Revelations
from the Divine Teachers^*

In high and thick fir forest, there is an oblong low dell grown with young birches. There reside bright, consisting of Divine Goldish Fire, Mahadoubles of Eaglestform and Babaji. And also He Whom we called before simply the Divine Sufi; on this place He gifted us and our students the first states of Samadhi. Near Him stands His Divine Disciple Karas.

This time we came to the Divine Sufi with the purpose of making a closer acquaintance. We ask Him to relate about Himself.

He does not reply immediately, but proposes to attune to Him once more and again gives us a most intense feeling of Divine Bliss… Only then He replies:

“Allah is one! There is no God but Allah! All We — in Him — are One!

“This is clear enough for you. But many other people have to be waited long: they have not gained this understanding yet.”

“How should we call You?”

“The only name is the name of Allah!”

“Tell us please how You developed to the state of Allah.”

“I do not remember it, do not know it, and do not want to know it! I came to know the Oneness with Allah — and dropped the rest from My memory. It was not of value for me any longer.”

“Tell us, at least, where did You incarnate last time?"

“In Persia, in the land of modern Iran, at the time of the last padishah. I served in a mosque as an imam. At that time, around that mosque an oasis bloomed: the people came there to touch Me…

“But I did not develop Myself at that time: I had another status already — the status of Allah. And I represented the Creator for people.”

“What recommendations would you give us?”

“Everything will go on according to the Will of Allah; there is no need to peep too far in the future. Proceed with you current affairs. Insh’Allah! — Let it be as Allah wills!”

“What would You say about our present level?”

“You have gained the ‘platform’. Now you have to master being Allah.”

“But to what extent it is possible for a person in the embodied state?”

“It is not only possible, but is necessary for all of you.”

“How?”

“You know how. There is no need to invent something else. You will succeed! You just need to substitute your will with the Will of Allah!”

“What would you say to beginners?”

“I would like to tell them about Sufism.

“Many understand Sufism as one of the numerous religious doctrines with its own set of rules, dogmas, directions. Yet, Sufism is not a ‘dead’ set of rules. Sufism is life, a way of life based on love. Therefore, any man regardless of his confession — be he a Christian or a Buddhist — can be called Sufi if his heart, full of love, longs for Me and he wants to embrace with his love the whole world.¹

“To be a Sufi means to live by the Beauty — the Beauty of God! Wherever the heart of a Sufi turns — there it should see the Beauty of the Beloved invisible to the ordinary eye. The whole world is pervaded with His Beauty, which is perceivable only to the eyes of a loving heart!

“Now, who can become a Sufi? Is it possible only for people living in the East? And who is a Sufi, anyway? Is it he who just proclaimed himself so? Or the one who was attached to a certain tradition and wears special clothes?

“One can become a Sufi independent of in what corner of the Earth he or she was born or lives now. A true Sufi is he who does not take the eyes of his loving heart off the Beauty of the Beloved; he who lives by this Beauty!”

“Tell us please about Yourself.”

“My Path is the path of dissolution of ‘oneself’ in Allah! I am the Great Silence of Allah filled with sounding of strings of the Souls Who merged into Allah.”

“Why are You on this place — which is visited almost by no one of the embodied people?”

“You visit it… Besides… it is so blissful — to permeate the Earth with the Light of Allah!

“Blend with Me completely! And let the Flow of Allah stream through your body!

“… Samadhi is the state when Allah enters your spiritual heart inside your body. Nirvana is when you can submerge into the Heart of the Absolute and dissolve in It. And then only Allah remains. Discover the connectedness of these states. And rise from the Depths to the body filling it with the Light of Allah! Let it be only the Light of Allah everywhere, even inside your body!

“Was You capable of dematerializing and materializing the body?”

“What is the need of it? In the last incarnation, I did not perceive Myself a body at all! I had entered into the body with the purpose of bringing to people the knowledge about the One. His Omnipotence manifested through My body whenever it was necessary.

“But I never worked miracles for attracting attention. I worked in a different way. I filled the hearts with the Light of Allah giving to people a possibility to experience His Love. I taught aught but Love. It was My Mission — to make it possible for seekers to touch Him!

“There is a border where your meditation ceases. There you cease to be as individuality. Beyond of it, there is only Love, Which is Allah!

“I dissolve in Myself those who come to Me with love in the heart! And the Light of Allah fills them!

“I bring Myself closer to them if they are little yet.

“I submerge them into Myself if they are large. I submerge them into Allah to that depth which they have grown up to.

“But always it is the same thing that happens — dissolution in the Light of Allah!”

“Last time I was born in the land of former Assyria. Adolescent, I served in a temple where they worshipped the Sun as a progenitor of everything. Every morning we would perform divine service at the time when the Sun rises above the horizon.

“During these services, I assisted the priest who performed them. Yet, I did not accept sincerely this faith, nor did I try to comprehend its postulates with mind. For Me this faith with its rituals was a part of the daily traditions in the society where I lived.

“… But one day, something new came to the habitual daily routine of My life — it was a stranger who came to our land. He sought manuscripts containing religious — namely esoteric — knowledge. It was for the purpose of collecting such manuscripts that he traveled.

“He was received with respect. During the repast, he had a conversation with the priests. He asked question about our faith and told about his views and about the religion practiced in the land where he came from.

“As a servant, I had a possibility to be near the table and hear their conversation. His narration captivated Me. Unlike our priests, He was not a dogmatic person who blindly accepts the faith of the ancestors. He did not avoid confronting different views, doubting postulates, drawing own conclusions. There was something live in his faith and in this man himself — in contrast to the priests.

“This conversation made Me sincerely interested in the knowledge and practices of the tradition described by this man. I wanted very much to follow him — to gain this knowledge. And I beseeched him to take Me as a servant with himself.

“This way I came to Sufis…

“… The main thing that ‘happened’ to Me on the first stage of My apprenticeship with Sufis was opening of the spiritual heart. I began to live by heart — and the entire world transformed for Me! My life became full of love, which I did not know before!

