About Spiritual Letter 50 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the belessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Outline of About Spiritual Letter: 1. The Significance of This Letter - it is a real turning point in the life of this child 2. Organization of This Letter - it is a culmination of 10 years of writing on the Web about His Holiness 2-1. Text Only Version 2-3. Table of Contents 2-4. About This Letter 2-5. Related Material 3. A Little Bit About Louie - so you can fit Louie into what you are currently doing outside of you 4. A little Bit More About Louie - to appreciate what it means to meet His Holiness Bawa Muhaiayaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) on the "outside" of us, and to try and live at the feet of His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within our very own life 5. A little Bit More About Bawa - so you can fit you into what He, and God within Him, are current doing within you Text of About Spiritual Letter: 1. The Significance of This Letter - it is a real turning point in the life of this child This letter represents a turning point in the life of this child. For the last 28 years we have been quietly studying the life and teaching of Bawa Muhiayaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), first for 12 years living at the physical feet of His Holiness in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the residence of His Holiness from 1971, when He first came to America, until December 8th, 1986, when He died in America, then 12 years visiting the Mazar or Shrine of His Holiness, where His Holiness is buried, in a small farming community about an hours ride outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. And third, four years into the last 12 years of the 36 years one must live with His Shiakh, before the disciple establishes the state of knowing the difference between right and wrong, and of conducting one's life according to good, which in the Islamic tradition is called Shari'at, the first of the four stages of spiritual development on the path of God, known in the Islamic tradition as Shari'at, Tariqat, Haqiqat, and Ma'rifat: Shari'at - the realization of good and evil and the conducting of one's life according to the good. Tariqat - the unswervig and acomplete acceptance of the good and the carrying out of every action accordingly. Haqiqat - the realization of the Divinity and the beginning of communication with God. Ma'rafat - the state of merging with God. And after these four steps of spiritual ascendence, His Holiness teaches us on page 466 and 467, in the Glossary of the book, "The Golden Words of a Sufi Shaikh", what next comes on the path of God, which is the fifth level of spiritual ascendence. The state of one who has transcended the four religions and has merged with God. This stage in the Islamic tradition is called Sufiyyat. "In the state of Sufiyyat, one speaks without talking, sees without looking, hears without listening, relishes fragrances without smelling, and learns without studying." "That learning cannot be learnt, and that understanding cannot be acquired by mere study. These and many other such states come with acquiring the qualities of God, and losing oneself within those qualities." "Although one still exists within the body, he has built within himself the palace of divine luminous wisdom. One who has perfected this state is a Sufi, in the Islamic tradition." Now after 28 years living quietly at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), this child has started to carry the gift of God for this age, the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) into the world, to announce to the world the great thing that has happened to all of us, which is the life and teaching of God for our age, which God has placed within each of us living in the world today. And that God has also placed outside of us, as a finger pointing to what He personally and ever so lovingly placed within each of us, as the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), which is all of us living in the world today, if we want it. This letter to Mr. Thomas L. Friedman, a Columnist for the New York Times, and to our two loving brothers in Iraq, Sayyid Iyad Jamaleddine, and Sayyid Hussein Khomeini, is a real transition for this child, but now it seems very appropriate. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. 2. Organization of This Letter - it is a cumination of writing letters about His Holiness on the Internet for 10 years This letter is divided into 2 different version, a Text-Only Version, and a Summary & Text Version, plus a Table of Contents, an About This Letter, and a list of Related Materials that you can directly access, all of which provide us with a very clear yet full way of looking at and sharing the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and of His Children (may God be pleased with Him, and with each of Us). 2-1. Text-Only Version The Text-Only Version of the letter consists of an Outline of the major topics in the letter, and the Text of the letter, consisting of a collection of the text associated with each topic in the outline of the letter. Access to the Text of the letter is either from the top of the letter, or from each topic in the Outline of the letter. 2-2. Summary & Text Version: The summary & text version of the letter consists of an Outline of the major topics in the letter, a Summary of the letter, consisting of a collection of the summary for each of the topics identified in the outline of the letter, and a combination of the Summary & Text of the letter, so we can look at both the summary and the text of the letter for each topic in the outline of the letter. Access to the Summary of the letter is from the top of the page, and the summary is designed to be read through to completion. Access to the Summary & Text of the letter is either from the top of the page or from each topic in the Outline of the letter. 