that instant that person become innocent as a new born child. When he says “I seek refuge in Allah..” then the blessings of worship in the quantity equivalent of the amount of his bodily hair is written to his book of records.

Then when he says the Opening verses, Surah al-Fatiha, then as if he has performed the umrah Hajj. And when he bows down before his Lord, it is as if he has received gold equivalent to his body’s weight. After he returns from his bowing position by saying, “My Lord listens to His praise” he receives the blessing of freeing a slave. And when he recites Tashahud while sitting towards the end of his prayer, then he receive blessings equivalent of thousand scholars and martyr. And finally when he sends greetings of peace on his right side and on his left side, all the eight doors of the paradise is made open for him. (Dakayekul Akbar)

One of the mystery of Salaat is that it embodies through its movement and postures the very name which is the focus of Divine Presence, Ahmad (the celestial name of the one who is the most praising and most praised) in it. God willing, more on this on the next post.

Further:

* Salaat and its components
* Symbology and meaning of Prostration (face on the ground as described in the Bible)
* Spiritual Meaning of Worship and Daily Salaat

* Symbolism of Prayer
* The Two Sajda
* The Sufi Prayer
* Spiritual Meaning of Prayer

* Why Muslims Pray everyday
* How do Muslims pray

Source-http://www.mysticsaint.info/

Salaat: Becoming like Ahmad, the one who praises

Salaat: Becoming like Ahmad, the one who praises

We bear witness that verily God is One and there is no divinity except the Sole Divinity, the King, the Protector, the Incomparable, the Omnipotent and Muhammad is Divine Informer in the brotherhood of Messengers such as Abraham, Noah, Moses, David and Jesus

1.
The Name Ahmad and Muhammad

Ahmad is the celestial name of the praised one, his holiness Muhammad Mustafa, may Allah bless him with a blessing worthy of him and may our understanding be increased towards his exalted station (maqam al-mahmuda).

The meaning of the name "Muhammad" is that person who is most worthy of being praised in the entire creation of Allah, the praised one. The name Ahmad means, the most praising of the Creator. According to esoteric scholars, the name of the Prophet Muhammad was first Ahmad. Then being appointed the office of Prophethood, the creation started to praise him and he became Muhammad. The name Ahmad (also written as Ahmed) is from the Arabic triconsonantal root of H-M-D meaning highly praised, implying “one who constantly praise / glorify Allah.” In the Song of Solomon of the Bible the same root word Hebrew phrase is used in verse 5:16, “Muhammadim”, all together lovely, or the praised one.

The name Ahmad has its origin also in a prophecy from Jesus Christ, mentioned once in Quran in Surah 61: the Ranks: And (this happened too,) when Jesus, the son of Mary, said: “O Children of Israel! Behold, I am a Messenger of God to you, (sent) to confirm the truth of whatever there still remains of the Torah, and to give the glad tiding of a Messenger who shall come after me, whose name shall be Ahmad.” But when he (whose coming Jesus has foretold) came to them with all evidence of the truth, they said, “This is (nothing but) obvious magic.”

Many believe that this prophecy can be traced in the original Greek copy of the Bible where Christ’s mother tongue, Aramaic was transmitted in Koine Greek. The trace of this celestial name of the next Divine Messenger to come, the successor of Jesus is “Paraclytos” which is believed to be derived from the earlier Greek translations Periclytos. Periclytos means Ahmed, the praising one and Paraclytos means comforter, teacher, counselor etc which later got misinterpreted and mistranslated. But the earlier disciples knew this news about the next messenger to come, majority of earlier Arab Christians also receive this knowledge from Desert Father and eagerly anticipated for his coming and when Muhammad was bestowed his office of Messengership, they recognized him well and embraced his teachings.

“I give thanks unto thee, O Lord, and sing praises unto Thy Name. To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.” 
- Psalms of David

2. 
Salaat: The Technology of Divine Connection for Humanity

The celestial prayer form which Prophet Muhammad brought down as a Divine gift from heaven for humanity is called Salaat for the intention that with this unified prayer of the heart, connection with the Divine be established for those who does not limit themselves to this temporal world, its forms and its pre-occupations but aspire for the Kingdom to come when this reality transforms into the Greater Reality.

