Spiritual Letter 61 - Outline & Summary Version About Spiritual Letter 61 Title: "If Two Of You Come Together In My Name, I Will Be There" Date Written: November, 2004 Written by: Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) Written to: Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen Adam (Rick Boardman) and his wife, Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen Fatimah (Gene Boardman) Go To: Outline & Summary Version - of Spiritual Letter 61 Home Page - Spiritual Letters Go To Spiritual Letter 62 Letter 61: E-mail Version Library Home Page Go To Spiritual Letter 60 Letter 61: Related Material 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 blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. Here is a beautiful letter to our dear brother Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen Adam (Rick Boardman) and his dear wife Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen Fatimah (Gene Boardman) that grew out of a beautiful wisdom sharing between Rick and this child at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship during the month of Ramadan 2004. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brothers and sisters - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). Outline & Summary Version - of Spiritual Letter 61 Outline of Spiritual Letter: 1. Introduction - "If two of you come together in My Name, I will be there." 2. On-line Reference Material - for the things that we shared 3. Please Try To Do This "Heart's Work" - so we can all move from the 71st and the 72nd groups into the 73rd group before we die to the "outside" of us 4. Please Try To Become "The Pearl of Wisdom" For Our Age - by becoming "One with" Bawa within us, and with God within Him, before we die to the "outside" of us 5. Please Try To Move Into The 73rd Group Within Us - before it is too late, before we die to the "outside" of us, by joining in partnership with God within us, and by stopping all of our working for wages to get into heaven, which in the end will only leave us disappointed 6. Additional On-line Reference Material - for the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom" Text of Spiritual Letter: 1. Introduction - "If two of you come together in My Name, I will be there." 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 blessing of God be upon us all. May God help us all. My love you (anbu), my dearest loving brother Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen Adam - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). That was a wonderful understanding that we were blessed to share the other night at the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship, a true "Gift of Ramadan". Truly it is as our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) and Jesus (peace be upon Him) teach us, "If two of you come together in My Name, I will be there." My love you (anbu) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). 2. On-line Reference Material - for the things that we shared For your reference you can access some of what we were sharing the other night on the Internet. For example, you can access Spiritual Letter 60, "Understanding The Sin of Righteousness" which we are currently working on, at the feet of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of God within Him, as well as our Review of the "Gospel of John", and the new Main Page of our On-line Version of the "Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library", by clicking on the following: 1) On-line Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Library (www.Bawa.homestead.com) 2) Review of The "Gospel of John" (www.GospelOfJohn.homestead.com) 3) Spiritual Letter 60, "Understanding The Sin of Righteousness" (www.SpiritualLetter060.homestead.com) 3. Please Try To Do This "Heart's Work" - so we can all move from the 71st and the 72nd groups into the 73rd group before we die to the "outside" of us Please give my love and salams to your wife, Muhammad Muhaiyaddeen Fatimah, and to your daughter Mary Fatimah, and to all of your "Funny Little Family". Please tell them that Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler) loves them very, very much, and that they are always in my prayers. And please join with our wife and daughter to read this Review of the "Gospel of John" and Spiritual Letter 60 as referenced above, both of which are still "In process", and share your understanding of them with our dear brothers and sisters of the Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship. In this way, please try to join with Bawa within us, and with God within Him, to do this "Heart's Work" within us, as this is the only way to become "One with" God within us, before we die, the only way to truly become a member of the 73rd group within us, before we die. In this way, leaving our membership in the 71st and the 72nd groups within us, who are the lives within us that we see in our ignorance as existing "outside" of us, but who in truth are within us and are trying to have it both ways, who are what Jesus (peace be upon Him) calls the "Righteous" in Chapter 16 of the "Gospel of John", that is, the members of the "World of Righteousness" within us, the 71st and the 72nd groups within us, who are guilty of the "Sin of Righteousness" within us, that the "Comforter", the "Spirit of Truth" will reprove (will gently correct) in our age. Understanding that the "Comforter", the "Spirit of Truth" that Jesus (peace be upon Him) promised to send to us is in our age the life and teaching of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), and of His Children (may God be pleased with each of Us), which is each of us living in this age, if we truly want it, that is, if our true intention is to become "One with" God within us, before we die to the "outside" of us. Amen. And understanding that the 71st and 72nd groups within us, are the lives within us that we see in our ignorance as "ourselves" and our dear brothers and sisters on the "outside" of us, that we see on the "outside" of us as those who are trying to trust and love in both, in both God within us and in the world on the "outside" of us, so we can continue to live in the world on the "outside" of us, and sin, continue to live a life of "separation and differences", of "arrogance, karma, and illusion", of "desire for earth, women, and gold", and of "body, trick, and danger". [Note: see Chapter 20, "Body, Trick, and