2-3. Table of Contents: The Table of Contents of the letter provides a visually pleasing way of listing all of the components of the letter, and providing access to them, and as a place to list all of the Wisdom Points in the letter that have been drawn directly from the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). 2-4. About This Letter: The About This Letter, which is what you are reading, provides a place to give the reader additional information about the context within which the letter is presented, like within the life of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and certain milestones that His Holiness identified, like, "The One Good Day In a 100 Years", and Ramadan 1986, a few months prior to the death of His Holiness. Also, the About This Letter provides information about the organization of the letter, and about the people involved in producing the letter, like this child, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler), and about His Holiness, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). 2-5. Related Material: The Related Material part of this letter provides information about other letters, or parts of the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen that related to this letter, and can be directly accessed. For example, the two discourses and the one song given to us by His Holiness on April 26, 1972, the "One Good Day In A 100 years". 3. A Little Bit About Louie - so you can fit Louie into what you are currently doing outside of you My dearest loving bothers and sisters, like many of you this child has also been on a journey for the last 64 years, and counting, living for the last 28 years at the feet of a wise and holy saint, His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). So who am I? Who is Louie? A worldly answer is very easy. I have lived in America all my life, as did my parents, and I am of German and Irish ancestry. I was raised Catholic and I graduated from Villanova University in 1962 with a BS Degree In Electrical Engineering. I also graduated from Temple University in 1972 with a Masters Degree in Special Education, and again from Villanova University in 1987 with a Masters Degree in Computer Science. I was a Captain in the United States Marine Corps, and served my country during the John F. Kennedy administration, and participated in the successful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I have worked in America for 36 years as an Engineer, Salesmen, Teacher, Computer Programmer, Manager, and then as a Computer Specialist for Unisys Corporation for 18 years, finally ending up as the "Road Man" for a local house painter, gradually becoming a mother to 25 house painters, attending to their every need, which turned out to be the best job of my life, a job where "Lou" again became "Louie". And now I have retired, and I devote all of my time to the pursuit of a better definition of "who I am", of "who God is", and of my true relationship with God within me, just as some of you are my dearest loving brothers and sisters. 4. A little Bit More About Louie - to appreciate what it means to meet His Holiness on the "outside" and to try and live at the feet of His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within our very own life As for a spiritual answer to "who is Louie", the answer is also very easy. I met His Holiness, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) in the summer of 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in America, when I was 36 years old, and have been absorbed in His life and teaching for the last 28 years, a life and teaching that fits so beautifully with the life and teaching that you gave us a glimpse of in your 3 hour interview on March 2, and thank God, a life and teaching that also goes beyond it, goes beyond what you shared. That goes beyond it in a way that only one who has gone beyond it could share. Such is the gift of having met Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) on the "outside" of us, a guide for our life, the light for the path of faith within us, that if we like, will take us to the truth of God hidden within our wisdom within us, bringing peace to our life. For as His Holiness teaches us, in the book, "The Wisdom of Man", and reproduced on the back cover, "Wisdom is the light to guide your path, faith is the path, truth is God, and understanding this is peace." Such is the gift of having met Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) on the "outside" of us, the finger pointing to the relationship of God and True Man within us, to the light of our wisdom that guides us on the path of our faith, to the truth of God hidden by God within our wisdom, but even more importantly is having met Him "inside" of us, within my own life, as the higher self within each of us, and as the power of God within my higher self, as our wisdom and the wisdom within our wisdom, as our direct connection to the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, as our direct connection to the truth of God hidden by God within our wisdom. Yes, we most certainly met His Holiness "outside" of us, and lived in His physical presence for almost 12 years, from 1975 to 1986, and that was truly an amazing experience, but what is definitely more important than any "outside" meeting, is that while He was with us physically, we have also met His Holiness on the "inside" of us, before He died. In this way, we have truly met His Holiness within our very own life, and continue to live with His Holiness within our very own heart and consciousness, within our daily life of living in the world, of dealing with