Salaat in its unified and standard form is transmitted, taught and practiced by Prophet Muhammad for the community of believers across humanity so that all can come together to stand before their Lord in unity. Every single Muslim across the world, whether its Indonesia or Australia, whether in South Africa or Morcco, whether in Southern Spain or in North America - every muslim stands before the Lord in unity, rank upon rank to face the Lord of all Kingdoms (Rabbial Alamin) in the same manner. It is through this unified prayer form, no Muslim is ever a stranger in a mosque, regardless of whether this mosque is situated. The language is universal, the form is universal for the entire brotherhood and sisterhood. When a husband and wife is married, they can stand before God on the prayer carpet instantly and in harmony can say the prayer from their heart - because of the uniformity and unity of salaat. Thus unity is established in the family, in community, in society and ultimately in the world across communities.

"It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men." 
- C.S. Lewis

3.

Supra Temporal Reality of the Prophets and Divine Informers

Nobi mor Nur-e-Khuda
Tar tore shokol poyda
Adam er kolobete tari Nurer roshoni.

My Beloved Divine Messenger is a Light from God
For him the entire manifestation manifested
Inside the heart of Adam, behold! its the same effulgence!
- from a traditional folk song praising the Prophet

The spirit that was bound within the form of attributes went to the Divine Essence by means of the light of (Muhammad) the Chosen. The moment it started going, it cried out in joy, "Blessings (be) on the joyful spirit of (Muhammad) the Chosen!" - Rumi 

According to the sacred teachings of Islam, different Messengers of God hold different spiritual station with the Divine. For example, Abraham was Khalilullah, friend of God. Moses was Kalimullah, God spoke with him, Jesus was Ruhullah, Spirit and Breath of God, also Kalamullah, Word of God. And finally Muhammad was HabibAllah, Beloved of God. Such was the exalted station of Prophet Muhammad, he is known as the Father in Spirit (al-ab ar-ruhi) of Humanity, while Adam is the Father in Clay (al-ab at-tini) of Humanity .

The following verses from Surat al-Ahzab suggests in effect that it is in his supra-temporal reality that the Prophet is called upon:

And when We sealed with the prophets their alliance, with you, with Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus the Son of Mary, We sealed with them a solemn alliance. - The Quran 33:7

The enumeration of prophets limits itself here to the main phrase of the prophetic cycle in which the Prophet holds the first place, that of Adam. This is interpreted here as an allusion to his antecedence and to his paternity on the plane of Spirit, which coincides with the posterity of his function as Seal. Sacred tradition confirms this interpretation.

We have sent unto you (in you) a messenger from among you, who recites unto you Our verses, purifies you (yuzakkikum), and teaches you the Scripture and Wisdom, and teaches you that which you knew not. - The Quran 2:151

That which man does not know and which he cannot come to know by himself alone is direct knowledge, revealed to the prophets and inspired to the saints.

4.The Prophetic Presence in all Believers

And know that the Messenger of God is among you, in you (fee kum).
- The Quran 49:7

The Prophet is intimately present in every believer. On the macrocosmic perspective the role of the Divine Informer / Divine Messenger is to give glad tidings which is also the meaning of Gospel (good news), a role performed by Christ. Similarly for the reality that is within every single human being, on the micro scale the function of Informing or the responsibility to carry the Message is within us as well. In that sense, from microcosmic perspective, the Message is within us and hence the Messenger of God is within as well which is transmitted in the inner meanings of the Quranic verse:  WaAAlamoo anna feekum rasoola Allah: "Know that the Messenger of God is among you."

On the outer level the verses was revealed to teach certain decorum of conduct (adab), and at the same time on the inner level this opens up antoher vista of the Prophetic Presence within.

The Second Testimony of Faith, "Muhammad Rasul Allah" according to its quintessential interpretation of Frithjof Schuon, considers the Principle only in relation to three hypostatic aspects, namely: the manifested Principle (Muhammad), the manifesting Principle (Rasul), and the Principle in itself (Allah).

