The Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship

This talk was given on March 13, 1982, Saturday 6:45 AM. This is a chapter from God’s Psychology: A Sufi Explanation.

A‘üdhu billähi minash-shaitänir-rajïm. I seek refuge in God from the accursed satan.

Bismillähir-Rahmänir-Rahïm. In the name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.

If you act as an instrument of God, whatever comes will not affect you; He will bear it. Then you will be able to finish what you started. You must be the instrument, then He will be the One who is the Doer. That is the point. Evil is everywhere, it is joined with you. When you set out to do something good, when you are the instrument to do a good duty, the opposite of it, evil, will oppose you. If the “I” sets out to do something, it will be difficult, but if you become an instrument (of God), the weight is His. Then it will be easy. You must think of this. This point is the point of psychology. This is the way you must realize wisdom and truth in your life.

My love you, my children. My love you, my children, my daughters, my sons, brothers, and sisters. Our life is God’s psychology. He has placed two forms within His creations—wrong and right. He has created two forms, two bodies, two qualities, and two actions—good and bad. This is the point that works within man. There are two bodies. One body is good and one body is bad; one is the body of good qualities and one is the body of bad qualities. One action is a good action and one action is a bad action. Man can change these qualities. While existing in this body itself, man must change this section.

When the bad qualities of deceit, scheming, treachery, jealousy, and envy come to him, he will change into a snake, the body of a snake. When he assumes the body of a snake he is poisonous, he is a snake. Truth is his enemy, his opponent. His work is to give the poison of evil. This is what this form does, those qualities do that. Even if goodness touches him, he will hiss, shhhhhhs, and strike back. This is what he will do.

What does a snake do? It kills others, it poisons them, that is the snake’s body. If man changes into a snake, he will have the qualities of a snake, his form will be that of a snake, and he will enjoy doing its work.

Another quality he changes into is that of a tiger. What is the work of a tiger? When a tiger becomes hungry or when some adversity comes, it kills. It kills some other creation. That is its happiness. When man changes into a tiger, he has the qualities of a tiger. His form changes into that of a tiger, his qualities change into that of a tiger, and he enjoys murdering anything in the world. He will kill any creation and eat what he kills. That is the form he changes into. In that form he murders, and what he murders, he eats. He enjoys that. One is a tiger and the other is a tiger. He has the form of murder, and with that quality and in that house, he murders. This is psychology. He will do what is evil when he changes into those qualities. He will drink blood, he will murder, and he will eat flesh. He will eat the flesh of the world.

A lion has tremendous force and a leaping quality. It has anger, hastiness, and impatience. When man has those qualities, he changes into the form of a lion. When he changes into that form, he does that work. That is happiness to him. Murder is his pleasure. As soon as he acquires those evil qualities and changes his form, he will do that work, and that will give him pleasure. He will enjoy drinking blood. He will enjoy murder and killing.

Some animals, such as an elephant or a bear or some other dangerous animal, will not eat what they kill, but will still enjoy killing. They will strike and watch, just as a cat does. The cat catches a rat, watches it, lets it go a little, catches it again, torments it, and plays with it. Like that, if this cat-like quality comes (to a man), he will enjoy doing this. In this form, his qualities are that of a cat and his thoughts are that of a cat. When a cat catches a rat, it lets the rat go, watches it, catches it again, toys with it, and torments it. Some animals have these qualities. Like this, a man will hurt others, hurt their lives, watch them suffer, torment them, and cruelly strike again. Finally, he will finish them off, he will kill them. He will make men suffer, torment them, and finally kill them. This is his happiness. This is the happiness of the qualities of that form, that animal.

Some animals will watch you suffer. The elephant will crush you under its foot and then just watch you. Other animals have the quality of killing and eating what they kill.

Like this, there are four hundred trillion, ten thousand qualities that keep changing in man’s body, in this wrong body. There are good qualities and bad qualities. There is a bad body and a good body. Within one body there are two bodies, one that has evil qualities and one that is God’s body, the Light body. When (man’s) qualities change into that Light body, he will do what is good, he will do what is good for all lives. He will comfort all lives and do duty to them. He will give peace to all lives. He will give justice to all lives on the path of truth, the straight path. He will give tranquility, compassion, love, and equality. He has the two qualities—wrong and right. When he has the right qualities, he does that (what is right), but when he has the bad qualities, every quality becomes a demon, a ghost, or a vampire that drinks blood. He drinks the blood of other lives. He tortures other lives, kills women, rapes beautiful women; he does this and he does that. These are the vampire qualities. All the qualities of magic, mesmerism, the power, the shakti of the “I,” and the energy of the cells change him.

