Allâh is closer to him (the human) than [his] jugular vein.(Qur'ân 50:16)

August 29, 2007

, " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org wrote:

>

> Dear devotees of the Adi Shakti,

>

> Namaste - i bow to the Self that resides in you!

>

> So what can we make out of Jesus' claim that " Ye are gods " ? What has

> it got to do with second birth (Kundalini awakening)? What is their

> relationship with Shri Mataji's Self-realization? What is the Self

> actually, and how is it realized? To answer these questions i have

> quoted Brian Hodgkinson:

>

> The Self as Spirit

>

> Vedanta accepts this logical introduction to the enquiry into the

> self. Self as subject should never be confused with any object.

> Anything that the self observes cannot be self. Can anything

> positive then be said of it? The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad has a

> great deal to say about the self. For example:

>

> `This Self is nearer than all else, dearer than son, dearer than

> wealth, dearer than anything. If a man call anything dearer than

> Self, say that he will lose what is dear, of certainty he will lose

> it; for Self is God. Therefore one should worship Self as Love. Who

> worships Self his love shall never perish … This Self is the Lord of

> all beings; as spokes are knit together in the hub, all things, all

> gods, all men, all lives, are bodies, are knit together in that

> Self. "

>

> (pp. 121, 135)

>

> `He wanted every form, for He wanted to show Himself; as a magician

> He appears in many forms, He masters hundreds of thousands of

> powers. He is those powers; those millions of powers. He is Spirit;

> without antecedent, without precedent, without inside, without

> outside; omnipresent, omniscient. Self is Spirit. That is

> revelation.'

>

> (p. 136)

>

> The connection between these two passages lies in the assertion that

> self is spirit. Self is dear, self is to be worshipped, self is

> love, because it is spirit. What can be observed is material.

> Things in space, including human bodies, are material, made of

> gross elements; things in the mind are subtle, made of finer

> material and observable as imagined objects or thoughts, feelings

> and emotions; but the witness of them all, of all materiality, is

> of a different order. It is spirit. To know that spirit is

> revelation. To know that spirit is not to know an object; it is to

> realize that one is spirit.

>

> Brian Hodgkinson, The Essence of Vedanta,

> Arcturus Publishing Ltd., Canada, pg. 42-3

>

> All the Holy Scriptures - Torah, Bible, Qur'an, Upanishads, Vedas,

> Puranas, Granth Sahib - uphold the Self as Spirit, the essence and

> presence of the Divine in humans. That is why Jesus answered them in

> the temple, " Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? " .

> Self-realization is a slow process of confirming the same divinity

> i.e., realizing the Divine within humans. No external images,

> rituals or human contacts whatsoever are needed for this inner

> journey to realize and meditate in the Kingdom of God within. The

> Self also overcomes the deep divisions and sheer ignorance that ail

> all religious and spiritual organizations, including Sahaja Yoga,

> for Self is God. And when you maintain Silence on your Self you are

> always in meditation, prayer and contact with God Almighty!

>

> regards to all,

>

> jagbir

>

Believing it to be an error i double-checked " nearer than all else " :

>

> `This Self is nearer than all else, dearer than son, dearer than

> wealth, dearer than anything. If a man call anything dearer than

> Self, say that he will lose what is dear, of certainty he will lose

> it; for Self is God.

>

because it could also have meant " dearer than all else, dearer than

son, dearer than wealth, dearer than anything " . But it is indeed

" nearer than all else " .

In the Quran it is said that Allâh is " closer to him (the human) than

[his] jugular vein. " (Qur'ân 50:16). That is only possible if Allah is

within them i.e., as their very Self. Thus the worship or meditating

on the Self fits perfectly with the strict interpretation of Islamic

monotheism.