the illusory world "outside" of us, by turning to God within us, and in this way, by making "my life" into "His life", by putting what is in "my hand" into "His hand", by turning to the "stuff of God" within us to deal with the world "outside" of us, by turning to our wisdom, and the truth of God within our wisdom, to deal with "us" as "separate from" God, by turning to our Shaikh within us, and to God within Him, to move forward what God has started within us, before we die, which is "us" as "One with" God, and in this way, by becoming increasingly aware of the real world "inside" of us. And that experience of "God" within us, of "God's Stuff" within us, and of "What God is doing" within us moving forward within us, is beyond any amazing experience, even the amazing experience of being with Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) on the "outside" of us. For that experience is the salvation of our soul, and the true success of our life, the success of letting our "wisdom reason over our fate", of letting the qualities of our "inside" become victorious over the qualities of our "outside", that will never leave this child, that will never leave your loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler), a name which His Holiness gave this child in 1980 when we visited His Holiness in Sri Lanka (formally Ceylon). 4. A little Bit More About Bawa - so you can fit you into what He, and God within Him, are current doing within you Ceylon or Sri Lanka, is a small island off the coast of India, and was the home of His Holiness for 85 years before His coming to America in 1971, and for His Holiness intermittently for the next 15 years, with His Holiness moving between Sri Lanka and America, from 1971 to 1986, alternating between Sri Lanka and America every 2 or 3 years, attending to His children in both countries until His death in 1986. The "outside" of His Holiness is now gone but the true gift of such an "outside" Teacher or Wise Man for each age, is still here, and will never leave any of us living in this age, whether we met Him "outside" or not, if we have but the faith in God to pick it up. For as one of the Companions of the Prophet, Abu Bakar (peace be upon Him), told the grieving people of Mecca and Medina at the time of the death of the Prophet Muhammad (Sal.) in 632 AD, "For those who have worshipped Muhammad, Muhammad is dead, But for those who worship God, Muhammad lives." (Note: His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) died on December 8, 1986 in America, and He is buried in a small rural village, about a 1 hours drive from the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in America. All are welcome at both the grave site of His Holiness, over which a beautiful Shrine or Mazar has been constructed by His Children, and at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia. Please click on the following Web Site for the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia: www.bmf.org, to learn more about visiting the grave site of His Holiness, and about visiting the many Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowships which His Holiness established throughout America, and Canada, as well as in Ceylon or Sri Lanka, and about purchasing books, and audio and/or video tape cassettes on the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen [Ral.]) For the true gift of the "outside" of God for each age is the "inside" of God for each age, the true gift is for each of us in this age to meet Him and to be with Him within ourselves, as the True Teacher or Shaikh of God within each of us for our age, as the Guardian of our soul, as what can successfully "do battle with the enemy of our soul" within us. Can successfully do battle with the "enemy of our soul" which in truth is each of "us" living as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, which in truth is the state of our current life, our current life of "separation and differences" that we are all currently experiencing with our brothers and sisters in the world that we collectively see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. Which in truth is but our fate, our karma, and our false destiny, which in truth is but the stage upon which our lessons of life must be learned, becoming our funeral pyre when we die, if we have wasted our time on this stage, if we have failed to learn our lessons before we die, if we have failed to establish our direct connection with God within us, by establishing our direct connection with the "Stuff of God" within us, with our wisdom and the truth of God for our age, with our Shaikh within us and with God within Him, in order to liberate our soul from the "enemy of our soul", before we die. Allowing our soul to make its way back into the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, as the "understanding" of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God and of True Man within us, which is the earth world or dunya within us, and the hereafter or akhirah or kingdom of God within the dunya within us. And in this way, to meet the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within ourselves, and join with Him within us, with the Guru of God for our age within us, with our Shaikh within us, and God within Him, in what They are doing within us, which is to finish revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, and in this way, to join with what True Man in maturity is doing within Them within us, which is revealing God within the Creation of True Man within us, completing in this way the cycle of God-Man/God-Man within us, of God revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us and of True Man revealing God within the Creation of True Man within us. Which is the only true point of Their coming into the world in our age, of Them appearing both "outside" of us, for some of us, and within each of us, for all of us, and the only true point of any of us living in this age, the only true purpose of our life, of any of our lives, the only true purpose of all life living in this age, which is to join with God within us to complete God's intention within us, before it is too late, to reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, and to reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us, before we die. And before the "outside" of all of us is prematurely destroyed by one of us, which can occur if the "beast" that is coming to maturity within each of us comes to maturity and comes out of at least "one of us", before True Man that is also coming to maturity within each of us, comes out of at least "one of us". 