“For opening the spiritual heart, Sufis used a method similar to the one used by Christians-Hesychasts at that time. Abandoning all other thoughts, one had to repeat — with love for Allah — a prayer-appeal to Him to come to one’s spiritual heart. And after some time, the feeling of increasing bliss appeared in the chest, in the anahata chakra, as a sign that Allah accepted the prayer.

“After cognizing and mastering this state, the mureed² could live in it and not just experience it during the prayer.

“Then the mureed was taught that since the Allah is great the love for Him must be great also.

“And if one’s love for Allah grows, since certain moment it cannot be contained in one’s chest. And thus, quite naturally it begins to pour out, to expand beyond the chest.

“Pushing the walls of the anahata from within with the hands of the consciousness was one of the helpful methods in this work; it allowed one to experience oneself, for the first time, as a heart-love of size larger than the body.

“The mureed was taught to flood with love as wide as possible: Allah is present everywhere, thus one should love Him in the entire space around!

“Flooding thus with love and living in this state, the mureed gradually lost the habit of perceiving oneself as a body.

“The mureed lived by the love for Allah, and the feeling of Allah’s abiding in everything gradually replaced the feeling of mureed’s separate ‘I’.

“And when the separate ‘I’ disappeared completely, only Allah remained.

“… But we learned not just meditation. In Sufism there was a rule: in the process of learning, mureeds have to develop along many directions, in particular, to master the craft of their sheikh. As an apprentice of My Master, I started to learn the art of carpet weaving.

“The carpets created by My Master were highly valued by the townspeople. They believed that a carpet bought in our shop brought to the house happiness and joy. Indeed, these carpets had such a magical power, because My Master created them as yantras.

“At first, I, as other apprentices, learned the carpet weaving technique itself. After that, we began to practice in the craft by reproducing the patterns created by our Master.

“I liked to stay for long in the shop and observe how He works. For Him, carpet weaving was not just a craft: He did not weave, He created carpets! I saw how masterly He chooses the color of thread out of great variety of hues of goldish, red, light-blue… Each carpet created by Him was… a declaration of love to the Creator! It looked as if He wove love…

“I tried to imitate His work and stayed for long in the shop.

“… Once I noticed that the Master stood behind Me and watched how I worked. I got confused…

‘You are trying to construct love with your mind… But it lives in the heart! Kindle in your heart the love for Allah — then your hands will create tirelessly the beauty for the glory of Allah!’

“I heeded the Master’s advice, and love appeared on My carpets. Yet, My works were not that good as those of the Master. I asked His advice, and He replied:

‘Your carpets are good. But the true Beauty lives deeper. In the depth of the expanded spiritual heart will you find the endless Source of the Beauty! There live the vivid colors of joy! Threads originating in the depth of a developed spiritual heart shimmer with all hues of love! Pictures, which you can find there, will bloom as live flowers and sing as spring birds on your carpet! If you do so, then Allah Himself will create Beauty by your hands for the glory of Himself!’

“Since that moment, My learning of carpet weaving went along with mastering of meditation. Every time creating a carpet, I had to connect the hands of the consciousness with the depth which was achievable for Me — and create from that depth. And then, this depth’s Light, with which the consciousness was connected, refracted into beauty created by hands.

“Of course, not every apprentice became a Master. Most of them were capable of mastering only the craft of carpet weaving. The process of teaching was arranged so that not everyone could find out where the true mastery lies, what its secret is. But those who managed to solve the secret ascended to the next step, where the craft of carpet weaving turns into the art of carpet creation...”

“Excuse me, please, Karas: Your description of the methods of cognition of Allah does not seem sufficient, in my opinion. If to go the path outlined by You, mureeds most likely did not find the Abode of the Creator, but crystallized the consciousnesses in that eon of the multidimensional space which was most convenient for them, most habitual for abiding in it. For cognizing the Creator, one needs the methods of refinement of the consciousness and, at least, to have general ideas about the multidimensional structure of space and a means of crossing the borders between the eons. This is necessary because the Creator is the Most Subtle of all consciousnesses!…”

“Yes, you are right. I wanted to tell about this a bit later.

“Yes, refinement of the consciousness cannot and must not be done against the background of ‘killed’³ nutrition.

“You are also absolutely right that control of own emotional states — with complete refusal of coarse emotional manifestations! — is an essential part of any spiritual progress.

“Also — the beauty of the Creation, of our common home created by Allah! — attunement with this beauty, which reflects the beauty of the Creator — all this was practiced as well.

“And the students who could not encompass this were excluded from intensive learning; they were switched to another work. If they wished, they were allowed to stay at the School and perform various household duties. In Sufism this is called a station. It can last for years. Then these students were involved again into the esoteric practices if they desired it and if it was in accordance with the Will of Allah…

“But I have not said yet about the main.

“My Master was a real sheikh knowing the art of educating… But there was another great moment in My life: when My Master counted Me ready, He took Me to Divine Imam…

“You developed in a different way… There was no incarnate Allah with you… You had to carve the way yourselves… Our intent in this case was to make it possible that you accumulated a comprehensive collection of spiritual knowledge…

“But it can happen in other way… — when the spiritual path is clearly shown by, as Messiah Isa⁴ said once, a Vine — an embodied Representative of Allah, an embodied Part of the Creator.

“… I want to say about the Great Teacher — Divine Imam.

“It was a miraculous gift of Allah: to see Him incarnate in a body!

“Love to Him Who became One with Allah has neither borders nor limits!

“I witnessed Manifestation of Allah on the Earth! I saw a Son of the One; He wore flesh, but was not this flesh!

“I knew then that the Beloved Lord can be attained, that one can dissolve in the Almighty! I saw this manifested through the Teacher.

“It was enough for Him to touch a heart aspiring to Allah, — and it would flame up, like oil in a lamp, with fire radiating the Light of Love!

“He taught: a heart filled with Love is fathomless. And invited to submerge into His own Fathomlessness…”

“Kayr! How did You come to Mergence with the Father?”