Danger", in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom or Guru Mani", for an explanation of this last reference, that is, "of body, trick, and danger". To access an On-line version of a few of the 40 Chapters in this early book by His Holiness (1945), but not yet including Chapter 20, please click on the following: The Pearl of Wisdom - Table of Contents: (www.ThePearlOfWisdom.homestead.com)] 4. Please Try To Become "The Pearl of Wisdom" For Our Age - by becoming "One with" Bawa within us, and with God within Him, before we die to the "outside" of us This is such a wonderful book of wisdom, The Pearl of Wisdom, which was recently translated into English and published by our dear departed brother Mohamedali Sultan Abdul Cader (may God be pleased with Him) from Ceylon or Sri Lanka, right before he died. Al-hamdu lillah. Allahu Akbar. For example, His Holiness tells us on page 7, in this book, as the last sentence in the Forward to the book, the following: "My brothers who accept "Guru Mani" which this poor ignorant Bawa sang, and who read it with clarity, are the Creator's Beings of Grace. They are the Great Beings of this world. May Allah's grace be upon Them." And on page 141, in this book, as the "Conclusion" to this book, our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him), tells us, ----------- beginning of Quote From Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) -------------- "My Son, if you assimilate each sweet word in this book, "Guru Mani", if you absorb each word individually, if you enshrine it in your mind and savor it, you will not only gain success, stability, and happiness in your worldly life, but will also enjoy a reciprocative bliss among your fellow people. This is certain! This is the truth! I say this with determination!" "Those who assimilate the "Guru Mani" will not only derive boundless happiness but will also achieve high and exalted bliss when they impart it to others! Each time he does so his wealth will increase and never diminish!" -------------- end of Quote From Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (Ral.) -------------- 5. Please Try To Move Into The 73rd Group Within Us - before we die to the "outside" of us, by joining in partnership with God within us, and by stopping all of our working for wages to get into heaven, which in the end will only leave us disappointed So this is what we all must do with our life, my dearest loving brother and sister, before we die to the "outside" of us, which is move into the 73rd group within us, the group within us who only trust and love in God within us. This is what we must do before it is too late, this is what we must do with our life, instead of "business as usual" on the "outside" of us, instead of staying within the 71st and 72nd groups within us until we die, within the groups within us that we currently see in our ignorance as "ourselves" and our dear brothers and sisters existing on the "outside" of us, and in this state continuing to sin, until we die to the world on the "outside" of us, getting an eternal life of "separation from" God within us as our reward. Instead of this, before we die to the "outside" of us, we must becoming members of the 73rd group within us, which our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) teaches us, is the only group within us that only trusts in God within us, that only loves God within us, the only group within us who have died before death within us, the only group within us who have joined as "One with" God within us before we die to the "outside" of us, before we die to the "School of Contrasts" on the "outside" of us, the only group within us to again become "One with" God within us, but this time with an understanding of that "Oneness" of God within us, so it will never leave us again. Amen. So the 73rd group within us is the only group within us who have been successful within us, when we do finally die to the world on the "outside" of us, the only group within us for whom our wisdom has reasoned over their fate, for whom the qualities of our higher selves have become victorious over the qualities of our lower selves. Amen. 6. Additional On-line Reference Material - for the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom" See the following On-line Chapters in the beautiful book of wisdom, "The Pearl of Wisdom or Guru Mani", for more on these wisdom points. Just click on the following Chapter numbers to access them directly, or go to the On-line Table of Contents for the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom", to access them, as well as to access other material and Chapters in this book not yet available directly, that is, not yet available through its own URL or Web Page Address: Table of Contents - for the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom" Forward - to the book. Invocation To God - a beautiful dua or prayer from Bawa to God Invocation To The Guru - a beautiful dua or prayer between the Disciple and the Guru Chapter 01, "Signs of Spiritual Significance" (the four types of wives) Chapter 02, "Search For God" Chapter 03, "Search For a Guru" Chapter 04, "The Four Gurus" Chapter 05, "The Physical Features of Man, and Their Significance Chapter 06, "More Physical Features of Man, and Their Significance Chapter 25, "Dhikr (Correctly Reciting The Kalimah, or Steadying God Within Us)" Chapter 26, "The Allegory of The Ship" Chapter 30, "The Mystical Meaning of Man's Body (The 28 Letters)" Chapter 31, "The Twenty-Eight Arabic Alphabets In Man's Body" Chapter 32, "Allahu ta-aalaa Nayan's Instructions to Muhammad (Sal.)" Chapter 33, "The Ten Evil Sins" Chapter 34, "The Treachery of The Swamis" To access Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, as well as information "About This Book", first access the Table of Contents for the book, "The Pearl of Wisdom", and then click on the Chapter number, or on "About This Book", which includes a beautiful introduction by our dear departed brother, Mohamedali Sultan Abdul Cader (may God be pleased with Him), who translated and published this English version of "Guru Mani", as well as comments from many other devoted disciples of our Father, Shaikh Muhammad Rahim Bawa Muhaiyaddeen (may God be pleased with Him) from Ceylon or Sri Lanka (may God be pleased with each of Them). Amen. Thank you. 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) - Shaikh Muhaiyaddeen (Louie Beutler). 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