5. Closing Prayer & Comments May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters. May this information about this letter help us better appreciate the task at hand, which is to become a slave of God within us, making our life eternal, allowing God witin us to use what He Created and placed within us to complete His intention, to answer the question that God asked of God in Anathi, in the time before the beginningless beginning, which started what we are now incorrectly experiencing as ourselves, as "separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, living with our brothers and sisters on the "outside" of us, the question that God asked of God in Anathi, the question "Who am I?". And the first answer to that question is, "You are God.", you are the Creator of the Creation, you are the Nourisher, and the Sustainer of that Creation. And the second answer to that question is, "You are True Man within the Creation of God", the Creation of God which is the dunya, the earth world, where we are now living, you are the Oneness of God and His Creation. And the third answer to that question is, you are the Oneness of True Man and the Creation of True Man, the Creaion of True Man which is akhirah, the hereafter, the next world, the kingdom of God, and within that, you are the "Oneness of God and True Man", which in truth is God and True Man. This is what we must understand and support, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, if our life is to become successful before we die, we must join in partnership with God within us to let this happen within us. Know this now, and start to act accordingly. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). End of About Spiritual Letter 50 ...................................... |
About Spiritual Letter 50 Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. Al-salam 'alaykum wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. Wa 'alaykum al-salam wa-rahmat Allah wa-barakatuhu kulluhu. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the belessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Outline of About Spiritual Letter: 1. The Significance of This Letter - it is a real turning point in the life of this child 2. Organization of This Letter - it is a culmination of 10 years of writing on the Web about His Holiness 2-1. Text Only Version 2-3. Table of Contents 2-4. About This Letter 2-5. Related Material 3. A Little Bit About Louie - so you can fit Louie into what you are currently doing outside of you 4. A little Bit More About Louie - to appreciate what it means to meet His Holiness Bawa Muhaiayaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) on the "outside" of us, and to try and live at the feet of His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within our very own life 5. A little Bit More About Bawa - so you can fit you into what He, and God within Him, are current doing within you Text of About Spiritual Letter: 1. The Significance of This Letter - it is a real turning point in the life of this child This letter represents a turning point in the life of this child. For the last 28 years we have been quietly studying the life and teaching of Bawa Muhiayaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), first for 12 years living at the physical feet of His Holiness in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the residence of His Holiness from 1971, when He first came to America, until December 8th, 1986, when He died in America, then 12 years visiting the Mazar or Shrine of His Holiness, where His Holiness is buried, in a small farming community about an hours ride outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. And third, four years into the last 12 years of the 36 years one must live with His Shiakh, before the disciple establishes the state of knowing the difference between right and wrong, and of conducting one's life according to good, which in the Islamic tradition is called Shari'at, the first of the four stages of spiritual development on the path of God, known in the Islamic tradition as Shari'at, Tariqat, Haqiqat, and Ma'rifat: Shari'at - the realization of good and evil and the conducting of one's life according to the good. Tariqat - the unswervig and acomplete acceptance of the good and the carrying out of every action accordingly. Haqiqat - the realization of the Divinity and the beginning of communication with God. Ma'rafat - the state of merging with God. And after these four steps of spiritual ascendence, His Holiness teaches us on page 466 and 467, in the Glossary of the book, "The Golden Words of a Sufi Shaikh", what next comes on the path of God, which is the fifth level of spiritual ascendence. The state of one who has transcended the four religions and has merged with God. This stage in the Islamic tradition is called Sufiyyat. "In the state of Sufiyyat, one speaks without talking, sees without looking, hears without listening, relishes fragrances without smelling, and learns