“I died… I died of plague… Everything ended — and there remained only He… He alone — One and Boundless — remained, and there was nothing but He…

“Everything I did before, aspiring for the Mergence, — all meditations, all other efforts, pain of the body — everything was over; He alone remained…

“And now, when He looks at the Earth — Kayr appears on it.”

“Could you tell us a bit more?”

“In past, I incarnated in Middle Asia, grew in the traditions of Sufism. It was then that I touched for the first time the Primordial Consciousness. The name Kayr is from this incarnation…

“Do you remember, I described how I meditated when sun was rising in the desert?…

“Do you know who is dervish? A true dervish is not a poor Sufi monk who goes begging… No: a dervish is a wayfarer, the one who goes and seeks… A dervish is the one who goes on the Great Path toward cognition of the Creator!

“My sheikh was not Divine; he was like a person who rests calmly after traversing a part of the path. He did not aspire to God with all his heart, but lived in calm and harmony. I am grateful to him: it was he who taught Me the correct meditation, the correct methods of work with consciousness.

“One of the first strong impressions that I received was from Sufi whirling. This method helped Me to experience for the first time that I am not a body, but a consciousness: living self-aware light.”

… Kayr shows His appearance in that incarnation: face with dark eyes of elongated form, white turban contrasting with swarthy skin, regular oval of the face… Then He slowly begins to whirl — and His light clothes fly up and turn in this movement into gentle waves like those on the surface of the sea…

He continues to whirl — and His clothes become like an extending up to the horizon transparent cover, under which a sea of Light waves softly…

Then the whirling ceased — yet the Light… remained…

Kayr shows the movement of hands which helped Him to submerge into this sea of Light under this cover. There was only Light under it…

Then He continues the narration:

“There was also the desert… It is an expanse where — up to the horizon — there is only sand and the boundless sky above it. There was no one there — only Eternal Almighty God and a small grain called Kayr in the midst of the desert… We were always two together… One-to-one… And — no one else, wherever you look…

“There God taught Me to watch the sunrise…

“Have you ever watched the sunrise in the desert? It is quite different from the one here…

“… The dark sky, full of stars, lies on the surface of the planet… My body sits on the sandy bottom of this ocean of stars… The eternity and infinity of the universe embrace Me from all sides…

“Then gradually dawn begins… The sky become brighter, changes its color… The giant disc of the sun appears over the horizon… Rising of the sun! The ocean of starry sky turns into an ocean of light above the earth…

“It in this way that I watched the sunrise of every day of My life…

“But once I suddenly ‘sank’ into more subtle Light, which lied deeper. With gentle strokes of My now giant hands, I could submerge deeper and deeper…

“It was a wonder! — this Light did not disappear after sunset!

“Since that time, sitting in the desert and waiting for sunrise, I could already be in that Light.

“And when the light of the risen sun filled the entire expanse — immeasurable joy of experiencing the presence of God in everything filled Me! My body could walk toward the sun — while I was below and deeper, dwelling in the Light of God, supporting tenderly with My palms the sea of light above the surface of the Earth!

“I learned to stay in the Depth always. There, as if in ‘the heart of the Earth’, was a passage leading into the Creator of everything, into the Heart of the Absolute!

It is in this way that I acquainted Myself with the Consciousness of the Creator, but I had not become One with Him…

“… Before My apprenticeship with the sheikh, a young woman touched My heart…

“Now I see how foolish was My understanding of asceticism… I could take her with Me to in the Path!… But at that time… At that time, I began to seek solitude in the desert in order to forget her…

“This longing for ‘earthly’ love, which had not been lived through, brought Me to new incarnation.

“… It took place here, in this land, where you live. Here I met the earthly love, got married, had a child…

“… Yet, in the dreams, I often saw sunrise in the desert… And again I began to seek the Path, became a wayfarer walking this Path… I grew here, on these places of power, which are known to you too. I was helped to recall that which I knew in the past… — and I cognized Mergence with Him more and more deeper, learned to be One with Him, completely One, learned to love all lives, learned to love people... Then I moved to Middle Asia... And what happened then — I told you already…”

… Kayr was smiling from His familiar for us appearance. The day was dawning in our northern land. Tender joy of Kayr was mingling with singing of skylarks and rising of the sun! The Ocean of the Creator was looking from Its Depths through Kayr’s eyes, and His Hands were supporting all the living on the Earth’s surface…

Kayr continued:

“I feel tremendous joy now, always being with you! On the experience of our common work, I master new methods of helping souls in our common School! I continue to learn thanks to you!

“It is in the interests of God that branches of the School be created throughout the planet!”

“Tell us, Kayr, why Mahadoubles of the Divine Teachers very often stand in the midst of busy streets, squares, in parks, on lakes — on the places visited by a large number of people, who do not aspire to God at all?”

“The answer is simple: We are ‘Fishers of men’, as Jesus once put it! We act like radars — detectors of good emotions of people — even the slightest ones. And We seek to support these tendencies in every person. We are also Realizators of people’s destinies…

“An embodied person is created as a separate autonomous system. Usually there is no entrance from the outside; the doors can be opened only from the inside. What opens these doors? Emotions. Good emotions, especially those which accompany altruistic deeds and make the soul opened to the Light. It is this openness that allows the Light to flow inside this particular soul.”

“Why is it so difficult? God is omnipotent. Why He cannot enter in some other way?…”

“Of course, God is omnipotent, and every soul is on His Palm. Yet, the freedom of will which He granted to people does not allow Him to intervene uninvited in that autonomous system called a human.

“The task of the Holy Spirit (or the Holy Spirits, to be more precise) consists exactly in this — in detecting each new possibility for contacting souls of people for the sake of correcting their advancement, missing no chance.”

“What is the correct way of acting in case of offensive conduct of other people?”

“Entrust yourselves to Me completely! The best solution to all ‘earthly’ troubles is in Me!

“The first thing to recall in such situations is My Universal Calm! To be in calm means not allowing oneself to become involved recklessly, with the whole consciousness, in some ‘earthly’ situation, where passions boil.