When he is like this, when these evil qualities are working within him, he has one of the ninety-six crazinesses. He is crazy. Every thought becomes a craziness. He has differences, insanity, anger, deceit, treachery, obstinacy, jealousy, and envy. These become the animal qualities, where one is jealous of another and one kills another. One who has this bad quality will enjoy killing and eating others, just like animals kill and eat each other. These are his actions. Making others suffer is natural for him; this makes him happy. There are, like this, these bad qualities and this bad body.

There are the two qualities of good and bad, and there are the two bodies. Man does the work of both sections. In the bad section, he changes into four hundred trillion, ten thousand different qualities. Every thought takes a form. He changes into the form of whatever thought he has and, in that form, goes on the bad path. This is his happiness. A man who is in this state can be called crazy. He does this because of the connection between his mind, emotions, nature, and thoughts. His thoughts evoke a certain quality in him. He changes into its actions and form, and he does the work of each animal. He takes on the countless qualities of monkeys, donkeys, goats, bulls, dogs, foxes, snakes, scorpions, four-legged animals, elephants, birds, eagles, and vultures. Some have these qualities. There are some animals that are afraid, that have the qualities of fear. Certain animals may have the thought of killing, but when they go to kill, they become afraid. If a forceful animal such as a lion appears, they become frightened. If a fox, who kills by means of trickery, encounters a forceful animal like a lion, it becomes afraid, and that fear makes it run and hide.

Similarly, if a man who has this quality, this evil state of wanting to kill, sees a more forceful opponent, he becomes frightened. As soon as he sees him, fear comes, and he runs and hides. Some people shiver, some hide; they have those animal qualities. In their thoughts, those four-legged and two-legged beings fear that demons and ghosts are coming to kill them. As soon as that fear comes, as soon as that quality comes, as soon as a forceful opponent comes, they run and hide. Some hide under the bed, some crouch here and there, and some hide where no one can see them. That section comes to those who have this quality. When they have those evil qualities, that fear comes.

Some forceful animals, such as the lion or rhinoceros, will murder straight-on. Some dangerous animals will fight head-on. If those qualities come in a man, he will behave like those animals, and will enjoy it.

Like this, each quality changes him, and he does that work. As soon as he changes into that form, as soon as he changes into the qualities of that evil form, he will do that work. When you observe this, you will see that murder, killing others, and making others sad give him pleasure. That action, that evil quality makes him happy. That is what he enjoys.

Like this, there are two that work in the one body. One is the good thoughts and good qualities. The other is bad, the bad qualities. When good thoughts come (within man), he will change into God’s qualities, the quality of compassion, the quality of love, the quality of equanimity, and God’s three thousand gracious qualities. He will have justice, conscience, and truthful ways. He will consider the lives of others as his own life, the prosperity of others as his own prosperity, the hunger of others as his own hunger, the suffering of others as his own suffering, the house of others as his own house, the property of others as his own property, the state of others as his own state, the body of others as his own body, the blood of others as his own blood, and the flesh of others as his own flesh. When that good section and these good qualities work in him, every good quality will do what is good. He will do the work that God does. He will change into God’s form. He will change into the form of His three thousand gracious qualities. Step by step, he will change into these and do all his work with God’s ninety-nine wiläyats, His power, actions, conduct, and behavior. He does his beneficial work with those good qualities.

Bad qualities take the forms of the four hundred trillion, ten thousand spiritual animal powers, tattwas. In those forms man will do the prayer, vanakkam, of animals, the prayer of demons, the prayer of ghosts, the prayer of maya, the prayer of satan, the prayer of birds, the prayer of jinns, the prayer of the elements, the prayer of earth, the prayer of fire, the prayer of water, and the prayer of air. His thoughts keep changing. Every attachment is connected to his flesh. There is a connection in his body to the earth, water, air, and ether, the sun and the moon, and because of this connection, his qualities change. As a result, he will do that work, the evil work. There are two qualities in man, there are two bodies, and one face reveals both. In one body, there are two sections. Man acts in these ways because of these two sections.

In this state God’s Power and truth must come, or a wise man, an Insän Kämil, must come and show him the connection to the two sections within. He must cut away the connection to the bad section. He must guide him and show him with wisdom: This is wrong, this is right. He will show: This is murder, this is goodness, that is evil, this is a good point, that is a bad point. He will cut each quality, he will cut each evil. He will explain and cut, and change that into the good body, God’s body. He will change his (man’s) qualities into the form that does good duty. He will change him into the section where he considers all lives as his own life, and will dispel the qualities of the sections of murder and evil.

There is one Point, man-God. He will change into those actions. Man will acquire the qualities, actions, and justice of God. Instead of changing into the form of satan, man becomes one form, God’s form, the Light form. Instead of changing into the four hundred trillion, ten thousand forms, there is one form, the Light form, the Truth form, God’s form. That form is Light, and that Light has resplendent wisdom, resplendent qualities, resplendent purity, and resplendent perfection.