without studying." "That learning cannot be learnt, and that understanding cannot be acquired by mere study. These and many other such states come with acquiring the qualities of God, and losing oneself within those qualities." "Although one still exists within the body, he has built within himself the palace of divine luminous wisdom. One who has perfected this state is a Sufi, in the Islamic tradition." Now after 28 years living quietly at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), this child has started to carry the gift of God for this age, the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) into the world, to announce to the world the great thing that has happened to all of us, which is the life and teaching of God for our age, which God has placed within each of us living in the world today. And that God has also placed outside of us, as a finger pointing to what He personally and ever so lovingly placed within each of us, as the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him, and of the Children of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with each of Us), which is all of us living in the world today, if we want it. This letter to Mr. Thomas L. Friedman, a Columnist for the New York Times, and to our two loving brothers in Iraq, Sayyid Iyad Jamaleddine, and Sayyid Hussein Khomeini, is a real transition for this child, but now it seems very appropriate. May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. 2. Organization of This Letter - it is a cumination of writing letters about His Holiness on the Internet for 10 years This letter is divided into 2 different version, a Text-Only Version, and a Summary & Text Version, plus a Table of Contents, an About This Letter, and a list of Related Materials that you can directly access, all of which provide us with a very clear yet full way of looking at and sharing the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen and of His Children (may God be pleased with Him, and with each of Us). 2-1. Text-Only Version The Text-Only Version of the letter consists of an Outline of the major topics in the letter, and the Text of the letter, consisting of a collection of the text associated with each topic in the outline of the letter. Access to the Text of the letter is either from the top of the letter, or from each topic in the Outline of the letter. 2-2. Summary & Text Version: The summary & text version of the letter consists of an Outline of the major topics in the letter, a Summary of the letter, consisting of a collection of the summary for each of the topics identified in the outline of the letter, and a combination of the Summary & Text of the letter, so we can look at both the summary and the text of the letter for each topic in the outline of the letter. Access to the Summary of the letter is from the top of the page, and the summary is designed to be read through to completion. Access to the Summary & Text of the letter is either from the top of the page or from each topic in the Outline of the letter. 2-3. Table of Contents: The Table of Contents of the letter provides a visually pleasing way of listing all of the components of the letter, and providing access to them, and as a place to list all of the Wisdom Points in the letter that have been drawn directly from the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). 2-4. About This Letter: The About This Letter, which is what you are reading, provides a place to give the reader additional information about the context within which the letter is presented, like within the life of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and certain milestones that His Holiness identified, like, "The One Good Day In a 100 Years", and Ramadan 1986, a few months prior to the death of His Holiness. Also, the About This Letter provides information about the organization of the letter, and about the people involved in producing the letter, like this child, Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler), and about His Holiness, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). 2-5. Related Material: The Related Material part of this letter provides information about other letters, or parts of the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen that related to this letter, and can be directly accessed. For example, the two discourses and the one song given to us by His Holiness on April 26, 1972, the "One Good Day In A 100 years". 3. A Little Bit About Louie - so you can fit Louie into what you are currently doing outside of you My dearest loving bothers and sisters, like many of you this child has also been on a journey for the last 64 years, and counting, living for the last 28 years at the feet of a wise and holy saint, His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him). So who am I? Who is Louie? A worldly answer is very easy. I have lived in America all my life, as did my parents, and I am of German and Irish ancestry. I was raised Catholic and I graduated from Villanova University in 1962 with a BS Degree In Electrical Engineering. I also graduated from Temple University in 1972 with a Masters Degree in Special Education, and again from Villanova University in 1987 with a Masters Degree in Computer Science. I was a Captain in the United States Marine Corps, and served my country during the John F. Kennedy administration, and participated in the successful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I have worked in America for 36 years as an Engineer, Salesmen, Teacher, Computer Programmer, Manager, and then as a Computer Specialist for Unisys Corporation for 18 years, finally ending up as the "Road Man" for a local house painter, gradually becoming a mother to 25 house painters, attending to their every need, which turned out to be the best job of my life, a job where "Lou" again became "Louie". And now I have retired, and I devote all of my time to the pursuit of a better definition of "who I am", of "who God is", and of my true relationship with God within me, just as some of you are my dearest loving brothers and sisters. 