“From the state of My Universal Calm look at your troubles and see how petty and insignificant they are!

“Never engage in battle by the lower self, never cease the awareness of being united with Me! Whatever happens in the course of the battle — I lose nothing! The lower self can suffer defeat, but the Higher Self — can never!

“… I would like to say also a little about intent.

“The intent to cognize the Creator, to merge into Him and to help other people in this — this must be an absolute dominant in the life of a spiritual warrior, and this intent must not contain anything ‘earthly’. Only then it will be able to make miracles passing freely through all worldly pileups and achieving the goal. Only such intent has the true power to create.

“The true intent of the developed consciousness of a spiritual warrior is beyond the sphere of people’s notions about ‘possible’ and ‘impossible’. Therefore, it equally easily accomplishes both the ‘possible’ and the ‘impossible’.

“One has to subjugate completely the mind, body, and consciousness to the intent of uniting with Me. One has to aim for the complete Mergence, in which there is nothing left of that which the former separate self considered its own.⁵

“In that case I, too, give Myself fully to such a warrior.

“Let every spiritual seeker understand the importance of dedicating the life fully to the attainment of the Final Goal!

“How many lives one can live through, approaching the Threshold, cognizing the state of Merging, yet failing to attain the Unity…?!

“How many times one has to incarnate again, having not walked the final step of the path, and begin this difficult travel as if from scratch (in every new incarnation one has no memory of the past achievements of the soul!)?!

“How many times one has to begin it anew until the soul has no desires but the yearning for becoming One with Allah…?!

“Many lives — life after life — we went along to come Here.

“Many destinies — one after another — we lived through to come Here.

“Many times we grew to learn being conscious of oneself as of the Higher Self.

“Many times we did this to come to understand that He alone exists and His Beingness has no end.

“And every One Who gave Oneself to Him completely — stayed in Him in order to merge into His Beingness and be Him.”

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“In the entire universe, it is only love that can bring one to the true unlimited Divine Freedom.

“I love you and want to give you this Freedom.

“I am ready to give Myself to everyone who sincerely desires it. Such is My essence — I want nothing but to give Myself through love — to give Myself to you and to everyone worthy!”

Our group is visiting a place located between two clear brooks in birch forest. Along the brooks, willow bushes grow thickly together. The forest is filled with the moist aroma of autumn morning and odor of birches.

We build a fire of dry branches and fallen birch trunks. The smell of birch smoke from the fire enhances the feeling of tender forest coziness…

Apart from us, no other people visit this place. But it is inhabited by snipes and woodcocks, displaying in spring. In winter, one may come across traces of hares, wild boars, and foxes. Along the banks of the larger brook, one may see beaver teeth marks on the trees.

Yet we have come now not to them, but to the Divine Teacher Who calls Himself Sufi Grand Master — Grand Master of Sufism.

He says that He is one of the founders of Islam, the creator of its main — Sufic — branch. In the first century of the Muslim calendar, living in Arabia, He accepted fully the Teaching about God given through prophet Muhammad and fulfilled it.

“I cognized Allah and became His Integral Part. In that sense, I am Allah,” He says about Himself.

This is true indeed: the Consciousness of Grand Master immensely comes out from the Abode of the Creator, remaining indissolubly connected with Him.

Inside the Mahadouble of Grand Master, the space is filled Divinely subtle energies; this is one of the remarkable places of power for cleansing the chakras and meridians, for crystallization of the consciousness and further growing of the developed consciousness into the Creator.

The Tenderness of Allah is dominating here.

We ask Him to relate the methods which He used to attain the state of Divinity and which He imparted later to His students.

He began narrating:

“My Path is the Path of Heart. Allah taught it to Me. I accepted this Path and under Allah’s guidance developed and imparted it to others.

“The Path of Heart implies embracing the principles of Love and Quietness.

“… He taught Me to listen to the quietness…

“First, one has to learn listening to the sounds around: sound of the wind, lapping of waves, calls of birds, crackle of a fire… After that, one can start listening to the quietness…

“I came to know that all various sounds are local and transient, while the quietness is omnipresent and eternal. Beneath all sounds existing in the universe, there spreads infinitely the Great Quietness.

“For hours I could listen to the sounds of the world — beautiful and diverse, and then I would ‘release’ Myself and ‘sink’ into it — into the quietness. There I could see the clear transparence of the quietness, hear its silence. I could freely and easily swim in it, submerge to the very Depths of it… Gradually the Great Quietness became My home…

“From there, I saw that all sounds of the worlds are as if created by the Great Quietness. I saw how its breathing fills from within all forms of life — and they sound as a well-trained choir of various musical instruments. Like flowers, sounds unfold for a moment in the eternity of the Great Quietness…”

“Why did You listen to the world? Were you born blind?”

“This, of course, would be a beautiful version, but no — I was sighted. Someone is born a painter; someone is born a musician. Someone sees and someone hears the world. I heard it.

“By the way, for beginners it is more beneficial to listen to the space around. By listening, you can embrace much larger volume of space; you can even hear that which you can not see.

“He who has learned to listen can become the Master of Quietness.

“The quietness gives you calm.

“The peculiar feature of the quietness is that it gets filled with you.

“The quietness — as a result of studying and cognizing it — becomes filled with you and God…

“Allah suggests cognizing Him through this method.”

“But You missed an essential point: one has to listen to the quietness not with ears which are on the head, but with the hearing of the spiritual heart…”

“Yes, you understand it correctly. But I told about this in the beginning of My story…

“Indeed, I developed the anahata earlier: before the incarnation among Arabs. And earlier yet, I was one of the first Christians-Hesychasts⁶… It is then that I learned to listen.

“Moreover, by the time of incarnating among Arabs, I was a sufficiently developed soul, and thus I could choose where to incarnate. I became not a nomad, who breeds cattle, but placed Myself in an oasis.