The entire accent is placed on the intermediate element, Rasul, "Messenger"; it is this element, the Logos, which links the manifested Principle to the Principle itself. The Logos is the "Spirit" Ruh of which it has been said that it is neither created nor uncreated or again that it is manifested in relation to the Principle and non-manifested or principal in relation to Manifestation.

The word Rasul, "Messenger", indicates a "descent" of God towards the world; it also implies an "ascent" of man toward God. In that case of Muhammadan phenomenon, the descent is that of the Quranic Revelation (laylat al-qadr), and the ascent is that of Prophet during the "Night Journey" (layla al-mi'raj); in the human microcosm, the descent is inspiration and the ascent is aspiration; the descent is divine grace whereas the ascent is human effort, the content of which is the "remembrance of God" (dhikru 'Llah), whence the name Dhikru 'Llah give to the Prophet.

Jacob's Ladder is an image of the Logos, with the angels descending and ascending. God appearing on the top of the ladder and Jacob remaining below.

The three words, dhakir, dhikr, madhkur - a classic ternary in Sufism - correspond exactly to the ternary Muhammad, Rasul, Allah: Muhammad is the invoker, Rasul is the invocation, Allah the invoked. In the invocation, the invoker and invoked meet, just as Muhammad and Allah meet in Rasul or in the Risala, the Message.

Thus just as Muhammad, the Messenger represent the one who invoke and Message is what is invoked or what connects us with the Divine, the same role is taken up in the salaat or heart connection prayer when one participates in it.

5.
Becoming like Ahmad in the Prayer

The exoteric (zahir) of salaat (prayer) consist in adoring God with postures with body, in directing the body towards the qibla of the body, which is the Ka’bah, the Temple of the Most High God, situated in Mecca. To understand the esoteric prayer means adoring God with the thinking soul and turning towards the quest for the gnosis of positive religion, towards the qibla of the spirit which is the Temple of God, that Temple in which the divine gnosis is enclosed. – Nasiri-Khusraw

The way and rule and manners of love is quite different than any other worldly way, rule and manners. Inner knowledge of the Path of Love tells us that we become like the one we love. Whether we do it consciously or unconsciously, the proof of love is the beloved partake into the fragrance of the lover so much so, that he or she become the goal of love. 

Even in the sacred tradition of Islam, God declares, "When I love my devotee, I become his hand, his feet, his eyes."

Whether its a Sufi Path or any other ancient Path of the Heart, the devotional aspect has the goal of loving the bearer of Message with all its heart and soul. This is the case of the disciples of Christ, this is the case of the close companions of Buddha, this is the case of the devotee of Krishna. The follower must totally and completely fall in love with the being of the Master, so much so that the being of the Master take precedence over their own selves. And that is the whole alchemy of Love.

The Prophet is closer to the believers than themselves. - The Quran

This closeness is from the love, mahabba and ishq of the being who leads one to the Supreme Beloved. And the Sufi instruction is to love those who are loved by Allah. Here those who are loved by Allah after the Prophet and Messenger is their spiritual heirs, the saints and friends of God, the sincere ones. 

Now loving the Habib Allah, the Beloved of Allah means to aspire to become like the one who is loved by Allah. And Salaat is one of the principle technology by which one become like the lover of God, since every single major lover of God's devotion is encapsulated in the movement and stillness of the salaat including that of the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad Mustafa.

Below is a brief of the postures of the Salaat, which successively takes up the shape of the name of Ahmad, on the literal level, through Salaat, the devotee embodies the shape of the name. And from name the sincere ones reach the named.

“Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God.”
- I Thessalonians 5.16-18

6.
Entering the Salaat to become like Ahmad

The Islamic ritual prayer has the embodiment of the word Ahmad in Arabic.

