At one time the world will hit you, at another time it will give you a title, and then at another time it will speak ill of you.In one moment you will be exalted by the world, and in the next the world will pull you down.We should not place our faith in worldly praise and worldly blame.The world will lift you up high, telling you that there are fruits on the top of the tree, and if you are unable to climb, it will give you a ladder or even push you up the tree.Then once you are on top, the world will remove the ladder.Then what is your position?You are on the top of the tree, you do not know how to climb down, and the ladder has been removed.So, however much the world has exalted you, that same distance you have to fall down.This is what the world offers you.We cannot place our entire belief in this, nor should we depend on it and climb to the top of the tree.If we can just stay at the bottom, it is good.Then we will not encounter this danger.

Dr. Nash:Has Bawa Muhaiyaddeen spoken of reincarnation?

Bawa Muhaiyaddeen:If a bee were to fall into fire, what would happen?It would become part of the fire.It could not come out of the fire again; it has become the fire itself.The fire has consumed the bee.If, however, the bee does not enter the fire, if it is not burned, then it still exists.It may fly near the fire or remain far away, but it still would exist here in this world.Where else is there for it to be?

Man is not really this external form, this body.The inner form of man is the qualities of God—a form separate from the external form.Within that form is the shadowless soul, which came as a ray from God, from that great power.It has no form or shadow, and it cannot be discovered by science.Everything has a shadow, but not the soul.God has no shadow, truth has no shadow, and wisdom has no shadow.It is this treasure that you must separate off.This is God’s treasure, God’s truth.This is separate from the body of earth, fire, water, air, and ether.That belongs to illusion, or maya, to the earthly world, to night and darkness.It is glitter, it is scenes, it is an act, and it is veils.One form is night and the other is light.One is false and one is truth.One is torpor and one is the radiance of wisdom.

The external body relates to the earth itself.It is just a cooperative store with five shareholders.But true man is a separate section from this cooperative store.His is the section of Man-God, God-Man, which contains God’s power.That power, that body, that prayer, and that devotion, all belong to a separate section

Within God’s creation there are multifarious things: goats, bulls, tigers, leopards, lions, mice, birds, and snakes.They each have their own qualities, their own peculiar sounds and actions.God is a great scientist, a great artist, and a potter.He is a learned scholar, the poet of poets, the gnani, the one who has divine wisdom.Realizing all things, God is the father who gives the explanation and the life to all.From His treasury, He is able to do all things.He is the one who has seen and known everything.He has seen the beginningless beginning (anathi), and the dawning of light (athi).God is that power for which there is no comparison anywhere.He holds within Himself such an immense treasury.He holds within Himself the entire understanding of grace, of creation, of all the sciences and arts, of ignorance, illusion, and the wealth of this world and the eighteen thousand universes.Everything that ever can be and ever will be is within His treasury.All the learnings of earth, fire, water, air, and ether, of colors, glitters, lights, and illusion are there within that treasury.

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