“Peach trees among date palms, wheat fields, and abundance of other boons… — all this provided Me with adequate nourishment. And this is an essential condition for one’s being able to retain and to develop further the best qualities of the soul. Every one of you knows this very well: formerly your Master received this information from Me…

“… Thus I began My service on the Arabian Peninsula. Among the deserts of Arabia, I had to create one more spiritual hearth on the Earth.

“… In the West, the way of life is quite different from the one in Arabia. In Arabia, most of the population were free nomads whose life was not bound by a certain place of living. They breed cattle and moved with their herds from one place to another… This way of life made them freer compared with the people of the western world. They less willingly accepted any power over themselves; the very idea that some person can hold power in their lands was strange to them…

“To make them listen to Me, I had to capture their interest, to propose them an idea that would captivate their free minds.

“I captivated them with ideas about the Higher Justice. I taught them about walking the path of good toward the Supreme, Which represents the Higher Justice.

“The Supreme is the source of all ideals, the origin of every virtue. The Supreme depends on no one and no thing, and no power has a hold on It; therefore, It is the Foundation of the true justice.

“The Higher Justice, taught I, will always prevail. And though somewhere among people there is injustice, it cannot last forever. The Supreme will set a limit to it and judge: what was just and what was unjust.

“The Supreme shines like the sun, said I. In Its Light, everything is seen in its true nature. Thus, no tricks can help the untruth to appear as the truth, when it comes to the judgment of the Supreme.

“I taught not to seek revenge on offenders, not to search for the thief in order to punish him and return the stolen items. I taught not to judge others, because such a judgment can be but an illusion of justice: it is only the Supreme that can judge justly — and in due time It will judge everyone and everything. I said that no court on the Earth can judge on behalf of the Supreme, and no ruler has a right to declare that his judgment is the judgment from the Supreme. A virtuous heart aspiring to the Supreme can directly perceive the Higher Justice — and then such a person will live according to Its laws and under Its protection.

“… But the most confidential thing which I taught and which alone opens the gate to the Allah’s Abode is what is the anahata chakra, how to develop oneself through it, how to learn to go outside of it in order to settle and live in the new Home — the Abode of Allah. All this I have shown you already during the years of the work of our common School — the School of Allah, the School of the Creator. And now I spread your knowledge — using your bodies — throughout the planet.”

“Could You tell us more detail about Your childhood? This would be useful from the pedagogical standpoint: how to educate children in order to create the most favorable conditions for development in them the qualities which are important for their evolutionary growth?”

“Well, listen.

“… Once My father took Me — a little boy — with Him on a caravan journey to Mecca. It was the strongest impression of My childhood! The awareness of the soul awakened! And I looked at the world around not with eyes of a child, but beheld the Earth as the Creation of Allah! Since that moment, He became real for Me!

“… Once we stood on the edge of a high plateau; it seemed to Me that I could see the whole world from there! I could look down from bird’s eye view!

“The sun was rising. Caravans in the valley below looked as tiny figures of people and camels. Flocks of birds were passing below Me…

“At that moment I felt how Great is the One Who created all this! For the first time, I realized: ‘Allah is Great! There is no one superior to Him! His Power is unlimited!’

“Allah, Who created this world, filled then My being with wonderful joy of feeling His Greatness!

“I praised Allah, the Lord of the worlds!

“… Seeing My rapturous devotion to Allah, which was growing year by year, the father sent Me to one of the first madrasah for studying.

“It was not only about religious education. I had a possibility to became acquainted with heritage of many centuries of Arabian wisdom…

“… When reading the Quran, I felt as if Allah Himself was present with Me, reading it with Me and explaining the meaning of every word…

“Yet sometimes… I was just looking through the lines and could not feel His presence…

“I asked the preceptors:

‘Why does it happen like this?’

“They answered that Allah wills so…

“Then I begin asking Allah and studying Myself. I understood that when My heart is full of love for Allah — He comes to Me, He stays with Me, He fills My heart with Himself. And then the words of the Quran sound like Celestial hymns!

“Then I started learning entering the state of exalted love to Him, the Lord of the worlds! At that, My chest would fill with warmth, and tears sprang to My eyes — so great was the joy of feeling Him, so immense was the gratitude to Him for His Love, for He’s being with Me!

“This adolescent experience allowed Me later to create zikr: a meditative method that creates a field of love and attunes all participants to openness to Allah. I studied its mechanisms later; but at that time, it was the first occasion when I felt the power of meditations performed from the spiritual heart — and the Joy of Allah filled My life!

“… I was already a big, crystallized consciousness by the time I came to this incarnation. Thus, when I read or talked to others, it had a profound effect: people would fall in the state of love and feel God. Seeing this power in Myself, after completing My education, I went to preach the Teaching of Allah, and I felt that He blessed Me to go this Path! I preached and taught that which I knew at that time…

“… But once an unexpected delay happened to Me on this journey… It taught Me a lot…

“I met a girl… She was filling a jug with water… I asked her to give Me to drink. She gave Me some water… I felt fire enveloping Me. Tenderness filled My hands, and My tongue began to speak in verse… Her joyful laugh was like a purling brook; her figure was grace incarnate… In her eyes, behind long thick eyelashes, was an ocean of tenderness… When a flick of these eyelashes opened for a moment her look, I saw shining of stars in the depth… I touched her hand. The flame of love flared up in Me and reddened her cheeks. Her lips opened toward the feeling, which captivated us both…

“I thanked Allah for this Love! I cognized the greatness of love between two souls!

“… We got married and were happy together.

“… Time passed by… I got a home… My life became more and more filled with earthly cares, and… I had less and less time for God…

“I got two more wives, as is customary in the East…

“Had it lasted little longer — and My life would have became completely subject to earthly concerns…

“… And then Allah sent Me an illness. Death was looking Me in the eyes and telling that I had not fulfilled that which I made the purpose of My life, when decided to go — with Allah in My heart — to people after completing the madrasah…

“Then I began to realize the truths about monasticism. I realized that a servant of Allah has to be always turned with the soul, that is with his attention and aspiration, toward Allah, striving to cognize Him! And I understood that… I realized this too late!…

“… They sent Me to a famous healer on a stretcher… On the way, our caravan was attacked by warlike Bedouins… They counted Me dead; other people were killed…

“An Indian, who was travelling with a caravan, picked Me up… He took Me, half-dead, to a village nearby and stayed there with Me for some time. He healed Me partially and then began to teach Me the knowledge about the human organism, about chakras and meridians… He taught Me the basics of meditation — the work with the consciousness. It is from Him that I learned about the ethics of killing-free nutrition.