In the beginning the servant stands facing the unified direction (qibla) and this is shape of Alef, the first letter of Arabic. Alef is the symbol of unity. Then the servant recites, “Indeed I turn my face towards the One Who is the Creator of the Heaven and Earth and indeed I am not among those who associate.” The demand of Beloved is that in the heart there remains no otherness except the Beloved. When lover sits facing the Beloved, the adab (etiquette) is to turn one’s face and whole attention to the Beloved. Hence the beginning of the connection (salaat) is turning the Face completely towards the Beloved by moving away from every otherness (ghayrullah). This is the stage when the devotee must know that his or her face faces the Lord. And the Lord’s glance is upon the devotee’s face.

The Lord declares, “My servant’s standing in the salaat is just like thousands of trees in the Kingdom which I have created to remain standing, absorbed in prayer from their creation till the last days. All the reward that they will get, I am bestowing now all of them to my servant who is now standing in that posture. O my angels, be My witness and there is no exception of God’s command.”

Then after making intention of the prayer, when the servant recites from the Opening Chapter, “All praise is for Allah, Lord of the entire Kingdom”… then God calls out in ecstasy, “Listen to my servant’s praise! He is giving praise to me and he is acknowledging my Lordship and Creative Agency, how can I not be present to him?”

Then when the servant lowers his head and moves to bowing (ruku) in the salaat, then his posture becomes like the Arabic letter “Ha”. Then the Lord promises, “In my Kingdom all the animals from their day of creation till the last days are engaged in the remembrance and worship of their Creator. From cattle, horse, goat, cow, cat, dog, fox, elephants, lion, tiger – all these four legged animals are in perpetual bowing posture and in that they worship their Maker in their unique fashion and inspiration. The spirit of the animals will not be accountable on the Day of Judgment. I am the Creator of them all and let me announce that I am bestowing all the blessings of these creations in this very servant who is now remains in his bowing.

In bowing the servant after lowing his head says, “Glory be to my Great Lord” and hearing this pleased Lord replies, “he who glorifies me, I am the true owner of all glory, how can I not approach my servant.” Then while going back to standing posture the servant says, “My Lord hears every praise” – the Lord says, “O my angels, becoming witness that in order to listen My praise I am becoming present to My servant and hearing his speech.” And then in standing posture the servant says, “O My Lord, all praise is for you” for there is no other goal but He. The Lord replies, “Indeed he is mine, and I Am his, for I am his only Lord – possessor of all glory and true inheritor of all praise.”

After this comes the station of prostration. This time the servant places his forehead - the seat of his rational mind, limited logic, his vain pride, his seat of vanity that issues from his sense of self – all these he places on the ground on the unseen lotus feet of his Lord.

Now the servant utters on his lips in this position, “Glory is for the Lord, the Most High” In his heart when the servant ask fervently the Lord forgives everything and dissolves every shortcoming on part of his servant who negate his ego and affirm the Highness of His Lord and glorifies Him.

In prostration the servant’s body takes the shape of the Arabic letter “Meem” and this is the posture when the heart is above the head, which symbolizes the preference of love and devotion over ego and rational mind.

In prostration through creative imagination the servant reaches the place of Baitul Mamur, the Highest House of Worship in the Kingdom where thousands upon thousands angels are in ceaseless adoration of the Lord and they worship in placing themselves in prostration before the Lord. Now while the servant on earth reflect that form of the heaven, the please Lord says, “Let me bestow all the blessing of my angels to this servant of mine.”

Towards the end while in the sitting posture, the servant recites the greeting what was exchanged between the Lord and his Habib (beloved).

During his holy ascension, when the Prophet was invited into the Supreme Presence, out of ecstasy his first utterance was, “AT-TAHI-YATU LIL-LAHI WAS-SALAWATU WAT-TAY-YIBATU” – All prayers and worship through words, action and sanctity I am presenting to the Court of Allah, they are for Allah only.

In reply the Beloved greets the beloved with the greetings of peace saying, "AS-SALAMU `ALAIKA AY-YUHAN-NABIY-YU WARAHMATUL-LAHI WABARAKATUH" Peace be on you, O Prophet and Mercy of Allah and His blessings. 

