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Visitor: I have no questions. I am just visiting a spiritual teacher. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen: That is very good. What my brother says is good. However, there is only one teacher who teaches spirituality—God. He is the only Teacher. Four hundred trillion, ten thousand spiritual teachers live in the world, advertising hell. They advertise the four hundred trillion, ten thousand sins, sixty-four sexual games, sixty-four art and sciences, and the qualities of lust, anger, passion, miserliness, and religious fanaticism. Lust, theft, murder, falsehood, the thirst for intoxicants, the sixty-four sexual games, the games and energies of the rat, cat, dog, horse, donkey, monkey, and elephant, supernatural powers, mesmerisms, miracles, and mantras—all these are taught by teachers. Everything—the dancing, the singing, the enslaving of one life to another, the searching, and the running—is for the sake of the one-span stomach. All these teachers are one-span-stomach teachers. When hunger strikes these teachers, the ten [commandments] fly away and are forgotten. This is false! This is the sort of teachers they are. They are self-business teachers. Only One is a Teacher—God. He alone does not possess any of the earlier mentioned qualities. He has no hunger, illness, old age, death, anger, or sin. He engages in none of the sixty-four sexual games. He has no darkness. He is the Teacher—a Teacher without self-business. He is the One, the Teacher who is with us as Wisdom within wisdom, Eye within eye, Ear within ear, Nose within nose, Tongue within tongue, Love within love, Compassion within compassion, Life within life, Truth within truth, and Body within body— protecting, teaching, and explaining. He is a Teacher, a Father. Without differences and without race, He does His duty, warning us and providing explanations. Only such a One is a Teacher. He is God. He is the Spiritual Teacher. We are not spiritual teachers. We are one community, one group of people—His children. We are a brotherhood with mothers and brothers. We are all one community, one group of children, one gathering, one family of brothers and sisters. We talk to one another and tell each other about our state of mind. You may tell me something, and I must listen to you and respond. Then, when I tell you something, you have to listen to me, and so on. In this way, we teach and we learn. We come to understand our faults, ascertain what is right and wrong, and then try to do what is right, and avoid what is the wrong. We join together and discuss what is within each of us. We tell each other to do the right and reject the wrong. This is how we learn. In this school, this is the way we understand and learn. This is unity. This is United Nations, unity, brothers and sisters in harmony. Through this we try to understand ourselves, learn, and become peaceful. Tranquility, peace, and equanimity are what we strive for. We say, “We will be peaceful!” This is why we gather here. Each person tells of his inner aspirations and tries to find peace. When we proceed in this manner and become clear, then our Father, our Teacher, will come. When we attain clarity, the Original Teacher will come to us and guide us, saying, “That is correct, this is correct, do this, do that.” He will give us the necessary counsel. What we are trying to do now is to differentiate right from wrong. In each area, we are attempting to look at what is right and wrong and reach a state of clarity. We are not teachers; we are just trying to reach a clear state. One by one, each child must come to this state. On this route, the trees, flowers, and seeds are all gurus that teach us. The eye, nose, mouth, hunger, illness, blood, skin, attachments, and illusion are all teachers that instruct us. We have to understand each of these things. The sun, the moon, and the stars are all teachers. Every pore of the body, the flesh, skin, blood, and marrow are all teachers. We should understand right and wrong within all of this. This is the strength within our learning, the strength within our unity. We assemble here to investigate this learning. We examine what is good. This is what we must do now.
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Muhaiyaddeen, M.R. Bawa. The Fast of Ramadan. Philadelphia: Fellowship Press, 2000, 2005. 59-61. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen for over 50 years selflessly shared his knowledge with people of every race, religion—from all parts of the world. Want more powerful words of wisdom that stir the mind and heart? Please visit www.thegoldenwords.com and find what your soul has been craving. CLICK HERE
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