4. A little Bit More About Louie - to appreciate what it means to meet His Holiness on the "outside" and to try and live at the feet of His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within our very own life As for a spiritual answer to "who is Louie", the answer is also very easy. I met His Holiness, Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) in the summer of 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in America, when I was 36 years old, and have been absorbed in His life and teaching for the last 28 years, a life and teaching that fits so beautifully with the life and teaching that you gave us a glimpse of in your 3 hour interview on March 2, and thank God, a life and teaching that also goes beyond it, goes beyond what you shared. That goes beyond it in a way that only one who has gone beyond it could share. Such is the gift of having met Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) on the "outside" of us, a guide for our life, the light for the path of faith within us, that if we like, will take us to the truth of God hidden within our wisdom within us, bringing peace to our life. For as His Holiness teaches us, in the book, "The Wisdom of Man", and reproduced on the back cover, "Wisdom is the light to guide your path, faith is the path, truth is God, and understanding this is peace." Such is the gift of having met Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) on the "outside" of us, the finger pointing to the relationship of God and True Man within us, to the light of our wisdom that guides us on the path of our faith, to the truth of God hidden by God within our wisdom, but even more importantly is having met Him "inside" of us, within my own life, as the higher self within each of us, and as the power of God within my higher self, as our wisdom and the wisdom within our wisdom, as our direct connection to the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, as our direct connection to the truth of God hidden by God within our wisdom. Yes, we most certainly met His Holiness "outside" of us, and lived in His physical presence for almost 12 years, from 1975 to 1986, and that was truly an amazing experience, but what is definitely more important than any "outside" meeting, is that while He was with us physically, we have also met His Holiness on the "inside" of us, before He died. In this way, we have truly met His Holiness within our very own life, and continue to live with His Holiness within our very own heart and consciousness, within our daily life of living in the world, of dealing with the illusory world "outside" of us, by turning to God within us, and in this way, by making "my life" into "His life", by putting what is in "my hand" into "His hand", by turning to the "stuff of God" within us to deal with the world "outside" of us, by turning to our wisdom, and the truth of God within our wisdom, to deal with "us" as "separate from" God, by turning to our Shaikh within us, and to God within Him, to move forward what God has started within us, before we die, which is "us" as "One with" God, and in this way, by becoming increasingly aware of the real world "inside" of us. And that experience of "God" within us, of "God's Stuff" within us, and of "What God is doing" within us moving forward within us, is beyond any amazing experience, even the amazing experience of being with Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) on the "outside" of us. For that experience is the salvation of our soul, and the true success of our life, the success of letting our "wisdom reason over our fate", of letting the qualities of our "inside" become victorious over the qualities of our "outside", that will never leave this child, that will never leave your loving brother Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler), a name which His Holiness gave this child in 1980 when we visited His Holiness in Sri Lanka (formally Ceylon). 4. A little Bit More About Bawa - so you can fit you into what He, and God within Him, are current doing within you Ceylon or Sri Lanka, is a small island off the coast of India, and was the home of His Holiness for 85 years before His coming to America in 1971, and for His Holiness intermittently for the next 15 years, with His Holiness moving between Sri Lanka and America, from 1971 to 1986, alternating between Sri Lanka and America every 2 or 3 years, attending to His children in both countries until His death in 1986. The "outside" of His Holiness is now gone but the true gift of such an "outside" Teacher or Wise Man for each age, is still here, and will never leave any of us living in this age, whether we met Him "outside" or not, if we have but the faith in God to pick it up. For as one of the Companions of the Prophet, Abu Bakar (peace be upon Him), told the grieving people of Mecca and Medina at the time of the death of the Prophet Muhammad (Sal.) in 632 AD, "For those who have worshipped Muhammad, Muhammad is dead, But for those who worship God, Muhammad lives." (Note: His Holiness, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) died on December 8, 1986 in America, and He is buried in a small rural village, about a 1 hours drive from the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in America. All are welcome at both the grave site of His Holiness, over which a beautiful Shrine or Mazar has been constructed by His Children, and at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia. Please click on the following Web Site for