" Islâmic Monotheism

Muslims do not have a separate god of their own whom they

call " Allâh. " The name " Allâh " has no connotation at all of a tribal,

Arabian or even a Muslim god. " Allâh " simply means the one and only

true, universal God of all. " Allâh " is a proper name belonging only

to the one almighty God, Creator and Sustainer of the heavens and the

earth and all that is within them, the Eternal and Absolute, to whom

alone all worship is due. God states in the Qur'ân that His name is

Allâh. Hence, Muslims refer to and call on Him by His proper name,

Allâh.

What are the basic attributes of Allâh? The Qur'ân mentions the " best

names " (or attributes) of Allâh. Instead of enumerating them all, we

will examine a few. Some attributes emphasize the transcendence of

Allâh. The Qur'ân repeatedly makes it clear that Allâh is beyond our

limited perception: " There is nothing like unto Him . " (Qur'ân

42:11) " Vision perceives Him not , but He perceives [all]

vision. " (Qur'ân 6:103) " Nor is there to Him any equivalent. " (Qur'ân

112:4) A Muslim never thinks of Allâh as having any particular image,

whether physical, human, material or otherwise. Such attributes

as " the all-Knowing, " " the Eternal, " " the Omnipotent, " " the all-

Encompassing, " " the Just, " and " the Sovereign " also emphasize

transcendence. But this does not mean that Allâh is a mere

philosophical concept or a deity far removed. Indeed, alongside this

emphasis on the transcendence of Allâh, the Qur'ân also speaks of

Allâh as a God who is close, easily approachable, kind, affectionate,

loving, forgiving and merciful. The very first passage in the Qur'ân,

repeated at the start of every chapter is " In the name of Allâh, the

Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful… " The Qur'ân tells us that

when Allâh created the first human He " breathed into him from His

[created] soul . " (Qur'ân 32:9) and that Allâh is " closer to him (the

human) than [his] jugular vein. " (Qur'ân 50:16) In another beautiful

and moving passage we are told, " And when My servants ask you, [O

Muhammad], concerning Me – indeed I am near. I respond to the

invocation of the supplicant when he calls upon Me. So let them

respond to Me [by obedience] and believe in Me that they may be

[rightly] guided. " (Qur'ân 2:186) " [1]

All the Holy Scriptures - Torah, Bible, Qur'an, Upanishads, Vedas,

Puranas, Granth Sahib - uphold the Self as Spirit, the essence and

presence of the Divine in humans. Prophet Muhammad foretold an era

will come when humanity will re-commit itself to God and there will

be peace and prosperity in the whole world.'

" By the token of time (through the Ages), man is in a state of loss,

except those who truly believe, act correctly and act together in

mutual counsel of Truth and patience' (Al - Asr 103).

The Islamic calendar does not start with the birth or the death of a

person, but with an event, the migration of believers from oppression

to freedom, freedom to practice 'submission to the will of God' in

order to attain peace within and around. The advent of Prophet Jesus

(Alaih Salaam-peace be upon him) was similarly an epochal event in

the history of humankind. The Qur'an calls him a 'sign', a 'mercy',

a 'witness' and an 'example'. He is Messiah, Messenger, Prophet,

Servant, Word and Spirit of God. The calendar may not be exactly

precise but the millennium can serve as an important point of

reference in the Divine scheme of message and revelation. And take us

into the future.

The future is very dear to us. Even if it has not arrived yet, the

future is already in our thoughts. On the other hand, the past is a

collection of good and bad experience, its use is in shaping the

present and shaping the future. . . .

Muhammad, (SAWS - Allah's Mercy & Peace be upon him), task, defined

in the Qur'an, is to be 'a giver of the glad tidings as well as a

warner'. The Our'an reminds us of nations who were destroyed -

because they had rebelled and disobeyed - and gives us a glimpse of

the life in hereafter of people who do good and who love and obey

God. In the scheme of divine revelation, the past, present and the

future are one continuum. . . .

In Islam service to humanity is a function of their duty towards God.