Then the Prophet being the intercessor and mercy to all the kingdoms replied, "AS-SALAMU `ALAINA WA`ALA `IBADIL-LAHIS-SALIHIN " Peace be on us and on those who are righteous servants of Allah. And then he bear witness saying, "ASH-HADU AL-LA ILAHA IL-LAL-LAHU." I bear witness to the truth that there is no divine reality except Allah.

And the Essence Itself testifies, "WA-ASH-HADU AN-NA MUHAMMADAN `ABDUHU WARASULUH" I bear witness that Muhammad is devotee and messenger.

This is a reenact of the original conversation of the Messenger and Allah.

In that sitting posture the Lord says, in My creation all that which calls Me, remembers Me and worship Me while sitting such as the mountain, the river, field, those animals such as snake, frog, crocodile all that worship me while sitting. Let me bestow the blessing of all these elements and animals into my servant who is now worshiping me while sitting.

In this posture the servant takes the shape of the arabic letter “Daal”.

Finally through the whole cycle of salaat, the servant takes the form of Ahmad (Ahmad in arabic) which is the celestial name of Muhammad. Ahmad means one who is praised, for indeed Lord praise such a servant who in every form of his physical body adore the Lord.

Towards the final end of the prayer the Mu’min turns right and send the greetings and blessing of peace saying “As Salamu ‘Alikum wa Rahmatullah” : Peace and blessings of Allah be upon you. Again he turns left and send the greetings and blessings of peace saying, “Peace and blessings of Allah be upon you.”

He says, O all creation of my Lord, now I have come out from the Great Peace, from the Presence of the Great Peace and I am sending you peace.

O friends who aspire to become the friend of the Real friend, understand the spiritual significance of the salaat which embodies the very reflection of divine praise, Ahmad and the entire creation’s worship and adoration is encapsulated in that very cycle of salaat, so take heed and learn and perform and crush your ego and fall on the ground and place your heart high, for indeed the heart is the sacred lotus seat of your Lord. May we for once at least taste the true salaat and make it our own ascension and receive the glad tidings of Janntul Ferdous, The Beautiful Garden, the choicest of reward from the Lord. Indeed according to the transmission of our master, Salaat is the key to Paradise, the blissful Presence where every lover will behold the Most Holy Countenance as clear as the full moon.

My Lord has declared, “I have formed my servant in the form (surat) of Salaat. His whole body is filled with divine blessings with the inclusion of all creational forms.” Thus it is said if the entire world is sold 70 times over, even then its price cannot match the two cycles of salaat of a faithful believer (mu’min). Our Prophet has declared, for the servant, salaat is the way to attain miraaj with God, “as-salatu mi’rajul mumineen”. Through Salaat lets become like Ahmad and like Ahmad have our own ascension to the Supreme Presence, by the Presence, with the Presence and in that very Presence. Wa Allahu Hazirun! Allah is the Ever Present!

AHMAD in Arabic Letters

Nobi mor Poroshmoni, Nobi mor Shonar khoni.
Nobi naam jope jejon sheito dojahaner dhoni.

My beloved Prophet is the alchemy stone,

My beloved Prophet is the mystical treasure.

He is the real rich in the two worlds, who remembers his sanctified name.

- Traditional folk song of Bengal in praise of the Prophet -

Source-

http://www.mysticsaint.info/

Reference: 
* Veder Kheyale Khujinu Jahae (Bengali) by Shah Mahbub Ibne Jamal Chishti
* Salaah Book
* The positions of prayer
* Sitting in the Salaat

Shri Mataji gives Self-realisation – Part 1

Shri Mataji gives Self-realisation – Part 1

In the following video Shri Mataji takes you through the Self-realisation process so that you can experience Kundalini awakening in your own home.  Instructions are translated into German.

Now again, see that your both legs are apart from each other, and the left hand is on your left lap. You can close your eyes and take out your spectacles, please don’t open your eyes till I tell you.

So now, put your right hand on your heart and close your eyes. Here you have to ask me a very fundamental question about yourself – you can call me Shri Mataji or Mother. Please say three times, “Mother, am I the Spirit?” Say in your heart.