“… I did not use bodies of killed animals for food since childhood: I pitied them. Yet, I violated this principle once, and this caused My serious illness…

“I realized My mistakes, and repentance helped Me to cleanse the soul. Thanks to the methods of work learned from the Indian, I could continue healing the body…

“He left before I recovered. He told Me that I would recover Myself and that great service to God awaited Me…

“… And then Allah filled with Himself every day of My newly obtained life — the life with Him!

“I was allowed to touch again the Light which I felt in Myself formerly as Allah’s presence — and touch, now beyond the limits of the body, that Depth of multidimensionality where He abides!

“Then it was easy. Allah could lead Me: now I was able to hear and comprehend His Will very clearly!

“I submerged in His Depths in His Great Quietness! I cognized Him!

“Now I was able to see Him — My Beloved!

“The hands of the soul touched His Light and His Shining in Me became more and more bright!

‘Enter into Me, submerge in the Ocean of My Light deeper! That what you feel now is but My surface, go deeper into Me!’ He was telling Me.

“And, full of reverence, I submerged into Him — and He embraced Me from all sides! We merged together! I was in Him, and He was in Me; We were One!

‘O Allah, O My Lord! How can it be that I am merging with You, yet I do not burn down of love, which overfills Me? How can it be that I submerge My hands into Your Depths to embrace You? How can it be that I see Your Light with the eyes of the soul, and yet I remain alive?’ I was asking Him in the ecstasy of love.

‘You know now very well that I exist! And I love you! And Him who loves Me I let into My Depths! I live in him, and he lives in Me!’ He was answering Me.

“… Since that moment, I did nothing without Him. He was in Me. He manifested Himself in everything around; He filled everything with Himself!

“I started to teach people and create methods that would allow one to become closer to Him, to cognize Him. I did it by combining all the best that I had learned in the course of My life. They were the methods of the Straight Path, which were shown by Him. I had students striving for cognition of the Supreme. The Teaching became known to more and more people. My students were young as well as mature men… Their number was growing…”

“Tell us please how You taught the work with chakras to Your students.”

“These methods of this work are well known to you. But it makes sense to relate them once again, because there is a great confusion in the minds of people about this matter.”

“In total, chakras are seven. The chakras of a successfully evolving person — healthy and harmonious — are developed and full of light and pure energy. In weak or sick people, or in those indulging in vices, the chakras can be undeveloped or, if developed, full of coarse dark energy.

“It is designed by Allah that the chakras are an integral part of the human organism. In the chakras, in particular, emotions are born. They are regulators of the activity of the consciousness inside the body. The chakras are also passages to the depths of the multidimensional universe. But in order to enter these subtle worlds, one has to develop the chakras, cleanse them and fill with pure, subtle light. Yet, such work can be done provided one observes killing-free nourishment and actively works on ethical transformation of oneself.

“The main one of all chakras is the anahata. It is from this chakra that one has to start developing oneself as a consciousness.

“The Light of Allah enters in the souls of people only through cleansed and developed chakras.

“There are only seven notes — yet there is no measure of the number of beautiful musical compositions. There are only seven chakras — but what a wealth of various subtlest states of consciousness the Light of Allah can give us when it enters the chakras!

“Allah, as a Great Musician, can play the Divine melody of Love on this ‘instrument’ created by Him — the human organism. Yet this Divine melody can sound only if the ‘instrument’ functions properly.

“… But let Me continue My story…

“Once I sent one of My students to My former home to find out what had happened to My wives. He came back and told Me that when the wives came to know about My death, two of them got married again, but My first beloved went to search for Me and since then no one had seen her…

“… I traveled and taught a lot. In one of the oases a center of the School was established… My students went from there to various parts of the world describing to people the Path to Allah illuminated by His Love.

“Once a man eager to study came to Me… And when he lifted his eyelashes, in the depth of his eyes familiar stars flared up and looked at Me. I recognized her… — My first beloved…

‘I knew that Allah would bring me to You!’ she said. ‘He told Me that when I would go to seek Him, I would meet You too. I thought that it would happen after death, when Allah allows the loving souls to meet in paradise!… He is truly omnipotent, our Lord! I even did not dare to believe that I can meet you before death! Allow me to stay and to learn that which You teach!’

“Great was My joy! The design of Allah was marvelous! I asked her to change her men’s clothes: Allah had never forbidden women to cognize His Love!

“She became My fist female student. And she cognized Him in all fullness!

“She wrote wonderful poetry devoted to the Great Beloved. She helped many to realize that God brings people closer to Him not on the basis of sex, but on the basis of aspiration of the heart. And women’s hearts, with their natural tenderness and subtlety, are capable of coming to the Heavenly Beloved and merging with Him even more quickly than the hearts of men. And after crossing the threshold of His dissolving Love — both men and women become equally One with Him!

“… I give neither My nor her name here, so that no one of those who worship only names begin to worship the names of ours…”

Sulia is a Sufi woman. Men’s qualities of character — energy, leadership, fieriness! — in a strong female body.

She looked so in Her last incarnation. And now She appears before us as most tender Divine Fire, arising from the Universal Depths: Power and Love dissolving us in Themselves!

“Tell us please about Yourself.”

“Everything is Allah! And there are no other Gods besides Him! One day, the Light of Allah came into My heart — and never left it. I was a Conveyor of Allah’s Will: He spoke and acted through My body in My last incarnation.”

“Where had You incarnated before?”

“It does matter! A Sufi, if he or she is worthy, is born a second time⁷ in the Abode of the Beloved — and completes the path in its Depths! Therefore, the homeland and the final asylum of such a Sufi is Allah’s Abode!