The Qur'an says: 'And from among you there must be a society,

community or party that should invite people to all that is good and

enjoin the doing of all that is right and forbid the doing of all

that is wrong.' (Ali-'Imran, 3:104)

In inviting people to goodness and forbidding from the wrong, Muslims

will need to join hands with other believers who share a great deal

of these values about good and bad and about right and wrong. The

conflicts that we witness today are not conflicts between religions,

they are conflicts of irreligion. Therefore, those who believe in God

and know the right from the wrong - Jews, Christians and Muslims,

especially - can join together to build a not a perfect, but an

incomparably better world than we live in today: a society of

neighbors who are just and fair to each other.

The second half of the millennium has seen two world and several

local wars. It saw nuclear incineration of entire populations. It

invented a savage new crime against humanity: ethnic cleansing. The

new millennium ought to be different. Let the people of faith and

goodwill work together to turn it into a thousand years of peace and

prosperity, love and mutuality.

Prophet Muhammad, (SAWS - Allah's Mercy & Peace be upon him), has

foretold that 'after many years of bad times, an era will come when

humanity will re-commit itself to God and there will be peace and

prosperity in the whole world.'

On the threshold of the next millennium, Muslims have a duty towards

the world and towards the fellow humans. It is their unilateral

obligation to invite others, and to work together in building a

better and a peaceful world: a world which is free from oppression

and exploitation, where rights are a reality and where justice

prevails over hypocrisy. " [2]

" Verse 3:81, among many other verses, provides the definitions

of " Nabi " (Prophet) and " Rasoul " (Messenger). Thus, " Nabi " is a

messenger of God who delivers a new scripture, while " Rasoul " is a

messenger commissioned by God to confirm existing scripture; he does

not bring a new scripture. According to the Quran, every " Nabi " is

a " Rasoul, " but not every " Rasoul " is a " Nabi. " Not every messenger

was given a new scripture. It is not logical that God will give a

scripture to a prophet, then ask him to keep it exclusively for

himself, as stated by some Muslim " scholars " (2:42, 146, 159). Those

who are not sufficiently familiar with the Quran tend to think that

Aaron was a " Nabi, " as stated in 19:53, who did not receive a

scripture. However, the Quran clearly states that the Torah was given

specifically " to both Moses and Aaron " (21:48, 37:117). We learn from

the Quran, 33:40, that Muhammad was the last prophet (Nabi), but not

the last messenger (Rasoul):

" Muhammad was not the father of any of your men; he was a messenger

(Rasoul) of God and the last prophet (Nabi). " [ 33:40 ] . . .

The mission of God's Messenger of the Covenant is to confirm existing

scriptures, purify them, and consolidate them into one divine

message. The Quran states that such a messenger is charged with

restoring God's message to its pristine purity, to lead the righteous

believers - Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Hindus, and

others - out of darkness into the light (5:19 & 65:11). " [3]

The Adi Shakti's advent and declaration that the Last Judgment and

Resurrection has begun will one day compel people of different faiths

to put aside their ignorance and learn to worship, pray and meditate

on their own Self, the God within all. This will be the promised era

when humanity will re-commit itself to God and there will be peace and

prosperity in the whole world. That will come about as Shri Mataji's

Divine Message to humanity confirms their own existing scriptures,

purifies them of misinterpretations and false dogma, and consolidates

them into one divine message - Silence on Self! She is without doubt

the Rasoul (Messenger) charged with restoring God's message to its

pristine purity, and lead the righteous believers - Jews, Christians,

Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs, Hindus, and others - out of darkness into

the light (5:19 & 65:11).

regards to all,

jagbir

1. www.forumfss.org/articles.html

2. Dr. Shahid Athar , Millennium - An Islamic Perspective

(Millennium & Religions Conference. Chicago, Nov 20, 1995)

3. Mahmoud M. Ayoub, World Religions: The Islamic Tradition

" That you have to be born again, that you have to be baptized, that

you have to become a Pir, that you have to become a Brahmin — all

these descriptions have come to us from all the great scriptures. It

is very easy to say that we don't believe in God, we don't believe in

any Incarnation, we don't believe in Jesus, we don't believe in any

religion, we don't believe into anything; is very easy to say. Even

it is easy to say that we believe in them, we believe in God, we

believe in Christ, we believe in Krishna, Rama, all that. Both things

are equally the same.