As I told you, when you are the Spirit you become your own guide, your own master. So now please bring your right hand in the upper portion of your abdomen on the left hand side and here you ask another fundamental question about yourself, three times in your heart, “Mother, am I my own master?”

I have already told you that I respect your freedom and I cannot force Self-Realization or pure Divine knowledge on you – so you have to ask for it. So now, please take your right hand in the lower portion of your abdomen and ask six times, because this center has got six petals, “Mother, please give me pure Divine knowledge.”

As soon as you ask for the pure divine knowledge the Kundalini starts rising within you. So we have to nourish our upper centers with our full self-confidence. So now raise your right hand in the upper portion of your abdomen on the left hand side. Here you have to say with full confidence ten times, “Mother, I am my own master.”

At the very outset, I told you that you are not this body, this mind, these emotions, this intelligence, these conditionings, and the ego, but you are the pure Spirit. So raise your right hand on your heart and say with full confidence again, twelve times, “Mother, I am the pure Spirit.”

This All-pervading Divine Power of Love is the ocean of knowledge, is the ocean of bliss and compassion, but above all it is the ocean of forgiveness.

So whatever mistakes you might have committed can be easily dissolved by this ocean of forgiveness at this moment. So please forgive yourself and raise your right hand in the corner of your neck and shoulder and turn your head to your right. Here you have to say 16 times, “Mother I am not guilty at all.” Say it with full confidence.

I have already told you that logically, whether you forgive or don’t forgive you don’t do anything. It is a myth, but you are playing into wrong hands and torturing yourself. At this moment, if you do not forgive, the center of Agnya won’t open and the Kundalini won’t rise. So please, please forgive, forgive everyone in general. By raising your hand on top of your forehead, put down your head. And here you say, “Mother, I forgive everyone in general.”

Shri Mataji gives Self-realisation – Part 2

In the following video Shri Mataji takes you through the Self-realisation process (Part 2) so that you can experience Kundalini awakening in your own home.  Instructions are translated into German.

Now without feeling guilty, without counting your mistakes for your satisfaction you have to ask forgiveness from the All-pervading Divine Power. So please take your right hand on the back side of your head and push back your head. Here you have to say, “Oh Divine power, please forgive me, if I have done any mistakes, knowingly or unknowingly.” Please say it in your heart, not how many times.

Now the last center you have to stretch your palm fully, put the center of your palm on top of your fontanel bone area and put down your head. Here again, I cannot force Self-Realization on you, you have to ask for it. Now, push back your fingers, put a pressure on your scalp and move it seven times saying, “Mother, please give me my Self-Realization”, clockwise you have to move. (Shri Mataji is blowing into the microphone)

Push back your fingers and move the scalp clockwise. Please bend your heads, bend your heads.

Now, take down your hands and please open your eyes slowly. Put both the hands towards me and watch me without thinking. Now put the right hand towards me and put the left hand on top of the fontanel bone area and see for yourself if there’s a cool, or a hot, breeze-like vibrations are coming out of your own fontanel bone area. Bend your heads, bend your heads. Sometimes it comes very close and sometimes far away.

Now please put your left hand towards me. And now see with the right hand if there is a cool or a hot breeze-like vibrations coming from your own fontanel bone area. If it is hot means you have not forgiven. Please forgive now, at this moment.

Now, again with the right hand once again. Please bend your head.

Now raise both your hands towards the sky, push back your head. Here you have to ask one of these three questions three times. First one is, “Mother, is this the cool breeze of the Holy Ghost?” Second is, “Mother is this the All-pervading power of Divine Love, is this the Ruh?” The third is, “Mother, is this the Paramachaitanya?” Ask anyone of these questions three times.

Now, take down your hands. Please put your hands to me. All those who have felt the cool breeze on the fingertips or on the palm or through their fontanel bone area, cool breeze or hot breeze, raise both your hands.

My God! May God bless you all, you all have become saints now, I bow to you.

Source-http://www.sahajayogavideo.com/shri-mataji-gives-self-realisation-part-2.html