It is rare to find an Insän Kämil in this world, but if you can find such a one, then it will be easy to change this form and its (evil) qualities. If you obediently follow him, what was difficult will become easy. It will become easier and easier and easier. One by one, one by one, one by one, you can change each thing. This is psychology.

In this (present) state, every quality and every form gives man pleasure. Murder is his happiness, killing is happiness, causing suffering to others is happiness, making someone miserable is happiness, taking someone’s house is happiness, chasing someone into the jungle is happiness, murdering someone’s wife and children is happiness. To do the work of many, many ghosts, devils, evil beings, animals, birds, reptiles, and snakes gives him pleasure. It makes him happy to do this. Like that, he does the work of the particular quality. As soon as that state comes, as soon as that animal quality comes, he does that work. When the qualities of a ghost come, he does that work. When the qualities of a blood sucking demon, asura, come, he does that. When the qualities of a man who eats other men come, he does that. When he takes on the quality of an animal that catches other animals, he catches others. This is what he does.

There are these two qualities and two forms in a man. Good and evil have existed in him from the beginning. Evil qualities (do evil). Good qualities develop goodness—they will never do what is evil. This is psychology, God’s wisdom psychology. These two sections develop from the time you are born. You need to understand these. They grow from your actions, your qualities, your sight, your associations, and your thoughts. If you join with good people, wise people, good friends, and good men, and make their qualities and actions yours, then you can change to their ways. Then you can change to that section.

In the same way, to grow a flowering plant, a fruit tree, or a vegetable, we must plant it in the earth. To grow a tree, we mix fertilizer and chemicals together and add them to the earth. This is the soil it grows in. Like this, this body also grows in the dirt of earth, fire, water, and air. To grow a flower, a flowering plant, a fruit tree, or a vegetable, many different kinds of dirt are combined to make fertilizer. Once we put this (fertilizer) on the earth, the earth eats the fertilizer and gives its essence to the plant or tree. As soon as it is given, the tree accepts it. When this is given, what happens? The essence joins with the tree, those qualities join with it, the dirt joins with it. Later, the fruit reveals the taste. That fruit has changed. The tree grows in the dirt, it takes its nourishment from the soil, the water, fire, air, and earth, but when the fruit comes, that has changed. The taste has come. Like this, a flowering plant is also planted in dirt and given fertilizer. When the flower blooms, when that beauty comes, the fragrance is revealed, and the dirt is no longer present. The plant was given fertilizer and grew in the dirt, but the fragrance has no dirt. There is no dirt in the fragrance of the flower, and there is no dirt in the fruit which has changed into the taste.

Similarly, this body is made up of earth, fire, water, and air. The thoughts are the fertilizer we put on this body. The body grows from these. The heart is also made up of earth, fire, water, blood, and air, and grows from these. However its essence must change. The flower of this qalb, inner heart, must change in the same way the flower changed into the fragrance. Although it grows in the dirt of the body, which is full of chemicals and the elements, the heart, the flower of the heart, must change. When it changes, opens, and becomes beautiful, it no longer has the connection to the body. It has been transformed into the fragrance— the fragrance of God, the fragrance of Truth. If that fragrance develops, it will give peace to everyone. It will give peace and the fragrance of love to everyone. Everyone will be enchanted by its fragrance. The heart must change into that flower.

The body grows from many chemicals, from dirt, fertilizer, and earth. It grows from fertilizer, dirt, earth, fire, water, and air. A tree also grows like this. A man’s life must change just as a tree changes. His thoughts, his life, and his body must change. When the taste develops in a fruit, when the fruit changes into the taste, there is no dirt. Although man’s life and his birth are formed from dirt—his soul, his wisdom, his qualities, that truth and justice do not have that dirt. He must change to that section. The body is composed of maya, fire, arrogance, karma, tärahan, singhan, and süran, earth, woman, and gold, desire, anger, miserliness, attachment, and fanaticism, intoxicants, lust, theft, murder, and falsehood, the five elements, the thoughts, and the forces of illusion. These are all mixed together in the body when it is formed. The body eats these and grows. It feeds and grows on their essence, and then they are destroyed.

Similarly, truth must destroy these (bad) qualities. The earth must be destroyed and changed into taste and fragrance, just as a flower changes and becomes fragrant. Like this, these shaktis must be destroyed so that wisdom can grow, and the qalb can blossom and give fragrance. Before its state changes, everything is mixed in this body. This must be changed. If it is not changed, it will do evil and will not be beneficial for anything. Only if it changes will it do what is good. You must think of this.

This is how an Insän Kämil, a Shaikh, will change you. He will change these qualities that grow in dirt, this body that grows in dirt, and bring you to the state of justice, truth, and wisdom. The work of the Insän Kämil is to bring you to this state. That is the Father’s section, to change that to God.

This is true psychology, God’s psychology. This is what we must understand. You must understand every point.