When you believe in God you believe in the darkness and ignorance,

and when you do not believe in Him also you are in ignorance. By

believing into you close your eyes, accept the faith and go along

with it. Of course it shows that you are conscious of some Power

which is beyond. Such people have a great chance. But in the case if

you go to these extremes in this kind of faith then you start only

believing in Christ, only believing in Muhammad, only believing in

Krishna — I mean depending on where you are born. How human beings

are so narrow-minded?

If you are born in England either you will be a Catholic, or a

Protestant, or maybe one of these witchcraft people. You believe into

anything because you are localized in a place; there has been some

identifications because your mother believed into something, because

your father believed into something, or you paid for it. And this

faith can become such a blinding effect on people that you develop

absurd types of groups which call themselves as Christians, Hindus,

Muslims — whatever you may say — and are extremely, extremely

exclusive, blind, and fanatic.

Today one of the problems of the times of the modern times is

fanaticism. Now this fanaticism has been growing. The more people try

to get out of this fanaticism, it grows more. For example those

people who have given up religion, who gave up God in the sense that

they never gave up — you cannot give Him up, He has to give you up —

those who felt that they have been able to give up God have done

nothing good. They are equally useless. I mean they had by giving up

God they have given up all ideas of any control by any divinity on

anything. But what have they achieved — suicides, bad society, sick

people. They have achieved nothing. "

Shri Mataji Shri Nirmala Devi, Being Born Again

Caxton Hall, London, U.K. — May 12, 1980

" But I move in a society of another kind as you know and in that I

meet many ambassadors and great intellectuals, and they all say that

these disciples of Christ were all stupid fools because they have not

been to universities. What university did Christ go to? This is how

it is a big chasm now, between the people who feel Christ is the

embodiment of Divinity and those who are intellectuals of this kind

who are challenging Christ. But Sahaja Yoga can prove that Christ

resides on this centre of Agnya there at the cross; because when the

Kundalini stops at that point, at the Agnya point, you have to take

the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Then the Kundalini rises in its

dignity. That is the Gate He said.

So now as far as the tradition is concerned, I'm rather doubtful how

the tradition took over every religion. Even Hinduism is like that.

Islam is the same. Any religion you take [to], the tradition is

nothing but the tradition of going down, down, down, down. If it was

a right tradition, there would have been no problem. Todsy we have so

many churches, so many fightings. You see the Vatican [involved] in

the Mafia and the Mafia [involved] in the banks. I can't understand!

But Christ, you gave Him the thorn to be adorned on his crown. What

kind of crown these people wearing? In India also, we have now

started another kind of competition with your crowns. So somebody is

making a big umbrella of gold. I must say crown is alright - they are

wise, but an umbrella is dangerous. They are playing with Divinity.

They have no sense that God Almighty has a tremendous wrath for such

people. The religion of Christianity or any religion is the religion

of the living God. At different times, there were great flowers on

the Tree of Life, but we plucked them and said, " This is mine; this

is mine " and we are fighting the dead. But in Sahaja Yoga, you will

know the beauty of all these great prophets and you will be amazed

how they have enriched us; all of them. "

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Christian tradition and Christ

Vienna, Austria - 8 September, 1984

Question: I am a Muslim who absolutely am against worshipping of any

idol or image. How then is Sahaja Yoga and Shri Mataji compatible

with Islam?

Answer: Silence on Self

Question: We are devout Christians who are very uncomfortable with

Hindu rituals, and see the same in Sahaja Yoga. Is there any way we

can do without such rituals?

Answer: Silence on Self

Question: I am a Sikh. I am completely against any Hindu ritual or

worshipping of their idols and gods. Sikhism is completely against

such practices. But Sahaja Yoga is also so full of such rituals and

gods. What have you got to say, being a Sikh yourself?

Answer: Silence on Self

Question: You loudly claim on your website that all religions and

holy scriptures preach the same message. I don't see such evidence.