the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship in Philadelphia: www.bmf.org, to learn more about visiting the grave site of His Holiness, and about visiting the many Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowships which His Holiness established throughout America, and Canada, as well as in Ceylon or Sri Lanka, and about purchasing books, and audio and/or video tape cassettes on the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen [Ral.]) For the true gift of the "outside" of God for each age is the "inside" of God for each age, the true gift is for each of us in this age to meet Him and to be with Him within ourselves, as the True Teacher or Shaikh of God within each of us for our age, as the Guardian of our soul, as what can successfully "do battle with the enemy of our soul" within us. Can successfully do battle with the "enemy of our soul" which in truth is each of "us" living as "separate from" God within us, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, which in truth is the state of our current life, our current life of "separation and differences" that we are all currently experiencing with our brothers and sisters in the world that we collectively see in our ignorance as existing on the "outside" of us. Which in truth is but our fate, our karma, and our false destiny, which in truth is but the stage upon which our lessons of life must be learned, becoming our funeral pyre when we die, if we have wasted our time on this stage, if we have failed to learn our lessons before we die, if we have failed to establish our direct connection with God within us, by establishing our direct connection with the "Stuff of God" within us, with our wisdom and the truth of God for our age, with our Shaikh within us and with God within Him, in order to liberate our soul from the "enemy of our soul", before we die. Allowing our soul to make its way back into the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, as the "understanding" of the "Oneness of God and True Man" within us, for the benefit of all of the Creation of God and of True Man within us, which is the earth world or dunya within us, and the hereafter or akhirah or kingdom of God within the dunya within us. And in this way, to meet the life and teaching of Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) within ourselves, and join with Him within us, with the Guru of God for our age within us, with our Shaikh within us, and God within Him, in what They are doing within us, which is to finish revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us, and in this way, to join with what True Man in maturity is doing within Them within us, which is revealing God within the Creation of True Man within us, completing in this way the cycle of God-Man/God-Man within us, of God revealing True Man within the Creation of God within us and of True Man revealing God within the Creation of True Man within us. Which is the only true point of Their coming into the world in our age, of Them appearing both "outside" of us, for some of us, and within each of us, for all of us, and the only true point of any of us living in this age, the only true purpose of our life, of any of our lives, the only true purpose of all life living in this age, which is to join with God within us to complete God's intention within us, before it is too late, to reveal True Man within the Creation of God within us, and to reveal God within the Creation of True Man within us, before we die. And before the "outside" of all of us is prematurely destroyed by one of us, which can occur if the "beast" that is coming to maturity within each of us comes to maturity and comes out of at least "one of us", before True Man that is also coming to maturity within each of us, comes out of at least "one of us". 5. Closing Prayer & Comments May all the peace, the beneficence, and the blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters. May this information about this letter help us better appreciate the task at hand, which is to become a slave of God within us, making our life eternal, allowing God witin us to use what He Created and placed within us to complete His intention, to answer the question that God asked of God in Anathi, in the time before the beginningless beginning, which started what we are now incorrectly experiencing as ourselves, as "separate from" God, as "separate from" each other, and as "separate from" the Creation of God within us, living with our brothers and sisters on the "outside" of us, the question that God asked of God in Anathi, the question "Who am I?". And the first answer to that question is, "You are God.", you are the Creator of the Creation, you are the Nourisher, and the Sustainer of that Creation. And the second answer to that question is, "You are True Man within the Creation of God", the Creation of God which is the dunya, the earth world, where we are now living, you are the Oneness of God and His Creation. And the third answer to that question is, you are the Oneness of True Man and the Creation of True Man, the Creaion of True Man which is akhirah, the hereafter, the next world, the kingdom of God, and within that, you are the "Oneness of God and True Man", which in truth is God and True Man. This is what we must understand and support, my dearest loving brothers and sisters, if our life is to become successful before we die, we must join in partnership with God within us to let this happen within us. Know this now, and start to act accordingly. Amen, Amen, Ya Rabil Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahman Alameen. Amen, Amen, Ya Rahim Alameen. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). End of About Spiritual Letter 50 ...................................... |
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