“… I was a Grand Master’s student. Allah gave Me a male body in that incarnation, and I devoted Myself completely to the apprenticeship: to cognition of Beloved Allah!

“Grand Master is a true Master! Learning from Him was the greatest happiness!

“… At the age of 23, Allah called Me into Him — and the ‘vacation time’ came: the time of rest from earthly life.

“During the ‘vacation’, I was writing works on the fundamentals of Islam through several embodied students. These works exist to the present day in the libraries of Kazakhstan.

“My next incarnation, the last one, was in the eighteenth century in Kazakhstan. I was guided again by My Grand Master: He conveyed the Will of Allah through My body…

“… And now, after returning finally to the Abode of the Beloved, I continue working in Kazakhstan — in that part of it where there are museums, archives, and scientists who study Islam.

“It was Me Who suggested to you e-mail sending to Kazakhstan’s people with the purpose of informing about our knowledge.”

“Is there any result of that sending?”

“There is no quick result. The youth got interested, but scientists did not. They did not treat this knowledge as true Islam. I will continue introducing our knowledge among young people. As for the adults… they proved unpromising.

“Meat based nutrition results in dullness and inertia of minds! The consciousness loses its agility. Meat eating is an affliction of the contemporary Islam!

“It is extremely important to spread our knowledge among the youth! As the youth grow, one may try to clean up in these people the Eye of Allah! One has to connect a human soul with Allah, and this makes an Eye of Allah! Then Allah manifests Himself through such a soul — and a spiritual oasis forms around it.

“The love, kindled in hearts, will direct minds to searching for the Creator!”

“Sulia, will You please narrate how do You experience Yourself?”

“Who am I, Sulia?…

“I experience only the Greatness of Allah, His Infinite Translucent Calm!

“And when He looks at the Creation — Divine Goldish Streams run from the Depths, Streams of various hues and soundings. One of them sounds with the name Sulia.

“Learn experiencing yourselves so in Mahadoubles. Learn being blissful!

“I feel unceasing Bliss: Allah is inside Me and around… At any moment, I can make a step backward and dissolve in the Primordial Calm… Or to make a step forward — and again Sulia as a Goldish Wave brings the Love and Will of Allah to the Creation!

“… In order to attain this, one has to leave the ‘islet’ of the body and move to the Ocean of Allah to live there! When the body does not carry the burden of the ‘I’, Allah can live in it.

“One has to impregnate the body with the Bliss of the Creator’s Abode and then — to dissolve, disappear! Allah enters from within — and one dissolves in Him…

“To accomplish this, one has to rid the consciousness of everything that is not love: only love is capable of dissolution!…

“… Listen! I will whisper to you flaming words… And you, listening to Me, attune yourself to the rhythm of the Great Whole, to the Breathing of His Beingness… — so that the nectar of the Divine Love will not be spilled and the phrases will not break up into separate words and momentary thoughts, so that the soul will become filled with sounding and meaning of the Truth and your heart will unite with the Life of the Primordial Heart, Whose name is Allah!

“The fire of passion cannot burn the soul kindled with love for Allah!

“The whirlpools of life cannot seize the soul moving to the Primordial Ocean!

“In the desert, the source of life will create an oasis, which will emanate fragrance, stream life-giving currents of love; it will blossom and give fruits!

“In the fire of the spiritual heart — a human soul becomes naked!

“In the purity of love — she appears before her Beloved!

“And for her there is nothing but the Beloved!

“She is always before Him!

“Her hands caress Him,

“And she does not take her eyes off Him.

“The only light for her is the Light of His Love!

“His Light makes her eyes shine,

“His words of Love flows through her mouth,

“The hearts unite —

“And there remains nothing but Him!

“He fills with unspeakable bliss those,

“Who became one in Him!

“… The life of every one of you has to be full of Me!

“You have to fill your lives with Me — more and more fully!

“Where I appear — grief and destruction go away!

“As I am gradually superseding all remnants of everything ‘earthly’ and perishable in your lives, they will be becoming one whole with My Life.”

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On a forest glade, inside the giant Mahadouble of Grand Master, there is a favorite place of Sulia. Here, coming out from the Creator’s Abode, She makes of Herself the form of a temple. In the center of the glade, there is a Spire composed of subtlest Divine Light; below it, there is a Dome; and yet below — the infinite Temple itself, composed of the Primordial Consciousness. She taught us here to fill this Temple with our spiritual hearts.

Here, on the surface of the Earth, everything is permeated with Allah — with subtlest pure Divine Light-Love! Here one feels quietness, bliss, harmony.

One day we brought a group of students to this place. And Sulia presented them with meditation A Sufi Addressing Allah.

After we had prepared ourselves for meditation — entered with the consciousnesses into the anahatas, flooded, and were deep in the state of hesychia — She began showing the meditation:

On the edge of a sand dune, a young Sufi stands. He wears long light robe with wide sleeves; his head is covered with a white kerchief. His eyes are directed toward the horizon where the sky is getting brighter and becomes goldish-pink with rising of the sun. Everyday he watches the sunrise here; he knows that every sunrise is unique: it is a gift to the world from the Beloved!

Allah!

The sun is rising, and Sufi’s heart, full to the brim with love for the Creator, is singing with joy!

He raises his hands with palms opened toward the tender light of the sun. He collects in his palms the light — lucent and warm — and washes with it the face and then the whole body, letting the pure light in… The light fills the body with tender calm and bliss!

Allah!

Tenderness and gratitude overflow the heart!

Immense blue sky above… Beautiful countenance of the sun… The Earth is but a tiny drop in the universe… An infinitesimal grain — Sufi’s body — stands on it…

Allah!

Nothing compares to the Greatness of the Beloved! Great and Infinite is the Beloved!

The soul rejoices and sings in humility: “Insh’Allah!” — “Let it be with me as You will, O Lord! I accept Your Will entirely, whatever it is!”