What have you got to say?

Answer: Silence on Self

Question: I completely agree with your belief that if you have to

take a single step in any direction to seek the Divine you are going

the wrong way. How and why did you reach this incredible conclusion

only now despite spending so many years meditating, checking the

scriptures and listening to Shri Mataji's speeches?

Answer: Silence on Self

Question: I am a Muslim living in Pakistan who want to practice

Sahaja Yoga. But there are no centers here. How can I continue?

Answer: Silence on Self

Question: What is the shortest and surest route to realize God?

Answer: Silence on Self

Question: Some religions claim that humans are divine in nature and

that liberation is from within. Can you tell me how all this is

realized in such a hectic and materialistic world?

Answer: Silence on Self

Question: What is the most profound and deepest enlightenment you

have discovered after all these years, based on the teachings of Shri

Mataji? She also claims that all religions teach the same truth about

the spirit. How is that so given all the religious differences and

centuries-old rivalry?

Answer: Silence on Self

Question: Hi, man-made religions, sects and denominations are wide

spread. So much misdeeds and divisions are committed and blood is

shed in the name of God and religion. Is there a way to make humans

realize that they are all worshipping the One and same Creator, no

matter how different religious organizations have made God to be?

Answer: Silence on Self

Question: It seems that religions are all preaching about a God that

is to be found only in their organizations. Why then is it that the

Divine can only be realized through one's own experience? What and

where is God then?

Answer: Silence on Self

January 27, 2008

>

> In the Quran it is said that Allâh is " closer to him (the human)

> than [his] jugular vein. " (Qur'ân 50:16). That is only possible if

> Allah is within them i.e., as their very Self. Thus the worship or

> meditating on the Self fits perfectly with the strict

> interpretation of Islamic monotheism.

>

Prophet Muhammad: " God is closer to man than his own veins. "

" If we consider the most ancient evidence left by homo sapiens, we

can see that man has always been aware of the existence of a Supreme

Being, who is Lord of all things and of all living creatures.

Using every conceivable means, human beings of every era have always

tried to show their feelings of deep respect (and reverence) towards

God and to perform what is due to their Creator.

This is why Islam has always stressed the possibility of direct

communication with God. Even those who have fallen into idolatry have

never denied the existence of the Creator, but have simply put their

idols and images in His place. And this is still happening today.

This being the case, how can we recognise a true prophet and what is

his or her mission?

The mission of the prophets is to reveal the will of God, that is, to

provide a logical and tangible explanation of religion as it is

experienced in our daily lives.

Genuine monotheism - the belief in a Supreme Being - means (or

implies) the unshakeable oneness of the whole creation between man

and God. Monotheism proves then, the pointlessness of idols and of

images that come between man and God. The mission of the prophets is

thus to set human beings on the right track, and in order to do this,

the prophets have used two parallel and complementary paths:

- the way of learning, based on theology and philosophy

- and the way of Self-Knowledge or Self-Realisation

This is why we find in our Holy Book, the Koran, both scholastic

discourse and phrases which hint at the " way in " to knowledge of the

Highest Self. The concrete means of putting this message into

practise is what is offered to us in this age by Shri Mataji Nirmala

Devi.

To back up this Truth, if you will allow me. I will quote these words

of the Prophet Muhammad, who tells us: " God is closer to man than his

own veins. " And the Prophet says: " With the knowledge of the Spirit,

man will begin to know himself, so as to finally achieve knowledge of

God. " " With the purification of his inner being, man becomes

conscious that he is the Spirit. "

It is thus the experience of spontaneous Self Realisation - which is

revealed by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi - and Sahaja Yoga - which is the

practise which she teaches - both spontaneous Self Realisation and

Sahaja Yoga are in perfect harmony with the teachings of Islam. It is

because of this revelation by Shri Mataji that I have wanted to speak

to you tonight. "

Ayatollah Dr. Mehdi Rouhani

Royal Albert Hall, UK — July 3, 1997