The spiritual heart, overflowing with love, expands, floods in the space; the hands of the consciousness stretch to infinity. With gentle waves of tenderness, they caress and pacify all living beings, bring harmony to the space…

Allah!

He fills every inch of space with His Light, gives the power of life to all the living! He is One, the Only, the Subtlest, existing in everyone and everything — He gives the Highest Bliss!

Sufi’s heart dissolves in this Bliss; he merges with the Beloved by the each particle of his being. Sufi’s body is just a small fragment included in the whole picture of the Creation, and the Sufi himself — a living consciousness — merges in love with the Creator!

Allah! — A Living Tender Consciousness! I am in Him! He is in Me! And everything is filled with Him!

Over a heel overgrown with low “fluffy” pines with long needles there stands a Mahadouble of Haji Bei Murat. His appearance is of a young man of about twenty years old, shining with bright, clear, pure youth.

“It seems that Your last incarnation ended when You were that young. How did You end that incarnation?”

“I ‘soared’ into the Heaven!”

“You dematerialized the body?”

“Completely!”

Lada joined the conversation:

“The ‘ascension’ was as follows: the body soared up and dissolved.

“There was His ashram on this place. Sufi teachers would gather here from the whole neighborhood. And then they would initiate murids into the mysteries of the ‘golden flower’.”

Haji Bei Murat pointed at other non-incarnate Great Souls and continued:

“Look at Our Children! They are Sufi sheiks’ students who gathered here and listened to the preachings. Non-incarnate Lada was also always present among them. Some of those present here have not achieved the Mergence, but the majority merged with Allah.”

“Tell us please about Yourself, about Your Path to Allah!”

“The boy Murat was born very joyful and happy. He was born as the one who could feel the presence of Allah already. He came to the Earth knowing that God is in everything; that He is Loving and Omnipresent, Caressing and Omnipotent!

“The true Islam helps one to understand this. And any true spiritual knowledge also brings one to the understanding that Truth is God!

“I began that earthly life of Mine with experiencing this Truth. And I ended it — with Mergence!

“I lived in the bliss of feeling the constant Presence of Allah! I was happy to see the smooth flow of His river, branches swaying from the breathing of His wind, splash of waves of His Sea… I drank His Blissful Nectar and partook His Blissful Gifts!

“Everything that the river of destiny brings to a Sufi is Sufi’s talk with God, Sufi’s learning from God! The Sufi gladly accepts everything that God sends to him or her!

“Sufi’s life is communication with Allah through everything that the Sufi receives from the Beloved. The Sufi receives everything as a gift! It is Sufi’s learning; it is Sufi’s bliss! It is Sufi’s song of thanksgiving, Sufi’s reply with love to the love of the Creator!

“Everything that comes out from Sufi’s mouth is a hymn to the Eternity and Beauty of Allah! It is fragrant nectar of love, which either accepts the form of words or music, or becomes silent lines and forms and leave guiding lights to those who walk the Path of Allah. And those walking touch these lights and burn with more love, gain power and confidence needed to overcome the difficulties of the Path.”

“How did You learn, who was Your teacher?”

“Only Allah! I came to the last earthly life being open to perceiving His Love and Power directly! I did not need intermediates, which instructs people on religious dogmas and rituals. The Lord of everything was with Me: I saw His Presence in the manifest and non-manifest, in people that I met on the Path, in everything that His generous Hand gave to Me! I did not divide these gifts into good and bad ones, because Allah does not give gifts which one should not receive!

“I thanked Him for every such a gift! Every meeting, every turn of My life, every day and every minute, every drink of water and every breath of air was His Gift! I thanked — and this conversation of ours was beautiful! What can spoil your life with the Creator but your ingratitude for His gifts?

“Every minute of your life is a message of God to you and your response to God. You can read every moment as you read Quran! Because everything is the Book of Beingness, and He teaches you how to read it. When you have learned to read it, you will experience only the Bliss of His Love! And when you will talk then — it will be your song of thanksgiving to the Creator!

“Songs of birds, fruits you partake, and every person you meet is a gift Allah to you! This is invaluable experience of the soul! This is your talk with the Creator!

“It is in this way that I lived: I looked and listened to the life! And I get filled with the bliss of His Presence — independent of whether sweet or bitter was the fruit I partook.

“As a result I learned to hear the rhythm and melody of Allah and to talk to other souls in Allah’s language. Allah gave Me this mastery, and it allowed Me to begin teaching people whom He brought to Me…”

“How did You teach? It is not an easy matter — to teach man to feel God!”

“Yes, for this purpose one first has to wash the vessel of man’s body where the soul lives, wash it with the Light of Love — and then everything becomes easy!”

… He shows a body of man; its middle meridian resembles a transparent pitcher without bottom, which has to be washed inside. He shows streams of Living Light that flow freely through this form and wash it. As a result, it begins to shine with light…

“This is how I taught. Yet the main things are love and thanksgiving to the Creator — they compose the soul’s song! I taught how to accept God in one’s life. I helped My students to feel His Presence in every moment of their lives. And then — Allah began to play the instruments of souls, while I just tuned the sounding of these instruments.”

“How did You materialize Your body? Did You learn it?”

“I wanted to achieve the Fullness of Unity — and Allah responded to this desire…

“Allah knows every your thought, every your desire! And He fills them with Power only if His desire is one with yours. This results from Unity. If you are suffused with Allah, then everything you wanted or thought becomes filled with His Power to realization. And your desires become fulfilled! And when there remains only the last desire for the Great Reunification — then let it be! In this way I left the body!

“Those pray who do not know the Love of Allah. But those knowing Allah’s Love praise Him!

“And nothing can prevent the Bliss of those who know Allah! Even a jail does not bind them; even those exerting violence do not constrain them!

“The earthly life of such man is a dialog with Allah. And when it comes to an end, he makes only one step that separates him from the Whole. When the earthly song of love for Allah is completed — he plays the final cord — and the music of soul merges forever as another beautiful instrument into the melody of Allah’s Beingness, which helps then other seekers to tune the strings their hearts and to create new songs of praise to Allah!”